IT IS FINISHED . . . now it is time to receive

Type and shadow allows us to see heavenly realities. It is a picture of a finished work in heaven, manifested through the type, before God brings it into time.

Throughout the Old Testament God directed His people to build the tabernacle, celebrate feasts, offer sacrifices and other such things. These events were types and shadows of their heavenly reality. For example: 

1. Sacrificial offerings were a picture of Christ's sacrifice.
2. The Passover lamb is a type of Christ, the Lamb of God
3. The tabernacle was to be constructed exactly according to pattern. This is because the tabernacle is a type or figure of the true things in heaven.
4. The Holy of Holies is a figure of the throne of God in heaven. 
5. the High Priest was the only one allowed to enter the Holy of Holies. This is a type of Christ, the only one fit to enter God's throne on our behalf.

God always finishes a thing before He begins it! 

God's light shines from the end of all He is going to do in the kingdom. That light hits the cross and throws a shadow back from the shining up there.


God does not even talk about a day except from the end to the beginning. There was evening and there was morning, because He always finishes it before He starts it. God does everything that way. All His works are finished from the foundation of the world.


God's glory shines out from Zion, the perfection or completion of beauty is shining.ⁱ God does not shine from the beginning to the end; He shines from the end back to the beginning.



The shadow in the Old Testament is a shadow of things to come, even Christ, shining from Heaven. 

The events in the Old Testament are pictures of a spiritual, heavenly reality that we receive in Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.ⁱⁱ

It is finished; it is your spiritual blessing. Everything God would ever do He did from the beginning, it is complete. He will never deviate from His original plan.

Begin now and by faith receive everything He has for you!

IT IS FINISHED . . . now it is time to receive!

Psalm 50:1-6