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  text: So, let's start in with a prayer.
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  text: In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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  text: We ask you, Lord, to send your spirit into our hearts to penetrate more deeply into, uh, to the mystery of the Eucharist and how it was prefigured in the Old Testament, which will be the focus of this episode.
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  text: We ask this through Christ our Lord.
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  text: Amen.
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  text: The more important a mystery in the life of the church, the more deeply we should see it foreshadowed in salvation history, and that is certainly the case with the Eucharist.
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  text: It is super abundantly prefigured, um, in the Old Testament, such that we're gonna have trouble getting, um, through this material in a half an hour.
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  text: Um, and that makes sense, you know, given what we said in the previous episode, that the Eucharist is the greatest possession that God can give his church, and that it, um, encompasses within itself the fundamental purposes of the incarnation itself, you know?
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  text: And so, we should expect to find the Eucharist throughout the pages of the Old Testament.
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  text: And the way we're gonna organize this episode is dividing, um, these figures of the Eucharist according to the three purposes of the Eucharist that we saw in the previous episode.
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  text: And we saw that Jesus instituted the Eucharist, um, as the sacrament of his spousal love, of his love as the bridegroom to dwell with his beloved.
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  text: That's, that's the first presence or dwelling.
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  text: Secondly, to be the sacrament of his sacrificial love of giving himself for his bride on Calvary.
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  text: And third, to, um, be the means by which he would give himself totally, um, body, blood, soul, and divinity, to his beloved, and in holy communion.
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  text: Um, and so we can look at the figures, dividing them according to these three purposes.
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  text: So, let's start in with the first, the mystery of presence, and this is prefigured right at the beginning of scripture in Genesis 2, in which we see, um, a presence of the Lord in the Garden of Eden, and we actually see it, um, only in the, um, the loss of this presence, right?
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  text: So after, after the sin, we're told that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the presence of God, um, who walked in the cool of the day, right, in the garden.
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  text: Genesis 3:8.
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  text: And so that, that shows us that in the garden, there was an intimacy with God.
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  text: It wasn't yet the incarnation.
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  text: God had not yet become flesh, but nevertheless, Adam and Eve walked with him, um, through grace in an intimate friendship.
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  text: Right?
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  text: That divine presence was tragically lost through the fall, and we can say that sets up the drama of salvation history, how to recover that divine presence from the beginning and to have it in a still better way, right?
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  text: So, the first recovery we could say is in the old covenant, um, the Lord dwelt with his people in their midst, and we'll see that in just a minute.
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  text: Obviously, the second stage of this recovery is a better presence, the incarnation.
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  text: So, in Eden, God walked in their midst, but in a purely spiritual way.
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  text: He hadn't yet become man.
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  text: Through the incarnation, the Lord walks in our midst as man among, uh, men and women.
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  text: Um, only in one place in his earthly life, but through the Eucharist, wherever his bride is.
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  text: But there's a third and better presence awaiting us in the church triumphant, and that is Jesus' presence visible, no longer veiled by sacramental veils, but unveiled, um, seen through the beatific vision, and that we still await.
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  text: And so what, um, what we're looking at here is how, um, the, the mystery of the Eucharist, which is the second stage, is prefigured in the old covenant, um, through the Lord's presence in the midst of his people.
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  text: And we saw in the last episode that, um, the Jewish expression for this is the word shekhinah, which means, um, dwelling or indwelling from the verb shakan, to dwell or abide, right?
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  text: And w- we mentioned that in the Old Testament, there was a, um, even a visible manifestation at times of this special presence through a cloud of glory overshadowing the Arc of the Covenant.
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  text: And first, overshadowing Mount Sinai at the sealing of the covenant, right?
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  text: So, the Mount Sinai was covered in cloud with thunder and lightning and trumpet blasts, right?
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  text: And it's a, a sign of the mysterious presence of God that is, um, somehow made visible, but made visible precisely through obscurity, right?
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  text: A cloud that both makes visible and hides.
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  text: Um, and then this cloud covered the Arc of the Covenant.
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  text: The Arc of the Covenant itself was a, um, a figure of the incarnation and the Eucharist.
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  text: Um, in the Arc of the Covenant, there were three things, um, we find out from Hebrews 9:2-7.
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  text: of the Ten Commandments, two tablets, and a jar of manna, right?
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  text: So when they had finally gotten into the Holy Land, um, they preserved the, the manna, um, that was, um, fi- that was last given to them in the Ark of the Covenant.
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  text: And then the Rod of Aaron that had blossomed as a sign of Aaron's election to the high priesthood.
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  text: And all three of those prefigure the incarnation, Christ who is the living law, the Torah, Christ who is the bread of life, and Christ who is our eternal high priest, so that the Ark of the Covenant contained, as it were, a figure of Christ present in the Eucharist.
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  text: So the, the Eucharist is the reality to which the Ark of the Covenant was pointing.
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  text: In the, in the Eucharist, we have the living bread of life.
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  text: We have the eternal high priest who is himself the, the living Torah, the living commandment of love.
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  text: And that presence in figure of our Lord in the Ark of the Covenant was manifested by this, um, cloud of glory, um, by which the Lord dwelt in the midst of Israel, right?
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  text: And we see this in many biblical texts, um, one is Exodus 25, verse eight.
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  text: '"And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell in their midst.'
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  text: According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, you shall make it a, a mercy seat on top of the ark.
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  text: There I will meet with you and from high and from above the mercy seat, between the cherubim, right, that were above the mercy seat, um, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel." Right?
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  text: So it was a unique presence of God to be encountered in prayer, right?
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  text: Prefiguring Jesus's real presence in the Eucharist as the, the auspicious place to encounter the Lord made man in prayer.
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  text: So we've got the, the reality, the Lord made man that was only prefigured in the Old Testament, but nevertheless was held so precious, it was Israel's dignity among the nations, right?
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  text: And that God dwelt in their midst.
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  text: In Numbers, um, chapter 35, um, verse 34, God says, "You shall not defile the land in which you live in the midst of which I dwell, for I, the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel." We should often, I think, forget this, why the land of Israel was sacred for the Jewish people, right?
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  text: It was sacred because it was the place of the divine indwelling, right?
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  text: And that's why it's still sacred for Jewish people today, right?
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  text: The Lord dwelt in this unique way in their midst, covering, covering the Ark of the Covenant in the Tent of Meeting, um, throughout their journeying in the desert, and then continuing to accompany them as they, um, crossed the Jordan into Israel, right, under Joshua.
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  text: And then being taken, um, ultimately by David to Jerusalem, and then, um, into the Holy of Holies built by his son, Solomon, in the temple.
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  text: Well, God says to Moses, "What great nation is there that has a God so near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call upon him?" Right?
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  text: That was the glory of Israel.
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  text: They had the Lord dwelling in their midst so that they could call upon him in prayer, not simply, yes, as to heaven, but in some mysterious sense, in their midst, right?
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  text: Prefiguring, right, God's more super abundant generosity with us in His church.
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  text: All right.
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  text: When Solomon built the temple, again, a visible sign of this was given.
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  text: This is 2 Chronicles 7 verses one to two.
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  text: '"Fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple, and the priests could not enter the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord''s house." Right?'
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  text: All of this, a figure of a better presence of the Lord in every tabernacle, in every church.
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  text: But again, we, the problem is the very super abundance of God's, um, generosity to us can lead us to take it for granted, right?
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  text: So that was present in only one place in Israel, right?
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  text: The Ark of the Covenant, which was kept in the Holy of Holies in the temple, right?
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  text: The temple was destroyed, um, in the Babylonian exile, um, the Ark of the Covenant was lost, but the temple was rebuilt, right, with an empty Holy of Holies, um, and yet, right, that was the object of the reverence of the Jewish people for the Lord, um, expressed in pilgrimage and still today in visiting the West Wall.
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  text: Um, now that was just a figure of what we have in every tabernacle.
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  text: God Himself made man, right?
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  text: And Jesus demonstrates that he is the true temple in John chapter two, uh, 19 to 21, "Destroy this temple, um, and in three days I will raise it up." Right?
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  text: Speaking not of the physical temple, but the temple, the real temple of his body.
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  text: Although the type was glorious, the reality prefigured is infinitely more glorious, but it's more humble.
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  text: And so this is again, a challenge for us, right?
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  text: In Israel, at least in the time of Solomon's temple and in the time of the second temple, time of Jesus, um, that temple was visibly glorious, right?
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  text: Um-But in the Eucharist, that glory is veiled, right?
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  text: So Christ's sacrifice was prefigured in all of the, um, the rites, uh, the rites of sacrifice of the religions of the world, and in a particular way of Israel.
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  text: So in Israel, um, we see, um, abundant sacrifices prescribed by God for his people, um, them, maybe the most prominent would be the Passover and the Paschal Lamb.
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  text: So the Paschal Lamb is a type of the sacrifice, but there also was, um, a sacrifice every morning and evening of a lamb.
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  text: There were peace offerings, communion offerings, thanksgiving offerings, memorial offerings, offerings of wheat, offerings of bread and wine, um, of Melchizedek, but also in the temple every morning and evening there was, um, an offering of bread and wine together with the lamb.
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  text: And all of these, um, were given to Israel to be a way of worshiping God, um, and that was a- a glory that Israel received, not simply to offer sacrifice, but to offer sacrifice in obedience, direct obedience to God's will expressed to them.
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  text: Um, but all of these sacrifices pointed beyond themselves to the sacrifice of Calvary, and to its sacramental representation in every mass.
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  text: And so just as Israel had a morning and evening sacrifice every day, and abundant, um, additional sacrifices on the great feasts, so his church, every day- Right?...
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  text: has the one perfect sacrifice.
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  text: So although Thomas Aquinas says, "All of the sacrifices of the old law were offered up to foreshadow this one individual and paramount sacrifice, the imperfect forecasting, prefiguring the perfect." Saint Leo the Great, on the- the figures of the sacrifice of mass says, "When the variety of animal sacrifices has ceased, the one oblation of your body and blood fulfills all the many kinds of offer.
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  text: You are the true lamb that takes away the sins of the world, and thus you perfect all mysteries in yourself.
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  text: As one sacrifice is made on behalf of all victims, so there'll be one kingdom for all nations." Right?
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  text: So, um, there are many religions offering all different kinds of sacrifice, and even one people, um, Israel, right, the people of God, having many different kinds of sacrifice, all prefiguring the one sacrifice of the new Israel, the church.
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  text: And yet we see it even before Abraham, right?
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  text: So we see the first thing Noah does after the flood is to build an altar for the Lord, and to offer every clean animal and every clean bird, um, in burnt offerings on the altar.
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  text: And the Lord smelled the pleasing odor and said, "I will never again curse the ground because of man." Right?
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  text: So again, the first thing that Noah does, right, is offer sacrifice in thanksgiving, but also, um, in satisfaction for sin.
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  text: And we can see in it two movements, the, um, the sacrifice has an ascending movement, even visibly, right?
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  text: So there's the smoke that goes up to the Lord, um, seeking to give him honor, so adoration, thanksgiving, but also to win his blessing for mankind, right?
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  text: And that's the promise, never again to, um, to send the world another flood like that.
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  text: So that would be the descending dimension.
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  text: We see in the sacrifice of Isaac prefiguring, again, both Calvary and the Eucharist.
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  text: Even the- the place in which Abraham was told to sacrifice is the Lord will provide, right?
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  text: And so the Lord provided the sacrifice, um, not Isaac, but the lamb- ram who took its place.
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  text: Um, so the sacrifice of Isaac in many ways, it's a marvelous figure.
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  text: Don't have time to fully go into it.
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  text: Um, so Isaac prefigures, um, Jesus, right?
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  text: The son, and Abraham, the father, God the Father, who gives up his- did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all.
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  text: And he is spared, right?
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  text: The Lord providing the perfect sacrifice.
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  text: So the Old Testament priests offered up sacrifice to God, and brought down blessings and teaching from God to man.
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  text: And we mentioned morning and evening offerings, special sacrifices, the great feasts, Passover, Pentecost, Day of Atonement, the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles in the fall.
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  text: In all of these feasts, the priests offered abundant burnt offerings, right?
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  text: And in all of these offerings, we see a key part is the shedding of blood, right?
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  text: And that is because the blood is the life, and we give back to God what he has given to us, and thus the blood is God's portion-Um, burnt offerings entirely consumed by fire, prefiguring Christ's total self-gift, right?
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  text: Other offerings were, um, partly, um, given to the Lord, but also consumed by the priests and even by the faithful in peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings, right?
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  text: And that prefiguring communion, we'll, we'll come back to that.
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  text: So sacrifice and communion go together because a part of what is offered is then received, making meal fellowship with God Himself.
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  text: And so all of these sacrifices are figures of Calvary on the one hand, and of the mass, making Calvary present in our midst.
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  text: So Christ is burnt offering because He gave Himself wholly, but yet He's communion offering because He gives Himself to us wholly, right?
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  text: But under sacramental signs as we'll see in the next talk.
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  text: And He offers Himself to atone for the sins of the world, as in sin offerings, but He actually is a more pleasing offering than sin is displeasing, which was not true of the offerings of Israel, and couldn't be true.
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  text: And it establishes peace between God and man, and thus fulfills all the types of the peace offerings.
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  text: Another key figure was the solemn sacrifice, um, sealing the Mosaic covenant on Mount Sinai with the blood of oxen, right?
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  text: So 12 oxen to represent the 12 tribes, and their blood was poured out, half of it onto the altar, and the other half sprinkled on the people.
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  text: Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people and said, "Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words." Right?
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  text: Again, a sign of covenant between God and His people, Israel, and the blood being the sign of the life, which is God's gift, and a sign of grace, which is a sharing in the divine life, right?
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  text: Poured, um, on the people or sprinkled on the people as well as the altar representing God's portion to show a blood kinship established now with God Himself, and assuring therefore of life.
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  text: So again, that, um, was done in figure because they didn't actually receive the Lord physically as we do in the Eucharist, but a marvelous figure of what happens in every holy communion, right?
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  text: Sealing the covenant.
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  text: And again, we'll come back to this in the next episode.
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  text: The Passover.
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  text: Of all the sacrifice of Israel, the immolation of the Paschal Lamb during the feast of Passover is the most perfect figure for the Eucharist, because it brings out the three aspects of present sacrifice and spiritual nourishment or communion.
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  text: So the lamb, um, was immolated on behalf of each household, right?
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  text: So every household had to bring a lamb.
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  text: He was, the lamb was sacrificed on the 14th of the month of Nisan in the temple, in the, in the...
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  text: And the blood poured out on the altar by the priests, um, and then taken, um, to be consumed by each household.
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  text: Um, and thus it has the aspect both of sacrifice and communion, and then the aspect of dwelling is the fact that this had to be done in Jerusalem, in the place of God's indwelling presence, um, in the Holy of Holies.
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  text: Now, imagine, let's imagine ourselves being there at a Passover about the time of Jesus.
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  text: All that blood poured onto the altar.
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  text: And then this repeated every year, always with a dif- different lambs, right?
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  text: And this shows, on the one hand, the need for, um, atonement, the need for, um, what's being expressed, that union with God, um, and satisfaction for sin, but the insufficiency of it, that it had to be done in such quantity repeated year after year.
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  text: And this would have made a huge impression on the minds of the faithful of Israel.
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  text: All of that prefiguring the true Lamb of God, and that's how John the Baptist, right?
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  text: Speaks of Jesus and reveals Him to His disciples in, in John's Gospel.
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  text: Key difference, though, between the sacrifice of the Old Covenant and that of the new is that in the Old Covenant, the victim was always something other than the priest, right?
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  text: The priest offered lambs or bulls or oxen or bread or wine, um, in the New Covenant, well, in, on Calvary, Jesus offers Himself.
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  text: So we could say that's a law of the New Covenant, priest and victim are one and the same.
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  text: And we, all the people of the church, are part of that royal or common priesthood, and we're called likewise to offer ourselves.Now, in the Old Testament, um, all the sacrifice had to be offered in one place, in the temple.
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  text: Um, and that meant that when the temple was destroyed, as it happened in the Babylonian exile, and then in 70 AD, all sacrifice had to cease because it, it could only be offered in that one place.
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  text: Um, that was a figure of the unity of Israel's worship, right?
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  text: It had to be done in one place to show that Israel was making, as it were, um, a unified offering, an offering for the whole people.
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  text: Um, now, in the new covenant...
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  text: The lamb of God, Jesus offered in the mass.
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  text: But in every place, and this is prefigured or prophesied in Malachi, um, chapter one, verse 11.
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  text: '"From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name," God says, "is great among the nations, and in every place, incense is offered to my name." In every place.'
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  text: That's a, a prophecy of something centuries in the future, the sacrifice of the new covenant, which is made...
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  text: It's one sacrifice made in every place.
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  text: All right, after the destruction of the J- of the temple in AD 70, the sacrifice of the old covenant could no longer be offered, right?
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  text: And continued that way to this day, no longer able to be offered, um, which is, um, mourned by Jews every year on the ninth of Av, um, this, uh, a, a fast day to, um, to mourn the destruction of the temple.
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  text: Um, but, uh, we can see a certain providential ordering there, right?
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  text: That, um, the sacrifice of the new covenant now, um, continues in every place.
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  text: Third, um, figures of the Eucharist as spiritual nourishment.
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  text: The key figure here is the manna, right?
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  text: And this is the most well-known.
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  text: So, in the Old Testament, in the wandering in the desert, God fed his people with a mysterious food from above, right?
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  text: And the very name manna means, what is it, is itself a type of the Eucharist, right?
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  text: Which is mysterious.
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  text: So, they didn't know what it was, and it came from above rather than below and wasn't the work of their hands, but was the Lord's gift to them, all...
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  text: And this prefiguring the Eucharist, which even though the bread and the wine are the work of human hands, what they become, Jesus' body and blood, um, and nourishing us with His divine life, is not the work of human hands, but the gift of God from above.
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  text: And there are many...
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  text: Ah, it's a marvelous figure.
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  text: Um, so it comes from above, but also an interesting thing is that it didn't matter how much you gathered.
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  text: Um, everyone got the right amount, right?
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  text: If you gathered a lot, you got just enough for your family.
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  text: If you gathered a little, you got just enough for your family.
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  text: In the Eucharist, each one of the faithful receive Jesus, we receive the same Jesus, but everyone receives a different grace.
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  text: We receive a grace according to our desire, our hunger and thirst, and our dispositions.
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  text: And so, the, the manna marvelously, uh, represented that.
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  text: It w- didn't have a strong taste.
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  text: So, one could, um, still, um, hunger for the, the fleshpots of Egypt, receiving the Eucharist if one wasn't rightly disposed.
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  text: But if one was rightly disposed, it, um, it had, um, it w- had a sweetness, right?
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  text: A sweetness, again, prefiguring the sweetness of holy communion in which we're nourished with church, suited to every taste, right?
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  text: And nourishing each one in its own proper way.
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  text: And it also was a symbol.
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  text: We could say there's a symbol of Eucharistic adoration in the fact that the jar of manna was kept and preserved in the Ark of, Ark of the Covenant, so prefiguring, um, Eucharistic adoration.
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  text: A less well-known figure is the bread of the presence or bread of the face.
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  text: So, this was, um, in the temple, um, in the, in the sanctuary.
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  text: Um, 12 cakes representing the 12 tribes were put on an altar before the Lord in the sanctuary.Um, and again, prefiguring the Eucharist, um, not put before the Lord, but, um, being the very presence of the Lord.
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  text: This bread of the presence, um, figures in, uh, Matthew 12:3-6, where Jesus speaks of the Old Testament episode of, um, of David eating the bread of the presence when, um, when he was fleeing from Saul.
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  text: And again, a type of our receiving the, the real bread of the presence of the face, the face of Jesus in holy communion.
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  text: Um, Brad Petry also shows an interesting thing, that the bread of the presence was, um, elevated, um, for the pilgrims who came to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage feast, and they were blessed with the bread of the presence, a kind of figure of benediction.
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  text: And the word, the priest saying the words, "Behold God's love for you." I mentioned the Passover.
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  text: Um, in addition to the Paschal Lamb, also had the, the unleavened bread and four cups of wine, prefiguring the spiritual nourishment of the Eucharist, um, instituted under the appearances of bread and wine.And one last figure is the tree of life in, um, in Eden.
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  text: So in Eden, not only did the Lord dwell in their midst and with a mysterious presence, but he...
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  text: there was a nourishment there, a mysterious nourishment, the tree of life that precisely was, um, sealed off after the fall.
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  text: And so the Eucharist should be understood as the return of the tree of life, now the bread of life.
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  text: And I think this would have been understood or ought to have been understood by the listeners at Capernaum when Jesus ga- gave the bread of life discourse, right?
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  text: That, um, he was opening up that, um, means of communicating divine life closed by the fall.
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  text: And one last aspect is the, um, the desire of, of the saints of the Old Testament, right?
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  text: So the old, the Old Testament saints, um, are yearning.
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  text: So Psalm 42, "As the heart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, oh God.
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  text: My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
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  text: When shall I come and behold the face of God?" Right?
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  text: That yearning of the prophets and the psalmists is satisfied by the Eucharist.
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  text: Or Isaiah 64, "Oh that you would tear the heavens and come down." Well, he has.
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  text: Isaiah 55, "Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.
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  text: He who has no money come, buy wine and milk without money." Right?
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  text: And that is fulfilled for us in the Eucharist.
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  text: Um, and then Psalm 34 Verse 8, "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Right?
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  text: The Eucharist communicates Jesus's own life, right?
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  text: The very goodness of the Lord to us.
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  text: And so let's end this episode by thanking the Lord for prefiguring these mysteries and giving to us what the prophets and psalmists and saints of the Old Testament so yearned for in the Holy Through Christ our Lord.
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