Some practice with types.

Paul indicates the trials of Israel in Egypt and in the wilderness “were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.” 1Cor 10:6

Israel went in for evil partying.

“… As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.””
1Cor 10:7 WEB

The events in the wilderness are types/ examples for the Christian, that they should not be involved in fornication, as Israel was and twenty-three thousand of the them died in one day, 1Cor 10:8. Now Yahweh tests His people, but His people are NOT to put their Lord to the test. This was explicitly pointed out in Moses Law.

“You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.”
Deut 6:16 WEB

Paul notices what can happen if we are not thankful.

It is fine to ask for things, but it is not right
to despise what we are given.

The number of Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, along this line are too many to mention.

“Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call on his name;
Make known his doings among the peoples. ”
1Chron 16:8 WEB

“I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness …”
Psa 7:17 WEB

Or again,

“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Phil 4:6 WEB

The opposite of a thankful attitude would be grumbling
and complaining against God.

“10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.”
1Cor 10:10 WEB

Indeed, we need to count our blessings, and not discount all the good with which we are supplied. Israel was not the last nation that through despising what was right, and bitterly complaining about what was thought wrong, neither gained what they wanted, nor kept what they had! The Russians being baited into the Bolshevik Revolution by dissatisfaction with the Tsars is an example. They ended up with a tyranny much worse that they ever imaged under Communism. It was an evil system that has left Russia prostrate and in recovery mode to this very day.

“these things happened to them by way of examples …”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

The Greek word translated as “example” in 1Cor 10:11 is tupikos, a adverbial form of the word tupos or type. Paul statement says in effect that God had these things happen and recorded for us, so that we can learn from their tragically bad examples.

“… and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

All of this indicates God’s fine-grained over-ruling
in history.

And the purpose? What would be the purpose? That men,

“… should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
Acts 17:27 WEB

Further, all of this lab work in types should help us deal more intelligently with types in prophecy.

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