Shadows of the Future

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Shadows of the Future

• Seven Jewish Feasts

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Shadows of the Future

• Matthew 517 "Do not think that I have come to
  abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come
  to abolish these things but to fulfill them.
• Hebrews 101a For the law possesses a shadow of
  the good things to come but not the reality
  itself,

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Shadows of the Future 7 Jewish Feasts

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Passover

• 1Peter 118-19 You know that from your empty way
  of life inherited from your ancestors you were
  ransomed not by perishable things like silver
  or gold, but by precious blood like that of an
  unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

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Passover

• Protection from Destruction
• Covered by Identification
• New Life Begins

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Unleavened Bread

• John 651 I am the living bread that came down
  from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he
  will live forever. The bread that I will give for
  the life of the world is my flesh."

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Yeasts Association with Evil

• Mark 815 And Jesus ordered them, "Watch out!
  Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the
  yeast of Herod!"
• Acts 227 because you will not leave my soul in
  Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience
  decay.

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Application

• 1Corinthians 57-8 Clean out the old yeast so
  that you may be a new batch of dough you are,
  in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover
  lamb, has been sacrificed. So then, let us
  celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast,
  the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread
  without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

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Unleavened Bread

• No yeast for the journey
• The body that wouldnt decay
• Ridding our lives of Immorality

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Firstfruits

• 1Corinthians 1520 But now Christ has been
  raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those
  who have fallen asleep.
• 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in
  Christ all will be made alive.

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Firstfruits

• Barley first crop of the year
• New life from a seed thrown into the ground
• An eternal seed of life

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Pentecost - Two Loaves

• Leviticus 2317 From the places where you live
  you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave
  offering they must be made from two tenths of an
  ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as
  first fruits to the LORD.

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A New Covenant

• Jeremiah 3133 "But I will make a new covenant
  with the whole nation of Israel after I plant
  them back in the land," says the LORD. "I will
  put my law within them and write it on their
  hearts and minds. I will be their God and they
  will be my people.

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Hostilities Ended

• Ephesians 214 For he is our peace, the one who
  made both groups into one and who destroyed the
  middle wall of partition, the hostility,

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Birth of the Church

• Acts 21-2a Now when the day of Pentecost had
  come, they were all together in one place.
  Suddenly
• Acts 24a All of them were filled with the Holy
  Spirit,

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Weeks

• Wheat harvest
• Law and Spirit
• Community

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Trumpets

• Matthew 2430-31 Then the sign of the Son of Man
  will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the
  earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man
  arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and
  great glory. And he will send his angels with a
  loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his
  elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven
  to the other.

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Rapture

• 1Corinthains 1551-52 Listen, I will tell you a
  mystery We will not all sleep, but we will all
  be changed in a moment, in the blinking of an
  eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
  sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable,
  and we will be changed.

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Trumpets and Shouts Oh my

• 1Thessalonians 416-17 For the Lord himself will
  come down from heaven with a shout of command,
  with the voice of the archangel, and with the
  trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise
  first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will
  be suddenly caught up together with them in the
  clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we
  will always be with the Lord.

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Trumpets

• No one knows the hour
• Rapture of the saints
• Preparation for judgment

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Atonement

• Romans 323-24 for all have sinned and fall
  short of the glory of God. But they are
  justified freely by his grace through the
  redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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Atonement Access

• Romans 325 God publicly displayed him at his
  death as the mercy seat accessible through faith.
  This was to demonstrate his righteousness,
  because God in his forbearance had passed over
  the sins previously committed.

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Atonement

• Examination
• Judgment
• Sin Forgiven

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Tabernacles

• John 141-2 "Do not let your hearts be
  distressed. You believe in God believe also in
  me. There are many dwelling places in my Father's
  house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because
  I am going away to make ready a place for you.

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Water of Life

• John 737-38 On the last day of the feast, the
  greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If
  anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and the
  one who believes in me drink. Just as the
  scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers
  of living water.' "

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Light of the World

• John 812 Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the
  light of the world. The one who follows me will
  never walk in darkness, but will have the light
  of life."

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Final Scene

• Revelation 221-2 Then the angel showed me the
  river of the water of life water as clear as
  crystal pouring out from the throne of God and
  of the Lamb, flowing down the middle of the
  city's main street. On each side of the river is
  the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit,
  yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its
  leaves are for the healing of the nations.

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God Dwells with Us

• Revelation 223-5 And there will no longer be
  any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb
  will be in the city. His servants will worship
  him, and they will see his face, and his name
  will be on their foreheads. Night will be no
  more, and they will not need the light of a lamp
  or the light of the sun, because the Lord God
  will shine on them, and they will reign forever
  and ever.

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Tabernacle

• God lives with His people
• Jesus - living water and light
• A final resolution

• Passover
• Unleavened Bread
• Firstfruits
• Weeks (Pentecost)
• Trumpets
• Atonement
• Tabernacles

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Feasts Shadows of the Future

• Passover Safe House
• Unleavened Bread Removal of Immorality
• Firstfruits New Life
• Weeks (Pentecost) Covenant Community
• Trumpets Rapture
• Atonement Judgment
• Tabernacle God Living with Us