God’s Complete Salvation: refs. include Watchman Nee and Witness Lee

Biblical illustrations of God’s complete salvation

The Feast of the Passover

The judicial side — The clearest Old Testament illustration of both judicial redemption and organic salvation is the keeping of the Feast of the Passover by the children of Israel. This annual feast commemorated their deliverance from Egyptian tyranny and slavery. In order to escape God’s judgment on Egypt, according to Exodus 12, every Israelite household was instructed to kill a lamb and to sprinkle its blood on their doorway. The function of the blood of the lamb was to deliver them from God’s judicial condemnation and from the penalty of death.

The organic side — God charged the children of Israel not only to sprinkle the blood of the lamb at the entrance to their house, but also to roast the flesh of the lamb and eat it inside the blood-sprinkled house. On the judicial side, the blood was sprinkled on the door to save the Israelites from God’s judgment; on the organic side, the flesh was eaten and assimilated into them to energize them to flee from Egypt. Without eating the flesh of the lamb, they would have been overtaken and defeated by the Egyptians. Therefore, every household was required to eat the flesh of the lamb in order to prepare them for the journey ahead.

In this illustration, the blood of the Passover lamb signifies the redemptive aspect of salvation, satisfying God’s judicial requirements. The flesh of the Passover lamb signifies its organic aspect, saving God’s people by His life.

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