The secret to seeing the meaning of Old Testament ordinances, services, and settings, is in seeing them as typology, representing Christ, His offering, and what is secured by the mediation of His priesthood. Read Hebrews 9 for an explanation.
For example: the shewbread in the Tabernacle. Bread is the sustenance of life. Thus, the shewbread illustrated that Christ is the sustenance of spiritual life for His people. So Israel’s existence before God was seen to be secured before God through Christ, who is the bread of life. No matter what Israel’s condition was outside in the camp, they were still seen by God and secured with God through the shewbread that was in the sanctuary.
All the covenant promises made to Israel were made to the seed of Abraham, and that seed was Christ, Galatians 3:16. Israel, as a covenant nation, stands before God in Christ. Her existence as a nation, and her inheritance as a nation in the land of Canaan, are secured in Christ, Genesis 15:18 and Leviticus 25:23.
No matter how down trodden and dispersed Israel may have been, yet she remains secure with God as His chosen nation, entitled to her land in Christ. God looks at Christ and sees in Him the reason for her existence.
Only after Israel accepts Christ, as He comes to deliver her from the anti-christ and his armies, will she then come into the fullness of God’s covenant promises, thus enabling her to fully possess all her land.
No matter what Israel’s circumstances are, she cannot and will not pass away, because she is seen to exist, as God beholds Christ, who is the seed unto whom the promises concerning the nation were made. All these promises are secured through the redemption that is in Christ’s shed blood.
This explains why Israel did not pass away, even when she was driven from her land and dispersed throughout the nations of the world. She has had all the covenant promises secured for her by Christ, through His own mediation. Only in and through Christ are the promises of God secured for His people.
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