Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels I have covered codes in the Hebrew Bible before on my blog. Specifically in my post on how the Bible Codes and the Shroud of Turin led me to Christ , but Equidistant Letter Sequence codes are not the only codes found in the Bible. There are a variety of codes. Perhaps one of the most obvious "codes" is foreshadowing. One event is often a prophetic foreshadowing of later events. We especially see this phenomenon at work in the Feasts of the Lord. Each Feast pointed to a future prophetic fulfillment in the ministry and purposes of Jesus the Messiah. Passover pointed to the ultimate slaying of the Lamb of God -- Jesus -- and His deliverance of mankind from destruction by His blood. Many take issue with blood atonement, and find it barbaric, but the history of mankind is bloodshed. Our history is marked out by the wars we have waged and how much blood we have shed. It makes sense that it is blood that pays for all of that shed blood. We also k...
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