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Post by Jessi on Jun 10, 2006 17:46:06 GMT -5
PICTURES OF THE REDEEMER, THE CHRIST OF GOD:
"Can we wonder that the Lord Jesus, in His preaching, should continually draw lessons from the book of nature? when He spoke of the sheep, the fish, the ravens, the corn, the lilies, the fig tree, the vine, - He spoke of things which He Himself had made" (J.C. Ryles, CHRIST IS ALL). Jn 1:3, Heb 1:10, Col 1:16
--Is 42:9 - Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things I do declare: before they spring forth, I tell you of them.
"It's too sacred to study like a book," I heard once about the Bible, from someone whose Bible was crisp and new. I was coveting the perfect gold edges of the pages. It was pretty. But then I realized - It could only be pretty if it wasn't read it much. Maybe it was his Sunday go-to-meeting Bible. Same physically as well as spiritually - It's only pretty if you don't read it; for the gospel IS offensive.
I always had a problem connecting the OT to the NT. I was always told, "Don't so much read the OT. That's for them. The NT is for us, don't treat the Bible as a book, etc.
But, sadly, because of this, I never saw all the pictures of Christ redeeming his people which was God's plan from before the foundation of the world (Jn 17:24, Eph 1:4, Heb 4:3, I Pet 1:20).
"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself "(Luke 24:27).
GENESIS PICTURES OF CHRIST:
Genesis 1&2, God created all - The references above (& others like Gen 3:22) tell me that God is more than one in essence, but not number (His references of "US") so that the NT is right in saying that Jesus created the world and everything in it. He is Everlasting, as is our God (Micah 5:2), having no beginning and no end.
Adam and Eve ate the fruit - and saw themselves . . naked . . and made fig leaf loincloths to clothe themselves and they hid from God.
PICTURE OF CHRIST: GOD MADE THEM SKINS OF ANIMALS, WHICH REQUIRED A SACRIFICE -- AN ANIMAL HAD TO DIE. THE COST WAS THE BLOOD OF SOMETHING INNOCENT TO COVER THEM.
Christ died for me, to cover my many sins, foretold to me from the beginning, Genesis 1 . . .
AND THEN THERE WERE THE CHERUBIM . . .
Christ is God, Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 11, 2006 7:17:21 GMT -5
CHERUBIM PROTECT THE HOLINESS OF GOD.
The veil that covered the Holy of Holies had woven into it pictures of Cherubim. Pictures of Cherubim are everywhere in the OT in and around the tabernacle and then in the Temple of the Lord God Solomon built.
Gen 3:22-24 explains God's merciful provision in driving man out of the garden. God drove Adam and Eve, who were now sinners, out of the garden so they would not be tempted to eat from the tree of life and live forever in their sin.
He placed Cherubim with flaming swords to guard the tree of life.
Ex 26:1 - Cherubim, in all that God instructed Moses concerning the tabernacle and the Holy of Holies in the Books of the Law -there are Cherubim EVERYWHERE.
CHERUBIM = SINFUL MAN CANNOT APPROACH HOLY GOD. The Cherubim protect His Holiness.
Ex 28:33, 39:25 - The high priest, once a year, would go into the Holy of Holies and put the blood of the sacrificial lamb upon the mercy seat. It was a precarious task. They even had to sew bells onto the hem of the high priest's robe and tie a rope around him before he went in. If the bells stopped ringing, he had died. So, they would pull on the rope and drag him out.
But - the OT is so very boring, that all that stuff in Leviticus is just stuff, right? A monotonous list of physical things Israel had to do . . . That SYMBOLIZED REDEMPTION ON EVERY PAGE!
They had all the pictures. They lived it. But the Lord raised up those who would destroy the temple, so His people would stop CLINGING TO PHYSICAL THINGS and have real and total faith in Him.
In Matt 27:50-51 - The veil was ripped into. The Cherubim protecting the Holiness of God torn apart, revealing the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy of Holies, which we now have access to through the BODY of Jesus Christ, the human veil (HEB 10:20).
PICTURE OF CHRIST: WHEN CHRIST GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ME AND SAID ON THE CROSS, “IT IS FINISHED” THE CHERUBIM PROTECTING THE TREE OF LIFE WERE NO LONGER NECESSARY, BECAUSE NOW, I CAN NOW EAT FROM THE TABLE OF LIFE. I HAD GAINED ETERNAL LIFE. MY SINS ARE ATONED FOR BY THE PERFECT LAMB OF GOD.
AND THEN THERE WAS THE ARK . . .
CHRIST IS GOD, Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 11, 2006 21:08:47 GMT -5
THE ARK AS A TYPE OF CHRIST:
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart (Gen 6:5-6 ESV).
And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in (GEN 7:16).
The LORD shuts him in, a work of grace . . . and the Lord shutting the door symbolizes the difference between the righteous and the wicked.
PICTURE OF CHRIST: THE ARK IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. IF ONE WAS NOT IN THE ARK, HE PERISHED, AND WAS BLOTTED OUT.
ESV Study Bible note at Gen 6:18-21 – God preserved His creation in miniature: humans (vs 18), animals (vs 20), food (vs 21). In that some of every sort were preserved, God’s work here was a type of Christ’s work of definite redemption (Rev 5:9) where Christ is said to have purchased not all, but some from “every tribe and language and people and nation.” (Rev 5:9)
Also, see John 17:9 – The Father gave SOME to the Son as a gift.
The LORD our ADONAI Reigns,
Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 12, 2006 6:00:55 GMT -5
I am getting a little ahead of myself, but in I Kings 11, the LORD GOD says to Solomon of the kingdom (vs 13), . . . But I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David, my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
Also in vs 34-36 - . . . I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lang before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
PICTURE OF CHRIST: GOD CHOSE SOME OUT OF THE WORLD TO GIVE TO THE SON. THIS IS A PICTURE OF John 17:9+ - GOD ALWAYS HAS KEPT HIS REMNANT, THE CHOSEN.
Christ's Forever, Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 15, 2006 5:57:25 GMT -5
GEN 18 - 20
In the story of Sodom, Abraham intercedes for the people of Sodom, bargaining with God for at least 50, 45 and so on.
The mercy of God in that he would be willing to let wickedness and lawlessness continue for the sake of the lives of a few, is evident in this event (and connects to the NT - 2 Pet 3:9). Lot was not such a righteous guy, though (offered his virgin daughters). Ultimately, God saved him for his covenant promise to Abraham and because he will have mercy on whomever he will (Ex 33:19).
This is a picture of the remnant that God has always reserved for Himself -- the one he chose from before the foundation of the world to be His people. We know that every man in Sodom was evil except those in Lot's house (because they were chosen, it appears) - because Gen 19:4 says that they surrounded the house, all of them, TO THE LAST MAN.
Also, Abraham's intercession for the few righteous is a picture of Christ in that Christ, today, intercedes for us. He prays for those who are His.
CHRIST'S CHOSEN, HIS REMNANT WAS BEGINNING TO FORM. MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN - Jn 17:9, Rom 9:27
Christ is God,
Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 16, 2006 20:02:22 GMT -5
WHAT DOES LOT/SODOM/GOMORRAH HAVE TO DO WITH JESUS CHRIST?
Sodom and Gomorrah? Lot’s daughters were sexually immoral with him (Gen 19:30-38). His daughter had a son named Moab.
It seemed to me at first glance, that God does not punish all sin . . . or is sin punished in God’s time and not man’s (Gen 19:37, Exodus 23:3)? Check out the Moabites. Were they particularly righteous people in God’s eyes?
Isn’t that a strange story right in the middle of the story of Joseph about Judah and Tamar (Gen 38:6)? Another set of twins, like Jacob and Esau! Strange. Esau was all red and hairy. But this one involved a scarlet string, something red. So far, we’ve got red stew (Gen 25:30), a red, hairy guy (Gen 25:25), and a red string (Gen 38:28). Tamar, a deceptive woman, who prostituted herself to carry on the family line – one sin led to another in this family . . . bringing into the world Perez, who is also mentioned in the NT (Matt 1:3, Luke 3:33). Ruth the MOAB(itess), from the lineage of Moab (Ruth 1: +) is mother to . . . Obed, who fathered Jesse who fathered David (Ruth 4:18).
Sodom. Lot. Moab. Jacob. Who knew? Sovereign, Holy God chose many unlikely, seemingly unholy, unrighteous people in his covenant family. But they were righteous in his eyes because they were His; for He will have mercy on whomever He will and he will show compassion on whomever he will.
PICTURE OF CHRIST: THE GOD MAN, THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST’S LINEAGE IS COLORFUL: CHEATING, STEALING, PROSTITUTING, MURDERING, ERRING HUMAN BEINGS -- NOT BY ACCIDENT, THAT HE CAME FROM THE LOWEST OF THE LOW.
Christ is God, Jessi
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Post by Jessi on Jun 21, 2006 6:11:12 GMT -5
JOSEPH/EGYPT/MOSES
Joseph was a type if Christ. In Gen 37, he tells his brothers of his dreams about sheaves bowing down to him . . . A lot of nonsense to his brothers. They were jealous.
He DID save his people, the covenant family of God.
The blessing of His sons in Gen 48:17 proves once again the Sovereignty of God. He chose once again to do the opposite of what man would do and ignored the tradition of man. Jacob crossed his hands and blessed another of man's LESSER birthright, not the firstborn.
God blessed Jacob and not Esau. Perez came out first -- his twin brother was pushed back ( Gen 38).
In Exodus, we have a picture of Christ in that all the firstborn Israelites were to die (Exodus 1) Sound familiar? Also, God's sovereignty causes opposites to occur. Here, when Israel is persecuted, it grew! So it is with the church.l Whenever it is persecuted, it grows.
Moses is also a type of Christ, beginning with his birth . . . an ark . . . on the water . . . saved. Christ's Jessi
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