Homer wrote:RND,
Is your point that physical Israel foreshadowed the real Israel?
Jesus is the real Israel. Everything the nation of Israel could not accomplish Jesus accomplished.
I see nothing in your last copy and paste of EGW that would support the idea that I need to become a Jew. Maybe I missed it? Perhaps you could write something yourself that would explain your ideas.
One becomes an Israelite (not a Jew) by doing two things, acceptance of the lamb and circumcision. What was once symbolic in this, the actual feast of the Passover lamb and physical circumcision of the male foreskin, has now been replaced in a spiritual sense. Acceptance of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and spiritual circumcision which is to say circumcision of the heart.
In both instances one was not allowed to approach the sanctuary (type/anti-type) unless they were an Israelite.
It's not a matter of becoming a physical Jew or Israelite but rather becoming an adopted member of the family of God just as Abraham did, by faith. The picture painted in Exodus 12 is that of a nation, a mixed multitude at that, leaving the bonds of sin represented by Egypt for the freedom of protection by the grace of God. The realization of justification is clearly played out in Exodus 12.
Exd 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.
Rameses ="son of Ra" /Succoth=booths
They left sin to "tabernacle" with God.
The "gateway" to sin entering the "tent" (body) is through the door. This is why the blood of the innocent lamb was placed over the door posts and the lintel.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Door - #6607 an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way:--door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Posts, side and upper make up the structure of the door or gate. The “upper door post” is also called a lintel, meaning “overhang”. This is symbolic of the body or tent. Lintel symbolic of sin over the door. The blood of the sacrificed male lamb was to be placed on the lintel and side posts to symbolize the covering of sin that enters the house (the tabernacle) through the door. This is done for us by the death of Christ on the cross.
Deu 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deu 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: Deu 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deu 6:9 And
thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this]
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
#4636 = a tabernacle, a tent
To me it is absolutely phenomenal how the symbolism of Exodus 12 was so richly brought to realization in the life of Christ. The very justification we enjoy, that allows us entry into the sanctuary (in this case the heavenly sanctuary), to enter into the sanctification process with our High Priest has been met type for anti-type.
