Mentor's Manual

190 For the Nex t Generat i on: The Urban Mi n i s t r y I ns t i tute ’ s Mentor Manua l

Christ, are contained in the NT, are connected to God’s redemptive work in Christ, and they illumine the teaching of God on the matter they cover. 4. Articulate the principles for using typology properly in biblical hermeneutics, including the need to believe that God has placed correspondences in the Bible, to focus on Christ in drawing connections between the Old and New Testaments, to concentrate on the major links suggested in the types themselves and not on the details, to appreciate the relevance of the type through the antitype . 5. Explain how the experience of Israel, the descendants of Abraham and the people of God, represent an analogy where we can understand the larger relationship of God with all of the redeemed through Jesus Christ. 6. Highlight specifically how God’s deliverance of his people during the Exodus prefigures specific dimensions of God’s deliverance of his people through Jesus of Nazareth; our Passover, manna, and spiritual water from the Rock. 7. Demonstrate how the conquest of the nation of Canaan, the entering into the Promised Land and the establishment of Israel’s kingdom reign pictures the conquest of God’s enemies through Christ whom God will establish as King and Lord forever, and the blessing of God’s kingdom people, the Church, who will rule with Christ as co-regents with him. 8. Show how God’s restoration of his people after the captivity is a type of study of Scripture, and how the three distinct moments within Israel’s history help us understand the OT essentially as a witness to Christ and his kingdom reign. These three moments are the Exodus, the conquest of 9. Summarize these three moments in Israel’s history as parallel to the new life given to us by faith in Christ, which is a New Exodus , a new deliverance from the powers which oppress us spiritually; the fight against the devil and the world by the Church in spiritual warfare which represents a New Conquest of Canaan , and the ministry of the Gospel of Christ as a New Restoration of God , leading eventually to the new heavens and new earth under the sovereign authority of Jesus Christ. 10. Show how the various elements and activities associated with the Tabernacle is a type of the salvation provided in Jesus Christ, including how the Tabernacle was a copy or shadow Canaan and entering into the Promised Land, and the restoration of Israel from the Babylonian Captivity.

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