Picturing Theology, Revised Edition

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Messiah Jesus: Fulfillment of the Old Testament Types Adapted from Norman Geisler, To Understand the Bible, Look for Jesus , pp. 38-41.

Messiah Jesus Fulfills the Tabernacle Types

Tabernacle Types

Jesus of Nazareth as the Antitype

I am the Door John 10.9

The One Door

Gives his life as a ransom for many Mark 10:45

The Brazen Altar

If I do not wash you, you have no part with me John 13:8, 10; 1 John 1:7

The Laver

I am the Light of the Word John 8:12

The Lampstand

I am the Bread of Life John 6:48 I am praying for them John 17:9

The Shewbread

The Altar of Incense

This is my body Matthew 26:26

The Veil

I lay down my life for the sheep John 10:15

The Mercy Seat

Contrast between Aaron’s and Melchizedek’s Priesthood Nature of the Order The Order of Aaron’s Levitical Priesthood

The Order of Messiah Jesus’s Priesthood (Melchizedek’s Priesthood)

Eternal priesthood Hebrews 7:21-23 Sinless and perfect Hebrews 7:26

Consecration

Temporal and fading

Fallible, vulnerable to sin

Priest

Unchangeable priesthood Hebrews 7:24

Priesthood

Changeable

Continual offering of sacrifice

Secured an eternal redemption once for all Hebrews 9:12, 26

Ministry

Imperfect representation

Perfect representation between God and humankind Hebrews 2:14-18

Mediation

Unable and insufficient to take the sin of the offenders away Was interrupted by weakness and death

Offered a single sacrifice for sin for all time Hebrews 10:11-12

Sacrifice

Always lives to make intercession for us Hebrews 7:25

Intercession