General Foreshadowing Jesus

[Neil]

Moses wrote many things that foreshadowed the coming of the Messiah.

- Jesus is, indeed, the Passover Lamb, as those who put their faith in His death and the blood He shed are rescued from the judgment that is to come. (John 3:16-18)

- Like the manna in the desert, Jesus is the Bread from Heaven (John 6:51) that satisfies our spiritual hunger and gives us life.

- Like the water that sprung from the rock, Jesus is the living water (John 7:37) that satisfies our spiritual thirst.

- Like the snake in the desert that was lifted up that those who were bitten by deadly snakes could look upon and be saved, Jesus was lifted up so that we who have been bitten by Satan in our sin can look upon Jesus and be saved from spiritual death. (John 3:14-15)

- Like the rock that was struck the first time, but should never be struck again, Jesus suffered once for all. (1 Peter 3:18)

- Jesus is the offspring of the woman spoken of in Genesis 3 that would crush the head of Satan (Genesis 3:15)

• Jesus is the fulfillment of the life of Joseph, which foreshadows Him being the beloved Son, being envied by His own, begin rejected by His own, cast down into the pit, resurrected, sent to a distant country where He became lord of all, and who then provided salvation for His own.

• Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah: cf. Genesis 49:8ff as interpreted by Revelation 5:5

• Moses also said that God would raise up "a prophet like me" (Deuteronomy 18:15), and this is probably the clearest reference to the coming Messiah.

• Jacob's ladder, in Genesis 28:10-22.

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Verse 12. This is because Jesus is our bridge to Heaven, and He appeared to confirm this reference in John 1:51

• Abraham sacrificing Isaac in Genesis 22:1-19, representing God sacrificing His Son Jesus for us.

• Like the tabernacle and high priest was a shadow of the tabernacle in heaven, where Jesus is our High Priest (Hebrews 8)

 

[LeeB]

Jesus is also our rest from works of the law, he is our Sabbath and was raised from the dead on that day to fulfill the promised rest in him. Jesus also makes it possible to be unleavened of sin by forgiveness in him but the old days of unleavened bread could not do this, you could not be unleavened by your own works in the law. Jesus fulfilled Pentecost that was a remembrance of the giving of the law by sending the Holy Spirit that gives us the love of God that is the fulfillment of the law. Jesus fulfilled Trumpets that in the law were blown to announce the arrival of a great king by being born in Bethlehem as the prophet foretold. Jesus fulfilled Atonement, a day of fasting , as the Israelites had no atonement in bulls and goats until Jesus who is our atonement. Jesus fulfilled Tabernacles because the Israelites dwelled in physical dwellings not their own as Abraham dwelled in a land , Hebrews 11:9 . Jesus fulfilled the last great day which is the sum and conglomeration of all the previous holy days by his birth, life, death , resurrection and ascension, mediator and high priest. And on this last great day of the feast Jesus still calls out today to those given to hear, John 7:37-39