Gods Salvation for Israel and Judgment of Egypt - is there more?

23 Jan 2026

Bo "Enter" or "Come"

TORAH: Exodus 10:1-13:16 | PROPHETS: Jeremiah 46:13-28 | GOSPEL: John 19:31-37

This week’s Torah portion, Bo, means “come,” “enter,” or “bring in.” It covers the final three plagues and the Passover story, showing the process and signs God used to draw Israel out of darkness and into Himself.

Exodus 12 tells us that to bring His people out of the world system and into the Promised Land, God had to destroy and invalidate the gods of Egypt—including Pharaoh and all the firstborn—and break Pharaoh’s grip over God’s people. Freedom could not come until that power of darkness was broken.

“You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt… You brought your people Israel out with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm.” - Jeremiah 32

The Lord’s Passover, as Exodus describes, guides Israel and those who join them through acts of obedience and worship. A lamb took the place of the firstborn, but the blood still had to be applied to the doorposts. Similarly, Yeshua became our substitute, but His blood must be applied to our hearts through obedience to receive salvation.

God is jealous for His people—for a bride emptied and cleansed of other influences through and by the blood of Yeshua. That’s why leaven, representing sin, had to be removed from the home and the body. For seven days during Passover, the first feast of the year, they ate unleavened bread—a picture of consuming only the Lord. This points forward to the seven days of the last feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, when God dwells with His people.

The Lord invites His people to enter back into their land and ultimately into fellowship with Him. As Aliyah (Israel’s return) increases, we can expect to witness this by His strong hand. It is a privilege for us, as the nations, to partner—not as Pharaoh, but as Ruth—to help bring His people home.

Ezekiel 37:24-28 says powerfully:

“‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them; they will be my people, and I will be their God. 28 Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’”

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TORAH: Exodus 13:17-17:16 | PROPHETS: Judges 4:4-5:31 | GOSPEL: Matthew 14:22-33