The Passover Feast in Three Stages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Luke 22:15 And He said to them, With desire I have desired to
eat this passover with you before I suffer, (16) For I tell you
that I shall by no means eat it until it is fulfilled in the
kingdom of God. (18) For I tell you, I shall by no means drink
from now on of the product of the vine until the kingdom of God
comes. (19) And He took a loaf and gave thanks, and He broke it
and gave it to them, saying, This is My body which is being
given for you; do this in remembrance of Me. (20) And similarly
the cup after they had dined, saying, This cup is the new
covenant established in My blood, which is being poured out for
you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
God has a complete plan to redeem His people into His jubilee.
The feast of the Passover is a sign of God's full redemption,
and this full redemption is the bringing of God's chosen people
into the full enjoyment of Himself. This enjoyment is a matter
of the jubilee covered in the Gospel of Luke as the fulfillment
of the prophecy in Isaiah and the type in Leviticus 25. The
jubilee is actually the enjoyment of God through His redemption.
The feast signifying the jubilee was first the feast of the
Passover in the Old Testament and then the Lord's table in the
New Testament.
The feast of the Passover was not completely fulfilled in the
Old Testament. The Lord's table, which also is a feast, replaces
and continues the feast of the Passover. But not even this New
Testament feast has been completely fulfilled; it will be
fulfilled completely in the coming kingdom. This feast began in
Exodus 12, and it continued for more than fifteen centuries
until the night in which the Lord Jesus replaced it with His
table. Today in the church life God's people are attending this
New Testament feast. However, this feast will not be fulfilled
completely until the feast in the coming kingdom. This means
that the feast in the kingdom will be the fulfillment of both
the feast of the Passover and the feast of the Lord's table.
Seemingly there are three feasts: the feast of the Passover, the
feast of the Lord's table, and the feast in the kingdom.
Actually, these are not three feasts. On the contrary, this is
one feast in three stages. God has established one feast through
His redemption for our full enjoyment of the jubilee in three
stages, and these stages are the Old Testament stage, the New
Testament stage, and the kingdom stage.
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible (RcV) and Words of Ministry,
from Witness Lee, Life-study of Luke, pp. 424-425. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. (Repeat
4/17/02)
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