Exo Msg 71

1. In many of these ordinances Christ is portrayed. Either He is typified in a rather direct way or He is implied, indicated, or signified indirectly.
2. Man can worship God through the cross and by Christ.
3. The ordinanaces present us a vivid picture of fallen man living in the fall, filled with sins, invovlved with Satan, related to demons, and fully enslaved. However, there is One who came to man in his fallen and enslaved condition, becoming a slave Himself. After He was delivered by God to be a sacrifice for fallen man, He restored the matters of life, released us from our burdens, and became our refuge. Now we, fallen sinners, may flee into Him and take Him as our rest and freedom.
4. The fulness of the harvest and the outflow of the wine and oil presses signify the fullness of our harvest of Christ and the outflow of our experience of the cross.
5. If we live in Christ, enjoying Him as our rest and freedom, we shall grow in life, produce a harvest.
6. We need to flee into Christ, enjoy Him as our rest and freedom, and then live in Him, the all-inclusive One, as the good land.
7. The tears is the flow of wine and oil presses. Wine flows out to cheer God and man; oil flows out to please God.
8. If you enjoyed and experienced God in such a way, you should come to the feeling and offer to God the fullness of your harvest without delay.
9. Although these firstborn deserve to be slain by God, the firstborn of the children of Israel were redeemed by the Passover Lamb.
10. We are redeemed by Christ; now we do not belong to ourselves, but God.
11. To be holy is to be saturated by Christ and with Him as our holiness before God.
12. Not eating any flesh that is torn by beasts (Exo 22:31), but casting it instead to the dogs signifies that we should take only Christ as our life supply, not anything of death.
13. Keeping the Sabbath day enabled others to rest and be refreshed, whereas observing the Sabbatical year supplied others with food.
14. By keeping Sabbath day, we take Christ as our rest but by observing the sabbatical year we take Christ as our rest to a much fuller degree.
15. On the one hand, we need to learn how to live in Christ; on the other hand, we need to learn how to benefit others in Christ.
16. Keeping feasts unto god three times a year typifies the full enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ.
17. Keeping the feast of unleavened bread typifies enjoying Christ as the sinless life supply.
18. The feast of Passover and the feast of unleavened bread are one.
19. The feast of harvest typifies the enjoyment of the firstfruit of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ.
20. Firstfruits are related to the resurrected Christ (1 Cor. 15:20,23). The resurrected Christ is the life-giving spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). In the OT, there are firstfruits. In the NT, there is the Spirit. Firstfruits = resurrected Christ as the life-giving spirit.
21. Pentecost is related to the Spirit. The feast of the harvest was on the fiftieth day after the firstfruit was offered to God on the eighth day.
21. The feast of ingathering typies the enjoyment of the fullness of the Father in Christ.
22. This feast is also called the feast of tabernacles signifying the enjoyment of the fullness of the Triune God for eternity in the new heaven and the new earth.
23. First, we have the enjoyment of Christ as the Son; second, the enjoyment of God as the Spirit; and, consummatedly, the enjoyment of God the Father.