The Substance of the Shadow

Three points of interest as Old Testament law relates to New Testament principles:

1. Clean and unclean animals- a clean animal must split the hoof and chew the cud; missing one or the other makes the animal unclean; a true Christian is revealed by both action and attitude, to falter in either word or deed reveals the true path you trod.(writings of John Bunion)

2. Crop regulations-no one was to plant more than one crop in their field. perhaps so that one person could not be the end all be all of food production but that each member of the community was to be mutually dependant on one another, and each one indispensable to the rest; we are all given understanding in different areas for the reason of promoting mutual edification. There is no one anothering that goes on in the modern pastor led church. One pastor serves broccoli one serves spinach, both have valid insights but when they think they ought to be the sole nutrient provider they go the way of the cults. every brother in the body of believers ought to be learning from God and through His word then sharing that insight with the body. imagine a "church" entirely made up of qualified elders meeting on the grounds of love and respect, striving for mutual edification, expecting to both give and receive teaching.

3.The Sabbath rest- perhaps it is best to go straight from scripture on this one: EXO20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it; Matt 12:5-8 have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. & Heb 4:9-11 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
The Sabbath gave us rest from labor, Christ gives us rest from the ever-present burden of sin, yeshua mesheaha is the substance of the shadow. and if we are in Him the shadow is of little effect, yet even He said that the rest from labor is for your benefit. and in Prov. 23:4 Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!


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