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Chapter 21: The typological method
Though it seems so difficult for me to understand certain things in this lessons but God is helping me pick something.
I have first of all Goten the knowledge that, to understand how to do a typological study, I must first understand the meaning of a Bible type.
Example
In Hebrews 20:1 it speaks of the law having a shadow of good things to come. Shadow in one word describe a biblical type.
Romans 5:14. According to this verse, Adam was a figure of some one else who was to come . The meaning of figure is similar to that of type . Adam was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ who was to come later.
Also the offering of sacrifice for sin in the old testament was a type of the final sacrifice for sin which was to be offered by Jesus in the new testament.
A type is a person or thing I. The Bible which God use to represent some other person, thing or events to that would appear in the future. It is a shadow , a figure or a pattern what was to come.
So when studying this type, it is call typological study. We study a person, place , events or thing and then we study the thing which is a type.
Types are like prophecy. They give an advance view of what is to come in God’s future plan . Also like prophecy, some types have have been fulfilled. Others remain to be fulfilled.
The type is important in itself in the sense that, it has a greater significance in the future person or events which it represent. Types are physical pictures of spiritual realities.