Typology
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[edit] See-ing the 4 corners? Yes, in the Most Holy place?
Just clikon the temple (pic) and you will find out!
- When the picture is enlarged, and you can see the word "PORCH" spelt upside- down..it's the entrance from the porch to the Holy Place..so that's a picture of the old temple (built over 40 years) in Jerusalem, almost finished around A.D.33. It was destroyed by the Roman armies, and never re-build to this day11:32, 4 May 2007 (SGT).
That's is WRITTEN IN THE Bible AS IN in history - The Holy Place has three articles:Altar, Candlestick(holder) and the Table (of shewbread). and separated yet into another chamber that is..>
- The Most Holy Place , it has one unique article: The Ark with Mercy Meat with the cherubs.
{All these articles and the places (within the temple) only are realities and symbolic belief representation (including the temple} before it was destroyed.)that's History
[edit] The Old symbols prefigured Christ to come in history
Symbolism of the Sacrifices
The sacrifices of the Old Testament were symbolical and typical. An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. But a rite which has a present spiritual meaning is a symbol; and if, besides, it also points to a future reality, conveying at the same time, by anticipation, the blessing that is yet to appear, it is a type. Thus the Old Testament sacrifices were not only symbols, nor yet merely predictions by fact (as prophecy is a prediction by word), but they already conveyed to the believing Israelite the blessing that was to flow from the future reality to which they pointed. Hence the service of the letter and the work-righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ran directly contrary to this hope of faith and spiritual view of sacrifices, which placed all on the level of sinners to be saved by the substitution of another, to whom they pointed. Afterwards, when the destruction of the Temple rendered its services impossible, another and most cogent reason was added for trying to substitute other things, such as prayers, fasts, etc., in room of the sacrifices. Therefore, although none of the older Rabbis has ventured on such an assertion as that of modern Judaism, the tendency must have been increasingly in that direction. In fact, it had become a necessity--since to declare sacrifices of the essence of Judaism would have been to pronounce modern Judaism an impossibility. But thereby also the synagogue has given sentence against itself, and by disowning sacrifices has placed itself outside the pale of the Old Testament.
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We see in a two dimensions prospective as when you read this article with the pictures here on the computer monitor screen. However, our mind usually would preceive and conceive it as a temple in a three dimensional reality. Such an object with three sides as in a cube ball or a hexagonal architectural steel ball, all such deals with three dimensions.Typology deals with all three dimensions.
When a student study normal Mathematics(basics), and go up higher to Algebra (absract), then to geometry(2-dimensional): they all may be equally easy as compared with the more difficult problems in Trigonometry(3 dimensions)!
Basically Trigonometry deals with Typology in almost all applications: such as solving the age-old Poncaire's problem!
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- Perhaps the single most important concept for understanding early Christianity and the Middle Ages is typology. No idea, concept, or viewpoint so exercised control over every aspect of the medieval world view; in fact, it is no exaggeration to say that once you master the dynamics of typology, you can at some level understand any aspect of early Christians and medieval culture: art, architecture, theology, political theory, poetry, and so forth.
[edit] Example : The proto-type of a new cell phone
Man with mobile talking:reality***Here is an illustration to show why the Bible uses types to reveal God's truth. In a vocational school, the students were busily involved in many hours with their projects. One of the students had an idea. It was about a new design for her project. When the student had the idea, that clever student had to build a proto-type of the real. It was made with cardboards, wood and glue and so on. When finished it look like real except for the inner electronic stuffs like the hardware and software that were all not there, since it is only for presentation as a show type. However, the people from phone Company <Nokia> and manufacturer were really impressed when they came to view some of the students' designs. Eventually they requested the particular student to lend them that idea, and they build many phones like that, and sold many of them real phones in Singapore and around the global. It was just a proto type which caught the eyes of those people! So what is a type in the Old Testament? It is but to foreshow - or preview what is coming for us in the real eternity sphere of heavens!
- Therefore it is important to note that types always point to the real or actual things or events previewed. It is therefore not religious counterfeits but something under historical accountability!
- Therefore it is important to note that types always point to the real or actual things or events previewed. It is therefore not religious counterfeits but something under historical accountability!
- What is about typology? Based on an ancient hermenuetic method (Hebrews 10:1****), typology is the interpretation of Old Testament events, persons, and ceremonies as signs which prefigured Messiah or Christ's fulfillment. The concepts arose from those of the skia (shadow) and typos (type). Typology involves identification both of a type or a figure, concept, ceremony, or event as an Old Testament . The type obviously has a counterpart or precursor, and an anti-type, a New Testament historical figure or event that follows and fulfills the promise of the type.
- What is about typology? Based on an ancient hermenuetic method (Hebrews 10:1****), typology is the interpretation of Old Testament events, persons, and ceremonies as signs which prefigured Messiah or Christ's fulfillment. The concepts arose from those of the skia (shadow) and typos (type). Typology involves identification both of a type or a figure, concept, ceremony, or event as an Old Testament . The type obviously has a counterpart or precursor, and an anti-type, a New Testament historical figure or event that follows and fulfills the promise of the type.
- It has to be in the way people thinks and communicates. Chinese for instance, use pictures forming word like the Egyptians to convey meanings. In the Bible the temple and all the ceremonies and services depicts the revelation of God to mankind. Studies in the Old testaments show hidden meanings in the types see Old testament typology : here some explanations:
- A type in Biblical theology is a figure, representation, event, or symbol in the Bible which is believed to be a prefigurement designed by God to foreshadow things to come. An antitype is the thing that is foreshadowed. The terms are used particularly to refer to types in the Old Testament that have their antitypes in the New Testament.***Hebrews Chapter 10:1 " For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. "
- It has to be in the way people thinks and communicates. Chinese for instance, use pictures forming word like the Egyptians to convey meanings. In the Bible the temple and all the ceremonies and services depicts the revelation of God to mankind. Studies in the Old testaments show hidden meanings in the types see Old testament typology : here some explanations:
- While in the wilderness, Moses put a brazen serpent on a pole which would heal anyone bitten by a snake who looked at it (Numbers 21:8). Jesus proclaimed that the serpent, as a symbol of saving faith, was a type of himself, since "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wildemess, even so must the Son of man be lifted up" (John 3:14).
From the Bible in Hebrews chapter 9: Hebrews Chapter 9
- 1 Now (even) the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
- 2 For a tabernacle was constructed, the outer one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of offering; this is called the Holy Place.
- 3 Behind the second veil was the tabernacle called the Holy of Holies,
in which were the gold altar of incense
- 4 and the ark of the covenant entirely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar containing the manna, the staff of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tablets of the covenant.
- 5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of expiation. Now is not the time to speak of these in detail. With these arrangements for worship, the priests, in performing their service,
- 6 go into the outer tabernacle repeatedly, but the high priest alone goes into the inner one once a year, not without blood
- 7 that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people. In this way the holy Spirit shows that the way into the sanctuary had not yet been revealed while the outer tabernacle still had its place.
- 9 This is a symbol of the present time, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience but only in matters of food and drink and various ritual washings: regulations concerning the flesh, imposed until the time of the new order. But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be,
- 10 passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation,
- 12 he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
- 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer's ashes 11 can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed,
- 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit 12 offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
- 13 For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
- 14 Now where there is a will, the death of the testator must be established.
For a will takes effect only at death; it has no force while the testator is alive. Thus not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
- 15 When every commandment had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves (and goats), together with water and crimson wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
saying, "This is 'the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined upon you.'" In the same way, he sprinkled also the tabernacle
- 16 and all the vessels of worship with blood.
- 17 According to the law almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
- 18 Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified by these rites, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.
For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages
- 19 to take away sin by his sacrifice.
Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many,
- 20 will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
Reading the Bible using typology is the art of discovering the spiritual sense of the divine realities contained in Scripture. It's also to find out that, as St. Augustine (A.D. 354-430) said, "The New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New."
A type (typos in Greek), or "archetype," often called a "shadow," "parable," "allegory," or "figure" in Scripture, is a person, thing, or action that precedes and prefigures a greater person, thing, or action. That which is prefigured is referred to as an "antitype." The concept is summarized in Scripture itself:
Romans 5:14 But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.
I Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 9:8-9 The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,
Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect.
Hebrews 11:17-20 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, (To whom it was said: In Isaac shalt thy seed be called:) Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable. By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
Some examples
Type - Antitype
- Adam - Christ
- Melchizedek - Christ
- Sacrifice of Isaac - Sacrifice of Christ
Melchizedek is an obvious type of the antitype Christ, Who is the High Priest (explicity after the order of Melchizedek).
Sometimes the type has its own historical reality, though is intended by the Spiritual reality to foreshadow what is to come (or what came), to indicate those things which are in eternal glory, etc.
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- and the Wind
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- goto see a Classic on the "The Temple and its Ministries" by Alfred Edersheim [[2]]
