The Gospel According to Leviticus No. 2
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Registered at the fier,,rx1 rest Otkiee, Sydney, for transmission Vol. 29, No. 18. Sydney, Monday, May 4, 1925 by Yost as a Newspaper, The Gospel According to Leviticus No. 2 Divine Antitypes IN leading His people out from Egyptian bondage evenings" the Passover lamb was slain, and on the 14th Jehovah had something more in mind than just the of Nisan, between the evenings, Christ died that deliverance of 3,000,000 slaves. He was writing a book humanity might be found behind the blood when the of blackboard illustrations for His people later on ! destroyer passes by. " All this kept happening to them with a figurative The Accepted Sheaf meaning ; but it was put on record by way of admoni- Closely following the Passover, on the 16th day of tion to us upon whom the Nisan, the wave sheaf, the ends of the ages have come." best sheaf of the harvest, 1 Cor. 10 : 11, Weymouth's was presented before the translation. Our Intercessor Lord. Christ rose from the The heavenly Leader dead on the 16th of Nisan, WITH joy we meditate the grace now kindl y points His Of our High Priest above. " the firstfruits of them that people to the admonitions His heart is full of tenderness. slept." 1 Cor. 15 : 20-23. and warnings already given, His bosom glows with love. When approached by the so that by both precept and disciples immediately after Touched with a sympathy within, example they may be enabled He knows our feeble frame. His resurrection, C h r i s t to shun the failures of His called to them, " Touch Me He knows what sore temptations mean, e typical people. "Whatso- For He has felt the same. not, for I am not yet as- ever things were written cended to My Father." In He, in the days of feeble flesh, g aforetime were written for Poured out His cries and tears, the evening of the same day, our learning, that we through And in His measure feels afresh the 16th of Nisan, standing patience and comfort of the What every member bears. V before them He declared, Scriptures might have hope." fl "Handle Me and see." Then let our humble prayer address U Romans 15 : 4. The sym- His mercy and His power. fl What had taken place be- B V bolisms of the past held a We shall obtain delivering grace fl tween the morning and the In each distressing hour. V evening hour ? He had very important and definite R meaning to the child of —Isaac Watts. U ascended to the Father, the faith today. Each must fl " firstfruits " to be accepted carry its lesson of admoni- for you! tion to those upon whom Why was Christ crucified " the ends of the world are come." on the 14th day of Nisan ? That type might meet Our Passover antitype 1 Why did He rise on the 16th ? That the The Passover, while reminding Israel of their escape antitypical wave sheaf might be presented on the third from the destroying angel, had. in it also the typical fore- day " according to the Scriptures." Thirteen times shadowing of the sacrifice of the Son of God. The New Testament writers speak of Him as rising " on the antitype of that ancient memorial is found in the cross third day." That year the 14th of Nisan fell on of Calvary, " the Lamb slain from the foundation of the Friday, the "preparation day." Luke 23 : 54. The world." This Paul teaches when he writes, " Even 16th would be Sunday, the first day of the week. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." 1 Cor. 5 : 7. Christ did not rise on that day to make it a holy day. The annual Passover began the typical year of service, It was necessary so as to fulfil prophecy, and to meet but this begins the " acceptable year of the Lord." the type. Luke 4 : 19. On the 14th of Nisan, "between the Then, too, it must be remembered that Christ was __ 2 rgrAt ATI§TRALABIlt\1 RECORD- 4/5/25 put to death on the shameful symbol of and with it the investigative judgment in inheritance and left him a wanderer on sun worship, but He rose on the very day heaven. the earth. dedicated to the sun god to demonstrate This solemn occasion was well an- Every fifty years, just as the sun was that it had no power over God's Christ. nounced both in type and antitype. We setting on the day of atonement, the On the intermediate day the disciples kept are told by one of the New Testament trumpet of the jubilee was blown. Only Sabbath while their Lord and Master prophets that judgment begins at the once to each generation the jubilee came. rested, in the tomb. Luke 23 : 55, 56. house of God, "Because the right place But with the blowing of the antitypical Then they went to do on the first day of to begin the judgment is at the house of jubilee trumpet there must come to the the week the work that they would not God; and if first at us what will be the last generation, the real restitution of do on the Sabbath. Luke 24 : I. Christ end of those disobedient to the good news all things. The inheritance, the heavenly came forth from the tomb on the 16th of of God?" I Peter 3 : 17, Fenton. family, and the fulness of joy must all Nisan, God's antitypical sheaf—the "first- In the typical day of atonement God come back to abide forever. This anti- fruits of them that slept." dealt only with sins confessed and for- type brings the restoration of all things given. So now He is dealing with con- that God has planned for man. Peter The True Pentecost fessed sins—sins that "go before to speaks of it as the " restitution of all Early in the third month came the judgment." I Tim. 5 : 24. These are things " of which the prophets have typical Pentecost, and in the fulness of the only sins which will be removed in spoken since the world began. Acts 3: time the antitypical Pentecost also ap- the cleansing of the true sanctuary and 19-21. Man has lost life, position, charac- peared. Before the Passover all leaven God's antitypical day of atonement. ter, the friendship of God, and the inherit- was removed from the home of the Hebrew. When, seven weeks after the Passover, two loaves were baked, con- ,-TDICAL Y EAR. trary to all directions associated with the worship of God (leaven was never to be S s u 1,4 IA E R A U T used in His service) these two new loaves U iv N were prepared with new leaven, obtained from the " accepted " sheaf of the first- fruits. So when the true antitypical 5 Pentecost came, the two loaves presented to the Lord met their antitype in the two h-lst Mth. divisions of our race, Jews and Gentiles, sover being presented before God. Not 16th-lst 01h. animated by the old leaven of selfishness, Forst Fruits but by the new leaven—the Spirit of an 15th-7th Mth. accepted Christ, "For through Him we Harvest Neva both have access by one Spirit to the New Spring 1_1000Years of Death New Earth Father." Eph. 2: 18. To share with the Israel of God, the old Ree.19,9 Gift of 6pirlt leaven of malice and evil must be re- Acts 2.1.2 moved and the new leaven—even the esurrection Spirit of Christ—must be received. of Christ Acts 3,19'21 Under the power of that new Spirit, what Cor.13.20 1 Cor.511 a great work was accomplished—thou- 1833-44 Message sands converted in a day. If God's work Bev.14:6,7 is to be done now, it must be done with the same Spirit and by the same power. The Judgment Call Quite a period of time passed between 18.----ACCEPTABLE Y EAR Pentecost in the early part of the third month and the trumpet-memorial which fell on the first day of the seventh month. Satan will then be the antitypical ance that love had planned for him, but in Somewhat of a correspondingly long " Azazel," and even as Christ died for sin, the coming jubilee these must all be given period came in between the antitypical Satan must die with sin. The figurative back to the one who successfully passes Pentecost with its gift of the Spirit, and symbolism is now no longer needed, for through the great antitypical day of the judgment message of 1833-1844. In the real cleansing brings in a finality to atonement. the typical illustration it was a ten-day forgiven sin. The man who has not con- The Kingdom Harvest announcement for the day of atonement; fessed, when God's atonement closes, must here it is a ten-year proclamation for the remain his own Azazel and he also dies Frequently in Scripture the final gather- judgment. with sin ! ing of God's people is spoken of as a A message, with the judgment as its Some years ago the writer attended the harvest. Christ Himself declares " the burden, went to the world as predicted in celebration of the atonement at the Jewish harvest is the end of the world." So in Rev. 14:6, 7. During that period three synagogue in Sydney. The building was the closing up of God's panorama, the hundred ministers in America and seven densely crowded.