Jesus as Priest

[rcjones]

God can see in the future but does not impose the future.
So he could see what was to happen between Esau and Jacob but did not cause it to happen to fit a patricular pattern

If ‘causation’ is the objection to the shadows, I would never claim that God made someone to sin just to paint a picture. In fact, God says he would never cause us to sin for any reason.

But just as you have God seeing into the future to make a decision now, I would say that God could just as easily guide the formation of language so that the authors wrote double meanings without knowing it. Or that he guided the way the authors wrote about something so that they had double meanings.

But I would never say God caused sin, nor delighted in it. But He certainly uses all things for His purposes, even our sin.