The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom, Mentor's Guide, MG09

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his people to repentance and self-knowledge, was reconciled to his kinsman and received back into fellowship, and was acknowledged to be the savior of his people and their ruler. • Give evidence of how Joshua, the captain of the Lord’s armies is an OT character type of Christ, his name resonates with Jesus’ name (Joshua=Jehovah is salvation; Jesus=Jehovah saves), he alone was chosen by God to lead the people into the Promised Land, his commitment was to utterly destroy God’s enemies in Canaan, and he was accompanied by a special manifestation of the presence of the Lord throughout his fight with God’s enemies. Show, too, how he subordinated himself to the leading of God, dying to his own will, how his warfare was rooted in his relationship with Yahweh, leading God’s people personally into battle, fighting alongside them in combat against God’s enemies, and won complete victory, dividing the spoils among those who fought beside him in the battle. • Explain how the roles of prophet, priest, and king, are the special character types of Adam, Joseph, and Joshua are seen in the life of Jesus. While such roles and types are tremendously helpful in providing our OT witness to Christ, they give comprehensive not exhaustive pictures of the life and ministry of Christ. Only by linking the prefiguring in the OT to the revelation of Christ in the NT do we get the fullest picture and meaning of these roles and types together in the life and ministry of Jesus. Matt. 12.38-42 - Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” [39] But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. [40] For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [41] The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. [42] The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. As with Him, So with Me

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