Ruth wrote...Those are the instructions on how to keep it, but please find one instance where they kept it in the wilderness wanderings. The command
was, When ye enter the promised land...remember the Passover and this is how you  will keep it....."


Good point. The old testament sacrifices in lieu of the passover pointed to the fulfillment of entering the promised land of Canaan.... the temporal that typified by pointing to the eternal, not seen, referred to as Zion or the new Jerusalem, our heavenly city. Which Christ fulfilled as the promised place according to John 14:3.

Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
When He finished that work, which did usher all of the old testament saints in whom the Spirit of Christ dwelt as the promised glory, they entered their eternal dwelling called the New heavenly Jerusalem in regard to that glory, according to 1 Peter 1:11 in the below verse I am offering..
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.1Pe 1:11
We today go to that same place which He did finish preparing, by a three day work in lieu of the cross. Seeing to be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord..

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.Mat 27:50


The girding of their loins was a reminder that the kingdom they served was not of this world, but they were to continue to walk by faith, as pilgrims and strangers in a foreign land.. The forty years in the wilderness typified as a shadow pointing to the true substance,( the entire length of time a Christian lives on this earth today). As forty is used as a metphor throughout scripture it is used as the "time of testing" of our faith, whether it is an actual forty years or if by the mercy of God, 100 or more years.

Edited 1 time by garee 07/04/12 8:16 AM.