I back up a little to talk about the time of the Passover.
Exodus 12:2 indicates the month of the Passover - “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
The Hebrews had two calenders - a civil calender and the calender that they began in the Exodus, the sacred calender. The time of the Exodus God said would be the beginning of months for the new sacred calender. Verse 12 indicates that the Passover was held during the first month of the sacred year.
Now this month according to the civil calender was the seventh month. According to Genesis 8:4, Noah’s ark landed on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. Many Bible teachers believe that this seventh month was the first month of Exodus 12.
So they teach that the Passover was on the fourteenth day of this month (Exodus 12:6).
If this is so then according to the civil calender Noah's ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat three days after the fourteenth day of the month. Noah's ark landed on dry land three days after the day that the Passover lamb was slain.
The slaying of the Passover lamb was held three days before the day that marked the landing of the ark on the mountains of Ararat. This landing of the ark was a type of the resurrection of Christ. Christ was killed on the fourteenth day, and He was resurrected on the seventeenth day.
This uncanny "coincidence" contributes to many Bible students' recognition that it is a divinely authored book. Christ rose from the dead on the same day that the civil calender said Noah's ark landed upon the dry land. All serious Bible students agree that the ark of Noah is a type of Jesus Christ and His saving redemption from God's judgment.
Exodus 12:4 says, “This day came ye out in the month Abib.” The word Abib refers to the sprouting, budding, green and tender new ears of wheat. After the Babylonian captivity, the month Abib was called the month of Nisan (Neh. 2:1; Esth. 3:7).
Sprouting and budding symbolize life’s energy in its beginning. We Christians who have experienced regeneration can confirm that being redeemed is a new beginning of life. On the day we first called on the name of the Lord, believed in Him, and were saved, life began to bud and sprout from within us.
Genuine believers in Christ can very often testify how coming to the Redeemer was a sprouting a budding of a new life. Something began to bud and sprout from within us. This was the new life in Christ. Eventually, this sprouting produced "tender green ears of grain" spiritually. Redemption issued in a brand new inner life. The believer was bought with the blood of Jesus and born again.
The beginning of the new calender signifies the beginning of a redeemed sinners' possession of the divine life born into her or him through Jesus Christ.
The Passover was a new beginning for the Hebrews. And being purchased by the redeeming blood of Christ is a new beginning for everyone who believes into Christ.
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According to 12:3, in the tenth day of the month the children of Israel were to take “to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers,” and prepare it for a period of four days. Then on the fourteenth day of the month, the actual date of the Passover, the lamb was killed (v. 6).
The Lord Jesus was killed on the same day of the month (Luke 22:7-8, 14-15; John 18:28). In Matthew's Gospel it highlights how Christ was examined for four days by all of His critics. As the Passover lamb was to be without blemish or spot so the antitype the Son of God could not be found with any sin by His examiners before His crucifixion. False witnesses came forward because they had to fabricate lies. He was sinless.
"Which of you convicts Me of sin ?" (John 8:46) Eventually even Pontius Pilate the Roman governor could find no fault in Jesus.
Fourteen days make up two weeks. In the Bible a week means a life, a full cycle of life in time. The end of a week denotes the end of life. The Seventh-Day Adventists are big on observing the seventh day Sabbath, the end of the week. But actually the more significant day for the Christians should be the first day of the new week, the 8th day. The 8th day is the day that Jesus rose from the dead. And the first Christians referred to the beginning day of the new week as "the Lord's day."
The eighth day, the first day of the week, the beginning of a new week, a new beginning in resurrection (John 20:1). The fact that the Passover was held on the fourteenth day of the month means that it was held at the end of two complete weeks. This indicates that the Passover ends the course of the old life. This means that Christ’s death terminates the entire history of our old life. Jesus concludes our old history, our old legacy, our old record. And Jesus is a new beginning in resurrection life.
Originally posted by sonship The Passover Exodus 12 is the most detailed portrait of salvation in Jesus Christ.
Some of the symbolism of this historic event I will go over.
First, it should be noticed that Jesus Christ is not just the Passover lamb that was slain for the redeeming blood. Being that, He is also the ENTIRE Passover. In other words all the matters pertaining to t ...[text shortened]... l you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 12:5 says, “Your lamb shall be without blemish.” The symbolism is that Jesus was perfect. Jesus was the perfect human being without anything for God to consider a "blemish" as are on all the rest of us. He was sinless and perfect. He is and was a man without fault.
He challenged His meanest of opposers - "Which of you convicts Me of sin? Since I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?" (John 8:46).
There is symbolism also in this requirement. The Passover lamb had to be “a male of the first year,” taken either “out from the sheep, or from the goats.” (Exodus 12:5)
The lamb was to be a male of the first year means the offered lamb had to be fresh and not to be used for any other purpose. In the eyes of God, when the Lord Jesus was put on the cross, He was of the first year. He was fresh, never having been used for another purpose.
Jesus was the only man who really came to die. His life's goal in His incarnation was to die on the cross. He was even ordained to die before the foundation of the world.
" ... you were redeemed ... with the precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ Who was foreknown before the foundation of the world but has been manifested in the last of times for your sake." (1 Peter 1:18,19)
Jesus did not die incidently while being used for some other purpose.
All of us who believe into Christ were not "fresh." By the time we were saved, we had all been used for some other purpose. Some of us had been used for several different purposes. We were not at all fresh.
Even if you get saved by Jesus before the age of 20, in God's eyes you have already been used for some other purpose or more. But The Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world was fresh and not used for another purpose.
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Exodus 12:5 says that the Passover lamb could be either of the sheep or of the goats.
The significance of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25 are the people found to be good (sheep) or bad (goats). When Christ was on the cross, was He good or bad? In a very real sense He was both. At the time of Christ's crucifixion, He was both a sheep and a goat. This is depending from what angle His crucifixion is considered. In Himself Christ was altogether good. However, as our substitute, He was sinful. As the spotless Son of God, the man without sin He was totally good. As the one bearing our sins in His body, and suffering the curse on our behalf, He was bad.
He died as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world. Yet John 3:14-21 says He was lifted up as a brass serpent on a pole.
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up." This means He died also in the form of the evil serpent Satan. So from one angle He was of the good sheep and from another angle He was among the bad goats.
As Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:21, He who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf.
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The feast of unleavened bread was continuation of the feast of Passover (12:15-20; 13:6-7). Exodus 12:18 says,
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.” (Exodus 12:18)
When the children of Israel ate the Passover lamb, they were also required to eat unleavened bread. The feast of the Passover lasted one day. The feast of unleavened bread continued for seven days. Therefore, the feast of unleavened bread was a continuation of the feast of Passover.
The flesh of the Passover lamb represents the sinless life of Christ. All redeemed sinners receive Christ not only in His death and resurrection, but also in His sinlessness. He died by crucifixion to buy the sinner out from under the eternal judgment of God. He rose in resurrected to live in those whom He redeemed providing for them a sinless life.
"The last Adam became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45) teaches that Jesus after He rose physically became to His believers a divine life imparting Spirit to GIVE them Himself. In giving Himself to us He gives us a victorious and sinless life to be compounded into our personalities.
Therefore, we must eat the flesh of the lamb and also the unleavened bread. The unleavened bread symbolizes sinlessness. After being saved by redemption we need a life long feasting on Jesus Christ Who has come into our spirit.
From the time we received Christ and were saved and had a new beginning in life, we began to live a life without leaven, a life without sin. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is the continuation of the Feast of the Passover.
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Exodus 13:7 says that no leaven was to be seen with the children of Israel. In our Christian life no leaven should be seen. No sinning should be seen.
Because we are in the ongoing process of Christ being dispensed into our living it is impossible for us to have no sinning at all. It is impossible for us to have no leaven at all. But it is possible for the leaven not to be seen.
When we grow and become AWARE of the sin within us we have to deal with it by turning over another area of our living to Jesus.
Although it is not possible for us to be without sin, we must deal with any sin that is manifested, with any sin that is seen. This means that we are responsible to deal with the sin of which we are conscious.
As Christians when we discover something sinful in our lives, we must eliminate it by opening up more to Christ. He gradually exposes more and more of our real condition. If God did so all at once we could not stand it.
But as we walk with Christ we shall by degrees become aware of some things not yet taken over by Christ. We cannot say that we have no sin. There may be much sin in our lives or in our environment, but we may not be conscious of it. However, as soon as we become conscious of it, we must deal with it. We must forsake the sin of which we are conscious. We should not tolerate any manifestation of sin.
As the problem is exposed we deepen our consecration to the Lord Jesus. He then fills that area of our living. This is victorious and sweet and enlightening.
Originally posted by sonship The Passover Exodus 12 is the most detailed portrait of salvation in Jesus Christ.
Some of the symbolism of this historic event I will go over.
First, it should be noticed that Jesus Christ is not just the Passover lamb that was slain for the redeeming blood. Being that, He is also the ENTIRE Passover. In other words all the matters pertaining to the ...[text shortened]... efall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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Doctrine of Passover July 23, 2010
Outline
I. Definition and Description
A. Passover is one of 7 Feasts of Israel.
B. The 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus gives us an account of the 7 Great Feasts of the Lord.
C. They were a prophecy and foreshadowing of future events, part of which have been fulfilled, and part are yet
to be.
D. They are the “shadow of things to come,” of which Christ is the “body” or substance (Col. 2:16-17).
E. They were “holy convocations” of the people.
F. They were instituted by the Lord.
G. The people had no say in the matter.
H. God promised that if the males went up at the appointed time to Jerusalem to keep these Feasts, He would look after their families.
I. When the people became legalistic and arrogant, the Lord said, “I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; they have become a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them” (Isa. 1:14).
J. Therefore Jesus called them the “feasts of the Jews,” rather than the “feasts of the Lord.”
K. The “feasts of the Lord” are 7 in number.
L. If we include the Sabbath there are 8.
M. But the Sabbath stands by itself.
N. It was to be observed “weekly,” the other feasts “annually.”
O. The Sabbath was to be observed at “home,” the other feasts at “Jerusalem.”
P. The 7 Feasts may be divided into 2 sections of 4 and 3.
Q. The 1st section includes the following feasts:
1. Passover 2. Unleavened Bread
3. First-Fruits
4. Pentecost
R. Then there was an interval of 4 months followed by the 2nd section includes the following feasts:
1. Trumpets
2. Atonement
3. Tabernacles
S. The 3 Great Festivals were the following:
1. Passover 2. Pentecost
3. Tabernacles
T. They extended from the 14th day of the 1st month (Nisan) to the 22nd day of the 7th month Tishri or Ethanim.
U. These 7 Feasts were given only given to Israel to be observed and not the Church.
V. They do however have dispensational implications since they mark God’s timetable with reference to human history.
W. Each of these 7 Feasts were designed in eternity past to be literally fulfilled by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
X. They speak of Lord Jesus Christ’s intervention into human history.
Y. The following Feasts were literally fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ during the dispensation of the hypostatic union:
1. Passover: His voluntary substitutionary spiritual death on the cross in April of 30 A.D.
2002 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries http://gracebiblechurchwichita.org/?page_id=407
Note: Great thread, sonship. This outline will be continued if you wish.
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Doctrine of Passover July 23, 2010
Outline
I. Definition and Description
A. Passover is one of 7 Feasts of Israel.
B. The 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus gives us an account of the 7 Great Feasts of the Lord.
C. They were a prophecy and foreshadowing of future events, part of which have been fulfilled, and part are ...[text shortened]... g/?page_id=407
Note: Great thread, sonship. This outline will be continued if you wish.
Thankyou. Contribute as you would.
I am trying hard to stick with the exaltation of Christ.
I am guilty of a lot of argumentation which I don't think has helped anyone very much.
Originally posted by sonship Thankyou. Contribute as you would.
I am trying hard to stick with the exaltation of Christ.
I am guilty of a lot of argumentation which I don't think has helped anyone very much.
sonship, you're a gentleman and a serious student of the Word of God which is rare in online public spirituality forums. Yes, "argumentation" is one of the primary pitfalls in witnessing for Christ. We have no business whatever presuming to coerce the free will/volition of an another human being to choose for rather than against Jesus Christ. Next installment to follow.
B. The 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus gives us an account of the 7 Great Feasts of the Lord.
C. They were a prophecy and foreshadowing of future events, part of which have been fulfilled, and par ...[text shortened]... a.org/?page_id=407
Note: Great thread, sonship. This outline will be continued if you wish.
Doctrine of Passover July 23, 2010 (Part 2)
Outline
1. Passover: His voluntary substitutionary spiritual death on the cross in April of 30 A.D. ___________________________
2. Unleavened Bread: His impeccability as a Person.
Z. Pentecost was literally fulfilled when the Baptism of the Spirit took place in June of 30 A.D.which marked the
beginning of the Church Age.
AA. The following Feasts are eschatological in nature and thus have yet to be literally fulfilled:
1. Trumpets: Rapture or exit-resurrection of the Church terminating the Church Age.
2. Atonement: 2nd Advent of Christ ending the Tribulation dispensation.
3. Tabernacles: Millennial Reign of Christ on planet earth.
II. Vocabulary
A. Pesach (jsp) (peh’sagh) (noun), “passover.”
B. Pascha (paVsxa) (noun), “passover.”
III. Documentation
A. Leviticus 23:4-5
B. 1 Corinthians 5:7
IV. Feast
A. Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread as a unit constituted the most important of the 3 great annual feasts or festivals of Israel.
B. It was indifferently called the feast of the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, but where the object was to mark the distinction between the Passover as a sacrifice and as a feast following the sacrifice, the latter was designated the feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev. 23:5-6).
C. The Passover is documented in Exodus 12 and Leviticus 23.
D. The Hebrew word pesah (from pasah, to “leap over,” figuratively to “spare, show mercy&rdquo😉 denotes:
1. an overstepping
2. the paschal sacrifice by virtue of which the passing over was effected (Ex. 12:21, 27, 48; 2 Chron. 30:15).
E. The paschal meal was on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan (post-exilic; Abib, exilic), and the 7 days following are called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev. 23:5-6)., hence the expression “the morrow of the
Passover” for the 15th day of Nisan (Num. 33:3; Josh. 5:11).
F. The whole feast, including the paschal eve, is called the festival of Unleavened Bread (Ex. 23:15; Lev. 23:6; Ezra 6:22; Luke 22:1, 7; Acts 12:3; 20:6); but the simple name “Passover” (Hebrew: pesah) is the one
commonly used by the Jews to the present day for the festival of Unleavened Bread (2 Chron. 30:15; 35:1, 11; Mark 14:1; Greek: pascha).
G. The Passover commemorated the final plague in Egypt in which the 1st born of the Egyptians died, but the Israelites were spared by the blood on the doorposts and lintel (Ex. 12:11, 21, 27, 43, 48).
H. Thereafter the event was observed as a feast to the Lord (12:14).
I. The 2nd Passover was observed in the wilderness of Sinai (Num. 9:1-5).
J. The Passover marked the birth of Israel as a Client Nation to God (Ex. 12:2) and was to be observed by them forever as a memorial.
K. It was observed in the 1st month (Abib; Deut. 16:1; the 1st month is called Nisan in post-exilic times: Neh. 2:1; Esth. 3:7) on the 14th day at twilight between 3-6pm (Lev. 23:5).
L. The head of every Jewish family chose a male lamb without blemish on the 10th Abib (Ex. 12:3l 1 Pet. 1:18-
19) and killing it on the 14th Abib (12:6) with none of its bones broken (literally fulfilled at the cross by Christ).
M. The lamb typified the humanity of Christ in hypostatic union Who was proclaimed by John the Baptist as “the lamb of God” (John 1:29).
N. The blood was to be sprinkled on the doorposts and lintel of the house with hyssop (typifying the sinner being cleansed from sin through faith alone in Christ alone since hyssop was a symbol of purification), so that when the Lord passed over that night and saw the blood He would spare the 1st born in the house.
O. The lamb was to be roasted and served up whole (portraying the perfect obedience of Christ to the Father’s plan for the Incarnation which was the cross), and eaten with unleavened bread (typifying the impeccability of the humanity of Christ in hypostatic union) and bitter herbs (portraying the bitterness of slavery in Egypt), and none of it left until the morning. 2002 William E. Wenstrom, Jr. Bible Ministries 2 / http://gracebiblechurchwichita.org/?page_id=407 (to be continued)
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When the house was touched by the blood the Hebrews were required to stay in the house. They were not to go out of it until the morning (12:22).
The benefit of the blood of the lamb went along with being in and remaining in the house.
To understand the significance of this we need to see that the basic concept in the Bible redemption from judgment is intrinsically identification or union with Jesus Christ. When there is identification with Christ by being IN Christ, there is substitution. Without identification with Christ there can be no substitution. With union with Jesus Christ there is Christ being our replacement and substitution under the perfect righteous judgment of God.
On the cross Christ died as everyone's substitute. However, His being our substitute requires us to be identified with Him. It requires our coming into Him and having union with Him. This entails that Christ is alive and a reality - which of course the New Testament teaches He is.
"The last Adam [Christ] became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45) . After crucifixion Christ resurrected physically and also transfigured Himself into a form in which all around the globe and in every time, people can receive Him. And they can be received INTO Him.
In the Old Testament, the ark of Noah as a type illustrates this matter of identification. In the flood of Noah to be saved from the waters of judgment, Noah and his family had to be in the ark. To be in the ark was to be identified with the ark, to be one with the ark. The destiny of the ark was automatically the destiny of everyone in the ark.
To be in Christ is to not only have Him as our substitute that God's judgment would passover us but also it is that His destiny will be our destiny.
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Whatever happened to the ark became the experience of the people who were one with the ark. After the door of the ark was closed, others may have held onto the ark in desperation. But they were not one with the ark or identified with it.
While the spiritual doors to come into Jesus Christ are open the sinner should believe in and into Jesus Christ. Then she or he will be "shut in" with Christ.
To wait until it is too late and the opportunity is gone is very dangerous.
Those hanging on the outside of the ark yelling and screaming when the flood waters came were too late.
Don't wait to be hanging on desperately at the last moment. Now is the time to go to the privacy of your room and ask Jesus Christ to be your Savior, your ark and your Substitute that God's judgment may pass over you.
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The only way to be one with Christ is to enter into Him. In the words of 1 Corinthians 1:30, it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus. God has put us the believers, into Christ. Actually, you can believe into Christ by beginning just to THANK Christ for being your substitute.
This is an act of faith which God will honor. "Lord Jesus. I want to THANK You for dying for me as my Passover Lamb. You came to take away the sin of the world and I know that you can take away MY sins. I want to thank You Lord Jesus."
It is of God that we get put into Christ. He is FAITHFUL. He is also powerful. And His faithfulness and His power is stronger than us. Remember the blood was applied by the tiny little hyssop plant. That small plant represents that just a little faith can apply the redeeming blood of Christ to our lives.
As the eight persons were in the ark of Noah, so we, the redeemed ones, are in Christ Jesus. Eight is the number of resurrection. Eight does not mean only a few get saved. Eight means those raised with Christ and identified with the resurrected Christ are saved.
Christ's dying for us is taken as we dying. Christ raising is taken as we being raised to newness of life.
"For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died." (2 Cor. 4:14)
Our entrance into Christ is through the door to which the blood has been applied. When we use hyssop to put the blood on the door, we are able to enter into Christ.
After the Passover of God's judgment for eternal punishment has taken place we need to live this new life in union with the living Christ. The NT tells us to Abide in Christ. This means we are aware of Christ within us as "a life giving Spirit" and we need to live in a new way. That way is to abide in Him, linger in Him as a new realm. Move with a heart opened to Him and a mind set on Him to enjoy Him being our new life.
After getting into Christ, we need to remain in Him. In John 15 the Lord Jesus says, “Abide in Me and I in you.” To abide in Christ is to remain in Him, that is, to maintain our identification, our union, with Him.
One being in is positional. The other aspect is dispositional. The believer is first positioned in Christ in the eyes of God. Then on a daily moment by moment basis we should allow Christ to wrought Himself into our personality - bit by bit, drop by drop.
This is a saving too. This is saving of our souls through transformation.
So the picture in Exodus was to apply the blood of the lamb and to EAT the flesh of the lamb.
So the picture in Exodus involves needing the blood on the house, remaining in the house that the judgment might pass over. And it involved eating the roasted lamb as food to be strengthened to march out of Egypt.
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