Shadow Vs. Reality (Re-post)

Shadow (OT)	Reality (NT)
7th day physical Sabbath.	Everyday spiritual Sabbath.
Physical Circumcision - Circumcision of the flesh by hands	Spiritual Circumcision - Circumcision of the heart not by hands.
Passover Lamb.	Jesus the true passover lamb.
Blood on the door post keeping physical death away.	Blood of Jesus saving people from spiritual death.
Redemption of Israelites from Egypt by Moses.	Redemption of a sinner from the state of spiritual death through Jesus.
Walking in the wilderness for 40 years.	Christian living under the law.
Entering Canaan.	Entering God’s Grace.
Earthly tabernacle built by Israelites.	Heavenly Tabernacle not made by hands.
Curtain which separated the Most Holy place.	Body of Christ.
Human High priest in the Tabernacle.	Jesus the eternal High Priest.
Shedding the blood of animals.	Shedding the unblemished blood of Jesus.
Putting the sins of Israelites on the animal and performing the death penalty which covered the sins for one year.	Putting the sins of the entire world upon Jesus performing the death penalty which took away the sins of the entire world.
Human High priest entering the Holy of holies with blood of animals for his sins and the sins of the nation.	Jesus entering the true heavenly tabernacle with his own blood for the sins of the world forever.
Manna from heaven which satisfied physical hunger	True bread from heaven– Jesus who satisfies spiritual hunger.
Water from rocks which quenched physical thirst.	Real water which quenches the spiritual thirst from the rock of our salvation - Jesus.
Moses lifting the brass serpent.	Jesus lifted on the cross.
Physical lives saved of whom looked at the brass serpent.	Spiritual lives regenerated of whom looks upon Jesus lifted on the cross.
Ceremonial Washings.	Washing sins away by the blood of Christ.
Sin offering (animal) - People's sins being transferred to the body of the animal and judged.	Sin offering (Jesus) - World's sins being transferred to the body the perfect lamb of God and judged (once and for all).
Burnt offering (incense)- ascends as a sweet aroma to the Lord.	Burnt offering (Jesus) - Jesus's righteousness and worthiness becoming a sweet aroma to God (It is the same righteousness what is being transferred to us!)
Temporal and conditional covenant between God and Israelites	Eternal and unconditional Covenant between God and God's Son
Priesthood for Levites	Priesthood for all believers
High priest (human) - Temporal mediator between man and God who could never finish his work and sit down	High priest (Jesus) - Eternal mediator between man and God who finished His work and SAT down.
Law through Moses - Men trying to do what is impossible for them.	Grace through Jesus - God doing what is impossible for men.
Worship God in Temple	Worship God in Truth and Spirit.

The New Covenant - by Spurgeon

The Covenant between God the Father and God the Son!

"I, the Most High Jehovah, do hereby give unto my only begotten and well-beloved Son, a people, countless beyond the number of stars, who shall be by him washed from sin, by him preserved, and kept, and led, and by him, at last, presented before my throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. I covenant by oath, and swear by myself, because I can swear by no greater, that these whom I now give to Christ shall be for ever the objects of my eternal love. Them I will forgive through the merit of the blood. To these will I give a perfect righteousness; these will I adopt and make my sons and daughters, and these shall reign with me through Christ eternally." Thus run that glorious side of the covenant. The Holy Spirit also, as one of the high contracting parties on this side of the covenant, gave his declaration, "I hereby covenant," saith he, "that all whom the Father giveth to the Son, I will in due time quicken. I will show them their need of redemption; I will cut off from them all groundless hope, and destroy their refuges of lies. I will bring them to the blood of sprinkling; I will give them faith whereby this blood shall be applied to them, I will work in them every grace; I will keep their faith alive; I will cleanse them and drive out all depravity from them, and they shall be presented at last spotless and faultless."

This was the one side of the covenant, which is at this very day being fulfilled and scrupulously kept. As for the other side of the covenant this was the part of it, engaged and covenanted by Christ.

He thus declared, and covenanted with his Father: "My Father, on my part I covenant that in the fullness of time I will become man. I will take upon myself the form and nature of the fallen race. I will live in their wretched world, and for my people I will keep the law perfectly. I will work out a spotless righteousness, which shall be acceptable to the demands of thy just and holy law. In due time I will bear the sins of all my people. Thou shalt exact their debts on me; the chastisement of their peace I will endure, and by my stripes they shall be healed. My Father, I covenant and promise that I will be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. I will magnify thy law, and make it honorable. I will suffer all they ought to have suffered. I will endure the curse of thy law, and all the vials of thy wrath shall be emptied and spent upon my head. I will then rise again; I will ascend into heaven; I will intercede for them at thy right hand; and I will make myself responsible for every one of them, that not one of those whom thou hast given me shall ever be lost, but I will bring all my sheep of whom, by thy blood, thou hast constituted me the shepherd—I will bring every one safe to thee at last."

-Charles Spurgeon-

Beleieve It and Be Happy!

According to this gracious covenant [New Covenant], the Lord treats His people as if they had never sinned. Practically, He forgets all their trespasses. Sins of all kinds treats as if they had never been; as if they were quite erased from His memory. O miracle of grace! God here does that which in certain aspects is impossible to Him. His mercy works miracles which far transcends all other miracles. Our God ignores our sin now that the sacrifice of Jesus has ratified the covenant. We may rejoice in Him without fear that He will be provoked to anger against us because of our iniquities. See! He puts us among the children; He accepts us as righteous; He takes delight in us as if we were perfectly holy. He even puts us in places of trust; makes us guardians of His honor, trustees of crown jewels, stewards of the gospel. He counts us worthy, and gives us a ministry ; this is the highest and most special proof that He does not remember our sins. Even when we forgive an enemy, we are very slow to trust him; we judge it to be imprudent to do so. But the Lord forgets our sins, and treats us as if we had never erred.O my soul, what a promise is this! Believe it and be happy. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Shadow Vs Reality

Shadow	Reality
7th day physical Sabbath.	Everyday spiritual sabbath.
Physical Circumcision.	Circumcision without hands.
Passover Lamb.	Jesus the true passover lamb.
Blood on the door post keeping physical death away.	Blood of Jesus saving people from spiritual death.
Redemption of Israelites from Egypt by Moses.	Redemption of a sinner from the state of spiritual death through Jesus.
Walking in the wilderness for 40 years.	Christian living under the law.
Entering Canaan.	Entering God’s Grace.
Earthly tabernacle built by Israelites.	Heavenly Tabernacle not made by hands.
Curtain which separated the Most Holy place.	Body of Christ.
Human High priest in the Tabernacle.	Jesus the eternal High Priest.
Shedding the blood of animals.	Shedding the unblemished blood of Jesus.
Putting the sins of Israelites on the animal and performing the death penalty which covered the sins for one year.	Putting the sins of the entire world upon Jesus performing the death penalty which took away the sins of the entire world.
Human High priest entering the Holy of holies with blood of animals for his sins and the sins of the nation.	Jesus entering the true heavenly tabernacle with his own blood for the sins of the world.
Manna from heaven which satisfied physical hunger	True bread from heaven– Jesus who satisfies spiritual hunger.
Water from rocks which quenched physical thirst.	Real water which quenches the spiritual thirst from the rock of our salvation - Jesus.
Moses lifting the brass serpent.	Jesus lifted on the cross.
Physical lives saved of whom looked at the brass serpent.	Spiritual lives regenerated of whom looks upon Jesus lifted on the cross.
Ceremonial Washings.	Washing sins away by the blood of Christ.
Law through Moses - Men trying to do what is impossible for them.	Grace through Jesus - God doing what is impossible for men.