“You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.”
Hebrews 12:24 NLT

By Andrew Hopkins

The day between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday is known as Holy Saturday. 

The “in-between.”

Between the crucifixion and the resurrection.

Between the promise and the fulfillment.

It reminds me of when Israel got freed from slavery in Egypt.

When they left Egypt, the Egyptians started chasing them and they came up against the Red Sea. God performed one of the greatest miracles through Moses and split the Red Sea…and Israel crossed through on dry land. But the Egyptians followed Israel in!

Israel was in the middle of a miracle and the enemy was chasing after them! They were in the “in-between.”

Have you felt like your past was chasing you? Like it was trying to remind you of your failures, your flaws, and remind you of who you once were?

The answer isn’t to quit, navel gaze, and beat yourself up. You’ve got to keep moving forward!

When Israel got out, God released the waters to go back to their place, and the Egyptians drowned.

The prophecy of Moses came to pass: “…the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever…” (Exodus 14:13).

Hebrews 11:29 says it like this: “By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.”

This is a picture of what the blood of Jesus has accomplished for us.

When Jesus shed His blood for us and died on the cross, He paid for our freedom and defeated our enemies.

It’s no coincidence to me that the Israelites passed through the Red Sea and that we as believers in Christ have been cleansed by the red blood of Jesus.

If the Egyptians couldn’t make it through the Red Sea, how much more will your accusers not make it through the redeeming blood of Jesus?

Don’t get stuck in the “in-between”!

The accusing voices want to distract you, pull you backward, and paralyze you—but the blood of Jesus has a voice (Heb. 12:24), and it is speaking better things over you!

“Mercy! Grace! Forgiven! Free! Clean! This one is mine! I choose them! I love them! I bought them!”

Keep moving forward and believe in what Jesus’ blood has done for you.

For the Egyptians you see today, you shall see again no more!

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

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Andrew Hopkins is a preacher, teacher, prophetic worship leader, and author. He has a passion for the gospel, revival, equipping the saints, and seeing God move in supernatural ways. He heads up his own itinerant ministry, Breaker Ministries, and is an associate with Elisha Revolution led by Jerame and Miranda Nelson. Andrew and his wife, Rochelle, have two boys and live in Southern California. Website: www.Breakerministries.com