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typified, and then when it happened. This is huge, but the questions we’re limiting it to are these:
Is healing in there, was healing in the types, and is healing in the actual plan of redemption? If it
is part of redemption, then it belongs to every believer!
Say this out loud:
“I’m looking for Jesus and I’m looking for healing.”
Now, what if you find Jesus in this type and then what if you find healing in it? What does it
mean? I’m going to use the usual theological language: If it is in the “type,” it must be in the
“antitype,” which means the real thing. If it’s in the type and it’s not in the plan of redemption,
the type becomes misleading.
The Passover Lamb
Exodus 12 talks about the Passover Lamb. Beginning in verse 1, it says, “And the L
ORD
spake
unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning
of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according
to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb,
let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every
man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye
shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood…” Have you
ever heard of the blood of the Lamb? Is this a type of Jesus? “…and strike it on the two side
posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses… and they shall eat the flesh in that night.”
Now, this is something that is not brought out as much as it should be. How many things were
they to do once they had killed the lamb? They were to do two things, not just one. They were to
take the blood of the lamb and apply it to the entry way of their home. But that wasn’t the end.
They were to eat the body of the lamb, both the blood and the body. People talk about the blood,
but they omit the body. That’s a big mistake.
Verse eight continues, “…eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.” He described to them exactly how they should eat it, and verse
ten tells them not to leave anything of it until the morning. It’s very specific about eating the
body and how it was prepared. Verse 11 says, “And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the L
ORD
’s
Passover.” Now, why do that? Why eat it with your bags packed, and fully dressed, in a hurry? If
you back up, you see that He said, “I’m bringing you out of here.” So you eat it in faith. Do they
have any reason in the natural to think they’re going anywhere? They and their forefathers have
been slaves in this nation for four centuries. All kinds of things have happened, and Pharaoh had
said, “No, I will not let them go.” There had been all kinds of signs, wonders, plagues, and
destructions, and they are still slaves to Pharaoh. There is no reason in the natural: Papa didn’t go
anywhere, Grandpa didn’t go anywhere, Great Grandpa and Grandma didn’t go anywhere.