The keeping of the Passover will doubtless be reinstated during the thousand year reign of Christ. This will be kept by the mortal nations, when animal sacrifices will again be offered. The mortal nations will also go up to Jerusalem from year to year to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. (Zech. 14:16)
The Passover was instituted in connection with the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, according to Exodus 12:12,13. Whether its typical significance was understood by them or not, we cannot say. As far as it appears all it meant to them was their deliverance through the Red Sea. This was celebrated in the Song of Moses recorded in chapter 15 of Exodus.
Christ is our Passover (1 Cor. 5: 7). We partake of this in the memorial bread and wine every first day. This, our Passover, is foreshadowed by the Passover instituted by Moses. Christ, as the Lamb of God, is the lamb slain in our observance of the Passover. It is his blood sprinkled on the tablets of the heart in our case. When this is sprinkled in the ordinance of baptism the LORD passes over our sins, and they are forgiven. To us the significance of this Passover is deliverance from Death, and glory, honor and immortality in the Kingdom of God.
In the age to come, when animal sacrifice is re-instituted, the reward for the keeping of the Passover in that age will doubtless be an entrance into the Kingdom at the close of the millennium.
Jesus tells us to “do this till I come;” also “I will not drink of the fruit of the vine till I drink it new with you in my father’s Kingdom.” The renewal of this rite will probably be as referred to in Ezek. 44:3, in the East gate of the temple, to be built as the “House of prayer for all peoples,” according to the closing chapters of Ezekiel’s prophecy.
When animal sacrifice is re-instated during the millennium, the Saints (the Sons of Zadoc) will officiate in the offering, but the slaying and preparation for offering will be done by the mortal priests.
The Song of Moses (Ex. 15) related only to the deliverance of the nation through the Red Sea, but when the Song of the Lamb, according to Rev. 15:3, is added, it is the deliverance of the Saints from Death, and their glorious entrance into the Kingdom that is being celebrated. “The Song of Moses and the Lamb.”
The Sons of Zadoc referred to in Ezek. 44:15,16 are the Saints. Apparently the sons of Zadoc were more righteous than the sons of Ithamar. An example of the sins of the sons of Ithamar may be found when Eli, the High Priest, served according to 1 Sam. 2:12, and on. According to 1 Kings 2:27, Solomon thrust out Abiathar, in the line of Ithamar, from being Priest, and at verse 35, he put Zadoc in his place. And so Zadoc became the type of the “Sons of Zadoc” (The Saints) in the age to come.
There were 603,550 men, able to go forth to war, in the company, (estimated to be around 2,500,000) of those who came out of Egypt. These, with all those over 20 years of age, except Caleb and Joshua, perished in the Wilderness.
A number of years ago it was claimed that those who came out of Egypt was very much less than two and a half million. It was claimed that number could not possibly have survived in the Wilderness where there was no vegetation—not even water to drink.
The correctness of that number is confirmed by the fact that the half shekel tax imposed by Ex. 30:12,13, provided just the amount of silver required for the sockets under the boards and under the pillars supporting the vail in the Tabernacle which Moses was commanded to fabricate. A half sheckel per person would be 301,775 sheckels. According to Ex. 38 a hundred talents (3000 sheckels to a talent, as per Smith’s Dictionary) equals 300,000 sheckels, verse 27. And according to verse 28, 1,775 shekels were required for the “hooks”. So the total number of fighting men is confirmed.
The value of a half shekel in our money is around 27..
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