The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-11-04
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$@E HESE studies are selected for US
la advance. Otherwise our
preference would have been to
consider the incident connected with
our Lords closing of earth life in the
Spring Of the year about the season at
which that occurred But Truth is
always precious to US and has always
profitable lessons.
Jesus was a jew and was. therefore,
obligated 10 every feai ire Of the Mo-
sale Law. lie came no 10 destroy the
Law. but 10 fulfill it, Today's study
points as 70 the fulfillneni Of one fea-
tire Of the Law-the Passover; not
ghat il is already entire y fulfilled. but
that the autitype has COR more than
eighteen centuries been in process Of
ful6llmcnt and the complefe fulillment,
sure 20 come. is. we D. ieve. near at
band To appreciate t..s study we
must have clearly in mind the lvpe:-
Approximately $500 years ago God
delivered the people Of Israel from the
despotic power of Pharaoh. King Of
Egypt Time after time Pharaoh had
refused to let the people 60. preferring
20 hold them as chattels. slaves Time
after time God had sent plaques upon
Egypt as chastisements. Under the in
aueDce Of each plague Pharaoh repent
ID and through Moses entreated God
FOR mercy upon himself. and for the
people relief from the plague Never
rheless. every manifestation Of Divine
mercy tended only to harden his heart
until finally the tenth plague the Sc
yerest of all. was necessary. That
plague consisted in the execution Of
Ghe death sentence against all the first
born of Egypt But the lsraelites in
Egypt We're exempt from its provisions
under certain conditions Each fam
siy was required to have its own lamb.
not bone of which was to be broken.
Its blood was sprinkled upon the door
posts Of the house and the family, as
sembled within. partook Of its flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs. pilgrim-like. with staff in hand,
ready for departure out of Egypt in
the morning
lsraels First borns Passed Over
When that night the Divine SEN
tence slew all Of Egypts frst-borns.
the 6rst-borns Of Israel were passed
over OF spared; hence the name-Pass-
over. And this ceremony. as a re-
hinder Of the great blessing of the
Lord upon Israel was commanded to
he observed yearly as a memorial OF
Gods goodness and because it 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 to God and his
service.
The Antitypical Fulfllment
Those experiences Of the lsraelites
and their 6rstborn ones were very real
and properly very interesting 70 them;
but they are stlll more interesting 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
10 faithfulnoss TO the Lord and by
faith being passed over-from death
unto life These are Srripturally
styled. The Church Of the Grst-borns.
whose names are written in heaven"
(Hebrews Xii. 3D. As The delverance
of the nation Of Israel from Egypt
Took place after the sparing or passing