What is the difference between types and shadows in the bible

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I liked the way my lesson today worded it: When backlit by the sun, an object will cast a long shadow. Traversing the Tapestry of Types There are many great examples of types and shadows throughout Scripture. Share this: Email Facebook Twitter. Like this: Like Loading December 4, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public.

It dishonours Jesus because of its misplaced focus. It is like a person staring at and preferring a picture of their spouse when their spouse is sitting beside them! Most spouses would be insulted by such an action. Others look forward to a supposed time when these feasts and sacrifices will be revived. The type only has physical meaning before the arrival of the antitype. Once the antitype has come the type only has spiritual and teaching functions.

To try to return to a physical observance of the type is absurd. For example, the lamb was sacrificed for the current need of those who offered it and as a type of the sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb of God, on the cross [the antitype]. For anyone to think that they could offer a physical lamb sacrifice either now or in the future that would have any meaning for God is to totally misunderstand the Word of God. It would, in fact, incur the wrath of God as a rejection of the precious blood of His Son for the blood of an animal.

For example, Joshua leading the Israelites into Canaan [the Promised Land] is a type of Christ leading His people into the Kingdom of God, but not everything Joshua did is a type of what Christ is doing or will do.

She is a type at one point, but not all points. There are actually two times when Moses hit a rock and water gushed out. The first time, in Exodus, God told him to hit the rock. The second time, in Numbers, God told him to speak to the rock, but he hit it anyway.

And because of that action Moses [and Aaron] was not allowed to go into the Promised Land. Why such an apparently harsh judgment for a man who talked to God face-to-face and faithfully led the rebellious Israelites for 40 years? Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

I am sure there are several reasons, but the one which pertains to our subject is that Moses ruined the type that was being developed. Christ would be struck once [at the cross] but never again. After salvation was purchased , the blessings of God are attained through speaking with Jesus.

Also, some people believe that the only types are the ones where Scripture itself explicitly reveals the antitype. This is not the case. We are called to be people who study and discern the Word of God.

Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit we can discover types and shadows that He has placed in the Old Testament and then search for the antitype in the New Testament to better our understanding of both Testaments.