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 1. the substitutionary death of Christ foreshadowed by the Passover Ceremony
the Passover was first instituted right before Israel's exodus from Egypt when the blood of the Passover sacrifice sprinkled on their doorposts protected them from the plague of death that swept through Egypt.
the death of the Passover sacrifice literally protected them from the death plague!
in 1 Corinthians 5:7 Christ is called our Passover – "Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."
the death of Christ as our Passover protects us from the "second death" in eternity!
speaking of those whose sins are forgiven through the death of Christ, Revelation 20:6 states: "over such the second death will have no power."
in other words, when we trust in Christ He literally dies the second death in our place so that we can have eternal life!
when John the Baptist first introduced Jesus he said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)
it was on the very weekend of the Passover when families from all around Israel were bringing lambs to Jerusalem to be offered as their Passover sacrifice that Christ Himself died as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!
the prophetic description of Christ in Isaiah 53 states: "He was wounded for our transgressions... He was led as a lamb to the slaughter... He was cut off from the land of the living... He bore the sin of many."
for 1500 years before Christ was born the annual Passover Festival memorialized the meaning of Christ's death!
 2. the timing of Christ's death predicted by Daniel's 70 Weeks Prophecy
After Israel was conquered and Jerusalem destroyed in 586 BC, God revealed to the prophet Daniel that the decree to "restore and build Jerusalem" would begin a prophetic time clock that would count down for 69 "weeks of years" and then Christ would be "cut off." (Daniel 9:24-26) This decree was given to Nehemiah "in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes" (Nehemiah 2:1), which scholars have identified as March 14, 445 BC. On Jewish calendars a "week of years" is 7 years and a prophetic year is 360 days. The following chart shows how this prophecy identified the probable day that Christ road into Jerusalem, presenting Himself as the King of Israel, and was rejected ("cut off"), a day remembered today as Palm Sunday. To identify the year or decade would be amazing, let alone the exact day, 483 years before it happened!
 3. new life through Christ foreshadowed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was first instituted during Israel's exodus from Egypt.
this feast memorialized Israel's quick departure from Egypt when they didn't have time to wait for leaven to make their dough rise.
leaven was also symbolic of sin... just as Israel ate unleavened bread after being set free from bondage in Egypt, so we too, after being set free from the eternal consequence of our sin, begin to experience new life as sin ("leaven") is purged from our lives.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8... in the context of addressing sin in the Corinthian church, Paul summarizes this concept by writing, "Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump [a little sin in our life leads to more sin...little compromises lead to larger compromises]? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven [remove old sinful ways from our life], that you may be a new lump [that we may live new lives that are free of our old patterns of sin], since you truly are unleavened [so that our lives will reflect the reality in our spirit...since we are already cleansed of sin in our spirit...we are "born of the Spirit"... a "new creation" in Christ]. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us [we are cleansed of our sin in our spirit because Christ died for our sins]. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth [what matters now is not keeping the Old Testament feast of eating unleavened bread but living lives that are free of old patterns of sin].
(1 Corinthians 5:6-8)

 4. salvation by grace alone apart from good works through the shed blood of Christ  foreshadowed by tunics of animal skin God made to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness
Adam and Eve's sin of eating the forbidden fruit created a state of separation between them and God. Rather than walking in fellowship with God they ran from God in fear...
Genesis 3:6-7: "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, 'Where are you?' So he said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.'"
saved by grace alone apart from good works...
Adam and Eve's act of sewing fig leaves to cover their nakedness symbolizes the attempt to obtain salvation by our own efforts – our own good works.
in Genesis 3:21 God replaced the fig leaf coverings that they made with clothes that He made out of animal skins...
God replacing the clothing that Adam and Eve made with clothing that He made is symbolic of our unrighteousness being replaced by His perfect righteousness - the righteousness of Christ that is "credited" (Romans 4:22-25) to our account when we trust in Him!
Romans 3:21-22: "But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ..."
God's provision to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness also foreshadowed the ultimate sacrifice required to pay for our sin!
in order for clothing to be made out of skin an animal had to be sacrificed and blood had to be shed!
the animal God used to make clothing for Adam and Eve appears to be the first time blood was ever shed and was essentially the first sacrifice of many throughout the Old Testament that pointed to the ultimate sacrifice of Christ on the cross!
the shedding of blood to make clothing for Adam and Eve pointed to the spiritual law of the universe that "without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." (Hebrews 9:22)
the ultimate consequence of our sin is not merely physical death but a horrifying reality in eternity called the "second death" (Revelation 20:14-15). When we trust in Christ He literally dies the second death in our place!
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