Chapter 5 of 11

Section 4

Section 4

God, when the Savior will feast with the over­ coming saints (v. 30; 13:28-29).

God has a complete plan to redeem His peo­ ple into His jubilee. The feast of the Passover is a sign of God's full redemption, and this full re­ demption is the bringing of God's chosen people into the full enjoyment of Himself. This enjoy­ ment is a matter of the jubilee covered in the Gospel of Luke as the fulfillment of the proph­ ecy in Isaiah and the type in Leviticus 25. The jubilee is actually the enjoyment of God through His redemption. The feast signifying the jubilee was first the feast of the Passover in the Old Tes­ tament and then the Lord's table in the New Testament.

The feast of the Passover was not completely fulfilled in the Old Testament. The Lord's table, which also is a feast, replaces and continues the feast of the Passover. But not even this New Tes­ tament feast has been completely fulfilled; it will be fulfilled completely in the coming kingdom.

If we read the Bible carefully, we shall see that a feast is spoken of both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. This feast began in Exodus 12, and it continued for more than fif­ teen centuries until the night in which the Lord Jesus replaced it with His table. Today in the

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