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Type Meets Antitype, April 10
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made
nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:13
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God’s people, whom He calls His peculiar treasure, were privileged
with a twofold system of law; the moral and ceremonial....
From the creation the moral law was an essential part of God’s
divine plan, and was as unchangeable as Himself. The ceremonial law
was to answer a particular purpose in Christ’s plan for the salvation of
the race. The typical system of sacrifices and offerings was established
that through these services the sinner might discern the great offering,
Christ.... The ceremonial law was glorious; it was the provision made
by Jesus Christ in counsel with His Father, to aid in the salvation of
the race. The whole arrangement of the typical system was founded on
Christ. Adam saw Christ prefigured in the innocent beast suffering the
penalty of his transgression of Jehovah’s law.
The need for the service of sacrifices and offerings ceased when
type met antitype in the death of Christ. In Him the shadow reached the
substance.... The law of God will maintain its exalted character as long
as the throne of Jehovah endures. This law is the expression of God’s
character.... Types and shadows, offerings and sacrifices, had no virtue
after Christ’s death on the cross; but God’s law was not crucified with
Christ.... Today he [Satan] is deceiving human beings in regard to the
law of God.
The law of the ten commandments lives and will live through the
eternal ages....
God did not make the infinite sacrifice of giving His only-begotten
Son to our world, to secure for man the privilege of breaking the com-
mandments of God in this life and in the future eternal life.
He [Jesus] gave His precious, innocent life to save guilty human
beings from eternal ruin, that through faith in Him they might stand
guiltless before the throne of God.
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