"The Law of Moses contained a shadow of good things to come; a system of figures or types pointing to Christ and His kingdom.
(See Heb. x. 1; For the law having a shadow of good things to come, Col. ii. 16 Which are a shadow of things to come).
Everything contained in the law
was to be fulfilled by Him.
In Matt, v. 17, 18, Jesus says, "Think not that I am come to 
destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."
Our Lord at His first coming, when he died on the cross,
--began the fulfilment of those types contained in the law;
--as our great High Priest He is still fulfilling them;
--and when He comes the second time, He will complete their fulfilment.
Not the least point will fail, either in the substance shadowed forth, or in the time so definitely pointed out for the observance of the types.
For God is an exact time keeper.
(See Acts xvii. 26, 31; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Job xxiv. I; Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?).
These passages show that time is an important point in the law of the Lord;
--therefore type and antitype must correspond exactly as it regards time.
One type fulfilled in Christ, was the killing of the Passover lamb. This was slain on the 14th day of the first month,
(See Lev. xxiii. 5. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. Ex. xii. 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.)
we learn that the lamb was killed in the evening.
The margin gives the literal rendering from the Hebrew, between the two evenings. Joseph Frey, a converted Jew, in his work on the Passover, says the afternoon or evening of the day was by them divided into two parts, the lesser or former evening and the greater or latter evening.
--The dividing point between the two was three in the afternoon, the ninth hour of the day.
--Jesus died on the cross, on the same day, and at the same hour. 
(See Mark xv. 34,37 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.).
Thus Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us."
Samuel Snow
