Passover to Tabernacles - Part Twelve Feb 06, 2022 by: John Herbert | Series: Passover to Tabernacles Audio Study Notes PDF https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T009_20220206.mp3 Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Jn 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” We will continue to look at that which Moses has written. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday February 6th 2022 Passover to Tabernacles Part 12 1). Jn 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” Heb 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; We have seen in our previous weeks of study that foundational, unalterable truth, has been set in place through Moses and the Prophets that reveals the history of the Jewish people, taking us from the nation’s inception to the Millennial Kingdom. And we have seen, through the type of Cain and Abel, the inevitable events of the Lord’s first Advent. And also, through the types of Joseph, and his brothers and Moses himself, what awaits the Jewish people in that future day when they see the Christ for the second time, when their Passover will be fulfilled. a). We have, through these types, seen the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, the restoration of national Israel, the total destruction of the present system of rulership and the blessings in the Millennial Kingdom to follow. And all these things had been directly and indirectly addressed by the Lord to the Jewish people at His first Advent as He drew their attention to that which Moses had written – Lk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: But as they did not believe that which Moses had written, not going beyond the letter to the Spirit, they did not believe the Lord’s words when He told them things related to Moses’ writings. b). And as we had concluded last time, the Jewish people then, as now, are without the excuse of ignorance because that which Moses and the Prophets wrote, was, and is, in their possession – Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ And for ourselves, we cannot claim ignorance of God’s plans and purposes for His chosen people either, because we have the same Scriptures in our possession. We know what is to come next for the Jewish people and how the matter will end, and so, it is with confidence that we can pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for the Day when the Lord’s name will be hallowed not only in that great city but also to the ends of the earth; for the Day when the Lord’s will, will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When Israel takes her rightful place at the head of the nations within the restored Theocracy. c). And as we consider that which is written in Moses, that the Jewish people should have believed, we cannot help but think of what is written in Moses that Christians ought to believe in the same manner. Things that the Lord also spoke directly to His Church, even before it was brought into existence on the Day of Pentecost in 33AD – Lk 17:28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. As things were ‘in the days of Noah’, takes us to the events that will transpire at the time of the Lord’s return with respect to the nation of Israel. But before the events in relation to the Jewish people and ‘the days of Noah’ can be fully realized, that seen through ‘the days of Lot’ must be fulfilled first. d). And as we have just noted, in drawing attention to the days of Lot, the Lord is speaking directly to His Church, to us. The destruction of the earth seen through the flood of Noah and the destruction of the cities of the plain in Lot’s Day are two pictures of the same destruction, the complete overthrow of the kingdom of Satan. e). In the types, Noah, and his family in the Ark, are Divinely protected during this destruction. Whereas Lot, his wife, and their two virgin daughters, are removed from the cities of the plain before this same destruction takes place. f). And that seen through these two types has been set in a chronological sequence in the genealogy of Adam, recorded in Genesis Chapter 5. A genealogy that we will remember – Ge 5:23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Enoch, we will remember, is the seventh generation from Adam and he provides the foundational type for the resurrection/rapture of the Church. And through Enoch as the foundational type, we are shown one man taken alive into heaven at the end of a complete period of time, with further details added to this foundational type, found elsewhere in the Scriptures. Ge 5:28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son. 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.” Noah is the tenth generation from Adam, and he and his family provide the foundational type for national Israel being Divinely protected through the tribulation, again at the end of a complete period of time. And as we have seen, more detail is added to this type as we continue in the Scriptures. g). The reference that the Lord made to the days of Lot recorded in Luke Chapter 17 is not about the event’s timing, as this is something that should already be known from the genealogy in Genesis Chapter 5, rather it is given as a warning. A warning that is spelled out in no uncertain terms, that all Christians should pay serious attention to – Lk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.” Lot’s wife is to be remembered because of her action in relation to the cities of the plain and God’s command to escape to the mountain – Ge 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And that which Lot’s wife did, that which we need to remember and pay serious attention to, is shown in Luke 17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. In looking back, Lot’s wife sought to save her life, her soul life, the life she had that was focused on the things of this world, her absorption into the affairs of Sodom and the cities of the plain. Her refusal to look from this world to the mountain she was told to escape to cost her, her life. She was herself consumed along with that on which her attention was fixed, the cities of the plain, and this we must not forget. h). And the verse that immediately follows the account of Lot’s wife looking back, takes us to Abraham – Ge 19:27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. And the contrast between the experience of Lot and his wife and the experience of Abraham is what the Lord has taught in Luke 17 v34-36 – 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.” These verses deal with the separation of the faithful from the unfaithful Christian at the Judgment Seat prior to that pictured through the destruction of the cities of the plain. And we might remember from a previous study, that one taken, and one left has nothing whatsoever to do with one Christian being raptured and another being left behind. But should more properly be understood as one Christian being taken alongside another individual as an intimate companion, with the other Christian, the one left, being denied this privilege. And the reason why some Christians will be denied this privilege has been presented in the verses that we previously read, it is because of the reason we are given to remember Lot’s wife. i). Lot and his wife should be seen together as providing the type for the unfaithful Christian. A type that reveals that for the Christian who will seek to save his life now, in this age, there can be only one conclusion. He will lose his life for the Kingdom age, seen in Lot’s wife being consumed, and he will occupy a place during that age, which is associated with darkness and shame, seen through Lot’s location on the mountain in a cave. j). Abraham, however, pictures the faithful Christian who will have lost his life in this age to gain it in the next, who will occupy a place standing before the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom. Abraham then, pictures the one taken alongside another as an intimate companion and Lot and his wife the one left. And here is our warning. A warning spoken to us by God in the person of Son in these last days as he drew from that which He had spoken to the prophets in time past. And, particularly from the standpoint of this study, that which had been written by Moses. 2). That which we see here through the type of Lot and his wife had previously been set in the foundational type, given at the beginning of the Book of Genesis - Ge 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” These verses concerning the building of the Woman are very straightforward for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. Quite simply, the Woman is built by God from a part of Adam’s body. She is wholly of his body, but she is not his whole body. She is built to become Adam’s wife, so that together they might rule in the Seventh Day. a). And as Adam is a type of Christ, what is pictured here is very obvious. The Bride for Christ, who will become His Wife, will be taken from the body of Christ. She will wholly be of His body, but she CANNOT be all of His body. That set in the type with respect to this is unalterable – Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish…….. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. And if we go back still earlier in Genesis, we will find that building the bride from part of Adam’s body must be fitted within the six days of restorative work in anticipation of a seventh day of rest, established in Genesis Chapter 1. b). If we then reverse the order in which we have looked at this today, we will see that God had established an initial Divine act of restoration on Day One in Genesis Chapter 1, that was then followed by five further days of Divine work, resulting in the Woman being taken from the Man’s body, so that they could rule together in the Seventh Day. Here is the foundation upon which all else is to rest. c). We will then realize that the type of the days of Divine work seen in Days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1 are synonymous with type seen in the work that God did to build the bride for Adam in Genesis Chapter 2. A work seen brought to its conclusion through only a part of Adam’s body. d). And if we go from here to Genesis Chapter 19, we will come to the days of Lot where we find Abraham standing before the Lord and Lot in a place of darkness and shame. With Abraham picturing those from Christ’s body who God will have built into a Bride for His Son, who have progressed from the initial work of the light shining in the darkness, eternal salvation, to the salvation of the soul, seen in days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1. And Lot provides the picture of the rest of the body of Christ, those who are eternally saved but who have not allowed the building process to take place, who have not had faith to the saving of the soul; exemplified by the church of Laodicea. e). The process of building the Bride for Christ, encompassing the six days of work, with the primary focus on days two through six, is presented after a slightly different fashion in Genesis Chapter 24 – Ge 24:2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” Abraham’s oldest servant who is sent to search for a bride for Isaac from among Abraham’s family, provides the type for the Holy Spirit’s ministry of searching for a Bride for God’s Son from among God’s family, the eternally saved of this dispensation. f). The search for the Bride then, is synonymous with the work of building the Bride pictured in Genesis Chapter 2, and synonymous with the sanctifying and cleansing of the Bride seen in Ephesians Chapter 5. And all is in accordance with the work of days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1. And this is a search and a work that is found completed within the six days, the six thousand years of Man’s Day. g). Genesis Chapter 24 provides detail concerning the Christian who will be taken alongside Another as an intimate companion, the one who is built into the Bride – Ge 24:61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. 62 Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself. There is sparse detail in Genesis Chapter 24 concerning those who form the rest of the body from which the Bride had been taken. They are simply referred to as ‘maids’ [virgins], who went with Rebekah and the oldest servant, and these ‘maids’ would be synonymous with Rebekah’s family who remained in Mesopotamia when they left. And there really doesn’t need to be a lot of detail concerning this group here, as this has already been given to us in the account of Lot, particularly in Genesis Chapter 19. h). And then there is additional information given concerning the faithful Christian which is to be found in the Book of Ruth. Not a Book written by Moses but a prophetic Book nonetheless, that looks from the time of the Judges to this present dispensation and the Millennial Kingdom beyond it – Ru 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” The work of days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1, the building of the bride taken from the Man in Genesis Chapter 2, the search for the Bride in Genesis Chapter 24, and the work of sanctifying and cleansing the Bride from Ephesians Chapter 5, is pictured in the Book of Ruth through a journey from Moab to Bethlehem under the tutelage of Naomi. A journey that is to be seen in conjunction with working in Boaz’s field and beating out the grain for a complete period of time, and Ruth washing herself, anointing herself and putting on her best garment before going to Boaz’s threshing floor. i). Ruth then, is another type of the Christian taken alongside another as an intimate companion, and Orpah is a picture of those who are not. The types of Ruth, and Abraham standing before the Lord, should be seen together and likewise Orpah and Lot and his wife. Both add detail to the other. 3). Ru 3:8 Now it happened at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself; and there, a woman was lying at his feet. 9 And he said, “Who are you?” So she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative.” There comes a time in the account of Ruth when her journey had ended, a time when she had completed her work in Boaz’s field, she had finished beating out the grain, and her preparations for meeting Boaz were done. All that remained was for her to meet Boaz on his threshing floor. a). The point being that there was a specified time in which all these activities took place, they did not go on indefinitely. b). And if we take this thought back to Genesis Chapter 24, we find that as soon as Abraham’s oldest servant has completed his search for the bride for Isaac, he took her and her maids and left immediately – Ge 24:58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”…………. 61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. There was then a terminal point in the oldest servant’s search. Once the bride was procured, he immediately left with her, and the next event we see is the meeting with Isaac – Ge 24:62 Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Although, in the account of Rebekah there is a journey from her home to meet Isaac, this cannot be a picture of the same journey made by Ruth. There is no doubt that the journey to be made by each of us from the land of our birth to the land of our calling is of paramount importance to our success at the Judgment Seat, but this is not what the Lord is showing us in Genesis 24:58-61. And this is simply because the work of the oldest servant is completed while he is still in Mesopotamia and having completed his work there, he then left with the bride for Isaac. c). If we want to look at the types that reveal spiritual truth in relation to our own journey, then we will look at Abraham, the children of Israel and Ruth. d). The Holy Spirit, typified in the oldest servant, will complete His search for the Bride for Christ upon the earth. When His search is complete, He will leave immediately with the Bride, and the rest of the body of Christ. e). So then, what is given to us in Genesis 24:58-61, is more detail to add to the foundational type of Enoch and the picture of the resurrection/rapture of the Church. f). Again, the point is that the work of the Holy Spirit in searching for the Bride for God’s Son does not go on indefinitely. It began on the Day of Pentecost in 33AD, beginning the present dispensation. And His work can only end at the predetermined time allotted for it. It is not a case of waiting until a quota is filled, however long that takes. If there is such a quota, then we can know for sure that its filling will be complete at precisely the same moment as the time allotted for the work comes to an end. The way the Scripture is structured does not allow for it to be any other way. g). And, needless to say, the place we go to find the timing for the end of the Holy Spirit’s search for the Bride is Genesis, where as we read, we are given the opportunity to believe that which Moses has written – Ge 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. There are then, only six days, six thousand years in which God’s dealings with the Gentiles, the Jews and the Church will be completed. There can be no extensions, no changed deadlines, only Divine chronological precision. And knowing this should really grab our attention. We shall need to continue with this next time though – if we remain, the Lord is willing and we have prayed. Passover to Tabernacles - Part Twelve Feb 06, 2022 Speaker: John Herbert Series: Passover to Tabernacles Category: Sunday Morning https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T009_20220206.mp3 Download Audio x
Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Jn 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” We will continue to look at that which Moses has written. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday February 6th 2022 Passover to Tabernacles Part 12 1). Jn 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” Heb 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; We have seen in our previous weeks of study that foundational, unalterable truth, has been set in place through Moses and the Prophets that reveals the history of the Jewish people, taking us from the nation’s inception to the Millennial Kingdom. And we have seen, through the type of Cain and Abel, the inevitable events of the Lord’s first Advent. And also, through the types of Joseph, and his brothers and Moses himself, what awaits the Jewish people in that future day when they see the Christ for the second time, when their Passover will be fulfilled. a). We have, through these types, seen the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, the restoration of national Israel, the total destruction of the present system of rulership and the blessings in the Millennial Kingdom to follow. And all these things had been directly and indirectly addressed by the Lord to the Jewish people at His first Advent as He drew their attention to that which Moses had written – Lk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: But as they did not believe that which Moses had written, not going beyond the letter to the Spirit, they did not believe the Lord’s words when He told them things related to Moses’ writings. b). And as we had concluded last time, the Jewish people then, as now, are without the excuse of ignorance because that which Moses and the Prophets wrote, was, and is, in their possession – Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ And for ourselves, we cannot claim ignorance of God’s plans and purposes for His chosen people either, because we have the same Scriptures in our possession. We know what is to come next for the Jewish people and how the matter will end, and so, it is with confidence that we can pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for the Day when the Lord’s name will be hallowed not only in that great city but also to the ends of the earth; for the Day when the Lord’s will, will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When Israel takes her rightful place at the head of the nations within the restored Theocracy. c). And as we consider that which is written in Moses, that the Jewish people should have believed, we cannot help but think of what is written in Moses that Christians ought to believe in the same manner. Things that the Lord also spoke directly to His Church, even before it was brought into existence on the Day of Pentecost in 33AD – Lk 17:28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. As things were ‘in the days of Noah’, takes us to the events that will transpire at the time of the Lord’s return with respect to the nation of Israel. But before the events in relation to the Jewish people and ‘the days of Noah’ can be fully realized, that seen through ‘the days of Lot’ must be fulfilled first. d). And as we have just noted, in drawing attention to the days of Lot, the Lord is speaking directly to His Church, to us. The destruction of the earth seen through the flood of Noah and the destruction of the cities of the plain in Lot’s Day are two pictures of the same destruction, the complete overthrow of the kingdom of Satan. e). In the types, Noah, and his family in the Ark, are Divinely protected during this destruction. Whereas Lot, his wife, and their two virgin daughters, are removed from the cities of the plain before this same destruction takes place. f). And that seen through these two types has been set in a chronological sequence in the genealogy of Adam, recorded in Genesis Chapter 5. A genealogy that we will remember – Ge 5:23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Enoch, we will remember, is the seventh generation from Adam and he provides the foundational type for the resurrection/rapture of the Church. And through Enoch as the foundational type, we are shown one man taken alive into heaven at the end of a complete period of time, with further details added to this foundational type, found elsewhere in the Scriptures. Ge 5:28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son. 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.” Noah is the tenth generation from Adam, and he and his family provide the foundational type for national Israel being Divinely protected through the tribulation, again at the end of a complete period of time. And as we have seen, more detail is added to this type as we continue in the Scriptures. g). The reference that the Lord made to the days of Lot recorded in Luke Chapter 17 is not about the event’s timing, as this is something that should already be known from the genealogy in Genesis Chapter 5, rather it is given as a warning. A warning that is spelled out in no uncertain terms, that all Christians should pay serious attention to – Lk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.” Lot’s wife is to be remembered because of her action in relation to the cities of the plain and God’s command to escape to the mountain – Ge 19:25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And that which Lot’s wife did, that which we need to remember and pay serious attention to, is shown in Luke 17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. In looking back, Lot’s wife sought to save her life, her soul life, the life she had that was focused on the things of this world, her absorption into the affairs of Sodom and the cities of the plain. Her refusal to look from this world to the mountain she was told to escape to cost her, her life. She was herself consumed along with that on which her attention was fixed, the cities of the plain, and this we must not forget. h). And the verse that immediately follows the account of Lot’s wife looking back, takes us to Abraham – Ge 19:27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. And the contrast between the experience of Lot and his wife and the experience of Abraham is what the Lord has taught in Luke 17 v34-36 – 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.” These verses deal with the separation of the faithful from the unfaithful Christian at the Judgment Seat prior to that pictured through the destruction of the cities of the plain. And we might remember from a previous study, that one taken, and one left has nothing whatsoever to do with one Christian being raptured and another being left behind. But should more properly be understood as one Christian being taken alongside another individual as an intimate companion, with the other Christian, the one left, being denied this privilege. And the reason why some Christians will be denied this privilege has been presented in the verses that we previously read, it is because of the reason we are given to remember Lot’s wife. i). Lot and his wife should be seen together as providing the type for the unfaithful Christian. A type that reveals that for the Christian who will seek to save his life now, in this age, there can be only one conclusion. He will lose his life for the Kingdom age, seen in Lot’s wife being consumed, and he will occupy a place during that age, which is associated with darkness and shame, seen through Lot’s location on the mountain in a cave. j). Abraham, however, pictures the faithful Christian who will have lost his life in this age to gain it in the next, who will occupy a place standing before the Lord in the Millennial Kingdom. Abraham then, pictures the one taken alongside another as an intimate companion and Lot and his wife the one left. And here is our warning. A warning spoken to us by God in the person of Son in these last days as he drew from that which He had spoken to the prophets in time past. And, particularly from the standpoint of this study, that which had been written by Moses. 2). That which we see here through the type of Lot and his wife had previously been set in the foundational type, given at the beginning of the Book of Genesis - Ge 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” These verses concerning the building of the Woman are very straightforward for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. Quite simply, the Woman is built by God from a part of Adam’s body. She is wholly of his body, but she is not his whole body. She is built to become Adam’s wife, so that together they might rule in the Seventh Day. a). And as Adam is a type of Christ, what is pictured here is very obvious. The Bride for Christ, who will become His Wife, will be taken from the body of Christ. She will wholly be of His body, but she CANNOT be all of His body. That set in the type with respect to this is unalterable – Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish…….. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. And if we go back still earlier in Genesis, we will find that building the bride from part of Adam’s body must be fitted within the six days of restorative work in anticipation of a seventh day of rest, established in Genesis Chapter 1. b). If we then reverse the order in which we have looked at this today, we will see that God had established an initial Divine act of restoration on Day One in Genesis Chapter 1, that was then followed by five further days of Divine work, resulting in the Woman being taken from the Man’s body, so that they could rule together in the Seventh Day. Here is the foundation upon which all else is to rest. c). We will then realize that the type of the days of Divine work seen in Days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1 are synonymous with type seen in the work that God did to build the bride for Adam in Genesis Chapter 2. A work seen brought to its conclusion through only a part of Adam’s body. d). And if we go from here to Genesis Chapter 19, we will come to the days of Lot where we find Abraham standing before the Lord and Lot in a place of darkness and shame. With Abraham picturing those from Christ’s body who God will have built into a Bride for His Son, who have progressed from the initial work of the light shining in the darkness, eternal salvation, to the salvation of the soul, seen in days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1. And Lot provides the picture of the rest of the body of Christ, those who are eternally saved but who have not allowed the building process to take place, who have not had faith to the saving of the soul; exemplified by the church of Laodicea. e). The process of building the Bride for Christ, encompassing the six days of work, with the primary focus on days two through six, is presented after a slightly different fashion in Genesis Chapter 24 – Ge 24:2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” Abraham’s oldest servant who is sent to search for a bride for Isaac from among Abraham’s family, provides the type for the Holy Spirit’s ministry of searching for a Bride for God’s Son from among God’s family, the eternally saved of this dispensation. f). The search for the Bride then, is synonymous with the work of building the Bride pictured in Genesis Chapter 2, and synonymous with the sanctifying and cleansing of the Bride seen in Ephesians Chapter 5. And all is in accordance with the work of days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1. And this is a search and a work that is found completed within the six days, the six thousand years of Man’s Day. g). Genesis Chapter 24 provides detail concerning the Christian who will be taken alongside Another as an intimate companion, the one who is built into the Bride – Ge 24:61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. 62 Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself. There is sparse detail in Genesis Chapter 24 concerning those who form the rest of the body from which the Bride had been taken. They are simply referred to as ‘maids’ [virgins], who went with Rebekah and the oldest servant, and these ‘maids’ would be synonymous with Rebekah’s family who remained in Mesopotamia when they left. And there really doesn’t need to be a lot of detail concerning this group here, as this has already been given to us in the account of Lot, particularly in Genesis Chapter 19. h). And then there is additional information given concerning the faithful Christian which is to be found in the Book of Ruth. Not a Book written by Moses but a prophetic Book nonetheless, that looks from the time of the Judges to this present dispensation and the Millennial Kingdom beyond it – Ru 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. 17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” The work of days two through six in Genesis Chapter 1, the building of the bride taken from the Man in Genesis Chapter 2, the search for the Bride in Genesis Chapter 24, and the work of sanctifying and cleansing the Bride from Ephesians Chapter 5, is pictured in the Book of Ruth through a journey from Moab to Bethlehem under the tutelage of Naomi. A journey that is to be seen in conjunction with working in Boaz’s field and beating out the grain for a complete period of time, and Ruth washing herself, anointing herself and putting on her best garment before going to Boaz’s threshing floor. i). Ruth then, is another type of the Christian taken alongside another as an intimate companion, and Orpah is a picture of those who are not. The types of Ruth, and Abraham standing before the Lord, should be seen together and likewise Orpah and Lot and his wife. Both add detail to the other. 3). Ru 3:8 Now it happened at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself; and there, a woman was lying at his feet. 9 And he said, “Who are you?” So she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative.” There comes a time in the account of Ruth when her journey had ended, a time when she had completed her work in Boaz’s field, she had finished beating out the grain, and her preparations for meeting Boaz were done. All that remained was for her to meet Boaz on his threshing floor. a). The point being that there was a specified time in which all these activities took place, they did not go on indefinitely. b). And if we take this thought back to Genesis Chapter 24, we find that as soon as Abraham’s oldest servant has completed his search for the bride for Isaac, he took her and her maids and left immediately – Ge 24:58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”…………. 61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. There was then a terminal point in the oldest servant’s search. Once the bride was procured, he immediately left with her, and the next event we see is the meeting with Isaac – Ge 24:62 Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt in the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Although, in the account of Rebekah there is a journey from her home to meet Isaac, this cannot be a picture of the same journey made by Ruth. There is no doubt that the journey to be made by each of us from the land of our birth to the land of our calling is of paramount importance to our success at the Judgment Seat, but this is not what the Lord is showing us in Genesis 24:58-61. And this is simply because the work of the oldest servant is completed while he is still in Mesopotamia and having completed his work there, he then left with the bride for Isaac. c). If we want to look at the types that reveal spiritual truth in relation to our own journey, then we will look at Abraham, the children of Israel and Ruth. d). The Holy Spirit, typified in the oldest servant, will complete His search for the Bride for Christ upon the earth. When His search is complete, He will leave immediately with the Bride, and the rest of the body of Christ. e). So then, what is given to us in Genesis 24:58-61, is more detail to add to the foundational type of Enoch and the picture of the resurrection/rapture of the Church. f). Again, the point is that the work of the Holy Spirit in searching for the Bride for God’s Son does not go on indefinitely. It began on the Day of Pentecost in 33AD, beginning the present dispensation. And His work can only end at the predetermined time allotted for it. It is not a case of waiting until a quota is filled, however long that takes. If there is such a quota, then we can know for sure that its filling will be complete at precisely the same moment as the time allotted for the work comes to an end. The way the Scripture is structured does not allow for it to be any other way. g). And, needless to say, the place we go to find the timing for the end of the Holy Spirit’s search for the Bride is Genesis, where as we read, we are given the opportunity to believe that which Moses has written – Ge 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. There are then, only six days, six thousand years in which God’s dealings with the Gentiles, the Jews and the Church will be completed. There can be no extensions, no changed deadlines, only Divine chronological precision. And knowing this should really grab our attention. We shall need to continue with this next time though – if we remain, the Lord is willing and we have prayed.