Section 4
"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (because He bore our sin at that time), also depict the Lord's redemptive death. But the flowing water and the unbroken bone mentioned by John (19:34, 36) are signs of the Lord's life-imparting death. This life-imparting death releases the Lord's divine life from within Him for produc ing the church, composed of all His believers into whom His divine life has been imparted. This life-imparting death of the Lord was typi fied by Adam's sleep that produced Eve (Gen. 2:21-23), and is signified by the death of the one grain of wheat falling into the ground for the bringing forth of many grains (John 12:24) for the making of the loaf—the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17). Hence, it is also the life-propagating, life-multiplying, regenerating, and reproducing death.
As we shall see, the Lord's pierced side was prefigured by Adam's opened side, out of which Eve was produced (Gen. 2:21-23). The blood was typified by the blood of the Passover lamb (Exo. 12:7, 22; Rev. 12:11), and the water by the water that flowed out of the smitten rock (Exo. 17:6; 1 Cor. 10:4). The blood formed "a fountain" for the washing of sin (Zech. 13:1), and the water be came "the fountain of life" (Psa. 36:9; Rev. 21:6).