The Passover and the Lamb

I am reading the Old Scofield King James Study Bible, which provides a wealth of wonderful insights about the types in Scripture.

Scofield writes that the Passover is a type for Christ the Redeemer, because the Israelites had to find a lamb without blemish and it was kept up for four days to be tested.  Just as Jesus was tested by Satan and His holiness was pure.

During the Passover, the lamb was slain and the blood was applied as instucted in Exodus 12:7:

Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

Reading this passage, I had a picture in my mind of the blood being applied to the door in the shape of a cross.  Scofield does not note this, but he does write that the blood applied constituted protection from judgment.

I also had a visual of the Lord passing over the homes of the Israelites while taking the firstborn children from the Egyptians.  Although believers will meet the Lord in the clouds when we are raptured, I could not help but think that this account in Scripture, like so many others, is God's way of showing us that we will be protected when He returns to earth to judge all those who do not believe in Him.

Most of my writing here is geared to believers who are growing in their faith, but if you have not professed your belief in Jesus as your Saviour, I pray that you will fall to your knees and do so right now.

God has been very patient with man since the death and resurrection of His Son.  But the period of time that He has allowed for mankind to receive His Gospel of Grace is finite and will come to a close at the rapture.

Quoteworthy: 2 Timothy 3:1-17

 

¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  

²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  

³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  

⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.  

⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,  

⁷Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.  

⁹But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.  

¹⁰But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, ¹¹Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.  

¹²Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.  

¹³But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.  

¹⁴But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 

¹⁵And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 

¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Quoteworthy: Blessed to Live This Side of the Cross

There is no fact in history more clearly established than the fact of the "First Coming" of Christ. But as His "First Coming" did not fulfill all the prophecies associated with His "Coming," it is evident that there must be another "Coming" to completely fulfill them. It was because the religious leaders of Christ's day failed to distinguish between the prophecies that related to His "First Coming," and those that related to His "Second Coming" that they rejected Him. Peter tells us (1 Pet. 1:10-11) that the prophets themselves did not clearly perceive the difference between the "Sufferings" and "Glory" of Christ. That is, they did not see that there was a "TIME SPACE" between the "Cross" and the "Crown," and that the "Cross" would precede the "Crown." But we have no such excuse. We live on this side of the "Cross," and we can readily pick out all the prophecies that were fulfilled at Christ's "First Coming" and apply the remainder to His "Second Coming." It is clear then that Christ's "First Coming," important as it was, is not the "doctrinal centre" of the Scriptures, that is, Christ's First Coming was not the centre of a circle that contains all doctrine, but was one of the foci of an ellipse of which the other is the "SECOND COMING."

Paul in all his epistles refers but 13 times to Baptism, while he speaks of the Lord's return 50 times.  One verse in every 30 in the New Testament refers to Christ's Second Coming.  There are 20 times as many references in the Old Testament to Christ's Second Coming as to His First Coming (emphasis added).

Clarence Larkin. Dispensational Truth, or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages. Published 1918.