THE OLD TESTAMENT FESTIVALS THAT TEACH US ABOUT WHAT JESUS , THE PROMISED SEED(GALATIANS CHAPTER 3), WOULD DO WHEN THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US. MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE MEANING OF COMMUNION, WHICH IS TO REMEMBER WHAT CHRIST DID FOR US ON THE CROSS, THE BREAD IS THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE WINE THE BLOOD. COMMUNION POINTS BACK TO CHRIST. WHAT ABOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT RITUALS? THEY POINTED FORWARD TO WHEN THE PROMISED SEED WOULD COME AND THERE RITUALS WHERE ALL ABOUT THAT, EVERYTHING IN THE TABERNACLE, THE TEMPLES, FOR INSTANCE JESUS WAS THE REAL PASSOVER LAMB, THE OLD TESTAMENT RITUAL WAS JUST AN IMAGE OF IT. JUST LIKE MARRIAGE IS AN IMAGE OF JESUS, THE GROOM, COMING BACK FOR THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE. THIS POINTS FORWARD LIKE THE OLD TESTAMENT RITUALS TO CHRISTS RETURN. IT IS TRUE THAT THE TALMUD(TRADITION OF THE ELDERS) PHARISEES AND TEACHERS OF THE LAW DID NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS AS THE PROMISED SEED. IT SAYS THAT SECRETLY SOME OF THEM DID BELIEVE BUT WERE SCARED TO SAY SO(a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.”) MATTHEW 9:18. TODAY WE WILL LOOK AT THE JEWS WHO DID RECOGNIZE JESUS AS CHRIST. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 1 IS WHERE WE WILL START. THE FIRST POST JESUS IN THE FLESH CHURCH WAS IN JERUSALEM AND WAS MADE UP OF JEWS AND JEW CONVERTS. A LOT OF THE SYNAGOGUES IN THE ROMANS EMPIRE, ABOUT 50, WHERE TURNED INTO CHURCHES BY THE JEWS AND JEWISH CONVERTS THAT WERE AT PENTECOST. (ACTS CHAPTER 2) THEY HAD THE HOLY GHOST COME ON THEM THEN WENT BACK TO THERE LOCAL ASSEMBLY/SYNAGOGUE(Acts 9:20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.) AND THEN TOLD THERE FAMILY AND FRIENDS THERE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AND RITUALS WERE FULFILLED IN CHRIST JESUS. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,[b] 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:00:07 +0000
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