The Hebrew word for basin (caph) signified a drainage trench at the bottom of the door that kept rain from getting into the home and making it dirty. That is why it is sometimes called a threshold. As the Israelite leader of the house takes a special kind of branch, hyssop, and marks the top and sides of the entrance, follow him. What did he just do? He has put a bloody cross over the door of his house. Now, travel forward in time more than a thousand years to a hill near a gate in Jerusalem. A man is bleeding from his head, wrists, and feet. Jesus is bleeding there for you so that the Destroyer can’t kill you. A Roman soldier uses a branch with a sponge on the end to wet Jesus’ lips (John 19:29). What kind […]