Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

and to mark the doorposts of their houses with
blood from a lamb, slain. This prefigured the
slaying of the Son of God and the efficacy of his
blood, which was shed for the salvation of the
sinner. It was a sign that the household accepted
Christ as the promised Redeemer. It was shielded
from the destroyer’s power. The parents evidenced
their faith in implicitly obeying the directions given
them, and the faith of the parents covered
themselves and their children. They showed their
faith in Jesus, the great Sacrifice, whose blood was
prefigured in the slain lamb. The destroying angel
passed over every house that had this mark upon it.
This is a symbol to show that the faith of the
parents extends to their children and covers them
from the destroying angel.
God sent a word of comfort to the bereaved
mothers of Bethlehem that the weeping Rachels
should see their children coming from the land of
the enemy. Christ took little children in his arms
and blessed them and rebuked the disciples who
would send away the mothers, saying, “Suffer little
children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for
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