This content explains how to understand the Old Testament as a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ by examining specific "types" (people, events, or objects) that represent Him, using Adam as a primary example to illustrate principles of biblical typology.
so today we're gonna talk about some
principles and types and what I mean is
principles for how we find Jesus in the
Old Testament but we're also gonna look
at specific one specific example which
is Adam in Christ we're gonna focus on
that example and how we can learn from
it because Adam is it turns out is a
picture of Christ in the Old Testament
but also think about this think about
the heaviness of this he's a real guy
and God used this real person to be a
real life 3d living image that we could
look at and see some contrast and some
comparisons to Jesus that God actually
throughout the scriptures uses people to
tell the story of who Christ is this is
like a next level God's glory in our
lives when you think about it he's using
people to represent who he is so today
we're gonna give an example of a
specific type in the Old Testament and
the New Testament that's that the Bible
says this is a representation here this
isn't we're not fabricating this we're
not finding on our own even God's like
saying look this is this is clearly in
the text now the reason why I'm gonna do
this let me explain my thought process
here originally what I was gonna do is I
was gonna walk you guys through a bunch
of principles on how we find types in
the Old Testament and this was gonna
take a few weeks to do just principles a
whole bunch of them lay out all the
rules and answer all the questions about
how we find types of Jesus in the Old
Testament then we were gonna go into the
Old Testament start looking for these
types but I've learned something doing
youth ministry that I'll share with you
right now and that is sometimes it's
hard to learn all the rules of a game
before you're playing the game and what
happens is you you we would sit down
with the kids and we'd read all the
rules for some game and by the time you
finish reading the rules you go to play
the game and no one has any idea I don't
know so I frequently will interrupt
whatever leaders like explaining the
rules and go let's just start playing
and explain it as we play and I found
that this is a more effective way of
teaching a game to people is to explain
it while they're playing it rather than
before they play and this is see what I
want to do is apply this to what we're
doing here not because it's not it's not
that it's a game but there is the sort
of math
side of it and then there's the very
simple application side so we're gonna
do both at the same time what we're
gonna do over the next several weeks
assuming that this seems to work well
with you guys is we're gonna take one or
more types that are in the Bible
we're gonna look at them and then we're
gonna conclude after looking at them
with and what principles now have we
learned so that we can apply that when
we're looking for other things in the
Old Testament so we're gonna play the
game while we learn the game does that
make sense I think it'll be more
interesting I think you'll find it to be
slightly less boring for for just you
know the flesh is weak for the our
ability to stay focused and pay
attention so today we're gonna give you
one type and that's gonna be Adam in
Christ how Adam represents Christ we're
gonna look at this from several
different scriptures and then we'll draw
principles out as we go so here let's
get started
Genesis 1:26 Genesis 1:26 it says then
God said let us make man in our image
after our likeness and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over
the livestock and over all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth so God created man in his own
image in the image of God he created him
male and female he created them and God
blessed them and God said to them be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
and subdue it and have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of
the heavens and over every living thing
that moves on the earth and so that the
appearance of Adam first on you know in
Genesis Old Testament we're noticing a
few things right Adams made Adam and Eve
right but but we'll talk about it
because he's highlighted later I made in
the image of God and then told to fill
the earth right to repopulate or to
actually populate the earth and then
also told to have dominion or authority
over all this stuff on the earth so
there's some of the elements that we've
noticed then in Genesis 3 things go wrong
wrong
and after Adam and Eve eat of the fruit
in Genesis 3:17 we have this this is an
and to Adam he said because you've
listened to the voice of your wife and
have eaten of the tree of which I
commanded you you shall not eat of it
cursed is the ground because of you in
pain you shall eat of it all the days of
your life
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth
for you and you shall eat the plants of
the field by the sweat of your face you
shall eat bread till you return to the
ground for out of it you were taken for
dust you are and to dust you shall
return so we have these sort of two big
moments in Adams life right the creation
his commission and then the fall and
what the New Testament does and go and
turn to Romans five is the New Testament
takes Adam and relates him to Jesus very
specifically and this is a great place
for us to start in our study of types of
Christ in the Old Testament or how to
find Jesus in the Old Testament because
this is where God is telling you here's
how you find Jesus you know like here he
is he is he is right here in Adam and
let's read here Romans 5:12
here's the comparison therefore just as
sin came into the world through one man
that would be Adam and death through sin
so death spread to all men because all
sinned for sin indeed was in the world
before the law was given but sin is not
counted when there is where there is no
law yet death reigned from Adam to Moses
even over those whose sinning was not
like the transgression of Adam who is a
type of the one who was to come and and
here we get actually the New Testament
using the terminology type this is where
we get it we say a type of Christ we
actually get that right out of the text
itself Adam is a type of him who is to
come this is like a a mirror image a
reflection so to speak or the idea like
a ring where the ring has a seal and you
press the seal in and you've got the two
things that correspond to each other so
Adam who was a type of the one who was
to come but then it starts in verse 15
to draw some of the ways that Adam is is
like Jesus but also ways that Adam is
like the opposite of Jesus and I think
that the way Adam represents Christ
becomes kind of a road map for how we
apply typology to other characters in
the Bible so here verse 15 it says but
the free gift does not like the trespass
for if many died through one man's
trespass much more have the grace of God
and the free gift by the grace of that
one man Jesus Christ of
founded for many notice how he's
repeatedly referred to Adam as one man
and the refers to Jesus as one man
just notice the correlation there verse
16 and the free gift is not like the
result of the one man's that one man
sent for the judgment following one
tress Pratt trespass brought
condemnation but the free gift following
many trespasses brought justification
for if because of one man's trespass
death reigned through that one man much
more will those who receive the
abundance of grace and the free gift of
righteousness reign in life through the
one man Jesus Christ therefore as one
trespass led to condemnation for all men
so one act of righteousness leads to
justification and life for all men for
as by the one man's disobedience the
many were made sinners so by the one
man's obedience the many will be made
righteous so we see that there's these
points of comparison let's kind of recap
Adam represented everyone who represents
all of us all sinned all died in Adam we
all fall to the same fate and Christ
therefore stands to represent all of us
this isn't universalism it's some people
actually try to use this passage to
teach universalism but that's not not
what's in view clearly as you read for
the rest of Romans and read through the
Scriptures but it is saying that as Adam
is sort of like this figurehead to
represent all humankind and the decision
he made set the fate for all of us so
Jesus then becomes the next figurehead
for all of us and in Christ I have the
opposite fate sin entered through Adam
that's what entered through Adam
according to Roman's and and
righteousness entered through Jesus so
this these are like opposites right this
is more like a an inversion image you
know what you when you switch the
black-and-whites on a picture and you
get that inverted image in some ways
Adam is like an inverted or reversed
image of Jesus yeah in some ways he's
the same I don't represented all of us
Jesus came to represent all of us in
some ways he's the opposite Adam brought
sin Jesus brought righteousness death
came through Adam life came through
Jesus this is just what Romans 5 lays out
out
death one came raw death one brought
life condemnation came through Adam
specifically condemnation but
justification came through Jesus many
were made sinners through Adam but many
were made righteous through Jesus and so
here's the principle let me pause for a
second what principle are we learning
here as we look at typology in the Old
Testament is that it's very much a
compare and contrast thing when I was in
school we used to get these assignments
right in like social studies and they'd
say at the end of the chapter compare
and contrast dot dot dot would tell you
what to compare and contrast compare and
contrast the the process by which the
bill was our something ratified by the
who'sa wetsuits and I always struggled
with this because I was like comparing
contra I didn't I honestly four years I
did not understand that compare meant
how are they alike and contrast meant
how are they different but that's what
we're getting here that's like the
principle we can apply to typology is we
go to the Old Testament and we find a
type or picture of Christ asks two
questions how are they alike and how are
they different because you will see this
repeatedly with the types that the Bible
gives us in some ways they are alike but
there are important ways they are
different and the differences are part
of the typology
so Adam figurehead for all of us Jesus
figure had for all of us compare but
then there's the contrast part Adam
brought death Jesus brought life Adam
brought sin Jesus for righteousness Adam
brought condemnation Jesus brought
justification because it turns out that
Jesus is better Jesus is better than all
of the types that represent him and
that's actually important Hebrews one
will eventually get there but it
actually drives home this thing over and
over again
the book of Hebrews that Jesus is
greater than the priest greater than the
prophet greater than the Angels greater
than fill-in-the-blank he's he's greater
than all of these things so there's the
part of the contrast that's there let's
go to first Corinthians 15 there's
another passage that relates to this as
well first Corinthians 15 and verse 45
this is another one of those Adam
it says for screen thien's 1545 thus it
is written the first man Adam became a
living being the last man Adam became a
life-giving spirit but it is not the
spiritual that is first but the natural
and then the spiritual the first man was
from the earth a man of dust Adam right
the second man is from heaven as was the
man of dust so also are those who are of
the dust and as is the man of heaven so
also are those who are of heaven just
and here's the application he's gonna
apply that for us just as we have borne
the image of the man of dust we shall
also bear the image of the man of heaven
so speaking of the image that Adam was
was was made in he was made in God's
image except he was of dust before he
even had kids
he was consigned to stay dust and died
as dust and we were born and we get some
dusty experiences of our own but Jesus
he comes and gives us that fullness of
life the the greater one the greater
Adam the last Adam in Genesis 1:26 we
have some more correlations because
there's a lot actually between Adam and
Jesus and I'll point out a bunch of it
and there's more than I'll get into
tonight that would be for your own self
to discover I really do believe there's
more here so in Genesis 1:26 Adam is
made in God's likeness in His image
right but but in Hebrews 1:3 I believe
we get a case that Jesus is that but
more so and here's the typology Jesus
being greater than the Old Testament
type that corresponds to him so he was
1:3 says he is the radiance of the glory
of God and the exact imprint of his
nature and upholds the universe by the
word of his power so it's like way
beyond Adam in his representation of God
being in the image Jesus comes he's the
radiance of the glory of God the exact
imprint of his nature Colossians 1:15
says that Jesus is the image of the
invisible God so mankind was made in
God's image Jesus is the image you know
Adam was made in the image
and then it was then these things were
Marge somehow and we now bear the image
of Adam so to speak not just I'm wearing
God's image still but there's like this
tainted nough stew it and we die but
Christ comes and then we will bear in
his image he's restoring the thing that
Adam lost Adam was commanded in Genesis
1:21 26 also let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the heavens over the livestock and
over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth
so Adam was told to have dominion
but that Dominion was somehow damaged
after a judgment came in Genesis 3 he's
like yeah you know the grounds not gonna
yield to you and there's basically gonna
be these problems in you accomplishing
the task of Dominion Jesus in a greater
sense has Dominion in Ephesians 1:20 it
says that he worked in Christ when he
raised him from the dead and seated him
at his right hand in the heavenly places
far above all rule and authority and
power and Dominion and above every name
that is named not only in this age but
also in the one to come and he put all
things under his feet and gave him his
head over all things to the church which
is his body the fullness of him who
fills all in all Philippians 2:10 speaks
of this dominion of Christ as well and
it says so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow in heaven and on
earth and under the earth so Adams
Dominion is like limited to this earthly
realm and even that's kind of marred
Jesus comes his Dominion is unlimited
and then of course we come into Christ
and we actually share in that Dominion
where co-heirs with Christ so you see
how what Adam failed at or partially
represented Christ comes in fulfills and
is the full representation of Adam was
told to be fruitful and multiply to be
fruitful and multiply this was not about
mathematics this is this is this is
about procreation right you filled the
earth and be fruitful and Christ he does
so but in a far greater away in a far
greater way in Romans 8 16 and 17 it
says the Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of
God and if children then heirs heirs of
God and fellow heirs with Christ
provided we saw
with him in order that we may also yeah
we may also be glorified with him so we
have this whole idea of being children
and the idea of being co-heirs with
Christ kind of both of these things and
just in Genesis 1:26 Adam was told both
of those qualities be fruitful multiply
and - and have dominion and that's what
Jesus ultimately accomplished in a far
greater and far more expansive way but
there's a whole other side to the Adam
in Christ typology that God has placed
and not only in reality but also in the
text of Scripture so Ephesians 5:22
husbands wives we know this passage
hopefully we know it really well we have
to keep reminding ourselves of this if
we're gonna honor God in our marriage
and if he's just 5:22 we find another
layer of this sin has to do with Adam
and Eve and Christ in the church and the
picture of that so it says wives submit
to your own husband's as to the Lord for
the husband is the head of the wife even
as Christ is the head of the church his
body and is himself its Savior now as
the church submits to Christ so also
wives should submit in everything to
their husbands husbands love your wives
as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her that he might
sanctify her having cleansed her by the
washing of the water with the word so
that he might present the church to
himself in splendor without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing that she might
be holy and without blemish in the same
way husbands should love their wives as
their own bodies he who loves his wife
loves himself for no one ever hated his
own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it
just as Christ does the church because
we are members of his body therefore a
man shall leave his father and mother
and hold fast to his wife and the two
shall become one flesh quoting Genesis
this mystery is profound and I am saying
that it refers to Christ and the church
however lay each one of you love his
wife as himself and let the wife see
that she respects her husband do you see
what he says here he quotes Genesis and
he goes this mystery of two becoming one
he goes it's profound and I'm telling
you what it's about it's about Jesus in
the church husband and wife are designed
to be a type representing Jesus and
church Christ in the church
this was part of the original plan when
God did this thing with Adam and Eve and
then when he had it written and recorded
for all time he did it to be an embedded
message about Jesus and the church for
all time so let's let's look at this
let's go to Genesis 2 and we'll look at
the story here about Eve and Adam and
how they represent Christ in the church
now that now here's a principle for you
when the New Testament clearly
identifies a type like Christ in the
church Adam and Eve then I think it's
fair for us to go into the text and go I
wonder what else is there you know I
mean that seems legit to me God is
saying hey there's a profound mystery
but guess it's about Jesus in the church
so let's go to the text now and now I'm
gonna do something I'm gonna take a
little bit of know I wouldn't call
Liberty like I'm breaking rules or
something like that rather I feel like
I'm obeying rules of biblical
interpretation and I'm saying let's look
at how Adam and Eve represent Christ and
the church so Genesis 2 verse 18 it says
then the Lord God said it is not good
that the man should be alone I will make
a helper fit for him the the King James
Version says help me I called allicin
that one time and she was like what what
does that even mean I just thought I was
calling her some kind of like site of
beef or something like that so so I
didn't call her that any day anymore on
so I'll make a helper fit for him now
out of the ground the Lord God had
formed every beast of the field and
every bird of heavens of the heavens and
brought them to the man to see what he
would call them and whatever the man
called every living creature that was
its name the man gave names to all
livestock into the birds of the heavens
and to every beast of the field but for
Adam there was not found a helper fit
for him so the Lord God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon the man and while he
slept he while he slept took one of his
ribs and closed up in its place with
flesh closed up its place with flesh
excuse me and the rib that the Lord God
had taken from the man he made into a
woman and brought her to the man then
the man said this at last is bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be
called woman
because she was taken out of man
therefore a man shall leave his father
and his mother and hold fast to his wife
and they shall become one flesh and the
man and his wife were both naked and
were not ashamed so let's draw out some
of the some of the things there's
actually probably more here than what
I'm gonna give you tonight and I'd
encourage you to look for it for
yourself without being don't make stuff
up look to find what's actually there
right so let's look at the points that
are that are in the passage because
that's the principle we're learning here
is that Adam there were these specific
points Adam brought condemnation Adam
represented all people Adam brought sin
and death
Adam was of the dust Jesus is a
comparison and a contrast of all of
those points so we look at the points in
the text and try to find the relation to
Christ so in verse 18 Adams gonna have a
helper fit for him and the truth is as
God God looks down at creation and sees
fall and mankind there is no one fit for
him we're not fit for him we're unfit I
don't belong in heaven this sinner this
wicked man I don't belong he has to do
something to me to make me fit for him
and so then in verses 19 and 20 we see
that Eve has not made like the rest of
creation for Adams formed of the dust
right God then forms all of the
creatures and brings them to Adam but
Eve has not made like this at all Eve
has made how Eve has made from Adam like
literally Adams substance taken from his
own body created Eve that's how Eve was
made and this is I think a picture of
the church we are made from Jesus we're
made from him I'm not made like the rest
of creation we as Christians we're not
only in the image of God but being born
again in Christ and made it into a new a
new person we are the body of Christ do
you see the connection between us being
his body and Eve being made from Adams
body 2nd Corinthians 5:17 it says
therefore if any anyone is in Christ
he's a new creation the old has passed
away behold the new his common so we've
been made a help her fit for him through that
that
the way that he was made was Adam was
given put into a deep sleep which you
might not think is that significant
until you've realized it's connected to
Jesus somehow how how is it that we were
made Christ was put to death for us and
sleep is a euphemism for death
throughout the Bible Jesus himself used
this when Lazarus died he goes he's
sleeping right then Paul talks about
those who fallen asleep in Christ
so this euphemism is there I'm not
saying Adam actually died but I do think
the picture is being drawn to represent
Christ as being sort of the exaggerated
thing of whatever we see Adam doing you
know and and Adam he's put to this deep
sleep Christ he actually did die for us
the rib is interesting um there-there
did go around for a while I don't know
if it's still in any circles the idea
that men have one less rib than women
because Adam had one of his ribs removed
in order to make Eve and I I don't know
if that's like is that how the real word
real world works like if someone removes
your rib your kids are born with one
less rib is that how it works
cuz we're all in trouble especially
through that was like a shop teacher
you're gonna be missing fingers but but
actually the word they're probably it
may well have been it it has to do with
like something like the cage or the
structure of something the word that's
used in the Hebrew therefore rib so it
may well have been the actual rib bone
but it seems like it was more than just
that because Adam says she's bone of my
bones and flesh of my flesh so it seems
like there's just like a whole chunk and
Adam that's been missing from Adam he's
he's literally for the rest of his life
scarred to make Eve a wound in his side
we we were made from the wounds of
Christ as the church by His stripes we
are healed I mean he was pierced for us
and he was pierced we're in the side and
those wounds may be the only wounds you
ever see on anyone in heaven Jesus after
his resurrection still bore the marks of
his wounds he tells Thomas touched me
here put your hand in my side put your
why because it's just like with Adam
it's like literally the only thing in
creation at that point that had any
wounds of any kind and I think is just a
picture Christ so he was missing
something and guess what she had the
thing he was missing he said she's bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh we are
made from the donation of Christ's flesh
that's what the scripture teaches us
Ephesians 5:28 through 30 it says in the
same way husband should love their wives
as their own bodies and see eve was was
made of his body he who loves his wife
loves himself for no one ever hated his
own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it
just as Christ does the church and you
see the connection like the delightful's
go on like we're his flesh he not in the
carnal sense no in the sense of where
his body where his but he made us his
body and now loves us that was how God
would make a helper fit for him if I'm
gonna make someone to fit at him it'll
have to be made from Adam form to make
someone to fit Jesus to fit Christ I'll
have to make them from me Wow in verse
24 of Genesis 2 she's taken from him and then
then
so she's bone of his bones right but
then they're married and there's this
synergy between the ideas she's taken
from his side she's bone of his bone
flesh of his flesh and then when they
get married the two become what they
become one again so there's this like
idea where Eve is taken from him and
then they're rejoined in marriage
they're rejoined in marriage and so we -
when we're when we are born again in
Christ were made from him right we're
not this we're not him right were made
from him obvious
donation of his of his sacrifice we
become his body but then there's a time
coming in the future where the oneness
we have with Christ goes beyond because
while we are the Bride of Christ we are
yet betrothed so to speak and there is
the marriage supper of the lamb coming
and our future eternity in Christ that
with a oneness that's coming is way
beyond anything that we've experienced
in this life
husband and wife experience a taste of
this but with Christ it's far beyond
it's much more first Corinthians chapter
6 talks about this it says do you not
know of sir verse 15 through 17 or first
Corinthians 6 do you not know that your
bodies are members of Christ shall I
then take members of Christ and make
them members of a prostitute never or do
you not know that he who's joined to a
prostitute becomes one body with her for
as it has written the two will come one
but he who is joined to the Lord becomes
one spirit with him so Eve experiences a
physical oneness with Adam but we
experience a spiritual oneness with
Christ and that becomes elevated in the
future that we may be one with him in a
greater sense and that's in Revelation
revelation 19 verses 7 through 9 the
great marriage the the the wonderful
marriage that all other marriages are
meant to be a picture of it says let us
revelation 19:7 let us rejoice and exalt
and give him glory for the marriage of
the lamb has come and his bride has made
herself ready
it was granted her to clothe herself
with fine linen bright and pure for the
fine linen is the righteous deeds of the
saints and the angel said to me write
this blessed are those who were invited
to the marriage supper of the lamb and
he said to me these are the true words
of God so we see taken from him and then
United to him in marriage and this is
the same thing with our relationship
with Christ born again in Christ a new
creation and him made from him and then
United together one in spirit with him
and then at the end of Genesis 2 we get
this interesting phrase which which
here's another principle I'll give you
and we'll talk more about this over the
next weeks but when you read a passage
in the Old Testament and you go wait
what oftentimes it's as though that is the
the
clue that there's something in there for
us and we read about this book like the
bronze serpent or Moses striking the
rock we read about this with the Eagle
Hamid and so often those are the things
where there's a there's a picture of
Christ for us so in a Fianna sorry
Genesis 226 it says that they were naked
and unashamed Adam and Eve were naked
and unashamed and there's this was a reality
reality
I'm not just allegorize but how does it
picture Christ in the church when you're
the idea of being naked and unashamed is
I'm exposed you see all of what I am and
yet there's nothing to be ashamed of and
this is how the Bible describes us in
Christ it says in Ephesians 5:26 that he
might sanctify her having cleansed her
by the washing of water with the word so
that he might present the church to
himself in splendor without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing that she might
be holy and without blemish meaning that
in Christ this blows my mind I am not
only forgiven I am relieved of my shame
and that's not the same thing as being
forgiven exactly is it there's more to
it than that I'm relieved of my shame in
Christ and yes this comes in in our
future presentation to him that I'm
positionally forgiven in him but yet I
feel as though my shame keeps returning
periodically this life as I fail as I as
I blow it as I go into the flesh and yet
there is a time coming where there will
be no more flesh you will be able to get
along you guys really well even better I
talk to most of us get along pretty well
at least I far as I know maybe maybe
some of you guys got things going on I
don't know about but first I know we get
along pretty well but but don't because
you imagine the fellowship when our
flesh is no longer in the way no Envy no
jealousy no pride no weird anxieties
created by the awareness of personal
failings and things like that like
unashamed and that's that's how they're
presented to each other and that is how
the bride will be presented to Christ
unashamed Wow so um so okay there's
there's some pictures of Adam in Christ
I really believe there is more there and
if you study the passage on your own you
may find more there I caution you to
make sure that you do what I'm trying to
do here which is you find actually
specific points in the text that can be
drawn out reasonably reasonably inferred
to be types of Christ or representations
of the relationship between Christ and
us but let's talk up now about a couple
principles because there's one I want to
cover in particular somebody might say
Mike what you're doing when you go to
the Old Testament and you interpret it
this way is you're violating one of the
golden rules of hermeneutics no reason
have you heard the term of hermeneutics
before okay good you yeah smart you guys
there's like almost everybody so
hermeneutics is defined in short right
it's the art and science of biblical
interpretation that's that's that's what
it is that's the terminology for it all
the term is apply to other things too
that aren't related to the Bible
hermeneutics can reapply to a lot of
things but specifically in the world of
theology it's the art and science of
studying the Bible and there's rules for
interpretation in fact probably the most
the most important rule in the world is
context right context context context
context is king
this is what cults and and skeptics
often forget as I hear them try to quote
the Bible to attack the Bible and it's
like you you just think like did you
even read the passage like before quotas
like it's my job as a pastor I may even
teach a topical study right but I better
study verse by verse even to prepare for
a topical message you got a context as
king well there's a couple other rules
of hermeneutics that are pretty well
generally accepted and some may think
that what we're doing here violates
those rules so let's talk about those
one of those rules is authorial intent
what did the author intend when he wrote
this thing and the other is the original
audience the original audience what did
the original audience take this to me
because if you take it to mean something
the original audience didn't take it to mean
mean
then maybe you're making stuff up you
know that's the idea and these are
generally good rules to have sort of but
obviously I'm violating that
I mean I don't think that when Moses
wrote Genesis he was thinking to himself
this is a picture of Christ in the
church I don't think he understood that
much about Christ I think you understood
something but I don't think there's been
that much about Christ aware you could
know what was being written here so we
have to got the original author issue
there and then we have the original
audience there's no way the ancient
Israelites we're thinking like yes yes
the the Jewish and Gentile gathered
together in in in Messiah are are what
are pictured here with Adam and Eve and
he's being put to sleep and that
represents the death of Messiah and how
he comes back you know this is like not
probably what they would get out of the
text so how can i how can I justify what
I'm doing without violating rules of
hermeneutics well I think it's easy but
I think we have to talk about it because
this is the this is the techie stuff the
the technical side of this you know
typology stuff so when it comes to
authorial intent we'll talk about that
first then I'll talk about the original
audience I fully agree that you you
cannot ask the text to me more than it
meant by the original author but if
you're gonna study the Bible you have to
acknowledge that the original author is
not just the human author God inspired
the text of Scripture and to think that
what God intends in the text has to be
limited by what the author humanly
understood is just silly I mean it's an
artificial limitation placed upon the
text if God's inspiring it then
obviously he has intents that go beyond
the knowledge of the original author all
the ways he wouldn't have to inspire
anything the author could just write
whatever they want there you go
the nature of inspiration is that there
seems to be more to the text then what
was necessarily known by the original
author but not only that we can we can
support this in Scripture so 2nd Timothy
3:16 is one of the classic passages
about the inspiration of the Bible it
says all Scripture is breathed out by
God and profitable for teaching for
reproof correction and training and
righteousness then it goes on but the
the important principle here is the
scriptures from God it's breathed out by
God then we have this passage in 2nd Peter
Peter
2nd Peter 1 20 and 21 this is another
probably less often quoted passage but
it really applies oddly enough this
passage is frequently miss a misapplied
I think so first Peter 1:20 it says
knowing this first of all that no
prophecy of Scripture comes from
someone's own interpretation for no
prophecy was ever produced by the will
of man but men spoke from God as they
were carried along by the Holy Spirit
what the main point of first Peter 1
second Peter sorry second Peter 1 20 and
21 the main point of this is to say that
the scripture is not limited nor is it
directed by the mere human understanding
of either the author or the reader it's
from God right it's from God it's not of
your private interpretation to limit our
understanding to the author or to limit
our understanding to the reader of a
particular moment and say that's all
there is to it is to violate what 2nd
Peter says it was never produced by the
will of men but men spoke from God as
they were carried along by the Holy
Spirit now let me give an example of
this in the Old Testament Daniel 12
we're actually read the entire chapter
of Daniel 12 so Daniel 12 13 verses
we'll read through here and this is I'll
give you the short summary so you know
what we're getting into this is where
Daniels like okay I've just had a lot of
like visions and stuff and all kinds of
stuff is happening and he's going what
does this mean and I like how the
response he gets helps us answer our
question can the text mean more than it
meant to the original guy that wrote it
down so here Daniel 12 verse 1 it says
and I won't get into explaining the
prophecy here I'll because I'm we're
looking at how its interpreted is the
question at the time at that time shall
arise Michael the Great Prince who has
charge of your people and there shall be
a time of trouble such as has never such
as never has been since there was a
nation till that time but at that time
your people shall be delivered everyone
whose name shall be found written in the
book and many of those who sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake some to
everlasting life and some to shame and
everlasting contempt and those who are
wise shall shine like the brightness of
the sky above and those who turn and
those who turn many to righteousness
like the Stars forever and ever
but you Daniel
shut up the words and seal the book
until the time of the end many shall run
to and fro and knowledge shall increase
things will make more sense then then I
Daniel looked and behold two others
stood one on this bank of the stream and
one on that Bank of the stream and
someone said to the man clothed in linen
who is above the waters of the stream
how long shall I beat till the end of
these wonders and I heard the man
clothed in linen who was above the
waters of the stream he raised his right
hand and his left hand toward heaven and
swore by him who lives forever that it
would be for a time and times time times
and half a time and that when the
shattering of the power of the holy
people comes to an end all these things
would be finished now verse 8 after you
like Daniel you probably feel like he
does in verse 8 he says I heard but I
did not understand it perhaps you feel
that way if you haven't study this
passage carefully then I said o my lord
what shall be the outcome of these
things he said go your way Daniel for
the words are shut up and sealed until
the time of the end implying that the
phrase shut up and sealed means you
don't understand it it's for a future
generation they'll get it Daniel it
doesn't apply to you interesting huh so
go your way their doors are shut up and
sealed for the time until the time of
the end many shall purify themselves and
make themselves white and be refined but
the wicked shall act wickedly and none
of the wicked shall understand but those
who are wise shall future tents
understand and from that and from the
time that the regular burnt offering is
taken away and the abomination that
makes desolate is set up there shall be
1290 days blessed is he who waits and
arrives at the 1,335 days but go your
way till the end and you shall rest and
shall stand in your allotted place at
the end of the days now Jesus when he
was on the earth he actually referenced
this abomination of desolation as a
future event while he was walking there
he's like yes well when you see that and
then you have run out of Jerusalem it's
things are coming so this is like this
this time where Daniels the author he's
writing the text and he goes I don't
know what it means and it's not even for
me I'm the author but because God is the
ultimate inspirer of the text I'm just
gonna write what he tells me to write
and we'll see what happens I'm the
original audience is not intended to
understand his text either they're
intended to carry it forward for a
future generation because they'll need
it when the time comes so if we're to
artificially say that we can only ask
Daniel 12 to mean what it meant to
Daniel and we can only allow it to be
interpreted in ways it was understood by
the original audience who first heard it
we're actually violating Daniel 12
because it implies that neither of those
things are true
he didn't understand it they didn't
understand it so when I say you know
there's a type of Christ in the Old
Testament that perhaps Moses wouldn't
have understood this is entirely
consistent with biblical hermeneutics
with resetting the text of Scripture God
inspired it and he had intended from the
beginning for it to have meanings that
might be unfolded later so then there's
the idea of the original audience the
original audience is important and the
original audience should should interest
us I do care what its what it meant to
the original audience but I'm not going
to limit it as though that's all there
is and so that that's the task of
hermeneutics I do ask what did it mean
to the original audience but I do not
say that's all it could ever mean for
all time because God intended it to be
written for more than the original
audience because of his inspiration so
let me give an example this in Galatians
three eight in Galatians three eight it
says and the scripture foreseeing that
God would justify the Gentiles by faith
preached the gospel beforehand to
Abraham saying in you shall all the
nations be blessed so the scripture for
saw something the scripture foreseeing
that God would justify the Gentiles by
faith did what preach the gospel to
Abraham and what what phrase is this
that preached the God the Abraham heard
the gospel when God says Abraham and you
all the nations of the earth will be blessed
blessed
now did Abraham go that is clearly the
Gospel message of salvation by faith
alone through Christ
that will be available to all the world
or did Abraham just have like a piece of
that and the rest of it made more sense
as the story continued to unfold yeah he
just had a piece of it and it made more
sense and he had faith and he was saved
by faith but he didn't have the whole
message yet so it's about us seen what
God has put there to find it's not about
us finding something for me that's not
even part of the original intent
I can't just open the Bible and find
special secret messages for me that God
never intended in the first place and
call that Bible study what we're doing
as we do this typology thing is we're
saying I'm not creatively finding Jesus
no I'm discovering what God has planted
there all along and intended for me to
find all along and that's consistent
with the teaching of Jesus as well so
it's not something new this is not new
theology so to speak this is discovering
the original intent of the author who
inspired the real inspirer of the
Scriptures and that's what makes it so
exciting because we stand from the
perspective of the book of Revelation
looking back we stand with the full
revelation of God's Word we stand with
clear indications here's a type here's a
type here's a type here's principle as
you can learn for looking at types and
pictures of Christ so we have more to
discover in the Old Testament today then
Daniel did than Moses did we have more
to discover today than the prophets who
wrote the text it's a it's a book where
what Allah as a Corinthian says that the
veil is taken away in Christ and you go
oh like I see it I see it first Peter
well does the last verse we'll do
tonight first Peter chapter 1 verses 10
through 12 this is this talked about the
same concept and now that we're we're in
the mode of thinking of types and
typology needs and pictures of Christ
this will probably make more sense to
you than if you just read it without
considering those things so first Peter
chapter 1 verse 10 it says concerning
this salvation the prophets who
prophesied about the grace that was to
be yours searched and inquired carefully
inquiring what person or time the Spirit
of Christ in them was indicating when he
predicted the sufferings of Christ and
the subsequent glories but that's almost
a tongue twister that are really
thoughtful passage or thoughtful
sentence if I can give a quick summary
of it right it's like here's the profits
they're writing things down going I
wonder what this means what I mean I'm
writing about the same Isaiah I'm
writing about the sufferings of the
Messiah and I'm going I know this is the
Lord telling me to write this but I
wonder how this will play out what will
this look like what will this what will it
it
how much clarity will I have after the
fact is the idea then in verse 12 it
says it was revealed to them that they
were serving not themselves but you wait
what the original author was writing
something that was four generations
later it was revealed to them they were
not serving themselves but you in the
things that have now been announced to
you through those who preach the good
news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from
heaven things into which angels long to
look that it was a mystery revealed but
the point is revealed so this is very
much as we study the Old Testament from
the perspective of Christ it's like
you've got a movie where there's all
these little careful plots given through
it you know pieces of the plot given
throughout the film but not revealed of
what you what they mean isn't revealed
until the end of the movie and you have
those movies you have to watch twice
because the first time you were
completely confused right and the second
time was like oh oh oh that's the Bible
right it's after you see the revelation
of Christ you go back to the scriptures
and you go oh oh I get it
Wow and all we looked at really today
was just a person who represented Christ
Adam as the figurehead that represented
Jesus and his relationship with ee-vie
presenting Christ in the church there's
so many other things we'll look at as we
continue we'll look at not only other
people who represent Christ some that
were clearly indicated like David and
guys like that but also some that aren't
like Jephthah I think Jeff though is one
of the most interesting characters in
the book of Judges that is a picture of
Christ even though it's not clearly
indicated in the New Testament that he
is I think it's I think it's obvious as
you read the text
I think Solomon is a picture of Christ
personally and we'll get into and I'll
try to justify that to you and feel free
to disagree and that's I think that's
okay we should be able to kind of
wrestle with this and think it through
but we'll also look at things that aren't
aren't
people but that are pictures of Christ
like the temple itself like the bronze
serpent whom Jesus identified as
representing Christ so there's there's
there's people there's things and
there's also events like the feasts of
Israel the Passover which Jesus
identified as representing Christ Christ
is our Passover Hebrews says so the oh
the light bulb just keeps getting
brighter and brighter as we go through
the Scriptures doing this so um I'm
excited about it I hope that this is a
good method of doing it what will
continue to over the next several weeks
is I'll I'll bring one or more types of
Christ and then we'll try to draw
principles out of that so we're kind of
putting in our we're learning the rules
as we go and we're putting into our into
our thinkers these principles that will
allow us to have more Oh moments as we
read through the Old Testament so let's
pray father God we thank you so much for
your Holy Word to think that that what
we read a New Testament that that all of
creation in Colossians that was made not
only through Christ but for Christ it
was made for him and to apply this to
Adam like Adam was made for Christ not
only to know Jesus but to be a
representation of a comparison and
contrast of Jesus it just blows our
minds you have created the universe for
your glory in more ways than we probably
appreciate our actual lives the the flow
of history reveals Jesus it is his story
and it's exciting to learn these things
and to how the light bulb go on we pray
you'd give us great wisdom give us solid
principles that we could apply as we
read the Old Testament so that we would
faithfully find what you have always
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