Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures. Kenneth B. Alexander
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Название: Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures
Автор: Kenneth B. Alexander
Издательство: Ingram
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The father was the Creator of the heavens and the earth, but it was given Christ to speak it into existence. in heaven Even now the Father has given the Son (Christ) all authority and earth. As He said in His parting words: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). The same thing is true of our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Father had all this in mind from before the world was created. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed US with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,” (Ephesians 1:3-5). And: “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified” (Romans 8:29-30). Finally: “Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:6-9; Isaiah 64:4).
The process of creation gave birth to the creative Word of God which would be used by prophets in creating what was to come in the process leading to Christ. Abraham laid the foundation for faith to be reckoned as righteousness, just as Christ proclaimed faith in Himself as salvation. Isaac produced the twins of which one would be called Israel, the beginning of a nation. Jacob gave birth to the 12 Sons of Israel upon which a nation would be built. Joseph was Christ, the savior and deliverer of a nation. Those who did not love God, or follow Him, gave existence to the enemies of God that would have to be subdued over the coming ages. The reasons for this were clearly defined. Even after God destroyed the world by a flood, the evil slipped through and recreated itself on this side of the deluge.
The evil that slipped through the Flood created the enemies of Israel throughout their history. Yet despite the Satanic opposition God, using real people who made real mistakes, formed the beginnings of the Nation of Israel through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (later renamed Israel). However, without Jacob, a manifestation of Christ on the earth, the small race would have been destroyed. Joseph, after being imprisoned for 11 years (“Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested [refined him] him” Psalm 105:19) was raised to the throne of Pharaoh and saved his family so they could become a great nation. You don’t see God moving through all the surrounding pagan nations but you find Him moving through Israel His chosen people.
God was true to His word and remained faithful revealing His Son on earth at the chosen time to bring salvation to all His people.
Introduction to Moses
Moses was the deliverer, leader, lawgiver, and prophet of Israel. He was the greatest man of God in the earth until Christ. The name in Heb. is mōsheh (“drawn out”), but the original is Egyptian ms˒, a “child,” a “son,” reflecting that Pharaoh’s daughter simply named him “child” (cf. Thutmose, Ahmose, etc., in which the same element appears frequently in Egyptian names). Thutmose=“Son of Thot,” etc. Moses belonged to the tribe of Levi, and was the son of Amram by his wife Jochebed. The other members of the family were Aaron and Miriam, his elder brother and sister. The life of Moses is divided into three equal portions of forty years each (Acts 7:23, 30, 36): his life in Egypt, exile in Arabia, and government of Israel. The books of Moses are full of references to Christ. The book contains no direct prophecies, but it is full of previews or pictures called types. Typology is the study of these fore glimpses of Christ and the Christian age. Persons, places, objects and even events can be typical of New Testament realities. A type is more than just an analogy between something in the Old Testament and something in the New. A type was created by God with the intention of foreshadowing the coming age. Without revelation the certain identification of types is impossible. In other words, only those persons, places, objects or events of the Old Testament, which are identified as types in the New Testament, can strictly speaking be classified as such. Some of the more outstanding types referred to are the following:
1. Aaron, or at least the office of high priest which he occupied. The writer of Hebrews repeatedly refers to the ministry of Aaron and the more glorious ministry of the Christian high priest Jesus Christ.
2. Paul saw the crossing of the Red Sea as a type of baptism in 1 Corinthians 10:2.
3. The Passover lamb clearly depicted the Lamb of God. Paul declared that Christ is the Christian’s Passover (1 Cor 5:7).
4. The wilderness manna was typical of the bread from heaven which Jesus declared himself to be (John 6:48–51).
5. The rock from which water sprang forth pointed forward to the water of life supplied by Christ (1 Cor 10:4).
6. The grand type in Exodus is the Tabernacle which Israel constructed at Sinai. While some have carried the typology of the Tabernacle to extremes, the New Testament does make clear that certain aspects of this structure were typical. These are:
1. The bronze altar. Hebrews declares that Christ is the Christian’s altar (Heb 13:10).
2. The bronze laver is used in Titus 3:5 to portray baptism.
3. The incense altar points to the prayers of the saints of God (Rev 8:3–4).
4. The golden lampstand points to Christ the light of the world, and to the Christians who reflect that light.
5. The table of showbread seems to be a type of Christ, the bread of life, and of the Lord’s table which commemorates the body and blood of the Lord (1 Cor 10:21).
6. The holy of holies was a picture of heaven into which the Christian’s high priest, Jesus, has entered upon his ministry (Heb 9:24; 10:34) (typology from Smith, J. E. (1993). The Pentateuch (2nd ed.).
As we have previously noted through the efforts of Joseph the small band of Israelites. Then consisting only of Jacob, his sons and their families and servants and maids were given use of a fertile piece of land in Goshen, Egypt, through the generosity of the Pharaoh at that time. They were to remain there for 430 years. However in the later part of that period Egypt began to fear Israel, who had grown in numbers into a nation. They feared Israel might turn on them. So they made them slaves building various types of structures for the Egyptians. It was at that time they began to cry out to God who heard them and sent a deliverer--Moses.
The sons of Israel had been fruitful in Egypt and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them. But a new generations of Kings arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. The Pharaoh said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more СКАЧАТЬ