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Biblical Typology: How the Old Testament Points to Jesus
Old Testament typology and Jesus Christ
What is biblical typology? This Search 185 Short explores how people and events in the Old Testament point toward Jesus Christ and the New Covenant. Discover why these connections help us read Scripture as a unified story of reconciliation with God.
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[0:00] all are one in Jesus Christ. So, now
[0:02] with Jesus Christ, God has finally
[0:05] opened up access to the Father through
[0:09] the Son, Jesus Christ, and we have
[0:11] access to the Father because of him. The
[0:13] whole world now has access to him.
[0:17] The first five covenant types were
[0:19] stages that culminated in the final
[0:20] covenant, the sending of God's only
[0:23] begotten Son to reconcile the world to
[0:26] himself.
[0:27] The sixth and final covenant
[0:28] accomplishes God's plan of salvation for
[0:30] his children through Jesus Christ and
[0:32] his church. So, now you have the plan
[0:35] that is now culminated in the Messiah.
[0:38] All of the other ones
[0:40] pointed to Jesus.
[0:41] Um Abraham was the type of Jesus. Moses
[0:44] was the type of Jesus. All these were
[0:47] all but just these figures that pointed
[0:49] to him.
[0:50] So, this is what we call typology. They
[0:52] were types. They were signs or symbols
[0:55] in the Old Testament that pointed to a
[0:57] New Testament reality. And so, when we
[1:00] start to understand the Bible in light
[1:02] of typology,
[1:04] this really opens up the understanding
[1:07] because now what's hidden in the old is
[1:09] completely revealed in the new. And it's
[1:11] beautiful, and it is so
[1:14] um massive. There's so much in there
[1:16] that when I first started just reading
[1:18] the Bible, I read through the whole
[1:19] Bible.
[1:20] Okay, you know,
[1:22] Jesus, all the stuff I could say about I
[1:24] remember the Gospels, everything else,
[1:26] but
[1:27] to really see the the picture and start
[1:29] to understand what it is happening,
[1:32] blew my
[1:32] >> [snorts]
[1:33] >> And typology is one of those
[1:35] ways of understanding scripture that
[1:38] is crucial
[1:40] to be able to truly understand what the
[1:43] scriptures are talking about.