The Biblical Passover Feast and Jesus.

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arthurfleminger said:
My thoughts about Abraham and circumcision would be more of a correlation with baptism than of the Passover.
Both are rites that God demanded to bring His followers into closer union with Him.

That being said, there are very close correlations with the story of Abraham and his son Isaac, and with God and His Son Jesus.

An excellent example of Jesus being foreshadowed in the Old Testament was with the story of Abraham and the sacrifice of his son Isaac.

Isaac was Abraham's only son and God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham obeyed and took Isaac to the place of the sacrifice. Isaac gathered the wood and carried the wood on his back. Isaac asked where was the sacrificial lamb and Abraham said that God would provide the sacrificial lamb. Abraham was at the point of sacrificing his only son, when God sent an angel to stop him.

Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son.

Moving forward to the fulfillment of this Old Testament story to the New Testament, Jesus, God's only Son, carried the wood/cross on His back. God did provide the sacrificial lamb, as Abraham said He would. And that was Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

God the Father so loved the world that He was willing to sacrifice His only Son, for the salvation of mankind.

I've posted this before, that Jesus is foreshadowed and written about numerous times in the Old Testament.

The New Testament identifies many types and shadows of Christ in the Old Testament
  • Matthew 12:40 compares Jesus with Jonah: “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

  • John 3:14 compares Jesus with the Bronze Serpent: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” The bronze serpent looked forward to Christ redeeming us.

  • John 6:32-33 compares Jesus with the manna: “Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

  • Romans 5:14 compares Jesus with Adam: “Adam is a type of Him who was to come.”

  • First Corinthians 5:7 compares Jesus with the Passover Lamb: “For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.”

  • First Corinthians 10:4 compares Jesus with the rock that accompanied Israel in the wilderness: “[Israel] drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.”

  • Hebrews 10:20 compares Jesus’ body with the veil in the temple that when “torn” on the cross revealed the access believers have to the Father: “[We have] a new and living way [to God] which [Jesus] consecrated for us, through the veil, [which] is, His flesh.”

  • Hebrews 11:17-19 compares Isaac with Jesus. When Abraham sacrificed his son, it was a picture of God sacrificing His Son: “Abraham…offered up Isaac…He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead.”
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I appreciate all that you wrote. Thank you. I mentioned the physical circumcision of Abraham because that act represents the Spiritual Circumcision that was given to him, thus he was able to "Walk before the Lord Righteously and Blamelessly." Pardon the language, but this is the ultimate Passover. Anyone who has been separated from the Adamic Curse as described in Romans 5, they will be "passed over" as they had been made Pure by Christ. This is the Covenant made with Abraham and his "Children" who happen to have been given the Seed of Christ.

When a person has been Separated from the Curse of the Lord, there is no need for the Law of Moses (for the Blessed Jew). And for Gentiles, there are no more worldly laws that judge and accuse us (in the Eyes of God). We have been set free, or we are "passed over."

What is not taught is that the "New Covenant" is the same Covenant given to Abraham, for it extends to all his future "Children" or, Nations that come from him. This is the Covenant of a Circumcised Heart which results in Purity.

Much more could be written on the matter, in fact an entire book, but I'll leave it here for now.

Blessings
 
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