We have said that the three Fall Feasts - Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles - are yet unfulfilled, but will be when Jesus returns. If we believe that God's plan will be worked out in the feasts, then it is very plausible that Jesus words in Luke 22 will be fulfilled within one of these three feasts:
Luke 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luke 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luke 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luke 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Let's take a quick look at these three feasts:
THROUGH 2673. chatsah, khaw-tsaw'; a prim. root [comp. H2686]; TO CUT OR SPLIT IN TWO; to halve:--DIVIDE, X live out half, reach to the midst, part.
When Jesus died, the veil in the temple was torn in two and the Ark of the Covenant exposed. Jesus body was the veil that was rent to show the way was now open to the heavenly Holy of Holies. But, there is one veil left. Where? Between earth and the heavens of heavens, AND IT IS NOW RENT IN GOD'S GREATER TABERNACLE, and again it was rent in darkness:
Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Rev 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The word "departed" in verse 14 regarding the heaven departing means,
DEPARTED - 673. apochorizo, ap-okh-o-rid'-zo; from G575 and G5563; TO REND APART; reflex. to separate:--depart (asunder).
And look what is seen when the heavens are rent apart:
Rev 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and ART TO COME; BECAUSE THOU HAST TAKEN to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED (DAY OF ATONEMENT), and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Rev 11:19 AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THERE WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE THE ARK OF HIS TESTAMENT: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
It is at this point that the gathering of both the Church and Israel begins, the kingdom of God is established, and Tabernacles begins. With God coming in judgment, it is doubful that the Passover meal would be eaten within the boundaries of this feast.
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
But, the scenario laid out by the Egyptian Passover is not yet complete. As Israel came out of Egypt right after the Lord struck Egypt and went directly to Succoth (Tabernacle), so shall all who are His enter into Tabernacles immediately after He comes in His wrath. At that time, Satan will be placed in the bottomless pit, just as Pharaoh stayed in Egypt while Israel arrived at Succoth. This scenario brings us to the end of the millennium. Let's take a look at it.
Natural man has nothing to do with the gathering of the nations. The Pharaoh who gathers the world's nations to the smiting sword of the Lord is a spiritual Pharaoh:
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
At one time, God dealt with Pharaoh of Egpyt, which foreshadowed His dealing with the world in our age. Where once He dealt with Pharaoh as the god of Egypt and his other gods, He is now dealing with the reality behind all the pharaoh's that ever existed. Now He is dealing with the god of this world: Satan. It is this king of the spirit world who is thrown into the bottomless pit at Jesus' return to smite the nations:
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
It is this spiritual Pharaoh who goes after God's people one more time at the end of the Millennium, just like Egypt's Pharaoh went after Israel after God delivered them, but this time, God brings about the final victory:
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Pharaoh of Egypt wound up on the bottom of the sea; this world's "Pharaoh" will end up in the bottom of a lake - the lake of fire - with all who are his.
We have looked at Passover from the time Israel was in Egypt to the time Passover will be fulfilled in the Millennium. And we have seen Egypt's Pharaoh being drowned in the sea as a type of this world's Pharaoh who will be thrown into lake of fire. But does this give us a complete picture of the Passover of the Lord? I believe the Lord's view is much larger than even this! Like Isaiah said in these two verses we read earlier,
Isa 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Have we not been told the Lamb was foreordained before the foundation of the world?:
1 Pet 1:19 . . . the . . . lamb . . .
1 Pet 1:20 was FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, but was manifest in these last times for you
Have we not understood that He was slain from the foundation of the world?:
Rev 13:8 . . . THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
Gold is what gives our money worth - it backs it up. The animal God killed to cloth Adam and Eve means blood was shed to cover their sin. Though this analogy fails some, this was a type of the Lamb slain since the foundation of the world:
Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
The spiritual Pharaoah, too - Satan - was there in the beginning to bring men into bondage, to dominate them, to rule over God's creation while man sought ways to set himself free. The point is, the adversary, too, was there from the beginning:
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The point is this: HAS HUMANITY NOT TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH? We have the Lamb hidden yet slain at one end of "eternity" from the foundation of the world, but also Satan, "Pharaoh," in the garden. Is this how God sees Passover from His perspective, passing over the whole history of fallen man in a Passover that is taking not 2000 years to complete, not 3500 years to complete, but 6000 years between His words, "In the beginning" and "It is finished!"
