For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God shall come." The Paschal feast must be "fulfilled in the Kingdom of God," which according to ver. 18, was then and is yet to "come." the Paschal antitype is not finished. The Lord instituted his Supper for the New Covenant in place of the Paschal feast of old, and as oft as we do it we show forth his death till he comes. One extreme of the Paschal antitype is his death, and the other his second coming, hence it spans and is fulfilled during the Gospel Dispensation.
The Feast of unleavened bread , in the antitype appears to run parallel with the Paschal antitype. 1 Cor. 5: 7, 8; "Purge out therefore, the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacred for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." The type was carnal, the bread made of grains, the antitype spiritual, the bread is truth, the Word of God received in sincerity.
The bitter herbs with which it was eaten seems to typify the active trials of Christians in this state. As they began on the 14th at the Passover to eat unleavened bread and bitter herbs, so the active trials of the church began when the "Shepherd was smitten and the sheep scattered;" but they will end and the Bible be superseded "when the Chief of Shepherd shall appear" and gather the " fl ock of slaughter" with joy to our beloved Zion. First Fruits .
This was a handful of first ripe fruit or grain. 1 Cor. 15:4, 20, 23; Ac. 26:23, show that Christ "rose again the third day according to the scriptures," "that fruits of them that slept," thus laying the foundation of the resurrection to life. The fruits appear to be connected with.