"Adumbration"

 "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect." (Hebrews 10:1 KJV)

  "There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. "Rabbu," he said, "we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you." Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:1-3 NLT)

 Before I try to express, what I feel is something that we should all clearly understand, I feel as though there needs to be something said about why the law is important to God; even though there is no way that anyone can keep from breaking its commands. Some say that the law started with Moses, yet the first law that God made known to man, was to Adam, when He told him, 'You can eat from every, except that one in the midst of the garden; for when you eat of it, you will die.' 

 Just as I shared about the law of gravity, so too, this was a law with certain properties and results, if you tried to break it: death! Interesting enough, we discover in God's word, that even then, before Adam had the chance to break that law, God had already decided that His Son would need to come and sacrifice Himself, in order to pay the price for our sins. 

 Stepping forwards into the time when Moses was given those ten commandments, these commands were real, much the same as that law of gravity; the thing that really blows our minds, is not that we cannot actually adhere to those commands, because we understand by our weakness to do so, that we can't! But, in the coming of Christ to die for our sins, we are given forgiveness, as if we never broke any of those laws! Not that this is any great mystery, because many of those who wrote about it, knew who and why; they just didn't know when. 

 Therein lays the reason for good things to come from the law, even though we obviously cannot keep it; it was never meant to be kept, but it was meant to show us we needed a Savior! Even Adam and Eve knew that there would be a Savior to come and undo the wrong that they did. Abraham too was very aware that He needed a Savior; that God was real and that He was capable of raising the dead, back to life again.

 The Scriptures shows us that Abraham knew he was a pilgrim here, that this was not his home; he was looking forward to a home that was eternal and built by God...

""What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?" Jesus replied, "I assure you, no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don't be surprised when I say, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit."" (John 3:4-8 NLT)