Parallels/Foreshadowings in the bible

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Please share your knowledge…these were recent parallels I had discovered and wondered if there are any more that are just as intriguing. Or, comment on the ones below.
  1. Christ, the new Adam was tested in a garden similar to the first Adam. Garden of Eden vs. Garden of Gethsemene. Also when Mary Mag. visited the tomb she encountered Christ whom she first thought was a gardener.
  2. Adam was tempted by the tree, however he went to the wrong one. Christ chose the right one, the tree of life.
  3. The curse (Gen 3:17-19) due to the disobedience of the first man (Adam) included thorns, sweat, nakedness, and death. Our Lord (the new Adam) bears the curse (i.e. crown of thorns, sweats blood, stripped of his clothes, and suffers death on the cross)
  4. Ark of the Covenant parallels with Mary (i.e. Luke 1:41 with 2 Sam 6:14, Luke 1:43 with 2 Sam 6:9, and Luke 1:56 with 2 Sam 6:11)
  5. Isaac and Jesus (i.e. Isaac carried the wood as he went up a mountain in Moriah, Jesus carried the cross up Calvary)
God Bless…
 
That’s called “typology—” I love it. The examples in the Old Testament are “types”–foreshadowings of the fulfillment in the New Testament----the Passover Lamb is a Type of Jesus as the Lamb of God–the Blood of the Lamb over the door is a type of the Blood of Jesus…there’s lots of them. The Isaac one occurred to me as I started reading your post. The Passion Play in Oberammergau shows lots of them. There is an Old Testament “type” tableau before each scene of the Passion Play: e.g. Isaac carrying the wood up Mt. Moriah for the sacrifice is shown before Jesus is shown bearing His cross to Calvary. I think typology is wonderful—even though modern scholarship " poo-poos" it. I think it ties all of Scripture together and is VERY useful for preaching, I can tell you.
 
I’ve always loved the parallel between Isaac and Jesus. But a little more detail is in order:

God asked Abraham, “To sacrafice your only son, whom you love.”

At Jesus’s baptism and transifiguration, “This is my son, my beloved.”

Then when Isaac and Abraham are walking up to the altar, Isaac asks, “Where is the lamb that we are to sacrafice?”

And Abraham answers, “God himself will provide the sacrafice.”

Wow.
Josh
 
Headman, why does modern scholarship poopoo typology? Does this mean contemporary scholarship or “modernist” scholarship?

Some types I can think of:

The Jewish temple is a type of a individual person: the outer court corresponding to our body, the inner court corresponding to our soul (personality, emotions, will, intellect), and the Holy of Holies (and/or ark of the covenant) corresponding to our spirit, in which the Holy Spirit dwells.

The consumption of the passover lamb foreshadows the Eucharist.

The wars fought in the Old Testament were a type of spiritual warfare. (We struggle not against flesh and blood)

Marriage is a type of the relationship between Christ and his Church.

The Great Flood is a type of baptism.
 
Scott Hahn has done at lot of this in his writings/talks, looking at the multiple foreshadowings in the bible.

Find his talk about the seven covenants and listen to it and see the many levels of parallels he brings out about them.
 
T.A.Stobie:
Find his talk about the seven covenants and listen to it and see the many levels of parallels he brings out about them.
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Do you know what the title of the talk is? I went to saintjoe.com and wasn’t clear which one it was.

Thanks
 
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matthew1624:
Do you know what the title of the talk is? I went to saintjoe.com and wasn’t clear which one it was.

Thanks
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Do not know its title, but it may be similiar to “A Father who Keeps his Promises” or something about covenants. You may be able to find something in the EWTN audio library as well.
 
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Headman, why does modern scholarship poopoo typology? Does this mean contemporary scholarship or “modernist” scholarship?
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Modernist scholarship really----all those Form Critics and other nitwits. They say it’s putting words into the mouth of the Old Testament to say that the “types” there foreshadow the Our Lord and the New Testament. It just means what it meant when originally spoken etc etc Poppycock of course. The Church has always used Typology, even the writers in the New Testament. These are the same “scholars” who vote in the Jesus Seminar on which of the sayings in the gospels are really the words of Our Lord. Those sort. They make me phsyically ill.:banghead:
 
I love the forshadowing of Pentacost in the crossing of the Jordan into the promised land. In the crossing with Joshua they brought the Ark to the flooded muddy water and the dirty water backed up all the way to a city called Adam. They put the Ark in the middle of the stream till all had crossed over. Then they placed 12 stones in the middle of the stream to be covered by the water as it came back after the crossing and then 12 stones on the side of the promised land. They began the crossing in the book of Joshua in the 14th verse of chapter 3 and all had crossed over in Chapter 4 verse 1.
Mary the New Ark that gave birth to the promise cased all time to back up BC to Adam then this Son took all our sins away all the way back to Adam and faith in this death, and resurection of His causes us to leave our 12 hours of darkness behind and walk in the light of His truth " Are there not 12 hours in the day so while you have the light walk in the light that you may become children of the light".
Peter recieving the torch passed to him at pentecost, stood up in the 14th verse of acts two and 27 verses later verse 41 three thousand go into the promise land by recieving the Holy Spirit of Jesus.
Noah took 100 years to build the larger Ark that symbolized Jesus “100 is the number of perfection”. It is not enough just to be in Christ though Christ must be in you.
After Noah go into the Ark he spent one year in the Ark and during this time the people in the Ark went all the way around the sun.
This is a symbol of our own encompassing of the Glory of God after we enter into Christ by batism we then have Christ enter into us by encompassing the Glory of the risen Christ by recieving His Holy Spirit. God Bless
 
St. Augustine wrote a book called “On Christian Doctrine.” In this book he writes extensively about types, shadows, and forerunners in the Old Testament.
 
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