There are numerous typologies from the Old Testament fulfilled by Yeshua (Jesus). Mt.1:13 God warned Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt to preserve the child’s life. Matthew quotes Hosea 11 which is historically referring to the Exodus and Moses but Matthew takes the passage out of its historical context and gives us a spiritual insight about the Messiah.

 Jesus as the deliverer is to be called out of Egypt liken to Moses the deliverer to ultimately fulfill the scripture Matt 2:15: “and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called My Son." As Israel (the nation) was called out of Egypt, Jesus (representing Israel) was also called out of Egypt. (Matthew 2:16).

Israel as the national son of God went through the desert for 40 years to be tested and failed.

Jesus the true Son of God by His nature, represents Israel and was tested in the desert 40 days and passed.

Israel was tempted and longed for the food that once had in Egypt and asked Moses to eat meat not manna.

Jesus after he fasted 40 days in the desert was also tempted to turn stones into bread to end his hunger.

Deut.18:15 there would be a prophet like unto Moses-Just as Moses fed the people supernaturally in the wilderness - so did the Messiah. He fed 3,000 and 5,000 people fulfilling the prophecy that he would be like Moses. When Moses parted the waters, Israel walked through them without getting wet. Jesus made still the waters, Jesus also walked on the waters. Moses is clearly a type of Jesus Christ in various ways.

 Remember God called him the humblest man on earth, Jesus was in complete and perfect humility (Phil 2:5-7). Moses delivered his people from bondage and those who had faith made it into the Promised Land, likewise Jesus delivers his people.

In Numbers Moses is told to lift up the pole with the serpent (Num.21:8-9) for the people who were being bit to be healed. The antitype Jesus is lifted up on the cross. John 3:13-15:“No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus is lifted up on the cross signifying he is fulfilling something of Moses – he said elsewhere “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." This He said, signifying by what death He would die. John 12:32-34

In their wilderness journey the people of Israel thirst. Numbers 21:16-18: “…the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water." Exodus 17:5-6: “And the LORD said to Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink."

Moses struck the rock once and water came out to quench the thirst of all the people (Christ was struck once on the cross). Jesus said he is the living water (a water greater than what Moses gave).

When we come to the New Testament Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 10:3-4: “all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ” The literal water is typified and called "spiritual drink" that came from Christ as the source through the rock. He accompanied them through their whole journey into the promise land (Exodus 33:15).

We read that Israel sang with Moses “Then the horse and its rider are thrown into the sea The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation (Exodus 15:1).

In Revelation 15:3 the saints “sing the song of Moses-the horse and rider thrown into the sea.”

Many of the judgments that happened in Exodus that were to punish the king who kept Israel in bondage are replayed in the end - in the book of Revelation. The oceans become blood, as most of the sea life dies. We have plagues, hailstones, fire and blood, and a supernatural darkness covers the earth, as God pours out His wrath on a Christ rejecting world just as the plagues upon Egypt that resulted in the exodus.

Types in Abraham and Isaac

Abraham is told to take ‘his only Son” Isaac (the son of promise) on a 3 day journey to a specific place. He is to build an altar on Mt. Moriah, to sacrifice his son. Genesis 22:7-8: When his son asked “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Abraham prophesied by saying to his son, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." Abraham called the name of the place, THE-LORD-WILL-PROVIDE; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided.” Isaac is an obedient son who walks up the hill with the wood for the sacrifice and is bound onto the altar. Abraham is prevented to go through with the sacrifice by the Angel of the LORD that called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD (Yahweh), because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son.” The Lord reaffirms what he told Abraham when he was first called (Gen.12:1-4) Genesis 22:17-18: “blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

In these types we see Abraham bringing his son to a Mountain carrying wood to a sacrificial altar to be for the sacrifice. Yeshua, like Isaac walked up the hill with wood to His altar of sacrifice. Jesus as the obedient Son also carried wood up the mountain (as long as he could) and willingly was nailed to the altar in the same place. While Abraham was held back from sacrificing His only Son, in fulfillment of Abraham saying God will provide (himself) as the lamb. Many who read this in the Hebrew say that God would provide Himself as the lamb. God on the same mountain two thousand years later gave “His only Son” willingly, fulfilling the promise that he gave Abraham. "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided," and it was (Gen. 22:14)

John 8:56-58 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” When did Abraham see his day? The answer is in Genesis 22 when Abraham was going to sacrifice his only son and God called out to stop him and Abraham prophesied that God would provide himself as the lamb for a burnt offering. Yeshua said that Abraham saw the meaning of his visitation, which pointed to himself as the one Abraham knew.

Types in the New Testament apostolic writings

John begins his gospel “In the beginning was the word,… which was God, was life and the light of men which shined in the darkness (Jn.1:1,4, 9). John is relating this back to Genesis as the light of the world and creator of man.

Jesus as light of the world is the shekinah glory of God that appeared in Genesis before the sun or the moon did. He uses the same language for Jesus who tabernacled among us in Jn.1:14. Who took on flesh and dwelt among them and they saw his glory. Relating himself to the light in the tabernacle over the mercy seat, the shekinah glory revealed to Israel in it. Jesus showed who He actually was on the mount of Transfiguration.

In John 8:12 Jesus says “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 1:4 “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”

Johns writing is filled with Judaic typology. Genesis 1:1, God created the heavens and the earth, Revelation 21:1 God creates a New Heaven and new Earth. Gen. 1:16, the sun and moon is created- Rev. 21:23, 25 there is no need for the sun and moon. The lamb is the light of the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven after the Millennium runs its course (Rev.21:23). The earth is returned to its state before the sun and moon were created, as stated in Genesis. Gen. 2:9,16; 3:22 the tree of life is in the midst of the garden of Eden. In Rev. 2:7,22:2 tree of life in the midst of paradise. We have a replay of all that was to take place except it is not through Adam but the new man Jesus Christ.

The apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 15:44-48: “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.”

Jesus is called the last Adam. Adam was the first created of his species, Eve was then taken from Adam and given back to him as his wife. Jesus is the Lord from heaven who becomes the new man, who has no sin throughout his life and died for our sins. After he was resurrected He no longer can die. All believers are found in Christ and are given to him as his bride (Eph.5) and will receive the same resurrection.

Jesus is called the last Adam because his body was supernaturally made like the first. The first Adam brought the curse; the Last Adam bore the curse (Gal. 3:13). Adam’s sin caused thorns to grow (Gen. 3:18), but Jesus wore thorns upon his head (Matt. 27:29) illustrating that He carried the curse of sin away.

Jesus said, (Matthew 12:39) “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” “the sign of the prophet Jonah” is described "as Jonah was three days and nights in the stomach of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40). In other words, the sign of Jonah points to Yeshuas death burial and resurrection because Jonah actually died. Jesus also says the men of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah. Luke 11:32: “The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.”

Illustrating that the Gentiles would repent where the Jews didn't and so they would be judged. To whom much is given much is required. If the Gentiles repented from Jonah who took 3 days to walk through Nineveh, Israel would be held more accountable for the three years Jesus walked through their cities.

There are dichotomies in typology. Isa 6 Isaiah saw the Lord and realized he was unclean among an unclean people. In John 12:37-38: “But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled,” Isaiah the prophet is quoted in John 12:38-41"Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?"

So that I should heal them." These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

We are told it was Jesus whom Isaiah saw on the throne- it was Jesus.

In Acts 7 Stephen also sees the Lord, except he is in a right relationship with him (Acts 7:55-56).

“he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!

This time there is no condemnation but an acknowledgment as Jesus stands to welcome the first martyr in the Church.

There are patterns, types, and symbols all used by the people places instructions (such as the tabernacle) to be kept so they would identify and understand the Messiah. Seven festivals were given to Israel to guide His people through the centuries. While the Law was a tutor (Gal. 3:24-25) until Messiah came, the feasts were prophetic: Col.2:16, 17 called “holy convocation” “migraw” a rehearsal. The 7 Feasts prophetically outlined the future from the life and death of Christ (Unleaven bread and Passover) till the Millennium reign on earth (Tabernacles). These are seven Old Testament types of God's prophetic plan. All the shadows ands types were given to Israel to recognize their Messiah who would be the embodiment and fulfill them all.

The 7 feasts are found in Lev.23 the feasts were part of their religious calendar that they were to continually keep. “These are My appointed feasts, holy seasons of the LORD, which you are to proclaim at their appointed times” These were types of Christ as Paul states in Col.2:18 they are a shadow of things to come. Christ came, He is the substance; the law was the pattern, Christ is the reality, the fulfillment. Paul speaks of the 'festival' as 'a shadow of things to come, the Greek word 'skia = 'shadow', is often used to express anything imperfect or unsubstantial; Christ is the substance. The term 'sooma'= 'substance; convey the opposite sense, expressing anything tangible, solid, and firm. He (Yeshua) as the substance fulfills all the shadows (types, symbols, patterns, prophecies).

These feasts are symbolic of Christ.  The feast days were broken up into 2 cycles-- the spring season are 4 feasts grouped together taking place within 50 days--a summer break to prepare for the fall harvest season and the 3 fall feasts. The 4 spring feasts found in Lev.23 were fulfilled in Jesus’ first coming and He fulfills the three autumn holidays in his 2nd coming. This why they are grouped in this order. The fall feasts are, feast of trumpets, Day of Atonement, feasts of Booths or gatherings, all to be fulfilled in his 2nd coming (taking place in a 2 week period).

For example: John 7:37-38 at the temple when they were celebrating the feasts of tabernacles and pouring out the water on the steps: “On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Speaking of the Spirit that would be given when he is glorified.

Yeshua (Jesus) draws on the imagery of Ezekiel 47 which points to the Millennium. Also Isa. 44:3-4 “For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring; They will spring up among the grass like willows by the watercourses.” The water being poured out in typology is an example of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus also used the supply of miraculous manna from heaven for Israel’s traveling the desert to the Promised Land as representing himself. In John 6 it is recorded that the day before he fed 5,000 and proclaims that He can give “food which endures to eternal life.” John 6:32-33: The bread Moses gave was not the true bread, the bread of God is He Who comes down from Heaven, and gives life to the World. Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” And Jesus said V.35: “ I am that bread. He who believes in Me will never hunger or thirst.” will not hunger or thirst but believes. He uses the miraculous event of bread from heaven as an analogy to illustrate the need to believe in him. V. 47 “He who believes in Me has everlasting life.” Here Jesus points to himself as the source, by believing. He is pointing to himself as the one who is God, that has eternal life to give. Notice He says in the present tense He is the bread.  As manna came from heaven to earth so did he. V.63 “It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak are Spirit, it is they that are life.” Jesus used a natural example that Israel was familiar with to illustrate a spiritual truth and himself as the fulfillment.

The feast of first fruits is the first day of the week after the Sabbath, this was the Sunday after the Passover when Yeshua was sacrificed. He was the first fruits risen to eternal life 1 Cor.15:20. There were two types of resurrections, one like Lazarus who resurrected and died again and Christ who rose and is never to die again. He is the only one of this type until the day of the resurrection; when all the church will be raised to eternal life never to die again. Paul writes in 1 Cor. 15:20: “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” The feast of the first fruits would occur on the first day of the week (this would be Sunday) the high priest would go near dawn, at prior to sunrise into the Kidron valley that is between the mount of Olives and Zion the temple mount. He‘d go into the Kidron valley at sunrise and look for first bit of the grain offering coming out of the earth. At the first glimpse of sunrise he would harvest the first sprout of grain and bring it into the temple and wave it before the Lord. The gospels tell us Jesus rose at about dawn, the very time the high priest was bringing the first fruit into the temple. Jesus became first fruit of the resurrection unto eternal life. This is the meaning of the Passover and first fruits, that is our celebration of the gospel, Christ’s death burial and resurrection.

When Jesus died and rose again on the third day he fulfilled 3 of the feasts in Lev.23 (4th feast was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost when he sent the Holy Spirit and it became the birth of the church). The last feast Jesus fulfilled is Pentecost, the feasts of weeks (Hag Hashacout Lev.23:15-21). This is the last of the group of 4 spring feasts (seven weeks plus one day after Passover they are observe the Feast of Weeks.

Christ fulfills all the Old Testament types which the New Testament says are shadows of the true light.

The Old Testament also records instances of the anointing of a prophet, Samuel was sent to anoint Saul (1 Sam. 15:1), Elijah was to anoint Jehu 1 Kings 19:16. (Moses) poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him, to consecrate him (Lev. 8:12, 21:10,12), this is pictured in Psalm 133:1. The oil did not touch the flesh but the robe on his body,  we as his body wear the robes of salvation (Isa.61:10). This is typology of the spiritual nature and approval from Christ, who is the Head, to us, we are His body under him. Jesus was anointed by the Father :Hebrews 1:9: “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions”

2 Corinthians 1:21-22: “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee”  (also Acts 10:38) .

He was sent to anoint us, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22: “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” Because we all are the body of Christ, we are all equally anointed, we all have spiritual gifts and calling that will glorify the Son. Psalm 133:2 gives us an illustration of the anointing with typology of the high priest. “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore” (Ex. 25:6 29:7,30:25, 31,31:11, 35:8,37:29, 39:38, 40:9, 15 and Lev.8:2 the anointing oil is on Aaron the garments and the sacrifices.)

Hebrews 3:1-6: “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.”

Jesus is the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end, all THAT IS WRITTEN TO US, Christ is all we need.

 

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