THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PLAGUES
(What Do They Mean for Us Today?)
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PART TEN -
CONCLUSION
THE TENTH
PLAGUE UPON
THE FINAL
PLAGUE
The tenth and final
plague upon
Exodus 11:1 -
¶And the LORD said
unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon
Exodus 11:4-6 -
4
- And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of
5
- And all the firstborn
in the
6
- And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the
Matthew 25:6 -
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom
cometh; go ye out to meet him.
EVENING
Christ told His
disciples that He must work the works of Him (Heavenly Father; first person of
the Godhead or Trinity) while it is day, for the night will come when no man can work, John 9:4. What did Christ mean by stating that there
would come a night? What was He speaking
of when He said no man can work in the night? Clearly Christ spoke of the spiritual demise,
degradation and finally the total overtaking of His Word near the end of this
present age. Christ is the LIGHT of the
world, however this light will not always be with us, as Scripture
teaches. Yes, Christ promised His elect
that He would never leave us nor forsake us, and as believers we can take that
to heart. However, we are making
reference here to His Word and His Spirit being in the world. They will not always be in the world.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 -
3 -
¶Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4
- Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
God gives Satan
authority to plunder the worldwide
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Ezekiel 22:25-27
25
- There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have
taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
[Old Testament
Ezekiel (like all Old Testament books) speaks to National Israel of their day
but ultimately they are speaking to the New Testament spiritual
Revelation 21:9 - ¶And there came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
We are Christ’s
bride and every true believer is spiritually married to Him. Christ, our God and Creator is our husband.
Isaiah 54:5 - For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is
his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth
shall he be called.
Today’s teachers
within the global church are, as Ezekiel 22:25 states, making many widows in
the midst thereof. This is highly
spiritual language we are studying. All
who are not saved in Christ our husband are depicted in a figurative manner as widows. They have no husband and Christ is dead to
them.]
26
- Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things:
they have put no difference
between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between
the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am
profaned among them.
[They have put no
difference between the holy and profane verse 26 tells us. When you walk into a congregation belonging
to an organized church as well as many others, do you readily notice how they
teach, preach, and accept the things of the world? They compromise Christ’s precious good news
of salvation in order to go with the flow and not to offend their church
members. Abortion, gay and lesbian life
styles, etc., on and on and on they go, embracing the sins of the world and
importing them into their doctrines while ousting many of Christ’s basic
doctrines. Thus it is they make no distinction between the holy and the
profane, as Ezekiel 22:26 tells us!]
27
- Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest
gain.
[To destroy souls
is the same as making many widows. Those
who do not know Christ as their true husband are widows indeed.]
As the church began
falling away, many evening wolves appeared at its doors. Yes, there were spiritual wolves in the
church throughout its history but as we near the time of the end the light of the world (Christ’s
Word) will begin to dim. Christ is our day star (2 Peter 1:19)
and as His Word begins to be attacked and altered, this world slowly begins to transcend
into a spiritual evening condition,
meaning that during the falling away period we were not yet at the spiritual
night, but were rapidly closing in.
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EVENING
WOLVES
As we have stated,
Christ says “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world,” John 9:4-5.
As long as Christ
or His Word is in the world, we will have spiritual light. As the true Word of God diminishes and is in
the process of being silenced (as it is today), the world’s light begins to dim
as the day transcends into spiritual evening.
It is that evening that soon leads to the spiritual night in which no
man can work, John 9:4.
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Zephaniah 3:1-4:
1
- ¶Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
[Who is the
oppressing city? Is it not the once
spiritual
Isaiah 1:21 -
¶How is the
faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 26:5 -
¶For he bringeth
down them that dwell on high; the lofty
city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he
bringeth it even to the dust.
Ezekiel 24:6 -
Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out
of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
We could site many
more passages that ultimately have the end-time apostate church in view as a city. Once again it is crucial to note that this is
NOT Christ’s true church. The gates of
hell cannot touch Christ, His Word or His true Church…His Bride. These cities represent the fallen corporate
church at the end of time, whose partial and literal fulfillments were once
laid upon Old Testament National Israel but now they are being fulfilled on a
global scale within the worldwide
2
- She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not
in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
[Doesn’t this
description sound much like today’s organized churches?]
3
- Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw
not the bones till the morrow.
[Yes, many of those
who bring the Word of God in the midst of the organized churches are to a large
degree…inwardly roaring lions and evening
wolves. These are spiritual beasts
that prey on and devour the Lamb of
God as we are reading from Zephaniah 3:1-4:]
4
- Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have
polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
[True believers flee
from the corporate churches as we witness God’s Law being stomped to the
ground.]
Scripture indicates
that the evening wolves come into the very midst of the city (Christ’s earthly
church consisting of both wheat and tares).
Habakkuk 1:8 -
Their horses also
are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen
shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they
shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
[Scripture gives us
many passages that figuratively display the
false prophets and false teachers as horses and horsemen charging into
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Let us examine one
more section of scripture that shed light on evening wolves.
Jeremiah 5:1-6
1
- ¶Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any
that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
[Can we go to the
organized congregations of the world and find believers zealous for the Word of
God? Yes, we readily see and find many
who are extremely zealous for a form of godliness (2 Timothy 3:5) but upon a closer
examination they will deny the many aspects of the true God and His power.
2 Timothy 3:5 -
Having a form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
It is God who
judges and believers dare not over step their roles as Christians. It is not our place to judge those who are
still in bondage within the apostate churches.
However, we do see an overflowing amount of apostasy coming from the
organized churches…much of which is sheer demonic and blasphemous.]
2
- And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
[Congregations by
the thousands say this but teach to the contrary in many areas of
doctrine. Clearly they are denying the
power of God.]
3
- O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but
they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to
receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
[Today’s organized
churches know exactly where they want to be, and it doesn’t include the narrow
way of the Cross of Christ. They desire
to be called a church but they have no desire for the true narrow road.
Isaiah 4:1 -
¶And in that day
seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our
reproach.
[These are they who
desire to be called Christians but have no desire to follow Christ.]
4
- Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know
not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5
- I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they
have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
[It would appear
that there are many within the churches that blatantly refuse correction in
order to alter Christ’s Word.]
6
- Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities:
every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their
transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
God is using the
messengers of Satan as judgment upon the apostate churches. This judgment comes from ordinary appearing
men and women by the hundreds of thousands who hold high positions within the
organized churches. These people are figuratively
depicted in Scripture as locusts and evening wolves put there to overtake the congregations. Once they have accomplished their tasks, the
spiritual condition of this world will have transcended from evening to
night. The light of Christ will no
longer be seen in the midst of the world’s churches. A bright flicker here and there will have
come from those who worship Christ but are now scattered from the
congregations. They have fled the
apostasy and Satan’s rule of the temple (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
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Earlier we cited John 9:4 -
I must work the
works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
We have seen that as
the “falling away” slowly engulfs and consumes the churches of the world
(Abomination of Desolation), it takes with it the true Word of God. At the pinnacle of this period of falling
away the world unknowingly transcends from evening to night. Christ told
His disciples that when this night comes, then no man can work. We do not have
to speculate as to what this may mean since Scripture is crystal clear on this
matter and Christ revealed it for us in John
6:29:
Jesus answered and
said unto them, This is the work
of God, that ye believe on
him whom he hath sent.
To think that night
comes when no one can work…or rather no one can believe is a most sombering
thought! What could be worse? That, as it seems, may be why Christ referred
to this particular time as great
tribulation. What could possibly
be greater tribulation than that? While
there is still more studying to be done on the subject of salvation or no
salvation during the night, it seems fairly clear from the Scriptures.
THE SPIRITUAL
“NIGHT”
Exodus 11:6 -
And there shall
be a great cry throughout all the
The past nine
plagues upon ancient
Matthew 24:21 -
For then shall be
great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be.
The tenth plague of
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8:
7
- For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be
taken out of the way.
[Who is the “he” that now letteth? It is the Holy Spirit of God, the Holy
Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, or the “Comforter” that was given
at Pentecost. Consider the following
conformational verse:
John 15:26 - ¶But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me:
[Notice that God
states HE in reference to the
Comforter or Holy Spirit? Now lets read
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 together:]
7
- For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he
be taken out of the way.
[The “he” seems to
clearly be in reference to God’s Holy Spirit.]
8
- And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
The Holy Spirit
will have been taken out of the way in preparation for the loosing of Satan and
the Great Tribulation. With God’s Holy
Spirit removed from the earth how can anyone then and at that time become
saved? How can they WORK or BELIEVE? It is the midst of spiritual night…the night
cometh when no man can work,
John 9:4.
NOTE: God’s Holy Spirit was not given to the world until after
Christ resurrected from the dead.
However, where was the Holy Spirit during the Old Testament days? Satan had not been bound during those
days. The Great Tribulation may resemble
those days but on a much larger scale, since it is to be a time so great with
tribulations wherein the world has never seen nor will see again. The question remains: Might there be a
trickle of salvation during the Great Tribulation, since there were people
being saved during the Old Testament days?
Returning to the
subject of great tribulation or night, we read that those who have been saved
prior to this time will have been sealed by God (eternally saved) and made
ready to endure.
Revelation 7:1-3 -
1
- ¶And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the
earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on
the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2
- And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the
living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was
given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3
- Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads.
[God does not allow
the trumpet judgments to commence until He has sealed His servants. From that point onward it would surely appear
that salvation has come to an end. Let
us pray we are wrong, and we might be, however we must accept God’s will.]
THE MIDNIGHT
CRY
Exodus 11:4-6 -
4
- ¶And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of
5
- And all the firstborn
in the
6
- And there shall be a great cry throughout all the
Exodus 12:29 -
29
- ¶And it came to pass, that at midnight
the LORD smote all the firstborn
in the
30- And
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in
The night cometh
when no man can work. What is the height
or peak of night? Is it not the midnight
hour? That is the time that ushers in
the darkest of night. To the contrary,
the first sign of daylight is when we see the hint of dawn and the morning
star.
Revelation 22:16 -
I Jesus have sent
mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and
the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
It is at the
absolute height of this spiritual night that the midnight cry is
announced. It isn’t something we can
hear with our physical ears but many believers will undoubtedly be aware of
that time without knowing the precise day or hour. The midnight hour is of course a figurative term
and encompasses a time span other than being a literal and specific hour. It may not usher in the immediate return of
our Lord, but does appear to announce the spiritual death of the saints from
the Exodus account.
THE FIRSTBORN:
DEAD
Exodus 11:5 -
And all the firstborn in the
Plague after plague
poured upon the
1 Timothy 4:1 -
¶Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils.
From this point
onward it was a mere matter of time before the apostasy reached its
fruition. As in ancient
Revelation 11:7 -
And when they shall
have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless
pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Daniel 8:23-24 -
23
- And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up.
24
- And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall
destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Daniel 7:25 -
And he shall speak
great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to
change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and
times and the dividing of time.
Daniel 8:9-12 -
9 - And
out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding
great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
10
- And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the
stars to the ground, and stamped
upon them.
11
- Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the
daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
12
- And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the
truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel 12:6-7 -
6
- And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of
the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
7
- And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the
river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware
by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half;
and when he shall have accomplished to scatter
the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
JESUS CHRIST:
THE FIRSTBORN
God’s infallible
Word never fails. Its mysteries are
there and waiting for His people to unravel.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth,” (2 Timothy 2:15).
The word firstborn as it is defined in
the Old Testament Hebrew carries the meaning of chief;- eldest son, firstborn or firstling. The New
Testament carries basically the same meaning for firstborn, meaning: firstborn
or firstbegotten. We read of the many spiritual characteristics
of God the Son in Psalm 89. Consider
verse 27:
“Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings
of the earth,”
(Psalm 89:27).
Who is the Holy
One of Israel? He is Creator God; He
is God the Father, God the Son, and He is God the Holy Spirit. These three are ONE, 1 John 5:7. God
the Son in Christ Jesus is God’s FIRSTBORN. Let us Consider the following verses:
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Isaiah 14:30 -
And the firstborn of the poor
shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will
kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
POOR AND NEEDY
[Who are the poor
and needy whom this firstborn shall cause to lie down in safety? Of course it is Christ and His Gospel of
salvation that will cause His people - poor and needy - to lie down in safety. This safety is the eternal safety of God’s
everlasting care known as inheriting salvation and the
Let us consider a
number of verses that confirm this thought of God’s elect being termed the Poor and Needy.
Psalms 12:5 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith
the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 14:6 - Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his
refuge.
Psalms 34:6 - This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of
all his troubles.
Psalms 35:10 - All my bones shall say, LORD, who is
like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms 37:14 - The wicked have drawn out the sword,
and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor
and needy, and to slay such as be
of upright conversation.
Psalms 40:17 - But I am poor and needy;
yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no
tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 70:5 - But I am poor and needy:
make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no
tarrying.
Psalms 72:12 - For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no
helper.
Psalms 109:22 - For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
Isaiah 41:17 - When the poor and needy
seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the
LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Luke 6:20 - ¶And he lifted up his eyes on his
disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor:
for yours is the
Luke 4:18- The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised,
Matthew 5:3 - ¶Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 7:22 - Then Jesus answering said unto them,
Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the
blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are
raised, to the poor the
gospel is preached.
Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.
[Christ will supply
all of our needs; those who are drawn to Him from a spiritually poor and needy
status. ALL believers are spiritually poor and needy prior to Christ
quickening us in His Spirit.]
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Indeed Christ is
the FIRSTBORN of the Poor and Needy.
Isaiah 14:30 -
And the firstborn of the poor
shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will
kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Colossians 1:13-15 -
13
- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into
the kingdom of his dear Son:
14
- In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of
sins:
15
- Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Romans 8:29 - ¶For whom he did foreknow, he also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Colossians 1:18 - And he is the head of the body, the
church: who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Hebrews 12:23 - To the general assembly and church
of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men
made perfect,
Not only is Christ
the Firstborn in the spiritual essence, He was also incarnated as a man through
the Virgin Mary, and as such He was her firstborn in the physical.
Matthew 1:25- And knew her not till she had
brought forth her firstborn son:
and he called his name JESUS.
Luke 2:7 - And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them
in the inn.
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As Christ, the
world’s Firstborn, went to the
cross to atone for the sins of all whom God the Father had ordained unto
salvation, His death and crucifixion was told and played out in the
Zechariah 12:10 - And I will pour upon the house of
David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they
shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in
bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Let us break down
this verse. When does God pour upon the
house of David and the inhabitants of
Acts 2:1-4 -
1-
¶And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in
one place.
2
- And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3
- And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat
upon each of them.
4
- And they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
Zechariah 12:10
tells us that God will pour out His “Spirit”
upon the house of David and upon the inhabitant of
Mark 12:36 - For David himself said by the Holy
Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
Luke 1:32 - He shall be great, and shall be
called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the
throne of his father David:
[Christ literally
came from the line of King David. As
King David ruled over
Back to Zechariah
12:10. God has given grace and
supplication (grace, favor, and mercy) to His true Church as provided from
Pentecost onward. There were those who
found grace in the sight of the Lord back in the Old Testament day, however for
the most part this spirit of grace and supplications would not come fully until
Pentecost.
Psalms 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and
shield: the LORD will give grace
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
John 1:17 - For the law was
given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Acts 20:24 - But none of these things move me,
neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with
joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify
the gospel of the grace of God.
Romans 5:17 - For if by one man's offence death reigned
by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ.
Romans 11:5 - Even so then at this present time
also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Once more, let us
read and focus in on the second half of this verse:
Zechariah 12:10 -
And I will pour
upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
…and they shall
look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in
bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
This is not the
Second Coming when national
The killing of all
of
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FIRSTFRUITS
As Christ is the FIRST OF THE FIRSTFRUITS; all believers in
Christ are counted as firstfruits of God.
Revelation 14:4 - These are they which were not
defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and
to the Lamb.
James 1:18 - Of his own will begat he us with the
word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits
of his creatures.
1 Corinthians 15:23 - But every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:20 - ¶But now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept.
Romans 8:23 - And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the firstfruits
of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 11:16- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root
be holy, so are the branches.
The New Testament word
firstfruits carries a similar meaning to the word firstborn, both in the
Old and New Testaments. It is defined as
beginning, first, firstfruit, chief.
THE DOOR
POSTS
Hebrews 11:28 - Through faith he kept the passover,
and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
[The above verse is
making reference to Moses as he kept the Passover after God smote
Exodus 12:12-13 -
12
- For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all
the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgment: I am the LORD.
13
- And the blood shall be
to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I
will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the
In preparation for that
first Passover, the children of
Exodus 12:5 - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it
out from the sheep, or from the goats:
This lamb without
blemish was without question signifying Christ and His shed blood of atonement for our
sins. Christ is said in Scripture to be
the ultimate sacrificial lamb.
1 Peter 1:19-20 -
19 - But with the
precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot:
20 - Who verily
was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you,
Revelation 12:11 - And they
overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 7:14 - And I said
unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out
of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 5:6 - ¶And I
beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the
midst of the elders, stood a Lamb
as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
We
could cite many more passages that speak of Christ as our Lamb…the Lamb slain
before the foundation of the world. What
saved the children of
Exodus 12:27 - That ye
shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children
of
God
passed over the houses of the Israelites because they had followed His
instructions:
Exodus 12:22-23 -
22 - And ye shall
take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is in the bason, and strike the lintel [literally the upon door post]
and the two side posts
with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door
of his house until the morning.
23 - For the
LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on
the two side posts,
the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in
unto your houses to smite you.
As
far back in history as that was, the blood was still a symbol of our
salvation through the atonement of Christ.
Those of
Exodus 12:51 - And it
came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of
[The
selfsame day: meaning the children of