A Biblical Vision, Part I: Mastering the Old Testament Witness to Christ

Sess ion 4: Jesus as Ful f i l lment of the Tabernacle, Pr iesthood, Sacr i f ices, and Fest ival s 71

2. Antitype: Jesus is our paschal lamb, who cleanses us by his blood and nourishes us as we feed upon him, 1 Cor. 5.7; 1 Pet. 1.19.

B. The Feast of Unleavened Bread

1 Cor. 5.8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1. Type: Lev. 23.6-8; Exod. 12.15-20; April 15; remembrance of the bread eaten in haste in Israelite’s departure from Egypt

2. Antitype: We are to walk holy in Jesus Christ, not with malice or evil living but according to holiness in him, 1 Cor. 5.7-8; Pet. 1.

C. The Feast of the First Fruits

1 Cor. 15.22-23 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. [23] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

1. Type: Lev. 23.9-14; April; the feast of ingathering which occurred at the turning of the year, where all males must come before the Lord, where a sheaf of the first fruits of the harvest was offered, and a lamb sacrificed

2. Antitype: As a celebration of the first fruits of the harvest, this feast points to the resurrection of Christ, who arose the first day of the week, and is the first fruits of those who sleep [have died] in him, 1 Cor. 15.22-23.

D. The Feast of Pentecost

1. Type: Lev. 23.15-20; June (or 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits) – the culmination of the Feast of Weeks, whose offering representing the first products of the harvest, Exod. 34.22; Deut. 16.10