Forward Motion Breaks the Cycle – In the Beginning (Part 6)

April 28, 2018

Our Father’s default setting is dynamic progression. Life moves forward from seed to body, blades of grass to fields of green, trees to forests, fish to schools, fowl to flocks, heifers to herds, one flesh to families, families to tribes, and tribes to nations. His blessing brings increase in quality and quantity.[1] Conversely, wicked disobedience brings the curse of caustic decay. Though many other examples of this principle can be found, Genesis 1-3 and Deuteronomy 28 are sufficient to illustrate the point.

Onward, forward, and go are imperatives intrinsic in the kingdom of God; flinching, backsliding, and turning away win no commendations from the King.[2]

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A Sabbath of Sabbaths – Entrance by the Blood (Part 6)

October 7, 2017

Another important facet of the Day of Atonement was that it was called a Sabbath of Sabbaths.

Leviticus 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest [Hebrew—a Sabbath of sabbatism, a rest of rests] unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

This emphatic description for a day of rest is only used of the weekly Sabbath, the Sabbath year, and the Day of Atonement. Other holy days were Sabbaths, days of rest; but these were special. They were the Sabbath of Sabbaths.

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The Last Supper – Behold the Lamb! (Part 6)

April 28, 2017

Perhaps it is because we tend to refer to this meal as the Last Supper that we lose sight of its connection with the Passover. How is one to contemplate on the deliverance from Egypt, protection from the evil one, atonement from the Holy One, and fellowship with our heavenly Father expressed in a communal meal when we have reduced the whole affair to a tiny cup of juice and a scrap of bread consumed in a cold pew?

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Passover, Peace, and Revival – Behold the Lamb! (Part 5)

April 23, 2017

Of the five general types of sacrifices (burnt, peace, trespass, grain, and sin), the peace offering resembles the Passover the most. The peace offering is also referred to as the fellowship offering because of the fellowship it brought with God and the company they enjoyed with one another.

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The Purpose of the Passover – Behold the Lamb! (Part 3)

April 7, 2017

What was the ultimate purpose of the Passover? Was it only for protection from the destroyer? Surely, the plague was …

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Behold the Lamb! – Part 1

March 22, 2017

When Jesus came to be baptized, John looked up at Him and proclaimed, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”[1] Years later, the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, “For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.”[2] An understanding of the blood of Jesus Christ requires an examination of the Passover, and what better place to start than where it all began.

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