Sunday, April 19, 2026
Mrs Pastor Billey.
Exodus12.
12 That night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and will smite all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
God made a promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:5. And when he had led him outside, he said: Look up to heaven and count the stars, if you can count them. And he said to her, “This is your offspring.
Abraham couldn’t count all those stars.
God brought Abraham into Canaan and promised this land to his posterity, but told him they would be slaves in another land for 400 years.
[Genesis 15.13 And the Lord said to Abram: Know that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs; they will be enslaved and oppressed there for four hundred years].
The people of Israel thus found themselves in Egypt.
But before they got there, the Lord had positioned Joseph as a kind of prime minister after Pharaoh.
There were 70 of them when they went to Egypt.
They settled in and stayed even after the famine was over. For in Egypt, they had land, authority, peace… their brother was well positioned. They got bigger, they spread out and nobody said to the other: let’s go back.
But Jacob died, then Joseph died and all his brothers died.
And there was a pharaoh on the throne who saw their power and decided to reduce them to nothing.
And this for four hundred years.
Every day, this Pharaoh and his government worked to put confusion in their heads, so that they would forget their identity.
So every day they were filled with bitterness, working hard from sunup to sundown…
Their children were born and raised in this oppression.
All this has changed their mentality, 400 years of mistreatment.
The enemy presented them with another identity. They now saw themselves as slaves. Even an Egyptian child could shout at them and they’d be scared.
What’s more, they’ve suffered injustice: their sons were kidnapped to feed the crocodiles…
It was really difficult.
All this was to shatter, destroy the identity God had given them.
So they began to forget God.
And to live according to the gods of Egypt. They began to invoke the god of the Nile, of the sun, …
When the devil comes to someone, he will present him with something else. Their mentality was totally infected by the snake.
Moses, too, needed to be re-educated.
It took another forty years in the desert to prepare him for what was to come. For he had grown up forty years as an Egyptian.
This is how God visited Moses in Exodus 3. He didn’t know God and was fearful.
Exodus 3
13 hen Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’
This is how Moses went to present himself to his brothers. And so it happened.
Moses had to introduce them to God and remind them who God is.
This meant that the people of Israel were dead.
Then God said: I will execute judgments against the gods of Egypt.
Virtually every element was worshipped in Egypt: the Nile, earth, air, animals, crops, seeds, fertility, prosperity. And above them all was yet another god.
And so God destroyed all this through the various plagues He sent upon Egypt.
Magicians have imitated many wounds, such as turning the water of the Nile into blood, but they have not been able to restore it to its original state.
Because the devil knows how to destroy, but he doesn’t know how to repair, restore or fix.
After a few plagues, these magicians saw confessed: Exodus 8.15 And the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God! …
God attacked the god of the Nile, the god of their land, the god of fertility who is a frog [that’s how they even worship frogs].
Then God attacked the sun god, Egypt’s highest, by sending the ninth (9th) plague.
There was no darkness everywhere in Egypt, but none over the part where Israel was.
Exodus 10.21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.”
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
23 They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
We can see the separation between the children of God and the children of darkness.
Then, finally, he attacked this pharaoh who was also considered a god by the Egyptians.
This was the tenth (10th) wound.
Exodus 11.1 The Lord said to Moses: I will bring yet another plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he’ll let you go. When he lets you go completely, he’ll even chase you out of here.
This is how Pharaoh was unable to stop the hand of the Lord. So one by one, the gods of Egypt were defeated.
Why did the Lord do this?
It was for His people, to make them understand that He the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was more powerful than all those who had enslaved them for those 400 years.
After all that, God marked time, a new spiritual year.
Exodus12.
1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
In this way, God brought the Pharaoh’s power to an end.
Beloved, the spiritual year begins by remembering all that God has accomplished in their midst.
It’s the same for us in Christ Jesus.
The cross of Golgotha is very powerful. If God destroyed judgments against the gods of the Egyptians this day, how much more this
the cross of Golgotha.
God not only exercised His judgments, He also gave them power against these gods.
Because before that, the Lord allowed them to strip the Egyptians.
Exodus 12.
35 Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.
36 And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
The cross of Golgotha did more than that.
Our New Year has nothing to do with the pagan celebration of the end of the year.
We wished each other a happy new year in an atmosphere of pollution and sin: fornication, impurity, alcohol and excess. Dead people wishing dead people a happy new year.
And that’s how they enter the year, and it’s always the same. It was like saying
May your stay with the dead be a good one. Die in peace…’
Beloved, it is not so in Christ.
The spiritual New Year is an ordinance of God Himself.
Exodus 12. 2 This month will be for you the first of the months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year.
The month from which there was the destruction of the gods of Egypt and the restoration of the identity of the power of His people is the first month.
This is how we wish each other a happy new year because we are delivered by standing on what God has done.
And this year will certainly be a good one.
Exodus 12
13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
This blood keeps death out.
But it wasn’t God who put the blood on the lintel and posts; it was themselves.
It was their responsibility.
Our coming to the Lord shows that we have taken this blood and entered into covenant with the Lord.
God did what He had to do and we have to do our part too.
This blood kept the destroyer out. So when the Lord sees the blood of Jesus on our lives, death cannot enter. For the blood of Calvary is powerful.
Some religions say that during the Passover celebration we should not rejoice, but continue to weep and suffer with Jesus… until Passover Saturday.
Nothing good can happen.
All because the enemy has taken away the true meaning of Passover.
By keeping them in their ignorance, to prevent them from destroying his reign.
Beloved, Jesus didn’t need a man’s help to go to the cross; his sacrifice he had to make alone.
Jesus went to the cross to give us victory.
Colossians 2.
14 having wiped out the [i]handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
What had God done against the gods of Egypt?
He destroyed the very mechanism of the gods of Egypt in the life of the people of Israel, the whole belief system of the Egyptians …
God made Him so that His people would believe in Him, so that they would see Him at work. So, for example, when God destroyed their belief in the God of fertility and showed His power, it must have strengthened His people.
What has Jesus done for us?
By accepting to go to the cross, he erased all that was against us, the obligations, the accusations against us… Jesus nailed it to the cross.
Colossians 2
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Jesus disarmed them… the principalities, the authorities. The English version says “he disarmed them”.
This victory was described in this way because in those days, during the time of war, when a nation lost, the winner would go and capture it and put the prisoners in a caravan.
Then they’ll have a parade with these prisoners, from the king down to the high dignitaries… They’ll parade them around, and the people will boo them and throw things at them.
Afterwards, they were either executed or turned into slaves.
This is what the Lord Jesus did with these dominions and powers.
He did this so that we would know that the work of the cross destroys the enemy’s reign over our lives.
Beloved, we must see this great deliverance as we entered this new year. And declare with all our heart the greatness of our God.
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, let us pray… →
Lord Jesus, You are my Redeemer,
I apply Your blood to every month of this new year.
I declare in Jesus’ name that this is a glorious year,
It’s a year of victory, a year of feats in Jesus.
I see the manifestation of God’s glory in every area of my life.
Lord Jesus, I thank You for Your victory on the cross,
You destroyed my adversaries at the cross.
I bless You, Lord, for ending the enemy’s reign over my life.
I declare Your victory now and always
In the name of Jesus Christ.