The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-29

advance. Otherwise our preference
would have been To consider the incl
dent connected with our Lords closing
OF earth life In the Spring OF the year
about the season at which that occur
red. But Truth Is always precious TO
us and has always profitable lessons.
Jesus was a Jew and was, there
fore. obligated TO every feature OF the
! Mosaic Law. He came not TO destroy
the Law. but TO fulfill t. To-day s
study points us TO the fulhllment OF
I one feature OF the Law-the Pass
over; not that IL is already entirely
! fulfilled, but that the antitype has for
more than eighteen centuries been In
process Of fulflllment and the complete
| fulfllment, sure TO come, il. We be-
| lieve, near at hand To appreciate this
study We must have clearly In mind
| the type:-
Approximately $500 years ago God
delivered the people OF Israel from the
despotic power or Pharoah. King of
Egypt. Time after time Pharaoh had
refused to let the people go. preferring
TO hold them as chattels, slaves. Time
after time God had sent plaques upon
Egypt as chastisements. Under the
4 vi PAa6hN
pented and through Moses entreated
God for mercy upon himself. and Tor
the people relief from the plague.
Nevertheless. every manifestation oil
! Divine mercy tended only 10 harden
his heart until finally the tenth
plague. the severest OF all, was neces-
sary. That plague consisted In the
execution OF the death sentence
against all the III st-born OF Egypt But
the Israelites In Egypt were exempt
from It's provisions under certain con
ditions. Each family was required to
have It's own lamb not a bone or
which was TO be broken. It's blood
was sprinkled upon the doorposts OF
the house and the family, assembled
within, partook OF It's flesh with un-
leavened bread and bitter herbs, PHI.
grim-like. with stan in hand. ready for
departure out Of Egypt In the morning.
Israers Flrst5orns Passed over.
When that night the Divine sen
tence slew all OF Egypts frst-borns,
the frst-borns OF Israel were passed
over or spared; hence the name
Passover. And this ceremony, as a
reminder OF the great blessing of the
Lord upon Israel. was commanded to
be observed yearly as a memorial Of
Gods goodness and because IL typed,
or illustrated, a still greater mercy
and blessing yet TO come.
A little later on those spared first
borns were exchanged for one Of the
tribes-Levi Thereafter the Levites
were the passed-over frst.borns and
were specially devoted 10 God and
his service.
The AntItypieai FultIllment.
Those experiences OF the Israelites
and their frst-born ones were very
real and properly very interesting to
them; but they are still more interest
ing to Christians, who themselves are
anti-types now being passed over. BY
Christians we do not mean all who
merely make profession, nor all who
attend church, however regularly. We
mean merely the sanity few who are
now being called and being tested as
TO faithfulness 10 the Lord and by
faith being passed over-from death
unto life. These are Scripturally
styled. The church OF the first-borns
whose names are written in heaven
| Hebrews XII, 23). AS the deliverance
OF the nation OF Israel from Egypt
took place after the sparing or passing
over OF the first-born. so. correspond
ingly. the Divine blessing will come
upon the world OF mankind directly
after the completion OF 1.-The church
OF the first born"-dlrectly after theiI
passinE from death unto life, by the
power OF the First Resurrection. II
there Is a flrst-born class IT implies
that there will be an after-borr
class. Thus the Scriptures every
where distinctly teach that the present
call. trial, testing, proving and ina
rewarding OF the church will not ot
the end OF Divine mercy toward hu
manity, but, on the contrary, will bt
only its beginning; for since the saint
w are spoken OF as the Church OF the
first-born." or as the Apostle de
4 clares, the first-fruits unto God o.
his creatures" we are assured there
. bv that after-fruits are equally par
OF the Divine Program
AmonRst the Levites were severa
divisions representing different ranks
and grades of the Church OF Christ
But the principal division or sector
of the Levites was the priestly family
OF Aaron. Just as there Is specia
class amongst the antitypical Levites
the faithful few, known in the Scrip
, lures as the Royal Priesthood.
The AntitypieaI Lamb and His Blood
In Jesus day the time had come fol
the fulflllment OF the antitype OF thC
passover Jesus himself was to be the
Passover Lamb BY faith the meril
Of his sacrifice his blood, was 10 o'
sprfnkled upon the doorposts or hii
peoples hearts, and his flesh, the
merit OF his earthly perfection, was tC
be eaten or appropriated by them II
their minds. with II they were u
eat the unleavened bread OF the Divine
promises and the bitter herbs OF trials
and adversities, and withal they were
IN drink wine. the blood OF the grape
symbolically implying their partclpa
ton with the Lamb In his ignominS
and sufferings.
The Lamb OF God, Jesus, the anti
tvpical Passover Lamb, was slair
nearly nineteen centuries ago on the
exact anniversary OF the killing OF the
tyuical lambs. The sacrifice or Jesus
needs not to be repeated, for by faltf
we all sprinkle this same blood today
and in our hearts feed upon the meri'
OF the same earthly sacrifice, and nave
plenty of bitter herbs OF prosecutor
and drink Of the blood-share the Mas
ter's spirit and It's reward OF suffering
for righteousness sake.
Not many have appreciated these
DrI,Ilaoes during all these nineteer