“These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time.
On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and
month on which for fifteen long centuries the Passover lamb had been
slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with His disciples, instituted
that feast which was to commemorate His own death as “the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.”
That same night He was taken by
wicked hands to be crucified and slain.
---And as the antitype of the
wave sheaf our Lord was raised from the dead on the third day, “the
first fruits of them that slept,” a sample of all the resurrected just,
whose “vile body” shall be changed, and “fashioned like unto His
glorious body.” Verse 20; Philippians 3:21."
E.G.W.
