The original Passover type was a
single event that began at midnight. It was not a meal or a twenty
four hour day or a week long feast. It was typically a one time
event that put to death the firstborn of Egypt in order to release
from Egypt a firstborn nation called Israel. If the messenger of
death entered your house that sleepless night you failed to prepare
for the passing over.
Death was immenint
for the firstborn because the ruler of the land
would not set Yahweh's people free to worship. Yeshua became the
fulfillment of the passover lamb type. He told Yahweh's people to
apply His blood to their post and lintel, better known to us as the
cross, and follow Him as the firstborn to the real promised land.
Jesus came to set His people free from the oppressive law of the
land of the old covenant. The One and only True Passover Lamb was
nailed to a public post and lintel.
John 4:20-24
LITV Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say
that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to
worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me that an hour is
coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain
nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. But an hour is
coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such ones
that worship Him. God is a spirit, and the ones worshiping Him
must worship in spirit and truth.
Who is the
firstborn?
Adam was
the firstborn son: Luke 3:38 LITV son of Enos, the son
of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Israel was the firstborn nation: Exodus 4:22 and
you shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus says Yahwey, My son, My
first-born is Israel,
Jesus is the firstborn son: Hebrews
1:6 CLV Now, whenever He may again be leading the
Firstborn into the inhabited earth, He is saying: And worship Him,
all the messengers of God!"
So Which firstborn will
or will not die?
Adam - Jesus is called
"the last Adam" because he completed the image of God in Adam and
then put Adam to death.
Israel
- Israel as a nation was still
represented in the land by some descendants from Judah. Only part
of three tribes from the 12 sons of Israel were living in the land
during the second exodus. However, after putting the (last Adam)
finalized firstborn man to death, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to all
12 tribes gathered in Jerusalem on Pentecost, to raise them into
His new covenant, before He sent the Romans to destroy the last of
the firstborn Israel who refused to apply the blood of the
Lamb.
Jesus
- Jesus fulfilled the image of
God in the firstborn Adam because He was the promised seed; the
first and only begotten son of God. He then died on the post and
lintel in Jerusalem as He Himself a firstborn of an old covenant
virgin shed the true blood of the Lamb. He was resurrected into a
new creation as the incorruptible firstborn of the new
covenant.
After the resurrection,
Yeshua sent the Holy Spirit and through Peter at Pentecost He
called on all the corruptible firstborn from all 12 tribes to apply
His blood to their post and lintel and follow Him out of the old
covenant and into the new. When Jesus put the cursed firstborn to
death, He also set the firstborn nation free to leave the old land.
He applied His blood to His own post and lintel while He was dying,
so the death could not hold him. The death angel of the typical or
the antitypical passover will never come again. Yeshua put the
first covenant man to death and called on others to join Him by
personally putting their old humanity to
death.
Matthew
16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples,
"If anyone is willing to come after Me, let him renounce himself
and pick up his post and follow Me."
Obviously the dead line for
applying the blood of The Passover Lamb to the post and lintel was
not midnight Nissan 15th this time around, as it was in the typical
passover. The gospel call to apply the blood of The Lamb did not
even go out until after the resurrection. So when was midnight of
the fulfilled exodus? When was the deadline for those descendants
of firstborn Israel to apply the blood of The Lamb for the real
exodus of the nation from the land?
As a grace filled reversal of
the old covenant curses, midnight of the second exodus occurred
after the 40 years in the wilderness rather than at the
beginning. Midnight of the true passover was a one time
historical event that was extended all the way to AD 70. The
messenger of death of either the typical or the antitypical
passover will never come again. Those who chose to stay in
'Egypt' died as the firstborn Israel. They refused to apply the
blood of the lamb prior to the antitypical midnight of the
firstborn covenant nation.
Revelation
11:8 KJV And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where
also our Lord was crucified.
So how do you get
passed over by the death angel?
Nobody needs rescued from the
old covenant today, but we do need rescued from the death of our
body. When the 'messenger of death' comes around for your singular
exodus from your firstborn body, you will probably want the angel
of life to carry you to heaven. Only the spirit of Yahwey can give
you the fulfilled life. You can be added to His covenant now by the
spiritual operation of circumcising your heart, which to the Hebrew
represented the mind. The bowels represented the emotions. After
removing some flesh from your thought paradigm, Yahweh will
re-raise you into the image of the perfect Father because His Son
Yeshua shed His blood as the real Passover Lamb to restart the
firstborn covenant. He now lives again as head of the made-new
covenant in order to intercede for you and me. Theoretically the
deadline to be born again may be your physical death, but why wait
till the last second and enter heaven as a spiritual infant? Grow
up!
The Passover Lamb who died on
Nissan 14th is the now-living firstborn. The Son of God previously
called "last Adam" took on the death and defeated the death of the
firstborn son of God called "Adam". The old covenant was made
better by raising Israel to a new spiritual life prior to inviting
the rest of the world into the new-ized family. The reborn Jewish
apostles kept the passover meal as the Lord's supper; the
anniversary of the new betrothal. The good news; that an
incorruptible Jewish man was put to death as the final passover
lamb and yet He now heads up the new covenant, went to the twelve
tribes first. Then those descendants of the sons of Israel took it
to all the other nations. Resurrected from the imminent death of
the firstborn, the firstborn of the new covenant will never die.
Join His covenant and you will never die.
Romans 15:33 KJV Now the God of peace be with you all.
Amen.