Bible Typology Class

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**3 ****Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ****4 ****God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. ****5 **God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Thus evening came, and morning followed–the first day. Genesis 1:3-5.

“light” = the Dawn Type: ANALOGS: “dawn,” “light,” “day”; INTERP: “Christ”; “the grace of Christ.” probably, the logic of the type is that Christ is “dawn resurrector”; INDEX VERSES: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16; [Jesus said,] “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:3-5.

We already did the Darkness Type, although we see that we can add “night” as an analog of – a version of – the type. I’ll do that in a separate post.

So, Genesis 1:3-5 seems to be a typological word-picture which is the first gentle prophecy of Christ, Who said, “I am the Light of the World,” and Who certainly would have been conscious of Genesis 1:3-5 as He said that.
 
**THE DAWN TYPE: **ANALOGS: “dawn,” “light,” “day”; INTERP: “Christ”; “the grace of Christ.” probably, the logic of the type is that Christ is “dawn resurrector”; INDEX VERSES: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16; [Jesus said,] “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:3-5.
 
THE DARKNESS TYPE: ANALOGS: “Darkness,” “night”; INTERP: “God’s condemning judgment”; INDEX VERSE: [From the 1970 NAB; the current NAB has too much “dynamic equivalency” here, to the point of wiping-out the negative implication of the type] Clouds and darkness are round about him; justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. Psalm 97:2; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 1:3-5.
 
Hey! We’re back in business! The separate threads dedicated to separate types have been reinstated!

Whoever reinstated them, God bless you! It will make Bible study much easier!
 
**6 ****Then God said, “Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other.” And so it happened: ****7 ****God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. ****8 **God called the dome “the sky.” Evening came, and morning followed–the second day. Genesis 1:6-8.

“Dome,” or “firmament,” is an analog of the Temple Type: ANALOGS: “Temple,” “dome,” “firmament”; INTERP: “God’s Church”; INDEX VERSE: In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry reached his ears. 2 Samuel 22:7. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:6-8.

“Water” is our friend the Abyss Type, for the "sea of damnable souls."Notice that the “dome” being built of a section of the abyss is segregating a section of the “sea of damnable souls,” reserving it for salvation.

“Second” = the Two Type: ANALOGS: “Two,” “second”; INTERP: “the Church”; INDEX VERSE: [Jesus said,] “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20. [You’ll see below that “three” = “will of God.”] EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:8.

So, the creation of the firmament on Day Two of creation, over a section of the abyss, foreshadows the creation of the Church to save a section of the “sea of damnable souls.”
 
Temple Type: ANALOGS: “Temple,” “dome,” “firmament”; INTERP: “God’s Church”; INDEX VERSE: In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry reached his ears. 2 Samuel 22:7. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:6-8.
 
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**THE ABYSS TYPE: **INTERP: “the sea of damnable souls”; INDEX VERSE: But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth. Isaiah 57:20: EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2.
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The Abyss Type: ANALOGS: “Abyss,” “waters”; INTERP: “the sea of damnable souls”; INDEX VERSE: But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth. Isaiah 57:20; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 6-7.
 
The Two Type: ANALOGS: “Two,” “second”; INTERP: “the Church”; INDEX VERSE: [Jesus said,] “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20. [You’ll see below that “three” = “will of God.”] EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:8.
 
The “second” day was “Church” day. The “third” day will be “will of God” day – “commandments” day…**9 ****Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear.” And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. ****10 ****God called the dry land “the earth,” and the basin of the water he called “the sea.” God saw how good it was. ****11 ****Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it.” And so it happened: ****12 ****the earth brought forth every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. God saw how good it was. ****13 **Evening came, and morning followed–the third day. Genesis 1:9-13.

This section has a few new types in it.

Before I go any farther, some may be wringing their hands and thinking, “Well how many types is this guy going to introduce us to?!?!?!?! 10,000?!?!?!?!”

Answer: Between 5 or 6 dozen.

That might seem like a lot, but it isn’t. Dedicated Bible students quickly internalize the Bible’s “type vocabulary.”

“Water,” here, of course, is the Abyss Type, previously reviewed.

“Seed” = Seed Type: ANALOGS: Seed; INTERP: “Faith”; INDEX VERSE: The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to (this) mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” Luke 17:6; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11.

“Fruit tree” = both of the Tree Types: These are extremely important in Bible typology. There is the Fig Tree Type, and the Non-Fig Tree Type.

**Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: “Fig leaves,” “fig trees,” “sycamore tree,” “figs”; INTERPS: “the Old Law,” “the Old Covenant,” “the commandments,” “Judaism”; INDEX VERSE: 3 Then the LORD said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “Figs,” I replied; “the good ones are very good, but the bad ones very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.” 4 Thereupon this word of the LORD came to me: 5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, even so will I regard with favor Judah’s exiles whom I sent away from this place into the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 24:3-5; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11-12.

**Non-Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: Any kind of tree, twig, branch, or leaf from a tree of woody bush which is not a fig tree. One of the pre-eminent non-fig trees in the Bible is the terebinth tree; INTERP: The cross; INDEX VERSE: The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genersis 1:11-12.

“Evening” = the Darkness Type, already reviewed.

“Morning” = the Dawn Type, already reviewed.

“Third” = **Three Type: **ANALOGS: “Three,” “third,” “one-third”; INTERP: “God’s will,” “the commandments”; INDEX VERSE: God gave the world the “commandments” on the “third” day of the “third” month, Exodus 19:16, 1. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:13.

So, what do we have here?

Well, I think that God’s work, here, occurs on day “three,” because it is “God’s will day” in that the world received the “God’s Will Tree,” the “Commandments Tree,” on this day.
 
Some might dicker by arguing, “Well, maybe the ‘commandments’ aren’t being typologically referred to. Maybe all that is being referred to is that by creating God exercised His ‘will’ on the ‘third’ day.”

I thought about that interp. However, on each of the other days (except the “first” day, where “one” does not appear to have typological significe probably because every story has “one” of something!) the number of the day seemed to refer to a created thing…

Two = “Church.” “Firmament” foreshadows the “Church.”

“Four” = “everyone.” Stars in the sky = “everyone.”

“Five” = “Christ.” “Fish” and “sea monsters” and “birds,” all sin symbols, are used to symbolized Christ in the form of “Him-Who-did-not-know-sin-Who-was-made-to-be-sin.”

“Six” = “evil.” “Man” was created on Day Six.

In this context, the “third-ness” of the Third Day almost certainly refers to the “commandments tree,” the fig tree, created on that day.
 
Seed Type: ANALOGS: Seed; INTERP: “Faith”; INDEX VERSE: The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to (this) mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” Luke 17:6; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11.
 
**Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: “Fig leaves,” “fig trees,” “sycamore tree,” “figs”; INTERPS: “the Old Law,” “the Old Covenant,” “the commandments,” “Judaism”; INDEX VERSE: 3 Then the LORD said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “Figs,” I replied; “the good ones are very good, but the bad ones very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.” 4 Thereupon this word of the LORD came to me: 5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, even so will I regard with favor Judah’s exiles whom I sent away from this place into the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 24:3-5; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11-12.
 
**Non-Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: Any kind of tree, twig, branch, or leaf from a tree of woody bush which is not a fig tree. One of the pre-eminent non-fig trees in the Bible is the terebinth tree; INTERP: The cross; INDEX VERSE: The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genersis 1:11-12.
 
**Three Type: **ANALOGS: “Three,” “third,” “one-third”; INTERP: “God’s will,” “the commandments”; INDEX VERSE: God gave the world the “commandments” on the “third” day of the “third” month, Exodus 19:16, 1. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:13.
 
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The Abyss Type: ANALOGS: “Abyss,” “waters”; INTERP: “the sea of damnable souls”; INDEX VERSE: But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth. Isaiah 57:20; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 6-7.
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The Abyss Type: ANALOGS: “Abyss,” “waters”; INTERP: “the sea of damnable souls”; INDEX VERSE: But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth. Isaiah 57:20; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 6-7, 9-10.
 
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THE DARKNESS TYPE: ANALOGS: “Darkness,” “night”; INTERP: “God’s condemning judgment”; INDEX VERSE: [From the 1970 NAB; the current NAB has too much “dynamic equivalency” here, to the point of wiping-out the negative implication of the type]
Clouds and darkness are round about him; justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. Psalm 97:2; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 1:3-5.
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THE DARKNESS TYPE: ANALOGS: “Darkness,” “night”; INTERP: “God’s condemning judgment”; INDEX VERSE: [From the 1970 NAB; the current NAB has too much “dynamic equivalency” here, to the point of wiping-out the negative implication of the type] Clouds and darkness are round about him; justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. Psalm 97:2; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 3-5, 13.
 
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**THE DAWN TYPE: **ANALOGS: “dawn,” “light,” “day”; INTERP: “Christ”; “the grace of Christ.” probably, the logic of the type is that Christ is “dawn resurrector”; INDEX VERSES: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16; [Jesus said,]
“While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:3-5.
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**THE DAWN TYPE: **ANALOGS: “dawn,” “light,” “day”; INTERP: “Christ”; “the grace of Christ.” probably, the logic of the type is that Christ is “dawn resurrector”; INDEX VERSES: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16; [Jesus said,] “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:3-5, 8, 13.
 
So, here are the Bible types we have learned so far, in alphabetical order…

The Abyss Type: ANALOGS: “Abyss,” “waters”; INTERP: “the sea of damnable souls”; INDEX VERSE: But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth. Isaiah 57:20; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 6-7, 9-10.

The Darkness Type: ANALOGS: “Darkness,” “night”; INTERP: “God’s condemning judgment”; INDEX VERSE: [From the 1970 NAB; the current NAB has too much “dynamic equivalency” here, to the point of wiping-out the negative implication of the type] Clouds and darkness are round about him; justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne. Psalm 97:2; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2, 3-5, 13.

**The Dawn Type: **ANALOGS: “dawn,” “light,” “day”; INTERP: “Christ”; “the grace of Christ.” probably, the logic of the type is that Christ is “dawn resurrector”; INDEX VERSES: “I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star.” Revelation 22:16; [Jesus said,] “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:5. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:3-5, 8, 13.

**The Desert Type: **INTERP: “World in need of salvation”; INDEX VERSE: How often they rebelled against God in the desert, grieved him in the wasteland. Psalm 78:40; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2.

**The Three Type: **ANALOGS: “Three,” “third,” “one-third”; INTERP: “God’s will,” “the commandments”; INDEX VERSE: God gave the world the “commandments” on the “third” day of the “third” month, Exodus 19:16, 1. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:13.

The Seed Type: ANALOGS: Seed; INTERP: “Faith”; INDEX VERSE: The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to (this) mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” Luke 17:6; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11.

THE TREE TYPES:

**Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: “Fig leaves,” “fig trees,” “sycamore tree,” “figs”; INTERPS: “the Old Law,” “the Old Covenant,” “the commandments,” “Judaism”; INDEX VERSE: 3 Then the LORD said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “Figs,” I replied; “the good ones are very good, but the bad ones very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.” 4 Thereupon this word of the LORD came to me: 5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, even so will I regard with favor Judah’s exiles whom I sent away from this place into the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 24:3-5; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:11-12.

**Non-Fig Tree Type: **ANALOGS: Any kind of tree, twig, branch, or leaf from a tree of woody bush which is not a fig tree. One of the pre-eminent non-fig trees in the Bible is the terebinth tree; INTERP: The cross; INDEX VERSE: The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. Acts 5:30; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genersis 1:11-12.

The Temple Type: ANALOGS: “Temple,” “dome,” “firmament”; INTERP: “God’s Church”; INDEX VERSE: In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry reached his ears. 2 Samuel 22:7. EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:6-8.

The Two Type: ANALOGS: “Two,” “second”; INTERP: “the Church”; INDEX VERSE: [Jesus said,] “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20. [You’ll see below that “three” = “will of God.”] EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:8.

**The Wind Type: **INTERP: “a special presence of God”; INDEX VERSE: LORD, my God, you are great indeed! You are clothed with majesty and glory, 2 robed in light as with a cloak. You spread out the heavens like a tent; 3 you raised your palace upon the waters. You make the clouds your chariot; you travel on the wings of the wind. Psalm 104:1-3; EXEMPLARY VERSES: Genesis 1:2.
 
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blackfish152:
Is there any chance we could do some typology on the Jewish tabernacle, and its OT priesthood, and how this translates into the NT system of offering of Christ and its relation to the Mass, and the stuff in revelation-in heaven.

god bless.

m.
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Hi, blackfish.

Please post the verses you wish to zero-in on.

Here is the NAB site, so that you can drag-copy and post.

nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
 
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