Exodus 12:23 "When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down." (Moses has instructed God's people to protect themselves from the Lord's tenth plague against Egypt and now informs the people of the awful judgment about to befall the rebellious Egyptians and any Israelites who do not place themselves under the blood of the lamb, that the firstborn of each Egyptian family will die. He also tells them the result of their obedience in sacrificing a lamb and sprinkling its blood on the doorposts of their homes. God's instructions about the doorpost and the blood are not accidental and relate to a deeper, hidden message in the Hebrew language. Since each letter in the Hebrew alphabet is assigned both a picture and a meaning, the picture for chet is shaped like a doorframe and is the letter for life. Through the letter's shape of a door and its meaning of life, the Lord is saying that He gives life in this door with the blood of the lamb on it and that when He sees the blood sign on the doorway He will give life to those inside. The message for us is that the Lamb's blood on the door of our lives not only protects us from judgment and destruction, but it also is the entry into what Jesus calls the abundant life. Life is in each letter of God's Word, and Jesus is the Word! Life is in the door, and Jesus is the Door! Life is in the lamb's blood, and Jesus is the Lamb!)
