(Are there not pictures in the old covenant, looking forward to the new?

Like the tabernacle, which when strangers saw it, wasn’t all they saw skin and hair?)

Exodus 26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.

  7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

(All they saw was skin and hair, with. no idea that inside was the glory of God

Was this not a picture of how many people would only see Jesus?)

Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

(All they saw was skin and hair, with no idea that he was God manifest in the flesh?

(Also, were not the old covenant daily lamb sacrifices, and in particular the passover sacrifice, pictures of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus?)

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

I Corinthians 5:7b For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

(Also, were not the heave {vertical} offering and the wave {horizontal} offering, considered together, a picture of the cross?

Similar to the blood placed on the vertical and horizontal parts of the door, on the night of the passover?)

(Also, what about the two cherubims?)

Exodus 37:8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

(Did that in any way prefigure the following?)

John 20:12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

(Was not the old testament cleansing from the plague of leprosy a picture of the new testament cleansing from sin?)

I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  7b and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

(So what about the sabbath?

Wasn’t the sabbath strictly about, “no works”, at all?)

Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

(Was not then, the old testament sabbath a picture a picture of salvation by grace, not of works, in the new testament?

If so, then is it not strange that some church age people try to keep the old covenant sabbath as a way to help them work their way to heaven?

Why do they hang on to keeping the sabbath as their works, when it is the only commandment that was exclusively not of works?)