River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-11-03
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"This Do in Remembrance Of Me-
MATTHEW 26:17-3o.- NOVEMBER 6.
'hese studies are selected for us

4 - hese studies are selected tor us
" in advance. Otherwise our
preference would have been to con-
slider 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 Jew and was, there
/ fore, obligated to every feature OF
/ the Mosaic Law. He came not to
destroy the Law, but to fulfill It.
! Today's study points US to the full
fillment of one feature of the Law
the Passover; not I'll at it is entirely
fulfilled, but that the antitype has
for more than eighteen centuries
been in process of fulfllment and
the complete fulfllment, sure to
come, is, we believe, 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 OF Pharaoh,
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 influence of each plague Phar-
aoh repented and through Moses en-
treated God for mercy upon himself
and for the peop4e relief from the
plague. Nevertheless, every man
Hesitation of Divine mercy tended
only to harden his heart until flnal-
ly the tenth plague, the severest or
all was necessary. That plague
consisted in the execution of the
death sentence against all the first
born of Egypt. But the lsrael1tes
in Egypt were exempt from its pro-
visions under certain conditions,
Each family was required to have
its own lamb, not bone of which
was to be broken. Its 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,
pilgrim like, with staff in hand,
ready for departure out of Egypt in
the morning.
IsRAEL'S FIRsT-Bo4Ns PASSED OVER
When that night the Divine SEN
tence slew ali of L gypt's first-borns,
the frst-bornS of Israel were pass
ed over or spared; hence the name
Passover. And this ceremony, as
as reminder of the great blessing
of the Lord upon Israel, was COM
| manded to be 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 Lev
ties were the passed-over flrst-borns
and were specially devoted TO God
and his service.
4 THE ANTITYPICAL FULFILLMENT
Those experiences of the Israel
ties and their f1rst-born ones were
very real and properly very interest
ing TO them; but Il. ey are still more
interesting to Cb fistians, who are
antiques now be ing passed over.
By Christians we do not mean all
who merely make profession, nor
all who attend Church however reg
ularly. We mean merely the saint
" few who are now being called
and being tested as to faithfulness
to the Lord and by faith being pass
ed over from death unto life.
These are Scripturally styled, The
Church of the frst-borns. whose
names are written in Heaven"
(Hebrews xii, 23). As the deliver
ance of the Nation of Israel from
Egypt took place fter the sparing
or passing over of ne first-born, so,
spondingly, the Divine bless
ing will come upan the world of
mankind directly fter the compile
ton of the the Church of the first
born directly alter their passing
from death unto life, by the power
of the First Resurrection. If there
is hrst-born class it implies that
there will be an afterborn class.
Thus the Scriptures everywhere
distinctly teach that the present
call, trial, testing, proving and final
rewarding of the Church will not be
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