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

The Promise Clarified

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Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Give a clear and simple definition of type , as an object, event, happening, image, or reality that prefigures in the OT a reality in the NT, usually focused on Jesus Christ (as its antitype ). • Outline the major justifications for a typological approach of the study of the Scriptures, including Jesus’ and the apostles’ use of the method, and the implicit connection in many of the same representations and images mentioned throughout Scripture. • List the major aspects of biblical types: that they are historically real, they illumine the person and work of 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. • 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 . • 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. • 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. • 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

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