Lies Preachers Tell #2

Probably the second- most- repeated lie told by preachers is: "When the children of Israel observed the first Passover, they had to put blood on the doorways of their houses so the angel of death would know which houses were theirs and would kill none of them."

Wrong answer.

Jeremiah 7:22 & 23 says of this, "I [God] spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices [meaning no blood of lambs, goats, or bullocks]: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you."

Why, then, do preachers say there had to be blood on the door? Because that's what Moses said was necessary, and preachers give more credence to Moses than to God: every time. Moses-- speaking always presumptively for God-- said (Exodus 12:7 & 13), "And they shall take of the blood [of the Passover sacrifice], and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it... And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt."

It's not germaine to this subject, perhaps, to wonder why Moses would deem it necessary to-- under cover of the power of darkness-- "sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes," (Exodus 8:26) but what is germaine is the recent existential knowledge all the children of Israel had with which to debunk this preposterous claim of Moses' that God couldn't properly identify the Israelites from the Egyptians without blood to help him in making this identification.

The children of Israel had seen the Lord demonstrate time and again (as he promised to do in Exodus 8:22 & 23) his ability to properly discern the Jews from the Egyptians; and likewise to differentiate the livestock of the Jews from the livestock of the Egyptians, as he said he would in Exodus 9:4 .

The Israelites didn't choke on the swarms of flies which corrupted the land of Egypt. Their livestock weren't afflicted with the grievous murrains which killed all the Egyptians' livestock. The Israelites and their livestock were spared the torment of the boils with blains that tortured man and beast of Egypt. They suffered no damage from the fiery hail that killed man and beast, flax and barley in the fields of Egypt. They weren't lost in the darkness which could be felt as the Egyptians were. Yet, they, like Cain, found bloodshed reasonable and practicable, though unprescribed by the God of the prophets.

So, who ordered the "bloodbath?" Amos gives two possibilities, though there may be more: "Have ye offered unto me [God] sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves." (Amos 5:25 & 26)