Discovering Jesus in Old Testament Types and Shadows

Discovering Jesus in Old Testament types and Shadows 

A picture is worth a 1000 words

What is a type:  “A type is a real person, place, object, or event that God ordained to act as a predictive pattern or resemblance of Jesus’ person and work, or of opposition to both.” ~Patrick Fairbairn 

A type is not synonymous with . — types are real things

Types are God-ordained pictures that point to Christ

The Old Testament’s truth is clarified and enlarged in the New Testament. 

The word “type” is biblical and used about 15 times in the New Testament. 

Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 10:6; Hebrews 8:5; Acts 7:44

The Bible uses types; sometimes, it doesn’t say, “This is a type.” 

“A biblical type is a person, office, place, institution, event, or thing in salvation history that anticipates, shares correspondences with, escalates toward, and resolves in its antitype.” ~Mitchell Chase 

40 Questions about Typology and Allegory By Mitchell Chase (https://tinyurl.com/2glapofr)

Podcast with Mitchell Chase (https://tinyurl.com/2pfqs2qg) 

Three Types:

Genesis 1-3: Adam

Jesus is not like Adam in that he was . 

Adam and those that came after him — this is a reminder that he was the of humanity. 

Romans 5:12

Death comes to all people because all people .

If Adam were in the Garden of Eden, he would have been given access to the Tree of . 

What happened as a result of Adam’s disobedience? 

Adam forfeited the Tree of — he could not earn it because he had already fallen short and forfeited the . 

We live in a world that justice at every turn. 

Romans 5:12-18

You are either by Adam or by Christ. 

In Adam, our lives are characterized by the we inherited from Adam. 

Jesus, the second Adam, was perfectly obedient and fulfilled the of the Law, bringing j, whereas Adam fell short of bringing justification to everyone he represented. 

Genesis 4-11: The Ark

What was the purpose of the flood? In a word:

No person died u in the flood

Christ then is our Ark — our salvation from the to come

Matthew 24:38; 2 Peter 3:5-7

Genesis 12-25: Abraham 

Jesus is the true and better Abraham: Jesus left the that he shared with the Father and humbled Himself, becoming like those He came to save.