The Feast of Passover / Unleaved Bread / Firstfruits #8
Phase 8 of 12
This phase of the blueprint teaches the opening of
The calendar for the Bride (i.e. the last Eve)
The reason this feast is included in this series, is because the apostle Paul declared the feasts (or festival days, holy days) to be a "shadow of things to come." (i.e. the New Testament - Col.2:16-17) Israel's deliverance from Egypt was because of the Passover Lamb, which the New Testament interprets as foreshadowing Christ going to the Cross. (1Cor.5:7-8) Passover was the "begining of months." (Exod.12:2) which is a shadow of our Salvation, it is just the begining. There were two other set feasts that were required (Deut.16:16) for the Church in the wilderness. (Acts.7:38) The Feast of Pentecost, Harvest or Weeks, [Phase 9] and the Feast of Tabernacles, Booths or ingathering.(Phase 11) Pentecost and Tabernacles foreshadow the Church coming to the "unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the fulness of Christ." (Eph.4:11-16) These Feasts of Israel are the third witness to this 12 Phases series. (Deut.19:15, Matt.18:16, 2Cor.13:1) 1. The Journey of Israel from Egypt to Solomon's Temple.(Phase 2) 2. The Tabernacle of Moses.(Phase 4) 3.The Feast of Israel.(Phase 8,9&11)
These Feasts
were not
optional!
"Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord God in the place that He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread (Passover) and in the feast of weeks (Harvest, Pentecost), and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty." (Deut.16:16)
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The same is
true
in their
reality
(or in there
completion
in Christ)
(Matt.5:17-19
Gal.3:24)
Christ is our Passover Lamb (Exod.12:2)
The apostle Paul, the wise masterbuilder (1Cor.3:10) interprets the Old Testament type to be pointing to Christ.(1Cor.5:7-8) Peter, John and Isaiah call Christ the Lamb of God. (1Peter.1:18-19, John.1:29, Isa.53:7)
This was to be the first month of the year to Israel (a beginning of months) Exod.12:2
Celebrating the Passover was only the beginning! (Exod.12:2) God's purpose for Israel was to bring them out of Egypt, to bring them into the land, and to the ultimate rest, Solomon's Temple.(Deut.6:23, Gen.12:1;15:13-14, Deut.12:1-12, 1Chron.17:9-15;22:17-19)
After our Salvation, God's intent / purpose for us, is that we should come into what the land foreshadows, (Heb.3:7-19;4:1-11) and become a completed holy Temple in the Lord.(Eph.2:1-22, Eph.4:11-16)
All were to keep the Passover - NO exceptions! (Deut.16:16)
The children of Israel had to keep the Passover, or else the judgement of God would be upon them.(Exod.12:12-14)
Jesus told Nicodemus,"Ye must be born again." (John.3:1-8) Being born again means, you are birthed into the family of God, by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God.(1Peter.1:23) This is a new creature or creation.(2Cor.5:17, Gal.6:15-16) We must except Christ or else God's wrath abides on us. (John.3:36)
The Passover Lamb was kept for 4 days, then sacrificed at the end of the fourth day (Exod.12:1-7)
Israel was to take a lamb on the tenth day day and keep it until the fourteenth day. (Exod.12:3-6) In the evening (the end) of the fourth day, "the whole assembly of Israel shall kill it."
Jesus, who was foreordained to be the Lamb,(1Peter.1:20) was taken when Adam fell into Sin.(Gen.3:1-24, Rom.5:12) He was kept for 4,000 years (i.e. 4 days. 2Peter.3:1-9) and crucified at the end of the fourth day. (Review Phase 3)
God said,"When I see the Blood" I will pass over you. (Exod.12:13)
Israel was told to take the blood of the Passover Lamb and strike it on the two side posts of the door and the upper post (Exod.12:7) to protect them from the wrath to come. God said, "when I see the blood, I will pass over you." (Exod.12:13) God did not say, "when I see how good you have been, how many good works you have done, how much money you have given to the poor," God only saw the blood! If an Egyptian had applied the blood to his door, he would have been protected. God is no respecter of persons. (Acts.10:34)
God has not changed! It is only the blood of Christ our Passover that preserves us from His wrath and judgement.(Rom.3:25, Heb.10:1-10) After Christ, "there is no more sacrifice for sins." (Heb.10:26) After we have been saved, we will do good works, (Eph.2:10) however, our good works do not save us.
God chose the time and the place to experience Passover.
When Israel came out of Egypt, it was in the month of Abib. (Exod.13:4 / April-May in the Egyptian calendar) It was the first month of Israel's new calendar.
God is sovereign (Chief or the Highest; supreme in power to all others) and He is Providential (Divine guidance or care God conceived of as guiding men through His presence (foresight) intervention) "...none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"(Dan.4:35, Rom.9:20) Our Salvation is when God chooses. Jesus said, you "have not chosen me but I have chose you." (John.15:16)
As soon as they left Egypt Israel was to celebrate the feast of Unleavened bread (Exod.12:15-20)
Moses said, "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, "from the first day (i.e. The fourteenth day of the first month) until the one and twentieth day."(Exod.12:15-18) No leaven was to be found in their houses! If leaven was found, they were cut off from Israel.(Exod.12:15)
In the New Testament reality Leaven is type of Legalism (Gal.5:9) Malice and Wickedness (1Cor.5:6) Hypocrisy (Luke.12:1) Corrupt doctrine (Matt.16:6-12) Skeptical of the supernatural (Acts.23:1-8) Unleavened Bread is a type of sincerity and truth. (1Cor.5:7) These are all the weakness of our flesh, which is crucified with Christ and "put away" (i.e. buried with Christ in Water Baptism.)
To summarize:
Passover, we are crucified with Christ
Unleavened Bread we are buried with Christ
First fruits we are resurrected with Christ
The Feast of First fruits was celebrated when they came into
the land (Lev.23:9-14)
When Israel came into the land and reaped the harvest, they brought a sheaf of the first fruits unto the priest. He then would wave this sheaf on the morrow after the sabbath, in the house of the Lord. This sheaf was waved before the Lord, to be accepted for them. (Lev.23:9-14)
The "sheaf" represents a person. The Lord Jesus Christ. (Gen.37:1-7, Psalm.126:1-6) Jesus is called the :first fruits". (1Cor.15:20, Rom.8:29, Col:1:15) Jesus was waved in the house of God for us, in the true Tabernacle that the Lord pitched and not man. (Heb.8:1-5;9:24-25)
The sheaf was waved on the morrow after the Sabbath (Lev.23:11)
There are several Sabbaths that Israel kept. The weekly Sabbath. (Exod.16:23, Exod.20:8) The Day of Atonement was a Sabbath. (Lev.16:31) Every seven year was to be a Sabbath. (Lev.25:8-22) Every fifty years there was another Sabbath. (Lev,25:8-22)
Jesus fulfilled this exactly."As it began to dawn toward the first day (Sunday) of the week"(Matt.28:1) When Mary came to the tomb Jesus had risen. Therefore this "sabbath" of Lev.23:11, is the weekly Sabbath.
Israel was to count 7 Sabbaths complete (49 days) and on the morrow after was Pentecost (Lev.23:15)
After Jesus had been crucified as the Passover Lamb, and was buried Unleavened Bread, He was resurrected, First fruits and showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, for 40 days. (Acts.1:3) Then Jesus told them to go to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the Father.(Acts.1:4) This came to pass on the day of Pentecost, (i.e. the feast fifty days after Passover) This means they waited 10 days in the upper room.
This is why the apostle Paul, the wise masterbuilder (architect) declared the Feast days (i.e. holy days, festival days) to be a shadow of things to come. This Feast called Passover (or Unleavened bread) is an exact model of what God did in the first century Church.(1Cor.3:10, Col.2:16-17)
There are still two more Feast days. (Phase.9&11)
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