So much has happened in DBS, I can't believe it's all over now! It's heartbreaking to say goodbye to all my classmates, but I am so very grateful for my time with them and in the word over these last 3 months!
Last week, we were studying Revelation and something really got highlighted to me - Jesus was the perfect Passover Lamb. There are many symbols all throughout the Old Testament that pointed to Jesus, and the Passover Lamb is one of, if not the biggest one. Jesus' sacrifice washed away all our sin and closed the gap between us and God, but then that got me thinking - was that the function of the Passover Lamb? The first Passover Lambs were sacrificed right before the people of Israel left Egypt. The blood was used to mark those who belonged to God and to thereby save them from the spirit of Death - that's what Jesus' blood does for us. The Passover Lamb came before the covenant at mount Sinai and the sacrificial system that was given there. God would give them a complete and very detailed system for the cleansing of their sin through sacrifice, but they did not yet have this at Passover. They had been in Egypt for 400 years without sacrificing to God or being cleansed from their sins in any way, yet this one act - Passover - still closed the gap enough for God to see the blood and spare them. (Fun tid bit - it was also 400 years that the people of Israel waited in silence before Yeshua (Jesus) came as the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb!) In everything I've been studying about the Old Testament, I'd realized that Jesus could not have been the fulfillment of any other sacrifice that God had laid out for them. The sacrificial system was very clearly laid out, and no one sacrifice covered all sin completely. Even though Yeshua came as the completely pure and sinless sacrifice, there would have been no one type of sacrifice He could have fulfilled to do what needed to be done. That is why He had to go outside of the Levitical sacrificial system entirely. The Passover Lamb came before the sacrificial system was implemented, so it was all-encompassing. It singlehandedly covered an ignorantly sinful people from everything they deserved, and they didn't even know it. As I pondered this, God reminded me that Jesus was also a priest in the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5). Melchizedek was the priest of YHVH in the time of Abraham - WAY before the Aaronic line became priests. Yeshua could have been born into the priestly line of Aaron if God had wanted to do it that way, but He didn't. Intentionally. Again, He went outside of the system they had received at Mount Sinai and modeled Jesus after something much older and greater. Jesus came as the perfect priest and the perfect sacrifice, but not within the parameters that they understood under the Law. 1 Timothy 1:9 says "We also know that the Law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious..." Jesus was none of these things, therefore He was not bound by the Law. He was able to step outside of it and fulfill it because His very nature superseded it. Jesus' life was not modeled after what was in the Law, the Law was modeled after Jesus! It's little revelations like that that blow my mind!! Out of everything I've learned during this time, I think the biggest impact has come from a deepening love for revelation. I love that God piques my interest and then answers my questions. I love when we read His word together and He explains it to me. I love that He gets to show me His favorite little details in His story just like I would if I were to read one of my books with someone I loved. I am so in love with who He is and how I get to see Him through this wonderfully beautiful story we call the Bible. Getting to know and be in relationship with Him is the source of all my life and my joy! <3
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