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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Where Are We?
And we know in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28—NIV)
"Called according to his purpose."
Where are we in God's eternal plan and purpose? We have been saved. We have been filled with God's Spirit. What is next? Do the types of the Bible indicate what the Holy Spirit is doing in the present hour?
We think the major allegories and symbols of the Bible portray to us the work of the Holy Spirit as we enter the twenty-first century.
We see from the above that God has a purpose. He has not left it up to the believers to figure out how to get the world saved. God has a plan and purpose and He knows precisely what He is doing with every person born on the earth.
We need to understand this thoroughly as we enter the spiritual darkness, the age of moral horrors that is on the horizon.
The Old Testament contains many events and objects (biblical types) designed to assist us in understanding the spiritual realities of the Christian salvation.
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. (I Corinthians 10:11—NIV)
Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, Trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. (I Peter 1:10-12—NIV)
If we want to discover where we are today we need to turn to the events and objects (types) of the Old Testament. They portray God's eternal plan and purpose in Jesus Christ.
As we understand it, there are four major types in the Old Testament:
The seven days of creation.
The Tabernacle of the Congregation
The journey of Israel from Egypt to Canaan.
The seven major feasts of the Lord.
Each of these four events and objects can be arranged into seven parts.
Each of these four portrays the Lord Jesus Christ, the personal salvation of the believer, the development of the Church, and the installation of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
In this present essay we will refer only to the feasts of the Lord and the journey of Israel, particularly the last aspects of these two types, and we shall stress their fulfillment in the believer.
The following verse sets forth the three divisions of the seven feasts of the Lord.
Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the LORD empty-handed: (Deuteronomy 16:16—NIV)
To be continued.