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Hebrews 11 is a Hall of Typology! How to find Jesus in the OT pt 11 | Mike Winger | YouTubeToText
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Hebrews 11, traditionally viewed as a "Hall of Faith," can also be understood as a "Hall of Types," where Old Testament figures and events foreshadow Jesus Christ. This interpretation reveals a consistent pattern of Christological typology woven throughout the Bible.
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okay alright so we're gonna do something
very special tonight you guys know
Hebrews eleven has the Hall of faith
right where it discusses all these Old
Testament figures in how they had this
great lives of faith or at least great
moments of faith trusting in God but I
think that it is also a Hall of types or
typology of foreshadowing Jesus we
already have established this typology
is a very biblical thing and according
to Jesus typology is gonna be throughout
the entire Bible numerous passages and a
bunch of different examples we've
already given throughout this series
we've dealt with things like the bronze
serpent how the bronze serpent
represented Jesus well we've dealt with
Moses how Moses represented Christ in so
many ways and even themes throughout the
Old Testament like out of Egypt how
people keep coming out of Egypt into
Egypt out of Egypt and this ends up
being something Jesus does and even a
theme like that represents Jesus so let
me tell you what what made me first
think of Hebrews 11 this is this is for
me a fairly new understanding of Hebrews
11 it doesn't change the meaning of the
text rather it's a theme I see running
through the text but well maybe think of
this as previously I told you guys when
we talked about Genesis 22 which was the
passage where Abraham is offering Isaac
and how this is like so clearly a
picture of Jesus in the location and all
everything about it right and I said
this passage is nowhere in the New
Testament and I chose my words carefully
I said it is nowhere clearly identified
as a type of Christ well I was the word
clearly on purpose because there is this
one passage in Hebrews Hebrews 11 verse
17 where it says by faith Abraham when
he was tested offered up Isaac and he
who had received the promises was in the
act of offering up his only son of whom
it was said through Isaac shall your
offspring be named he considered that
God was able and this is a crazy part
even to raise him from the dead from
which figuratively speaking he did
receive him back now this takes a very
Jesus centric concept God raising the
son from the dead in it and it connects
it to the story of Abraham but it
doesn't clearly say it's a type it's just
just
kind of like well that's interesting
does this is this an Old Testament
example of Jesus well not entirely clear
but it seems there's something really
there and when you read the book of
Hebrews you find that the entire book of
Hebrews is full of typology angels and
high priests and priests Melchizedek
right we talked about motifs that came
from the book of Hebrews we have Moses
being a type clearly identified in other
parts of the book of Hebrews we even
have the law being a count sort of a
counter type of Christ so there's just
all this stuff and my thought was if one
of the examples in Hebrews 11 is a type
I wonder if others are as well and as I
started to read Hebrews 11 fresh and
just said let me just read it and ask
are other examples here also types of
Christ and that led to today's Bible
study so there's at least 16 of them in
in Hebrews 11 and we're gonna start
plowing through them tonight we probably
will have to do this in two Sundays to
get this whole study done but we'll see
how far we get tonight I'm not gonna do
an hour and a half to plow through all
right now
and some of you are happy and some are
so I submit this for your consideration
something to think about how Hebrews 11
is possibly quite probably a hall of
types not just a hall of faith so
Hebrews 11:1 it says now faith is the
assurance of things hoped for the
conviction of things not seen for by it
the people of old received their
commendation meaning that these ancient
examples what what was great about them
was their faith right verse 3 by faith
we understand that the universe and this
is the first by faith phrase is gonna
say by faith this by faith that by faith
this person by faith that event here
says the first time verse 3 by faith we
understand that the universe was created
by the Word of God so that it so that
what was what is seen was not made out
of things that are visible this is the
concept we say creation the fancy term
creation ex nihilo or creation out of
nothing when people like to be you know
smart they use Latin
ex nihilo so the idea though here is out
of nothing the universe was made out of
simply nothing God simply spoke it into existence
existence
it's simply by his word we read about
this in Genesis 1 right and God said let
there be light and gods and there's a
bunch of and God said over and over
again in Genesis 1 God says it and
suddenly it exists suddenly it is
suddenly that's the way things are in
Psalm 33 6 we have this kind of
interpreted as well Psalm 33 6 is by the
word of the Lord the heavens were made
and by the breath of his mouth all their
hosts now this is poetic language here
but but God in other words simply spoke
everything into existence he commanded
it and it was and this has got to be the
most raw form of power that you can just
declare something and there it is I
can't think of a stronger way to
demonstrate God's raw power and simply
creating just by speaking it into
existence but how is this related to
Christ well many of you you already know
right I mean the word right so John 1 it
says in the beginning in verse 1 of John
1 in the beginning was the word and the
Word was God and the word but to me the
Word was with God in the Word was God he
was in the beginning with God and then
adds this phrase verse 3 all things were
made through him and without him was not
anything made that was made
if it exists it was made through Jesus
ever so say if it was made it was made
through Jesus the only thing that's not
made is God so Jesus says God the Word
was God
but he's related and of course John in
writing John 1 he knows the story of
Genesis he knows that God spoke the
universe into existence and he says yes
God spoke the universe and Jesus is the
word he spoke the word Jesus is not just
this the same and in his function in
what he does as the father here right
the father creates all things and he
creates all things through the son he's
the one who it's being done through he's
the agent now this is actually really
consistent several places in the New
Testament give Jesus not only credit for
creating all things
clearly indicating his God but they give
him credit of being the one through whom
it was created specifically through
first Corinthians 8:6 is another verse
like this it says yet for us there is
one God the Father from whom are all
things and for whom we exist and one
Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all
things and through whom we exist and
notice the parallel between God the
Father and then Jesus Christ
so God the Father it says from whom
everything exists from him and for him
then of Jesus everything exists through
him and excuse me through whom are all
things and through whom we exist I think
maybe there's a correlation between not
only all creation but being in Christ as
well maybe there's a good concert there
as well
but Jesus is the agent by which all
things are created and he himself is
uncreated colossians 1:16 is this for by
him all things were created in heaven
and on earth visible and invisible
whether Thrones or dominions or rulers
or authorities all things were created
through him and for him now earlier it
said in first Corinthians we read that
all things were made for the father now
it's all things are made for the son
well if the word is God and is with God
then that makes sense for both or him is
for him he's God you know but this this
concept of created through him then in
Hebrews Hebrews 1:2 it also says the
same thing Hebrews 1:2 says but in these
last days he has spoken to us remember
the word he spoken into existence by his
son whom he appointed the heir of all
things through whom also he created the
world this is a really consistent
multi-book concept from Genesis all the
way through the New Testament and then
we read this in Hebrews 11:3 our first
example of Christ same book that just
said all things were made through Jesus
it says by faith we understand the
universe was created by the Word of God
the first type is much probably stronger
than a type right it's saying the
universe was created ultimately by Jesus
right he created all things so that's
the first example
I hope you see that connection verse 4
of Hebrews 11 we get the second example
by faith Abel offered to God a more
acceptable sacrifice than Cain through
which he was commended as righteous God
commending him by accepting his gifts
and through his faith though he died he
still speaks so he's communicating to us
through his faith now this is very interesting
interesting
um Abel is the first historical
character Hebrews 11 brings up it'll
bring up a lot of historical characters
Old Testament individuals Abel's the
first one and Abel again if you look at
the it's chronological so far right we
were in Genesis 1 as we read the first
example now we're here in Genesis 4 as
we read the second example so Genesis 4
verse 2 we read about the birth of Abel
it says and again she she bore his
brother Abel now Abel was a keeper of
sheep and Cain a worker of the ground in
the course of time came brought to the
Lord an offering of the fruit of the
ground and Abel also brought of the
firstborn of his flock and of their fat
portions and the Lord had regard for
Abel and his offering God approves of
Abel's offering but for Cain and his
offering he had no regard so Cain was
very angry and his face fell his face
fell off that's clearly not idiomatic
for him being angry and his his smile
got turned upside down right he became a
frown his face fell that's the idea why
the long face we say well I say that
nobody else says that anymore so these
these connect able to Jesus how like how
do I say this connection in Hebrews 11
here about Abel references Jesus well
let me see this in two other places the
New Testament connects Jesus and Abel
already we already know Abel's somehow
represents Christ and one of those is
Matthew 23 35 we've read this before
Jesus is speaking to Jerusalem and he
says that on you Jerusalem may come all
the righteous blood shed on the earth
from the blood of righteous abel to the
blood of zechariah the son of berechiah
whom you murdered between the sanctuary
and the altar and that the rejection of
Jesus the ultimate Messenger of God
was like rejecting every godly person
ever because he's the culmination he's
that he's the ultimate example of God
reaching out to mankind God's sending
someone in this case he speaks to us but
I God Himself comes and speaks to us
that's the first one
then in Hebrews 12 24 there's another
place where it connects Abel and Jesus
this is an to Jesus the mediator of a
new covenant and to the sprinkled blood
that speaks a better word than the blood
of Abel and so here Jesus enable are
grabbed and compared in this other verse
pardon me and this is kind of a the
concept here Abel offers an acceptable
sacrifice Cain does not I'm able then is
killed by his brother Cain Cain rises up
and as you keep reading Genesis 4 he
rises up and kills his brother and Jesus
is his blood his blood comes to the
ground and then Cain is is not able to
draw from the ground any more there's
some kind of universality in the way it
affects Cain the blood of Abel and the
blood of Jesus is the reverse of that
right it is it is a protection it is a
forgiveness it is Grace it speaks a
there's more though I think so now I
just established that Cain and Abel and
Jesus are connected in other places in
the scripture but what about this
Hebrews 11 passage it says specifically
Abel he brought a more acceptable
sacrifice than Cain that's that's the
concept he had a more acceptable
sacrifice and that is a theme in the
book of Hebrews as you read the whole
book of Hebrews that Jesus's sacrifice
is better than all of the previous
sacrifices right the blood of bulls and
goats could never really get a get rid
of sin but Jesus one time he he dies and
pays for our sin that they they kept
redoing the sacrifices Jesus one
sacrifice they were always standing in
the temple it never sat down Jesus he
sacrifices and sits down because his job
is done like that it's everything it's
all in Hebrews it's always Jesus is a
better sacrifice Jesus is a better
priest Jesus is better than the Angels
he's better better better here he's
better than what happened with Cain
and Abel sacrifice was better than
Cain's while Jesus is better than Abel's
it's just interesting to think that
Cain's and Abel sacrifices predate the
law I mean hey they predate Abraham let
alone Moses I mean this is like we're
talking ancient times what's happening
here unlike them Abel's offering was the
first offering in the Bible and it's
like the offering that Jesus gave
because he offers a sheep and the Sheep
is probably the most tip illogical
animal that the animal that connects
most of all the sacrificial animals to
Jesus is the Sheep the Passover lamb the
Sheep this this concept of a spotless
one who comes and who is who's basically
just all you are is for an offering
that's like how you exist in what you're
for so I think that's interesting this
offering comes before the law and it's
the most tip illogical in my opinion of
the sacrifices but Abel also Abel is a
shepherd yeah Abel's a shepherd he's
martyred and he offers an acceptable
sacrifice these are like the things we
know about him he's a shepherd who's
martyred and who offers the acceptable
sacrifice I think that sounds like Jesus
he's the Good Shepherd he was the
ultimate martyr and he was the final
ultimate acceptable sacrifice to make us
acceptable to God verse 5 Hebrews 11
verse 5 by faith Enoch Enoch was taken
up so that he should not see death and
he was not found because God had not God
had taken him now before he was taken he
was commended as having pleased God so
now we get to this character Enoch who
working we're continuing to go
chronologically right now now we're in
Genesis 5 if you're reading through
Genesis in Genesis 5 we read about Enoch
he was the seventh generation from Adam
we know hardly anything about this guy
what little we know is that he didn't
die he just wasn't he just was not where
is he
God took him that's what we know so let
me read to Genesis 5:21 it says when
Enoch had lived 65 years he fathered
Methuselah Enoch walked with God after
he'd father Methuselah 300 years and had
other sons and daughters thus all the
days of Enoch were 365 years then verse
24 this is the this is the rest of the
info you know about this guy Enoch
walked with God and
was not for God took him there are tons
of ancient Jewish traditions and
speculations about Enoch tons they're
like maybe he's this maybe he did that
know we have all these stories about
what he did
but what would literally know about him
is he walked with God and then he simply
wasn't around because God took him I
would say Jesus did this as well he is
he is amongst a few in the Bible who
were taken who were simply taken by God
in Luke 24 50 and 51 we read about this
it says and he led them out as far as
Bethany and lifting up his hands he
blessed them while he blessed them he
parted from them and was carried up into
heaven that was the last time the
disciples saw Jesus on the earth so
after his death and resurrection for
forty days and nights he he then goes
around and he's sharing with people he's
doing different things and then his
ascension happens he goes to the Mount
of Olives and he's just taken up into
heaven acts 1:9 gives us a little bit
more info it says and when he said these
things as they were looking on he was
lifted up and a cloud took him out of
their sight
a cloud takes him out of their sight so
he keep the last thing they saw as he
went up into a cloud now does that mean
that heaven is in that cloud no I mean
obviously God is doing this to
demonstrate to us truths about Jesus he
wants the visual of you seeing Christ go
up so that you will realize Christ is
what accepted he's glorified he's
exalted right he was brought low and now
he's lifted up now he's exalted he's
accepted by the cloud in fact the Jewish
mind would realize that in the Old
Testament the Son of Man who's
identified as the Messiah comes riding
on the clouds and that was a really
important phrase for lots of reasons I
don't have time to get into tonight but
really neat phrases coming on the clouds
are riding on the clouds this concept of
this exalted one because every Jewish
person knows God rides on the clouds it
is God who rides on the clouds but
there's this Daniel passage in Daniel I
think is Daniel 7 where it says it's the
Son of Man is riding on the clouds and
they tell that
I polls after Jesus has taken up he goes
just like you saw and go that's how it's
gonna look when he comes back is he
riding on the class so ha ha so a couple
of things to consider
Enoch he was not found the text says he
was not found how does that represent
Jesus well John 732 it says then the
Pharisees heard the crowd muttering
these things about him about Jesus and
the chief priests and Pharisees sent
officers to arrest him Jesus then said I
will be with you a little longer and
then I'm going to him who sent me he's
talking about his ascension he says you
will seek me and you will not find me
for where I am you cannot come so Jesus
he he went up and he was not found I
think that connects has kind of neat
also it says the Enoch pleased God he
pleased God and him being taken up is
really like an affirmation I mean yeah
you please God guys like here come here
obviously you pleased God and this is
the case for Jesus that it was the the
visible representation of Christ being
received being yes you are approved you
are affirmed you know as the exalted one
all right Hebrews 11:6 it says without
faith it is impossible to please him for
whoever would draw near to God must
believe that he exists and that he
rewards those who seek him of course the
truth is in like in verse 6 here it's
it's not just blind faith that you have
to have you have to have faith in Jesus
like ultimately the faith that we have
is in Christ you draw near through faith
in Jesus Christ that of course
represents him in a sense that right
there because Jesus is the one that
brings you in but just on a side note
here since verse 6 isn't so much tip
illogical as I just announce a pastoral
moment right this is this is kind of
important that what our faith is is I
don't just have faith in the ideas of
Christianity right I believe the ideas
or the truths of Christianity are true
but my faith my trust is in him my trust
is personally in God through Jesus
Christ I'm trusting him not just ideas
not just concepts I mean I believe all
the theology of Christian
but my trust I can't so much trust
theology as I can trust a person and I
trust him and so I just want to
encourage us that we've got to trust him
we do have to believe correct theology
because the only believing lies about
God I mean how can i really trust him if
I have a bunch of lies in my head about
him but ultimately it says he's a
rewarder of those who seek him it's
deeply personal it's deeply individually
personal this walk with God and that's
my favorite part of it verse seven
Hebrews 11:7 it says by faith Noah now I
bring up Noah being warned by God
concerning events as yet unseen in
reverent fear constructed an ark for the
saving of his household by this he
condemned the world and became an heir
of the righteousness that comes by faith
and you see we're still going
chronologically through Genesis now
we're in the flood and so Noah how is
Noah related to Christ how is Noah a
type of Christ well perhaps he is but I
don't think that's where I'm gonna go
with it I think the ark is a type of
Christ by faith Noah being warned by God
concerning events as yet unseen in
reverent fear constructed an ark and I
think the ark the ark er key is a type
of Christ
specifically notice what the ark did it
says he constructed an ark for the
saving of his household the ark would
save them Jesus ultimately saves us can
I compare Jesus to an inanimate object
you mean like a bronze serpent or a rock
that was struck yes yes I can if I got
strong biblical reasons to do this
actually what was that manna from heaven
perhaps yes yeah absolutely we can we
and we ought to the ark if you read the
story of the flood it it's the Ark that
takes the flood for the people in it
they survived the flood because the ark
can withstand it it can get rained on it
can get flooded and they can come out
alive it takes the judgment for them
then they're safely taken through
because the ark is able to overcome in a
sense the judgment
Christ overcomes the judgment he goes
into death he conquers it and I get in
Christ and in Christ read Ephesians will
one two three four five and six and
you'll see that in Christ I'm in him
that then I am delivered from judgment
and from the wrath of God because he's
able to withstand and overcome it I
think it's a beautiful picture of Christ
right with the flood certainly equals
judgment and death if you read the
passage then we have this in a second
Peter 3:6 it says in that by means of
these the world that then existed was
deluged that means flooded with water
and perished the description in 2nd
Peter of the flood it describes the
world that then existed and it says that
it died that the flood caused it to
perish now there's a debate on did that
does that word world mean the people God
so loved the world as the people isn't
mean the world the people or the world
like the entire planet
that's not the focus of this particular
studies I'll just others throw it out
there you can debate it amongst
yourselves but death ultimately comes to
all and but only in Jesus can we make it
through from one world to the next in
fact that's what happened the the vision
that we're getting it in the flood story
is that one world dies and another one
comes and the only way to get through is
through the ark you see this world is
passing away and the only way to make it
through is Jesus Christ I don't think
I'm making this up
I think God made this up and he put it
in the text and he wants us to discover
these things first Peter also goes on to
relate this whole Ark situation to the
concept of baptism so let me read to you
this in 1st Peter 3:20 and 21 this is
because they formerly did not obey when
God's patience waited in the days of
Noah while the ark was being prepared in
which a few that as eight persons were
brought safely through water baptism
which corresponds to this now saves you
not as a removal of dirt from the body
so we're not talking about get water
baptized to be saved
no no but as an appeal of to God for a
good conscience through the resurrection
of Jesus this specifically compares the
flood and getting delivered through the flood
flood
to being identified in Christ in his
death and resurrection and so every time
I baptized people I mentioned how this
symbolizes dying with Christ and being
raised with Christ and here it's a flood
you're going through your own personal
flood in Baptism and that's the idea so
Romans 6:3 supports this it says do you
not know that all of us who've been
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
into his death we were buried therefore
with him by baptism into death in order
that just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the Father we too
might walk in newness of life Jesus dies
and comes out alive and all after dues
be identified with him in that the ark
goes through the flood you just have to
be in the ark to be saved Jesus in the
Ark Jesus in the Ark is interesting
concept in Romans 8:1 it says this there
is therefore now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus
I mean positionally in Christ Jesus in
the ark there was condemnation for
everyone who is outside the ark and
there was salvation for everyone who was
in the ark but as we read the story and
you you come to this one verse Genesis
716 that jumps out to you see if you can
find out what jumps out to you in this
verse it's it says this and those that
entered male and female of all flesh
went in as God commanded him and the
Lord shut him in and we have this moment
when they all get in the ark and it's
like well who's gonna seal the opening
now because the ark had an opening in
its side and they all went in and
something had to seal and close this
thing up and the Lord shut it and sealed
it up and now no one can get in knowing
no one's getting out and then the flood
came and then the flood came now here's
Jesus had an opening in his side as well
in particular it's I mean he had you
know there's the nails in his hands and
feet then there's the opening in his
side now as I understand it until that
door was closed you could get in the Ark
and be saved but once that door was
sealed at now that's it judgments coming
it's too late
Jesus after his death and resurrection
he had an opening in his side that was
not sealed as he comes to Thomas and he
goes Thomas go ahead put your hand in my
side and I am NOT saying this is
guaranteed but I really wonder if this
is meant to somehow represent the fact
that salvation is still open you can
still be in Christ even right now today
it's the day of grace it's the day of
being accepted of being entering into
Christ and being saved by him and then
the sealing comes from God he seals you
and and in being in Christ you are
sealed by the Holy Spirit Ephesians 1:13
in him you also when you heard the word
of truth the gospel of your salvation
and believed him
were sealed with the promised Holy
Spirit and there's the sealing in him
that comes from the Holy Spirit so I
think that's kind of interesting it also
says in Hebrews 11:7 that through doing
all these things
Noah condemned of the world isn't that
interesting the Ark is like a dividing
point and it's like either you get in
and you're saved or you don't and you're
condemned and it actually brings greater
condemnation on you he condemned the
world well Jesus it's kind of the same
way in John 12:31 it says now is the
judgment of the world now will the ruler
of this world be cast out Jesus in John
12 he's talking about his crucifixion
and he goes I'm gonna die this is gonna
be it's gonna be the salvation for those
who trust me but it's condemnation for
the for the world for those who don't in
John 3:18 and 19 we all know John 3:16
some people have never read the rest of
the chapter I think would be very wise
to look at the whole thing it says
whoever believes in Him is not condemned
but whoever does not believe is
condemned already because he's not
believed in the name of the only Son of
God and this is the judgment that light
has come into the world and people loved
the darkness rather than the light
because their works were evil so it's an
increased condemnation for rejecting
Jesus but a total salvation
for accepting Jesus it's like you're
either saved by Jesus or finally
condemned by Jesus but currently the arc
is opened at the moment at this moment
the arc is open and the condemnation is
not coming down praise God
yet so you guys like in this Hebrews 11
pretty neat stuff there's more so
Hebrews 11 verse 8
by faith Abraham now let's talk about
Abraham continuing chronologically
Abraham obeyed when he was called to go
out to a place that he was to receive as
an inheritance and he went out not
knowing where he was going by faith he
went to live in the land of promise as
in a foreign land living in tents with
Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the
same promise let's read a little bit of
Genesis here because we're gonna read
about when God first calls Abraham I
think is just interesting in Genesis 12
he says now the Lord said to Abraham go
from your country and your kindred and
your father's house to a land that I
will show you and I will make of you a
great nation and I will bless you and
make your name great so that you will be
a blessing I will bless those who bless
you and him who dishonored you I will
curse and I knew all the families of the
earth shall be blessed now this very promise
promise
it's very calling to Abram is so
messianic right because ultimately
Abraham's whole blessing cursing promise
it's all about Jesus that's the ultimate
thing that Israel is bringing forth was
the Messiah
so this his calling to go into a land
was about bringing out the Messiah in
the first place it was about Jesus
Christ the blessing and cursing this
sort of dividing line that Abraham is
he's like you're gonna be you're gonna
be the decision how they treat you is
how I treat them and this is of course
Jesus this is this is Christ how you
treat Jesus is how God treats you
ultimately right Jesus when he tells his
parable of or his story rather but how
the Son of Man will come and there'll be
some who who were like Lord didn't we do
all these things in your name and he
goes yeah but how you treated the least
of these my brethren that's how you
treated me it's ultimately all about him
those who were like when did we ever see
you and he goes not how you treated them
as how you treated me it's ultimately
how you treat Christ
this very promise totally about Jesus in
Abraham in Genesis 12
Abraham is called specifically to leave
his land and his father's house how do
you think that represents Jesus you know
he leaves heaven he comes up from his
father John John 16 28 he says I came
from the Father and have come into the
world and now I'm leaving the world and
going to the Father John 17:5 and now
father glorify me in your own presence
with the glory that I had with you
before the world existed so Abram leaves
father and land to go out so that what
so that he might become a people so that
he might bless this distant offspring
these other people he goes out away from
his father it's really interesting that
Abram dies in faith so that his
offspring can be blessed Jesus he dies
to bring us the blessing what he did was
he just kept giving things up so that he
could then bring them to us and that's
kind of what Abram goes through as well
then in John 1:14 we have another
connection to Abram because it's
interesting as you read the story of
Abraham you get this phrase he pitched
his tent or he set up his tent and he
was he always dwelt in tents in fact
Hebrews talked about it says he would
welt in tents with with his sons with
Isaac and Jacob 'if he dwells in tents
that's kind of what he does it's his
theme but this is what Jesus did in John
1:14 we have this interesting phrase and
the word became flesh and dwelt amongst
us this is literally the word that means
tabernacled or to live in a tent to set
up a tent that's like what the greek
word means and i think it was chosen
purposely purposefully and i think he
may relate also to the to the actual
Tabernacle in the wilderness where God
tabernacled amongst them that's a
different study spoiler alert look we'll
do the we'll do the whole tabernacle
stuff at some point I'm excited to do
that so Abraham dwelt in tents Jesus of
course he came in a tent in that human
form that temporary dwelling to come
into a land that was in a sense
not his own right to to bless us so
Abraham in Jesus they left the land they
left their father they dwelt in tents
and they died for their seed to inherit
a promise
except what Jesus did was in every way
better than what abran did and we see
the escalation of it and that's that's
the theme in typology is escalation
verse 10 there's more about him it says
for he was looking forward to the city
that has foundations whose designer and
builder is God looking forward to a city
Abraham looked to not just the land but
to the thing God was doing through all
of this this ultimate city that's going
to be made by God that he would be part
of I mean what we read about in the New
Testament is this is the New Jerusalem
ultimately and the New Jerusalem is read
about in Revelations like the
culmination is so much in the scriptures
but it's where God and man dwell
together eternally fully with no
separation and it's on the new earth
this and it comes down from heaven out
of God they're out of heaven from God I
should say and it comes down to earth
this new city Jerusalem God and man together
together
it says the designer and builder is God
in verse 10 of the new city that Abram
was looking for the designer and builder
is God now earlier in Hebrews it's it
talks about how Jesus is the builder and
Moses was part of the house you remember
this from last time we talked about
Moses to this little recap Hebrews three
see if we can catch the theme designer
builder and how it relates to Jesus he
was three verse 3 for Jesus has been
counted worthy of more glory than Moses
as much more glory as the builder of a
house has more honor than the house
itself for every house is built by
someone but the builder of all things is
God there's a deity of Christ burst if
I've ever seen one right Jesus is the
Builder of the house and the Builder of
all things God okay Hebrews 12:2 it says
that Jesus this is just after Hebrews 11
right says Jesus is the founder and
perfecter of our faith or the author and
finisher of our faith this this designer
and builder ultimately the escalation of
it right Abraham's really just looking
forward to what God's going to do he's
just a picture
God's the painter alright verse 11
Hebrews 11:11 by faith Sara herself and
we're talking about Sara
she received power to conceive even when
she was past the age since she
considered him faithful who had promised
now God had promised Abram and Sarah
that they would have a child then to be
of their own she would actually bear a
child but she was like way too old for
it she passed that season of life she
was not able to have a kid and she
trusted God I mean at one point she
laughed and then I think God corrected
her and that laughter because there's a
laughter of unbelief the mocking
laughter then there's a laughter of joy
of like oh god you're doing this like
that's a different kind of laughter
right so she names him Isaac the good
kind of laughter I think and and so she
received that rebuke she trusted God but
I asked how could Sarah be a type of
Christ well I don't think she in all
totality is I think her pregnancy is it
seemed AraC ulis birth there's a promise
child of Abraham that comes miraculously
born Jesus of course is born of a virgin
it's a miraculous birth and that's a
theme we see here in the first son of
Abraham the first son of the promise is
born miraculously and so Christ's
similarly to that verse 12 therefore
from one man Abram or Abraham depending
on where you are in Genesis and him as
good as dead were born descendants as
many as the stars of heaven and as many
as the innumerable grains of sand on the
seashore so the numbers of the children
of Abraham here are highlighted and how
does this relate to Christ I think it's
a message of the many many people who
will come to Christ can you believe how
many people have been saved now from
nations around the world through
generations and generations like it's
gonna be a crowded City well hopefully
not too crowded I really don't like I
don't want to be like Disneyland it
should be better even better than Disney
Disney World okay
it's just good but so I just see the
connection of Abraham you'll have many
many many many many offspring this is
tip illogical of Christ and the many
many many who will be saved in him and
we're children of Abraham by faith the
scripture says so this what I'm saying
here is I'm not making this up like this
is the typology we see throughout the
scripture this is just it just marries
it together you know there's there's
text that to say we're children of
Abraham by faith and so yeah
pretty cool stuff verse 13 as I'm
studying this in Hebrews 11 I was like
is it really this consistent are there really
really
TIPA logical elements throughout the
whole thing and I think that there are
or at least nearly we'll see you decide
you tell me what you think verse 13
these all died in faith now it's kind of
an inclusive statement about all the
people we talked about so far they all
died in faith not having received the
things promised but having seen them and
greeted them from afar and having
acknowledged that there were strangers
and exiles on the earth in other words
they're living in a in a place that's
not their own like Abraham Isaac Jacob
like they don't really inherit the land
they just inhabit the land waiting for
it to become in the future God's promise
fulfilled so that they'll receive it we
read about these people they're all
waiting on some future greatness and
we're seeing that the future looking
faith of the Old Testament Saints is
representing the fact that there was
something greater coming which
ultimately is Jesus and what were they
there were strangers and exiles on the
earth so what was this great thing that
they saw from afar off well they were
all promises of God you'll inherit the
land you'll have great numbers of
children I will bless those who bless
you and curse those who curse you and in
you all the nations of the earth will be
blessed all these promises they'll
relate to Jesus they all directly end up
relating to Christ so you could say
they're trusting in Christ by believing
in promises that relate to Christ I mean
how much about Abraham did about Jesus
did Abraham know he knew that in him all
the nations would be blessed and he knew
that there be an inherit since the land
and he knew some of these things but it
wasn't the full story but that was the
true Jesus so neat stuff to think about
so that's what they kind of saw from
afar off they greeted Christ so to speak
the arc of nella the sacrifice of Abel
they all relate to Jesus these Old
Testament Saints have trusting in things
that are ultimately types of Christ and
they all died in faith and so it's not
just that they died but they died
thinking of some future hope that would
happen after they died we see this
neighbor hams traveling and Isaac and
Jacob blessing their sons we'll get to
that in a minute how they bless their
sons about some great future blessing
that will come upon them so they're all
trusting in some great good thing coming
after they die and of course that
represents Jesus it says in Hebrews 12 -
looking to Jesus the founder and
perfecter of our faith who for the joy
that was set before him endured the
cross he endured the cross because of
what some great hope of some wonderful
future that would happen after he died
so these relates to Jesus strangers and
exiles on the earth they were it says as
I speak like Yoda all of a sudden for no
reason in John 18:36 jesus answered it
says my kingdom is not of this world if
my kingdom were of this world My
servants would have been fighting that I
may not be delivered over to the Jews
but my kingdom is not from this world
so Jesus living in this world as though
he doesn't belong as though he's a
stranger and so they lived like
strangers and exiles and so Christ
all right Hebrews 11 14 see how fools do
a little bit more we'll finish this up
next next week Hebrews 11 14 for people
who speak thus make it clear that they
are seeking a homeland if they'd been
thinking of that land from which they've
gone out they would have had opportunity
to return they could have you know Abram
could have gone right back to where he'd
gone he'd come from but as it is they
desire a better country that is a
heavenly one therefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God for he
has prepared for them a city so that
again this concept of a city so I think
we should actually read revelation 21
were talks about this this future City
of God that is referring to so their
desire though in the scheme of God's
like tapestry it was kind of for
something temporary I need an ark to get
through the flood
I need a land I need a child but all of
them ultimately pointed towards
Jesus Christ and so that's where their
ultimate hope is in verse 16 it says
it's a better country specifically a
heavenly one and it's a city and I I
can't help but connect that to
Revelation 21 because it's better it's a
city and it's heavenly I don't know how
many heavenly cities you know the only
one I know is the New Jerusalem in
Revelation 21 it says in Revelation 21:1
then I saw a new heaven and a new earth
for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away and the sea was no more
and I saw the holy city New Jerusalem
but it doesn't stay up there right he
sees it and it's coming down out of
heaven from God prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband probably because
it's where the bride goes where the
bride we lived there and I heard a loud
voice from the throne saying behold the
dwelling place of God is with man this
is the ultimate culmination of God being
United to man he will dwell with them
and they will be his people and God
Himself will be with them as their God
he will wipe away every tear from their
eyes I can't help it as a positive point
out I think wiping away the tears is not
just a physical act the idea is this
whatever's causing you to cry God can
he's like taking away the need for the
tears because of the joy of the presence
of God and His goodness and his comfort
and His glory that it's like I all the
sorrows I've had and all the grief I've
had I no longer even have a reason to
cry God you have truly comforted me in
the fullest sense he wipes away every
tear from their eyes and death shall be
no more neither shall they shall there
be mourning or crying or pain any more
for the former things have passed away
and he who was seated on the throne said
behold I am making all things new also
he said write this down for these words
are trustworthy and true it's things
that we can put our hope and rely upon
that's the ultimate thing they're
looking for so here in the typology of
Hebrews 11 which i think is pretty
strong it's suggesting that these Old
Testament Saints who were looking
forward to a greater hope we're also
hoping in the ultimate revelation of
heaven the ultimate recreation of heaven
and earth which is like an earthly heavenly
heavenly
unity that happens so pretty nice stuff
alright let's let's do 417 here and make
sure that we can get as far as I want to
get okay
verse 17 this is by faith Abraham when
he was tested offered up Isaac and he
who had received the promises was in the
act of offering up his only son of whom
it was said through Isaac shall your
offspring be named the irony there is
God's like your descendants will all
come through Isaac and then in Genesis
22 and you've got to read this fresh if
you don't have it fresh in your mind in
Genesis 22 God tells him take your son
Isaac your only son and go and offer him
to me not just kill him for no reason
but as an offering like a sacrifice to
me and he takes his son he travels out
he takes Isaac Isaac carries the wood
upon his back he goes and he is ready
then laying down the altar and Abraham's
gonna slay him and he's about to do it
and in his head he's like God told me
this kid will produce all my grandkids
and I'm but God told me to slay him he's
that not an act of faith and before
you're like that's horrific like God
stops him I've heard people recount the
story and not talk about how God stops
him and how that was playing the whole time
time
he's painting a picture of Jesus through
this experience and got but Abraham's
faith is strong look how strong this
guy's faith is and and that's the whole
point of it through Isaac your offspring
shall be named in verse 18 is to
highlight the contradiction of ominous
Liam and he's supposed to have my
grandkids so then it goes on and he
interprets for us verse 19 here's the
divinely inspired explanation of this
event he considered that God was able to
even raise him from the dead from which
figuratively figuratively speaking he
did receive him back and so here he he
gets him back and he goes hey Abraham
just thought God can raise him up
Isaac's gonna have my grandkids and I'm
supposed to kill him Dodd's gonna have
to raise him back up now you might be
like but he was wrong I'll be like but
he was right about Jesus and that's what
the whole picture is about
I love Genesis 22 here's the story of
Abraham a father offering his son
specifically it says his only begotten
or his son his only son whom he loves in
fact it's the first time the word love
is used in the bible is genesis 22:2
where God says take your son your only
son Isaac whom you love and go to the
land of Moriah and offer him there was a
burnt offering on one of the mountains
of which I shall tell you and it wasn't
really his only son was it he had
another son Ishmael and gods like gods
your only son because it's painting a
whom you love because the love of the
father to the son the son was born of
miraculous meat means as we talked about
how Sarah received power by faith to
have this miraculous birth so Jesus was
born of miraculous means his virgin
birth he was the son of the promise
Isaac was the son of God's promise to
Abram but it was a bigger promise than
just Isaac it was about a later
descendant Jesus is the ultimate son of
the promise the father carries the fire
up the mountain and the knife bringing
the judgment or the or the death the son
carries the wood up of the hill the son
carries the wood the fires holding the
judgment this to me looks like the
crucifixion it was a three-day journey
from the time he left his house and so
for three days in the head of Abraham it
was like his son was dead he's committed
I'm gonna I'm gonna lose my son Lord I'm
trusting you I'm gonna lose my son and
for three days
Christ was dead till he raised and the
son submitted most people think that
Isaac was at a place where he was old
enough and his dad was certainly old
enough where he could overpower dad at
this point right like Isaac would win
the arm wrestling contest between these
two and he allows this stuff to take
place to the son it's implied is it into
a place of submission allowing the stuff
to happen he never fights a rim our
Abraham he never forces him Abraham
never forces him to do anything it seems
like he goes willingly the whole way in
John 10 17 Jesus said this for this
reason the Father loves me because I lay
down my life that I may take it up again
no one takes it from me but I lay it
down of my own accord I have authority
to lay it down and I have authority to
take it up again
this charge I've received from my father
all Isaac how was the father telling him
Isaac this is what we're gonna do
doesn't say God spoke to him he just
trusted his dad and his dad trusted God
I think this is neat but there's more in
Genesis 22 the place where Abraham goes
as Mount Moriah which is Jerusalem so
here he goes to the God makes him travel
for three days to get to the place where
Jesus will be crucified to paint this
picture the future location instead of
Isaac a ram takes his place of course
because God's not into human sacrifice
and he's just drawing a picture for us
the RAM takes his place the irony is
that Jesus Altima is the sacrifice for
Isaac and for all of us do you get the
connection I'm offering I'm gonna offer
Isaac on Mount Moriah in the fashion and
in the picture and in the way Jesus will
be offered and Jesus comes through Isaac
I think that's pretty cool God's kind of
Abraham figures there's got to be a
resurrection right he just trusts right
as he as he in fact there's it's implied
even in Genesis 22 it says then Abraham
said to his young men as they got to the
mountain he's a stay here with the
donkey to them and the boy and I both of
us will go over there and worship and
come again to you he says that the boys
coming back to again he believes he's
got to have him back from the dead as
the idea and Christ of course the whole
plan all along was for the resurrection
to take place also in Genesis 22 it's
better Abraham says that it's prophetic
but but as I read this to you ask
yourself what is what's what's prophetic
about it what is it this prophetic it
says in genesis 22:8
Abraham said God will provide himself
the lamb for a burnt offering my son so
the both of them went together that was
when Isaac's like what's where's the
offering he was God will provide
then then after the RAM shows up and
takes the place of Isaac then in Genesis
22 14 after the whole events over
Abraham called the name of that place
the Lord will provide future tense as it
is said to this day
that's when Moses is riding it 600 plus
years later he goes as it is said to
this day on the Mount of the Lord it
shall be future tents provided on the
Mount of the Lord where Mount Moriah it
shall be provided well what's the it
well the only thing we can compare that
it to is the thing that Abraham just did
with his son something like this God
will provide that gives me goosebumps
the Word of God is so amazing that the
real issue is us not noticing it
you know man he says it's prophetic it
says it says some future event like this
will happen right here and it'll be God
providing and is not Jesus the greatest
example of God providing in John 1:29
when John lays eyes on Jesus John the
Baptist he lays on eyes on Jesus I'm
sorry his name more appropriately John
the Southern Baptist I'm deserting so I
see him Toby because I know one person
out there is like well it's just a joke
John 1:29 he says the next day he saw
Jesus coming toward him and what does he
say he says behold the lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world the
offering animal here he is he's the
ultimate lamb he's the fulfillment of
all that stuff and that's about as much
as we have time for tonight so we're
gonna pick up in verse 20 and we're
gonna look at the rest of Hebrews 11 as
it relates to being typology of Jesus
next week and I encourage you to read
ahead and just give it some thought how
could this represent Christ my goal and
I hope I'm being faithful here is to not
fabricate but to simply observe what God
has placed in the text and how he has
really saturated Scripture with Jesus
let's pray father we thank you for your
word it is exciting and it's such a
blessing to our hearts just to sit and
see the beauty and majesty of Christ
throughout the scripture as we pray that
we would not only get this passage but
that we would just have eyes to see all
the glory of Christ that you've placed
throughout the Word of God and that we
would just grow in our understanding of
Jesus grow in our trust in you
we'd be people like these examples here
we'd be people of faith people who trust
you not our circumstances we trust you
not how we feel about things who we
trust you because you are worthy of our
faith in Jesus name we pray amen [Music]
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