PASSOVER
 
 
AT THE VERY TIME SPECIFIED IN  BIBLE PROPHECY
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE DELIVERED FROM
BONDGE IN EGYPT.  THAT NIGHT WAS DESIGNATED
FOREVER AS THE FEAST OF PASSOVER.
 
That night, The Angel of The Lord went through the land
of Egypt and smote all the "First Born" of Egypt, from
the firstborn son of the Pharaoh, to the lowest family
in Egypt.
 
 
That night, every dwelling of the Hebrews that had obeyed
the command to slay a Lamb and place the blood on the
two side posts of the door and across the top, were saved
from the death stroke of the Angel of God !
 
 
From that night, until the crucifixion of Christ, the PASSOVER
MEMORIAL of the event was observed by the nation of ISRAEL.
 
 
TYPE met ANTITYPE in AD 31 when on the sixth day of the week in the FIRST MONTH of The Jewish Year
 called ABIB, also called NISSAN, and on the 14 DAY of the month, at the 9th hour,
JESUS OF NAZARETH
was crucified by the Jews and the Romans !
 
 
 
WITH THE DEATH OF CHRIST, THE PROPHECY OF PASSOVER
WAS FULFILLED, CHRIST THE LAMB OF GOD WAS SLAIN.
THE BLOOD OF THE TRUE LAMB WAS SHED TO ATONE FOR THE SINS OF ALL MEN, WOMEN, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN, ANIMAL SACRIFICES ENDED.  

NEVER AGAIN WAS THE
BLOOD OF ANIMALS TO BE SHED TO ATONE FOR SIN !
 
 
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF GOD'S SON WAS NOW THE
ONLY ACCEPTABLE MEANS OF CLEANSING FROM
THE DEFILEMENT OF THE HUMAN SOUL FROM THE
TERRIBLE RAVAGES OF SIN.
 

 
WHILE THE DEATH OF THE LAMB POINTED FORWARD
TO THE TIME WHEN CHRIST WOULD BE CRUCIFIED,
CHRIST, AT THE LAST SUPPER WITH HIS DISCIPLES,
INSTITUTED THE MEMORIAL, WHICH WAS TO CONTINUE
FROM THAT NIGHT UNTIL CHRIST COMES THE SECOND
TIME.  TODAY WE CALL IT THE, "LORD'S SUPPER"  OR
THE, "COMMUNION SERVICE" !
 
BY THE SYMBOLS OF THE BREAD AND WINE, REPRESENTING
THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST, JESUS SAID:
 
 
1 CORINTHANS 11: 26 
 
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup,
ye do show The Lord's death till He come."
 
 
IN OBEDIENCE TO THE THE COMMAND OF CHRIST,
CHRISTIANS HAVE CONTINUED TO CELEBRATE THIS
MEMORIAL OF THE PASSOVER TO THIS VERY DAY.
 
WHILE THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES CEASED,
THE PASSOVER SYMBOL CONTINUES
AFTER THE CROSS !
 
 
PASSOVER, WAS ONE OF "SEVEN ANNUAL FEASTS"
ESTABLSHED BY CHRIST AFTER THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND ARE LISTED IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23.
 
 
THEY ARE IN THEIR ORDER:
 
PASSOVER
 
FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
 
FIRST FRUITS
 
PENTECOST
 
FEAST OF TRUMPETS
 
DAY OF ATONEMENT
 
FEAST OF TABERNACLES
 
 
PASSOVER WAS THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH
AND WAS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY 
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
WHICH BEGAN ON THE 15TH DAY
AND LASTED FOR SEVEN DAYS.
 
NEXT WAS;
THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS
ON THE 16TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH.
 
THEN CAME THE FEAST OF PENTECOST
WHICH WAS 50 DAYS AFTER FIRST FRUITS
IN THE THIRD MONTH.
 
 
THAT IS THE FIRST FOUR.  THEN IN THE
SEVENTH MONTH AT HARVEST TIME,
CAME THE LAST THREE OF THE SEVEN.
 
THEY ARE:
 
FEAST OF TRUMPETS,
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH.
 
DAY OF ATONEMENT,
ON THE 1OTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH
 
AND
 
 THE GREAT HARVEST FEAST OF TABERNACLES
WHICH LASTED FROM THE 15TH DAY TO THE 22ND
DAY, THE FIRST AND LAST DAYS BEING A SABBATH.
 
 
 THE SPIRIT OF GOD SAYS ABOUT THIS FEAST:
 
"Like the Passover, the Feast of Tabernacles was commemorative.
In memory of their pilgrim life in the wilderness the people
were now to leave their houses and dwell in booths, or arbors,
formed from the green branches “of goodly trees, branches
of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook.”
 
 

Leviticus 23:40, 42, 43. {PP 540.4}

The first day was a holy convocation, and to the seven days 
of the feast an eighth day was added, which was observed in like manner.
 
{PP 540.5}
 
At these yearly assemblies the hearts of old and young
would be encouraged in the service of God, while
the association of the people from the different quarters
of the land would strengthen the ties that bound them to
God and to one another.
 
Well would it be for the people of God
 
at the present time to have a Feast of Tabernacles—
 
a joyous commemoration of the blessings of God to them.
As the children of Israel celebrated the deliverance
that God had wrought for their fathers, and His miraculous
preservation of them during their journeying's from Egypt,
so should we gratefully call to mind the various ways
He has devised for bringing us out from the world,
and from the darkness of error, into the
precious light of His grace and truth.
 
{PP 540.6}
 
THE QUESTION IS; IF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
WAS "NAILED TO THE CROSS"   WHY BOTHER TO HAVE
A "FEAST OF TABERNACLES" CELEBRATION NOW ?
 
THE FACT IS, ONLY THE PASSOVER  FEAST
 
WITH ITS ANIMAL SACRIFICES ENDED AT THE CROSS.
 
  JESUS OBSERVED  THE OTHER YEARLY FEAST DAYS
 
  WITH PRECISE APPLICATION AFTER THE CROSS.
 
THE SPIRIT OF GOD TESTIFIES:
 
"Arguments drawn from the Old Testament types also pointed to the autumn as the time when the event represented by the “cleansing of the sanctuary”
 must take place.

This was made very clear as attention was given to the manner in which the types relating to the first advent of Christ had been fulfilled.
 
{ GC 399.1}

The slaying of the Passover lamb was  a shadow  of the death  of Christ.
 
Says Paul: “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” 
1 Corinthians 5:7.
 
The sheaf of first fruits, which at the time of the Passover
 was waved before The Lord, was typical of the resurrection  of Christ.
 
Paul says, in speaking of  the resurrection  of The Lord
 
and of all His people: “ Christ the first fruits ; afterward
 
they that are Christ’s at His coming.” 1 Corinthians 15:23.
 
Like the wave sheaf, which was the first ripe grain gathered before the harvest, Christ is the first fruits of that immortal harvest of redeemed ones that at
 
the future resurrection
 
shall be gathered into the garner of God.
 
{GC 399.2}
 
These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event
but as to the time.
 
On  the fourteenth day  of   the first Jewish month ,  

the very day and month  
 
on which for fifteen long centuries The Passover Lamb had been slain,  Christ , having eaten The Passover 
with His disciples, instituted tha feast   which was to  commemorate   His own death as  

 The Lamb of God , which taketh away

  the sin of the world .”
 
That same night He was taken by  wicked hands  to be
 
crucified and slain. And as

 the anti-type of the wave sheaf
 
 Our Lord  was raised from the dead on   the third day ,
 
“  the first fruits  of them that slept,” a sample of all
 
 the resurrected just , whose vile bodyshall be changed,
 
and   " fashioned like unto His glorious body .”
 
Verse 20; Philippians 3:21. {GC 399.3}
 
 
IF THE FEAST TYPES WERE "NAILED TO THE CROSS",
 
THEN THERE WAS NO LONGER A 

DAY OF FIRST FRUITS "
 
AND  THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD  IS A LIE !
 
BUT   GOD  IS NOT A MAN THAT  HE  SHOULD LIE !
 
IT IS SINFUL MAN WHO HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD THE
 
WONDERFUL  PROPHETIC MESSAGE  OF

  THE SANCTUARY
 
THAT HAS "TURNED  THE TRUTH OF GOD  INTO A LIE" !
 
 
CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED ON THE 14TH DAY OF ABIB,
 
AT THE NINTH HOUR, THE EXACT DAY AND MONTH
 
ON WHICH FOR 1500 YEARS THE PASSOVER WAS
 
ALWAYS CELEBRATED BY THE NATION OF ISRAEL
 
ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT FOUND IN
 
LEVITICUS 23: 5.
 
JESUS WAS PLACED IN JOSEPH'S TOMB JUST BEFORE
 
THE BEGINNING OF 
THE SEVENTH DAY WEEKLY SABBATH,
 
AND RESTED THERE UNTIL EARLY THE FIRST DAY OF
 
THE WEEK OF SEVEN DAYS, WHICH WAS THE DAY
 
OF   THE WAVE SHEAF OFFERING , A SYMBOL OF THE
 
 RESURRECTION OF  CHRIST  AND AT  HIS  COMING,
 
 THE SAINTS  OF  THE LORD  !
 
 
THERE IS ANOTHER   BEAUTIFUL TRUTH  CONNECTED
 
TO THE FACT THAT  JESUS  RESTED IN THE TOMB ON
 
 THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH .  THAT  SABBATH  WAS
 
ALSO THE  "FIRST SABBATH"  O

  THE SEVEN DAY FEAST
 
OF  UNLEAVENED BREAD.  THAT IS IT WAS A 

" DOUBLE  SABBATH ".
 
IN JOHN 19: 31:
 
"The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on
 The Sabbath Day , ( for that Sabbath day was an high day ,)
besought Pilate that their legs might be broken,
and that they might be taken away." 
 
 CHRIST  RESTED ON  THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH  AT
 
 HIS  CRUCIFIXION IN HONOR OF 

 HIS GREAT POWER
 
AS CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, 

AND AT THE SAME TIME,
 
RESTED ON

  THE FEAST OF UNEAVEND BREAD SABBATH
 
IN HONOR OF   HIS REDEEMING POWER  !
 
ALL OF THIS WONDERFUL WORK OF  GOD  

WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE IF

 THE FEAST DAYS  

WERE
 
"NAILED TO THE CROSS" !