Page 108 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2010

Let us begin at what God said should
be the beginning of months for His
people Israel. The new year was to
begin with the Feast of Passover
(Ex.12:2) There are 30 references to
the Feast of Passover in the four
gospels! The running theme of those
gospels center upon:

1. THE DEATH OF CHRIST,
2. THE BURIAL OF CHRIST,
3. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

These same events are foreshadowed
by the first three feasts:

Consider what Paul preached as

“the gospel”: Look carefully at the overlay of the first three

“MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I DECLARE TO YOU feasts upon the three statements that Paul tells
us constitutes the gospel. To preach the

gospel to Christians today using only Paul’s

three statements found in 1 Cor.15:1-4 would

WHICH I PREACHED TO YOU... receive a hearty “Amen!” for preaching the
BY WHICH YOU ARE SAVED... truth. However, to add the fact that the first
three Feasts of the Lord, taken from the Law
1 23 of God, contain the same truths in type and

shadow, can potentially cause one to be

wrongly charged of putting God’s New

Covenant people under the Law, mixing Law

and Grace, or even of outright legalism.

Rather,God has merely hidden His wonderful

plan of JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH

THAT AND THAT AND THAT THROUGH GRACE within the confines of His
CHRIST DIED HE ROSE Law! Contained within these first three feasts
FOR OUR HE WAS
BURIED, AGAIN THE is God’s complete plan of salvation.
SINS… THIRD DAY...”
1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Take a careful look at these three New “FOR INDEED 1
CHRIST,
Testament passages from Paul’s first epistle to OUR PASSOVER,
WAS SACRIFICED
the Corinthians. This church founded by the FOR US.”
apostle Paul was comprised of Gentiles since

God Himself commissioned Paul to preach to 1 Cor.5:7

the Gentiles (Acts 9:15). Being a Gentile church, “...PURGE OUT THE 2
there was no reason for Paul to use this Old LEAVEN...SINCE YOU ARE
Testament terminology to teach these Gentile
TRULY UNLEAVENED...
believers. However, the apostle Paul applies the LET US KEEP THE FEAST,
NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN...
BUT WITH THE UNLEAVENED
first three feasts, from the Law in Leviticus 23, to BREAD OF SINCERITY
get his points across to these Gentile converts. AND TRUTH.”
He is preaching Christ by means of the feasts! 1 Cor.5:7-8
If it was permissible for Paul to teach Gentiles in

such a manner in his day, then it ought to be “BUT NOW CHRIST IS RISEN FROM 3
THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME
proper for us to do likewise. To do so does not THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE WHO
place God’s people in legalism or bondage to
the Law, but rather just proves that the Old HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP...
CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS,
Testament contained the same truths as the AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE
CHRIST’S AT HIS COMING.”
New Testament. They were merely hidden in

type and shadow! 1 Cor.15:20-23