From our upcoming Focus on the Kingdom December issue: An Example of Typology The Bible shows that God works in repeated patterns. This is known as typology. The idea is not difficult. For example the experience of Israel in the wilderness was a “type” or pattern of our experience as believers in the present “wilderness” of the present evil world system, prior to our later entering the future Kingdom of God on earth when Jesus returns. Paul spoke of the “rock” which followed the Israelites and called it “Christ.” The rock was a “type” of Christ. He spoke in the same passage of the Israelites being “baptized in a cloud and in the sea” (1 Cor. 10:1-13). Joshua, whose name is the same as Jesus, led the people into the land, as will Jesus when the Kingdom is fully revealed at his return. Another example: Abigail (1 Sam. 25), who later married David, King of Israel, is a type of the Church who will “marry” the Messiah at his return. The Messiah will descend and the saints will go out to meet him as he descends to the earth (1 Thess. 4:13-18), and accompany the royal bridegroom to the earth. Abigail, as a “type” of the Church, went out to meet David as he descended (1 Sam. 25:20, 32). David is of course a “type” of the Messiah Jesus. The Church as bride will go out to meet him as he descends to the earth.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:50:01 +0000
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