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During the Pesach week the children of Israel were to eat unleavened bread, offer a lamp without blemish, eat the lamp with bitter herbs and remember how Elohim took them out of bondage from Mitzrayim. On the very first day of the Passover the Israelites were commanded to put the blood of the lamp on the door posts and lintels of their houses lest the angel of death visit them and kill their first born sons Shemot (Exodus) 12. Did these things have meaning beyond Egypt (Mitzrayim) or was it just meant for the Israelites to just recall that past time with no future significance? Like all things HaShem does, it all had significance beyond Israel. From Genesis God wrote the Good News of His salvation to mankind through His one and only Son Yahushua (Blessed be His holy name).
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He told Adam and Eve about the coming "suffering servant" Genesis 3-15 And I will put eivah (enmity, Midrash Rabbah 23:5) between thee and HaIsha (see HaAlmah, Yeshayah 7:14), and between thy zera and her Zera; it shall crush thy rosh, and thou shalt strike his akev (heel). Abel became a type of Moshiach, a shadow of Him whose blood would speak better things than his own, who died at the hands of His own just like Abel. The ark Noah was commanded to build whilst preaching the destruction of the world by water and which was made of wood, represented the Church of the Living Word of God. This ark being made not by the hands of man but by the Spirit of God, whose doors only God can shut and being the embodiment of a new creation for the new heaven and new earth to come. The water which destroyed the world is the water through which She (the Church) has her baptism, a confession of her faith in the risen Lord and the resurrection to come through Rebbe Melech Hamochiach Yahushua. Indeed are these not like the days of Noah? To Avraham (Abraham) the divine message was given and revealed even through his own obedience to the call of this magnificent Gospel we now have which pointed to the death and resurrection of the Messiah through his sacrifice of Isaac [Bereshis (Genesis) 22] through faith and in that day Elohim provided an appropriate sacrifice in the form of a ram which represented the Lamp of God which takes away the sin of the world.
More and more examples can be given of the shadow of the work that Moshiach would achieve on earth and in heaven. Through Jacob [Bereshis 28], through Joseph who was sold by His own to suffer at the hands of gentiles, whose garments was torn and stained with blood and presented before his father (like the sacrifice Moshiach presented before The Father), who became dead to his own yet lived and became second only to Pharaoh (like Moshiach who after His work sat at the right hand of Elohim) and became yeshuat unto his brethren (and Moshiach Yahushua has given us salvation). The shadow of this gospel given through Moshe, through David and the prophets (with many countless examples) up until the Prince of Shalom Himself came to earth and gave us hope through His redemption even us who did not have the ordinances of HaShem.
In the example of the Pesach the Lamb pointed to Rebbe Melech Hamoshiach Yahushua (blessed be His holy name) and the blood offering he made for our sins so that death would Pass-Over us, so that we would be translated into life (in all its abundance). That ancient way that leads to eternal life that the angel of HaShem guarded when Adam was driven away from the garden of Eden was now opened up marked by blood to a cross upon a hill called Golgotha. The bitter herbs represented the suffering this "King of the Jews" would endure on a tree, the sign indeed depicted by the lintel and door posts and all those that would follow him would have their own bitter herbs being hated of the world, despised, mocked, killed even yet holding on to the the promises of Him who is Faithful and True.
Unleavened bread pointed to His body, blameless like the Pesach lamp, without sin, holy, unpolluted by the world which was crushed for our transgressions and He Himself said "Remember.." Matt 26. The bread pointed to His simplicity and yet how fulfilling He is to them that willingly partake of his body Yochanan 6:54. The door posts which were made of wood pointed to the cross He bore and by it bearing our sin and our curse and it also pointed to the door of the believer's heart, whose heart would receive the divine circumcision, having been washed in the blood of the Lamb. The wine pointed to that cleansing, bondage-breaking and saving blood which set us free. The blood which gives us victory together with the testimony of Yahushua (Blessed be His holy name) Hisg (Rev) 12:11. Indeed even the ordinance that this particular month in which the Israelites were to celebrate Pesach would become the first month of their year was a Shadow of how Moshiach's death and resurrection would be the mark of a new covenant between us and Elohim.
So whilst others still look back to Mitzrayim, we in these days of Pesach look back to what LOVE did for us and the price that was paid for our salvation. For Elohim loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (HaBen), that whosoever believes (has Emunah) in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Yoch 3:16. We also look forward to the hope that we have in Him of that glorious age when God shall dwell with men. The new Yarushalayim now on earth and sin and death have been destroyed Hisg 22.
And to His Kingdom there shall be no end. Hos 2:14
Wow a really great and meaningful article. Thank you for sharing the love and knowledge of God worked through you by our great and mighty God. There were some lines you drew that i did not realize myself but make His omnipotence all the more awe inspiring.
ReplyDeleteHe is truly awesome in His ways. It ministers back to me every time I read it again reflecting on what manner of person I ought to be for Him! Grace and faith! Thank you boo!
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