Comments on: King Jesus http://blog.lifelinecommunity.com/2009/04/king-jesus/ Building lives that make God look great Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bryan http://blog.lifelinecommunity.com/2009/04/king-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-594 bryan Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:01:31 +0000 http://blog.lifelinecommunity.com/?p=91#comment-594 Thanks Myke good thoughts as usual. The main distinction I was making deals with the intent of the text. Prophecy anticipates the future and typology connects to the past. But certainly God knows the "rock" in the wilderness will forshadow Jesus. So I agree with you that there is a "forward looking" weight or a Divinely orchestrated foreshadowing. Yet the distinction is important for texts like when Mt. 2:15 quotes Hos. 11:1 but uses the language of fulfillment. Sometimes Matthew does this and he is actually using the text typologically as in this case rather than strictly prophetically. In this particular case the Hosea text is looking back to the exodus from Egypt not forward to anything (although God knew Matthew would use it the way he did). Anyway, Myke, you da man, good thoughts! Thanks Myke good thoughts as usual. The main distinction I was making deals with the intent of the text. Prophecy anticipates the future and typology connects to the past. But certainly God knows the “rock” in the wilderness will forshadow Jesus. So I agree with you that there is a “forward looking” weight or a Divinely orchestrated foreshadowing. Yet the distinction is important for texts like when Mt. 2:15 quotes Hos. 11:1 but uses the language of fulfillment. Sometimes Matthew does this and he is actually using the text typologically as in this case rather than strictly prophetically. In this particular case the Hosea text is looking back to the exodus from Egypt not forward to anything (although God knew Matthew would use it the way he did). Anyway, Myke, you da man, good thoughts!

]]> By: Myke Shawhan http://blog.lifelinecommunity.com/2009/04/king-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Myke Shawhan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:25:07 +0000 http://blog.lifelinecommunity.com/?p=91#comment-593 Typology is not technically prophecy. It is only by looking backwards that we understand it. However, it does carry some “forward looking” weight. Because the acts themselves are set in place to later give us the comparison. When Moses held up the bronze serpent (Num. 21, 4-9), the act finds its fulfillment in pointing to Jesus on the cross (even though Moses probably didn’t know that at the time). Yes, there is immediate fulfillment, in that only the people who looked at the serpent were healed that day; yet the ultimate fulfillment is in understanding that only those who look to the Savior on the cross are saved (John 3, 14). The ultimate purpose of the type is to find fulfillment in the antitype – which is Christ. It just astounds me how God can orchestrate such detail in everyday life, over generations of time, with cohesion from the past to the future, and all so we would understand His plan better! What amazing illustrations for us, to deepen our understanding and belief. Soli Deo Gloria! Typology is not technically prophecy. It is only by looking backwards that we understand it. However, it does carry some “forward looking” weight. Because the acts themselves are set in place to later give us the comparison. When Moses held up the bronze serpent (Num. 21, 4-9), the act finds its fulfillment in pointing to Jesus on the cross (even though Moses probably didn’t know that at the time). Yes, there is immediate fulfillment, in that only the people who looked at the serpent were healed that day; yet the ultimate fulfillment is in understanding that only those who look to the Savior on the cross are saved (John 3, 14). The ultimate purpose of the type is to find fulfillment in the antitype – which is Christ.

It just astounds me how God can orchestrate such detail in everyday life, over generations of time, with cohesion from the past to the future, and all so we would understand His plan better! What amazing illustrations for us, to deepen our understanding and belief. Soli Deo Gloria!

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