The gospel of the water and the Spirit whose shadow was found in the Old Testament

It is written in the book of Hebrews 8:5 "who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
The pattern of the tabernacle was shown to Moses on the mountain at the same time when he received the Law. The tabernacle is where Israelites atone for their sins.

God gave Moses the Law alongside the sacrificial system. There is a reason why God showed Moses the pattern of the tabernacle and commanded him to build it according to the pattern, at the same time He was giving him the law. It was to tell us the purpose of the Law, and to make us realize that we cannot keep His Law. The purpose of the law is to enable mankind to recognize their sinful selves and seek the salvation of God. The legalists claim they can keep the Law of God perfectly, but the tabernacle whose pattern was shown to Moses on the mountain is a place where those who break the Law atone for their sins. if God intended us to receive perfect salvation by keeping the Law, He wouldn`t have given Moses the tabernacle at the time He was giving him the Law. Because in His infinite knowledge, He knew that none of us can ever keep His holy law in its entirety. If He had put even a little confidence in us in keeping the Law, He could have waited for a few months or years before giving us the sacrificial system. But that is not what happened, He gave us the sacrificial system at the time He was given the Law so that we the sinful beings who continuously break His law can be saved from our sins through the tabernacle offerings.

The people of Israel committed numerous sins, it is said that blood flowed like a river in the tabernacle. How many animals were slaughtered there? It is also said Israelites raise their livestock for atonement more than for eating. The priests always stand in the tabernacle, they always stand because they never have time to rest, and for this reason, there is no seat in the tabernacle. How frustrating would it be for the priest when a young man came in the morning for the sin he committed, would see him coming again a few hours later, because he has committed yet another sin? But since the priest himself is also marked with weaknesses he can sympathize with the people. If an Israelite committed a sin and it came to his knowledge, he must bring an animal without blemish and lay his hands on its head to pass his sins to the head of the animal, kill the animal himself and the priest will complete the rest of the atonement in the tabernacle. If he committed yet another sin and it came to his knowledge, he must offer yet another sacrifice. This is how individual Israelites atone for their daily sin in the Old Testament. Because the wages of sin is death, anyone who commits sin must be put to death for his sin or someone else must die in his stead. Since none of them could avoid committing sins due to their weak flesh, they had to be offering those sacrifices repeatedly.

However, God knew they could easily give up on this daily sacrifice due to their countless sins. So in His love and mercy, He instituted yearly atonement. Bible records "Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness." (Leviticus 16-21-22). On the Day of Atonement the tenth of the seventh month, the High Priest would stand on behalf of the entire congregation of Israel and offer sacrifices on their behalf for a whole year. After offering sacrifice for himself and his household with the bull, he would take two goats. He cast lots, one for God and the other for the scapegoat, he offered the one on which the Lord’s lot fell in the tabernacle and offered the one on which lot fell to be the scapegoat alive in the presence of the congregation of Israel. Because salvation from sins must be received on God`s side and on the human side. Our sins are written in two places, first, it is written on the tablets of our hearts and on horns of the Lord’s altars (Jeremiah 17:1), this horns of the altars refer to the books of works before God in heaven. This means that God bears witness of our salvation and we also have the witness in ourselves. In each case, the High Priest must pass the yearly sins of Israel to the animal by laying his hands on the head of the animal. And the animal must die bearing the sins on its body because the wages of sin is death. Like this Israelites were saved from their yearly sins on the Day of Atonement. They offered this sacrifice looking towards the Messiah who would come to save the world in this manner.

It is written in Hebrews 10:1 "For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect."
Bible said that this sacrificial system is not the very image but a shadow of the good things to come. The good things to come is none other than the gospel of the water and the Spirit that Jesus Christ fulfilled for us in the New Testament. A shadow can exist when there is a real object that casts it and it must have the same pattern as the real object, the real object here is the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

Christians today claim that they have received the remission of sins by believing only in the blood of Jesus on the Cross. They are mistaken. It is never true, no one can ever receive the remission of sins by believing only in the blood of Jesus Christ. If they can look into their heart, they will certainly find sins in their hearts. But for those who insist they have received the remission of sins through the bloodshed of Jesus alone, I have this question for them: Where is the shadow of the gospel that consists of the blood of Jesus alone found in the Old Testament? Such a shadow clearly does not exist in the Old Testament. It is written "For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come" It is under the Law that the Levitical priesthood was given. The faith in the blood of Jesus Christ alone as our salvation has no mate or shadow in the Old Testament.

The gospel of the water and the Spirit is a very image whose shadow was found in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ temporarily left His throne and came down to this world in the flesh as a man. He is God in His fundamental essence, He is perfect and completely without blemish. He is our Creator and the King of kings. If He is not our Creator, He couldn`t have loved us so much to leave His glory and come as a lowly man to save us from our sins. It is written in Isaiah 49:15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you."
We see how much mothers love their children. Who then can love us this much even to the point of death if not our very Creator God? We all deserved to die and be cast to hell for our sins because God declared a law that says the wages of sin is death. Seeing our pending destruction, Jesus came down for us and was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary. When He turned 30 years He was baptized by John the Baptist to receive our sins on His body. Just before His baptism at the Jordan River, He commanded John the Baptist “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then He lowered His head to John the Baptist, and John laid his hands on His head and passed all the sins of the world onto His body. This is what He meant by fulfilling all righteousness. The sins of the world were passed onto Jesus Christ when He was baptized by John. Then the next day after baptizing Jesus, John saw Jesus as He passed by and bore witness saying "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29), just like the High Priest of the Old Testament, John the Baptist represented the whole world and he as the last High Priest, passed all our sins past, present and future sins onto Jesus. Jesus bore the condemnation of those on His body by shedding His blood on the Cross. He could receive the wages of sin on the Cross because He has accepted the sins with His baptism. Just like the blood of sacrificial animals of the Old Testament is sprinkled in the tabernacle. He died shedding His blood on the Cross, saying "It is finished!" He was buried and after three days He rose again from the dead ascended to heaven and now sitting at the right hand of the throne of God the Father. He has become our true and eternal Saviour. This is the gospel of the water and the Spirit which the Apostles and the Early Christians believed in and preached.

Christians all over the world have to rethink the gospel of the Cross alone they are holding onto till these days. They have to abandon such a gospel and believe in the gospel of Jesus`s baptism and the bloodshed. This is the only biblical truth of salvation that casts the shadow of the sacrificial system of the Old Testament.