CAN YOU SEE THE SCARLET THREAD IN THE BIBLE?

One of the greatest things I love about the Bible is how it is written by so many over so long, and it still tells one and only one story.  We find that there IS a living God behind it, and He is orchestrating human events to bring about His Holy purposes.  There is, as one person put it, a scarlet thread that is woven through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation; and that thread is the blood of Jesus shed for our sins.

But there are plenty of events and decrees and prophecies that are forever linked together in concept, purpose, and meaning as the first is a foreshadow of the latter. 

One of those is the Passover Feast, mandated by God in Exodus 12:14, which foretells of the great Passover sacrifice of Jesus 1,500 years later. 

So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
When God told the Hebrews to keep this feast, He meant it.  And they still keep this feast today.  What they miss is what Christians understand: it's about the Messaiah they await - and how they've already sacrificed Him on Calvary's Hill. 

But before the sacrifice, the Passover meal was made clear by Jesus, Himself, when He and His disciples shared the Passover together the night He was betrayed - we call it "the Last Supper."  The unleavened bread represents Jesus' sinless body, broken for us.  The cup of wine represents His blood, the New Covenant (over against the blood of the Lamb applied to the doorposts of the home as in the Passover of Exodus).  The fulfillment of the Passover feast, a memorial kept throughout the generations is now seen in Jesus; and the memorial continues as Jesus sanctified the "Lord's Supper" through the Disciples and the Apostle Paul (1Corinthians 11:23-26)

Let us never lose sight of the scarlet thread through the Bible, and let us delight that the God who instituted the Passover feast was using it to point us through time to the see the perfect Savior and salvation of Jesus Christ.  Let us also remember His great offering and honor Him with the Lord's Supper and our holy lives lived in His service until the day we see Him face to face. 

Soli Deo Gloria


And that's Just A Thot for today!