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

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T H E O L D T E S T A M E N T W I T N E S S T O C H R I S T A N D H I S K I N G D O M

• While the character roles of prophet, priest, and king, and the special character types of Adam, Joseph, and Joshua 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.

I. Adam, the Head and Source of Humankind (a Type of Christ)

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A. Aspects of his headship that resonate with Christ

1. The headship of the first and second Adam: a type by contrast and distinction

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a. Both Adam and Jesus are the source and head of all who are connected with them (as those who represent a family of human beings who participate and are connected to their actions), Rom. 5.14 - Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

b. Both Adam’s and Jesus’ descendants share in the results of their actions.

2. Adam is largely a type by contrast , that is, Adam and Christ both represent a kind of headship that is different.

3. As Adam is the head of the old creation, so Christ is the head of God’s new creation.