Title: Daily and Yearly Preparation for Heaven

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The daily sacrifices, weekly sabbaths, and three annual feasts prescribed in the Old Testament are a picture of how to prepare for heaven.

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References:
2 Peter 2:22, 10
Numbers 28:1
Exodus 23:14, 17
Leviticus 23:1, 5, 10, 33
Deuteronomy 16:1, 9, 13-14
Luke 6:1
Acts of the Apostles 2:1; 20:16
Nehemiah 8:13-14
Ezekiel 45:21, 25
Zechariah 14:16
John 7:2, 37

7047. 'And said, Surely a bridegroom of blood are you to me!' means that it was full of every kind of violence and hostility towards truth and goodness. This is clear from the meaning here of 'a bridegroom' as a representative of the Church or the external aspect of it since the representative Church itself is 'the bride' (in these three verses 'Moses' represents that nation, and a representative of the Church among them, see above in 7041. While 'Zipporah' represents the representative Church, 7044; and since 'Zipporah' represents the representative Church and 'Moses' the external aspect of it, Zipporah does not call him her man or husband but 'a bridegroom', for a bride can represent something dissimilar from that which the bridegroom represents, unlike man or husband and wife since the bond of marriage makes them one); and from the meaning of 'blood' as violence done to charity, dealt with in 374, 1005, and also as truth falsified and rendered profane, 4735, 6978, thus hostility towards truth and goodness.