The Amazing Grace of God
“A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ,”
Colossians 2:17, and Hebrews 10:1
For we who know Jesus Christ, the Jewish Passover contains rich prophetic symbolisms that point to Christ Jesus Himself.
The New Testament explicitly teaches that the Jewish Feasts are “a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ,” Colossians 2:17, and Hebrews 10:1, “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.”
THIS GOD’S AMAZING GRACE!
What we read in the 12th Chapter of Exodus 12 is a clear fact of our redemption brought through the Blood of Jesus Christ God’s absolutely perfect sacrifice for the price of our sins against Almighty God. The heart and soul of the Passover event was, and is, God’s Saving Grace.
God brought the Israelites out of Egypt not because they we such a worthy people, but because He loved them, and because He was faithful to His covenant agreement, that He had made in Deuteronomy 7-7-10:
“The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of the bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefor that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him to a thousand generations.”
Similarly, the salvation that we receive from Christ come to us through God amazing grace: Ephesians 2:8-10, “For by grace ye have been saved through faith; and not that of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not by works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship created unto Christ unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
Titus 3:4-7
The purpose of the Blood applied to the doorframes was to save the firstborn sons of each family from death. This blood applies to Jesus Christ’s shedding his precious Blood on the Cross in order to save us from death and God’s righteous judgment against our sins Exodus 12:13; 23, 27, and Hebrews 9:22. Christ Jesus Himself is our sacrifice that function as a substitute for the firstborn. This sacrifice points specifically to Christ’s death as s substitution for the believers’ death, “Who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification.” (Romans 3:25) Elsewhere, the Apostle Paul explicitly calls Jesus Christ our Passover Lamb who was sacrificed for us. I Corinthians 5:7, “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.”(I Corinthians 5:7.)
Link to YouTube Video – Amazing Grace
