God's Plan Of Salvation________________________________________The Old Testament Passover pointed to ChristLeviticus 23: 5 – On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.Exodus 12: 3,5,7 – “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. ‘Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.Christ is our PassoverI Corinthians 5:7 – Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover was sacrificed for us.Matthew 26: 26 – And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take. Eat, this is My body.The blood of Christ is what saves His people from sin and Satan, just as the blood saved Israel from the destroyerExodus 12:7 – ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.’Matthew 26: 27 28 – Then He took the cup, and gave thanks; and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sinsThe Feast of Unleavened Bread -The Israelites were to remove leaven from themselvesLeviticus 23: 5 – And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.Christians are to remove sin (spiritual leaven) from themselvesI Corinthians 5: 8 – Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.The sheaf of the fristfruits symbolized Christ being accepted as sacrifice for His peopleLeviticus 23: 9 -11 – And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them; ‘When come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the fristfruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath, the priest shall wave it.Christ is accepted and is the first of the first fruits of those who will be glorifiedI Corinthians 15: 20 – Now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Pentecost is the first of the harvest – It pictures the starting of the Church of God of whom are the first of those that God is callingLeviticus 23: 15,17 – And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. ‘You shall bring from your habitations two waves loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord.The Church was founded on the day of PentecostActs 2: 1 – Now when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.The Feast of Trumpets represents the return of Christ and the establishment of the Kingdom of GodLeviticus 23: 23 – Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying; in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.The return of Christ…Mathew 24: 29-31 – Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heaven will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will morn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.a time of great joy and celebration for God’s peopleMatthew 26: 29 – “But I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”Luke 22: 15-16 – Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”The day of – Atonement (At-one-ment) Symbolized when mankind will be at one with GodLeviticus 23: 26 -27 – And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying; “Also the tenth day of this month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.The Feast of Tabernacles pictures the time during the 1,000 year rule of Christ and the now glorified saintsLeviticus 23: 33 -34 – Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying; “Speak to the children of Israel, saying the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. A time of great prosperity joy and happiness for all nationsMicah 4: 1- 4, 6 - 7 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. Many nations shall come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and rebuke strong nations afar off. They shall beat their sword into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of host has spoken. “In that day says,” the Lord I will assemble the lame, I will gather the outcast and those whom I have afflicted; I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcast a strong nation; so the Lord will reign over them in mount Zion. From now on, even forever.Psalms 22:27-29 – All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all families of the nations shall worship before You. For the kingdom is the Lord’s and He rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.Even the nature of the animals will be changedIsaiah 11: 6-9 – The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the water cover the sea.The eight-day of the Feast is called in the New Testament…Leviticus 23: 36 – For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eight day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.the Last Great day of The FeastJohn 7:37 – On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture had said, out of his heart, will flow rivers of living water.”*Jesus was prophesying about those who will be resurrected after the millenniumRevelation 20:4-5 - And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was committed to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or it’s images, and not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.Ezekiel 37:1-14 -The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst the valley; and it was full' of bones. Then He cause me to pass by them all and around, and behold, there very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. And He said a me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answered, "O Lord God you know". Again he said to me," Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the words of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly there was a rattling; and the bones came together; bone to bone. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over, but there was no breath in them. Then He said to me, prophesy to the breath, prophesy son of man, and say to the breath, "thus say the Lord God: "Come from the four winds, o breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live."'" So I prophesy as I was commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. Then He said to me, "Son of man, these house are the hole house of Israel. They indeed say, our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we our selves are cut off! Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Behold o my people, I will open up your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have open your graves, O my people, and brought you up from your graves. I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it," says the Lord.'"Mathew 12: 41- 42 – The men of Nineveh will rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. Then comes the end… Revelation 20: 14-15, 21:1 – Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.Zephaniah 1: 2-3 – “I will utterly consume all things from the face of the land”, says the Lord; “I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heaven, the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked. I will cut off man from the face of the land”. Says the Lord.1Corinthians 15: 24 – Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.which is really the beginningIsaiah 65: 17 – “ For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.2 Peter 3: 13 – Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.The scriptures above were taken from The New King James Version(*) Quoted from the Britannica Ready Reference 2003
