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Multiple Types of the Christ: King David

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David’s kingdom was to last forever, 2Sam 7:16.

Also it was by a “seed”/ son of David that the temple of the Lord would be built, and David’s kingdom continued (2Sam 7:12), “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever,” 2Sam 7:13 WEB. This was all discussed in the posts on “The Two Sons of David.”

David was a specially chosen king, a man after God’s own heart, 1Sam 13:14. It was by David that Israel was at last freed from all of their enemies, and given peace all around. He was exemplary in so many ways: In courage in battle based on faith in the Lord, In being so sensitive of his own failings and shortcomings as shown in psalm after heart felt psalm. Even though very richly blessed by the Lord, and clearly an inspired prophet of God, still a man though, and capable of great and grievous failures, as indeed we all are.

Still, many verses bear witness to the
promises as still valid.

“He gives great deliverance to his king,
And shows loving kindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, forevermore.”
Psa 18:50 WEB

“3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your seed forever,
And build up your throne to all generations.’”
Psa. 89:3-4 WEB

There are even pleas for these promises to be fulfilled.

“10 For your servant David’s sake,
Don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne”.
Psa. 132:10-11 WEB

After over 400 years the first promise was confirmed by Isaiah.

“Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, …”
Isa 9:7 WEB

This ultimate of David’s descendants will give the ultimate decisions.

“The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”
Isa 22:22 WEB

This future king is even symbolically
called “David.”

“Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.”
Hos 3:5 WEB

At the last it seemed all of this was doomed to fail.

But the prophets affirmed that God will again raise up the dilapidated tent of David.

“In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;”
Amos 9:11 WEB

A hero, a conquering king, a mighty man of God. So David is indeed one of the key types of the Christ. And the things which were missing, like David’s kingdom nevery failing, only show that David was only a type, a shadow of the Christ.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: Moses

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There are many types/ symbols of the Christ in Scripture. One of them is great lawgiver Moses. The symbolism is very explicit. There is someone all Israel, and everyone will have to listen to

A Special Prophet Will Come.

“Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;”
Deut 18:15 WEB

So Moses says explicitly that his word would be superseded by someone “like me,” “to him you shall listen.” So there were things which were to be told men later.

There are many ways the Christ is
like Moses.

You might says Moses primary trait is that he was a lawmaker and brought a new law. If this special prophet was to be like Moses, and to be listened to, it would seem that this new prophet would bring a new law. And so He does. As Paul says,

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Gal 6:2 WEB

So there is a law which Jesus brings, “the law of Christ.” The center of it is a new commandment.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
Jn 13:34 WEB

It includes instructions for daily life, for prayer, for the meetings and government of the church, instructions for how what we would call formal worship should be conducted, relations to civil government, sex, family relations and on and on.

Further, there were attempts to kill both Moses
and Jesus at birth.

The baby Moses came under the edicts of the Pharaoh that all male children were to be killed at birth, and he was delivered by being given to an Egyptian princess. Herod feared that this new “king of the Jews who had been born, was a baby to be groomed to take over his throne, so he killed all the infant males in Bethlehem (Mtt 2:16-18) trying to make sure he got this would be ruler. Both attempts failed.

Both Moses and Jesus were initially rejected
by the Jews.

Moses had to flee to the land of Midian for forty years, and was later accepted by the Jews. Jesus is overall still rejected by the Jews to this day, but one day the new covenant of Jer 31:31-34 (which Jesus brought) will be accepted, and it say,

“At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
Jer 31:1 WEB

Moses prayed to be sacrificed
for God’s people.

““Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin— and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.””
Ex 32:32 WEB

God declined Moses offer, Ex 32:33.

But Jesus WAS sacrificed for God’s people.

“… even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”
Eph 5:2 WEB

There are many other parallels, but this is a start.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: The Passover Lamb

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Often there will be multiple types/ shadows/ symbols in Scripture of what will be. Such is the subject of the Christ and it makes an ideal platform for seeing how symbolism works in Scripture.

Moses was leading Israel
out of bondage to the
promise land.

Their stay in Egypt had started as a rescue from famine, and had ended as slavery for the people of Israel. God had heard the pleas of His people for rescue and sent Moses. However, the Pharaoh of the Egyptians proved stubborn and harsh in his resistance to their release.

Then signs were given to convince Pharaoh
to release Israel.

These signs increased in focus and severity on Egypt and its Pharaoh. First there was turning a staff into a snake (which also the magicians of Egypt also did). Then there was turning the river and waters of Egypt into blood (which again the Egyptian magicians also did). Then there was a plague of frogs. (Likewise the magicians also did). Then there was a plague of lice/gnats, to which the magicians responded to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” Ex 8:19. Still Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to release the people. Next came swarms of flies, then the death of Egyptian cattle, then painful boils on the Egyptians, then terrible hail large enough to kill both men and animals. Then came locusts, and then thick darkness even in the daytime. Then came the very last plague.

God would strike all the firstborn of Egypt.

From the firstborn of Pharaoh, to firstborn of every man, whether slave or free, to the firstborn of every animal.

But there was a way out. A Passover lamb.

The ultimate passover lamb was Jesus. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Jn 1:29 WEB. Then in 1Cor 5:7 Paul said, “For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.”

The original was a literal lamb.

Everyone was to take a lamb, and kill it. A male lamb without blemish, Ex 25:5. The blood of the lamb was painted on the side posts of the doors, and the lintels over the doors. Then when God went through the land to kill all the firstborn of Egypt, he would see the blood of the sacrifice and “passover” that house.

They were also to eat of the lamb. We must eat of Jesus.

“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Jn 6:54 WEB

They were not boil it or eat it raw. They were to roast it in a fire. So Jesus went to the heart of the earth for us, Mtt 12:41; to the abyss (Greek abusos in Rom 10:7). Peter says,

“in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, …”
1Pe 3:19 WEB

Jesus is that sinless suffering lamb of God of Isaiah 53, the ultimate way we can be “passed over” for our sins.

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God’s Mountain Will Rule ALL

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Five kingdoms are described.

King Nebuchadnezzar has had a dream in Daniel 2. Daniel, by revelation from God, both tells the king what the dream is, and what it means. Five kingdoms are prophesied to rule.

“31 You, O king, saw, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome. 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.”
Dan 2:31-33 WEB

This is summary here, but the first was ancient Babylon ruled by Nebuchadnezzar himself. “ … you are the head of gold.” Dan 2:38 WEB.

This was followed by the Medo-Persian Empire. This is symbolized by breast and arms of silver, Dan 2:32. It was inferior to Babylon, but lasted longer.

Then came the Greeks under Alexander the Great. Alexander is pictured as a large horn in Daniel 8.

“The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.”
Dan 8:21 WEB

Greece of course was to be followed by Rome. Rome is described Daniel 2 as “legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.” In Daniel 7 Rome is described as an frightening beast with large iron teeth. Rome did not seduce or make other rich. Rather she, “devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet,” Dan 7:7 WEB.

“But in the days of those kings …” Dan 2:44

It is clear it is talking about in the days of the Roman Empire, that,

“the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”
Dan 2:44 WEB

Now there was no clear secular successor to Rome.

The successor is the one,

“… that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold …”
Dan 2:45 WEB

“Cut out without hands” (Dan 2:34) would indicate that it was by no human agency that this kingdom comes into being. Then we look back to see the nature of this kingdom.

“the stone that struck the image became a great MOUNTAIN,”
Dan 2:35 WEB.

This is a religious kingdom which comes. This is the kingdom of heaven which John the Baptist and Jesus announced, and into which God’s people have been transferred, Col 1:13.

It indeed struck “the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, … and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them:” Dan 2:35 WEB

“the stone … became a great mountain, and
filled the WHOLE earth.” Dan 2:35

This is still in process. The kingdom has not YET filled the whole earth. But it will. Scripture cannot be broken, Jn 10:35.

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Mountains a Blessing, Mountains a Snare

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Both ancients and moderns sometimes prefer mountain settings to the formal worship which God has commanded, both Old Testament and New Testament. When King Balak was trying to get Balaam to help him, it says,

“It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.”
Num 22:41 WEB

So “the high places” became a snare to Israel

It says even of Solomon, even at the time when God was truly blessing to him,

“Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. ”
1Kgs 3:3 WEB

It was overlooked by God at that time, but later it became a snare to Solomon, and to Israel.

“For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;”
1Kgs 14:23 WEB

Then the high places became places to practice all that was wicked and evil in religion.

“The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; ”
2Kgs 17:9 WEB

And some mountains oppose others

“15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,
At the mountain where God chooses to reign?
Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.”
Psa 68:15-16 WEB

The text goes on of the chariots of God leading from Mount Sinai to God’s Holy Mountain.

“17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
18 You have ascended on high.
You have led away captives.
You have received gifts among men,
Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.”
Psa 68:17-18 WEB

Of course Psa 68:18 is quoted in Eph 4:8-10 of Jesus return to heaven to await the last day.

Mystery Babylon is seated on seven mountains

“Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.”
Rev 17:9 WEB

The Greek is indeed mountains, oros in Greek, not hills as it is in some translations. Now ancient Roman was situated on seven hills. Hills, not mountains. Mystery Babylon the Great is seated on seven mountains.

And mountains are allegories of religions

“24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”
Gal 4:24-26 WEB

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Mountains for Places of Worship

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When Abraham was being tested by God, the testing was associated with a certain mountain.

“He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.””
Gen 22:2 WEB

Then when it is talking about the blessing of God which will come to His own, it says,

“Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh.a As it is said to this day, “In Yahweh’s mountain it will be provided.””
Gen 22:14 WEB

And it was on that mountain where Abraham symbolically was sacrificing his very own son,

“accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.”
Heb 11:19 WEB

And that also had later associations and became God’s special mountain.

“Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ”
2Chron 3:1 WEB

It is common, very natural, to associate Mountains
with high and exalted worship

Many talk about feeling so close to God when they worship on some high mountain viewing much of the earth in the distance. Mountain are often referred to as if a religious blessing.

“ The blessings of your father
Have prevailed above the blessings of the ancient mountains,
Above the bounty of the age-old hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph,
On the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.”
Gen 49:26 WEB

Then when God came to call Moses

“Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.”
Ex 3:1 WEB

God’s instructions then were to come back to this very same mountain.

He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.””
Ex. 3:12 WEB

And that is what they did.

“Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.”
Ex 18:5 WEB

And God came to Mount Sinai

“Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.”
Ex 19:14

And God came to Sinai.

“Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.”
Ex 19:20

If you take the entire context of Scripture, it is easy to see the associations between mountains and religion.

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Why Types Can Confuse: So much is Missing.

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Exaggerated language, hyperbole, overstatements, are all over in prophecy. Quite often these things indicate that the immediate subject is a type of more distant fulfillments.

Take some of the kings of all the earth.

First let us take Nebuchadnezzar. God told him.

“37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory; 38 and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.”
Dan 2:37-38 WEB

This heading does qualify the rule give to Nebuchadnezzar as being to all of the inhabited world. Even so that is open to question (not meaning to question God you understand, but to try to understand what He meant). For there were many lands that were inhabited which Nebuchadnezzar did not rule. That included India and China, and what we now call Russia. Nor did he rule Rome or Greece, which soon come up.

Then it says of the Medo-Persian Empire that it “shall bear rule over ALL the earth.” Dan 2:39 WEB. Once again, not so, at least literally and completely, even though to those of the Mid-East it did seem as if he ruled over everything. You can almost hear the discussions in Bible classes. How can the Bible say that. Really that is not true!

And going on to other rulers.

There is a vision of four empires as four beasts in Daniel 7. The first, ancient Babylon, was like lion with the wings of an eagle, Dan 7:4. The second was like a bear, evidently indicating Medo-Persia, Dan 7:5. The third was like a leopard with four wings on its back, and in context clearly indicates Greece. Fourth was a beast with iron teeth, indicating Rome. I cannot pretend to say that I know all of the inferences that are involved but some observations can be made.

Clearly ancient Babylon is symbolic of Mystery Babylon
the Great of Revelation.

Clearly Mystery Babylon will have a world-wide commercial empire and she is one who “reigns over the kings of the earth.” Rev 17:18.

It says of the “beast” and his empire,

“The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. …”
Rev 13:2 WEB

Is this saying Satan’s final empire is like Greece, and Medo-Persia and Babylon … all rolled into one?

Jesus assures us,

“… not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. ”
Mtt 5:18 WEB

The “contradictions,” the exaggerated language, the things which just don’t fit,

… those things would be the key to whether the immediate subject is symbolic of some distant fulfillment. The we start thinking and searching. Where does the symbolic fit into what is clear?

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Why Types Can Confuse: Clear Contradictions

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There is a short but beautiful psalm about Zion in Psalm 48. Mount Zion is what I like to call capital hill in Jerusalem. On it was the temple of the Lord, and the palaces of the kings. Today it is where the Mohammedan “Dome of the Rock” sits. It is the city of the Great King in verse 2.

A psalm of a great victory.

The authors do talk about the lovingkindness of the Lord in verse 9. They say the praise of the God is to the ends of the earth in verse 10, and they say the daughters of Judah should rejoice because of God’s judgments.

And it speaks of strange reactions by some kings.

Some kings have assembled and passed by Jerusalem “together,” verse 4. It seems they have gathered together to destroy Zion, Then,

“5 They saw it, then they were amazed.
They were dismayed,
They hurried away.
6 Trembling took hold of them there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.”
Psa 48:5-7 WEB

This is evidently a psalm of thanks for a great victory from God. Their enemies have come in “ships of Tarshish,” which God has broken apart by a great east wind in verse 7. Mount Zion can be magnificent in many ways, and many in ancient times were impressed with strength of her fortifications. But merely seeing the city and being “amazed,” “dismayed,” and fleeing away? Since when has just seeing Zion caused coalitions of kings to run in panic?

Then look at this description of “Zion,” Psa 48:2

The KJV says it “is mount Zion, on the sides of the north.” What?? Sides of what?

The New American Standard 95 edition and others say it is Mount Zion in “the far north.” These are good translations, but physical Zion is NOT in the “far” north. The WEB says Zion is on “the north sides,” but it isn’t. It is on the east side of Jerusalem, facing the mount of Olives. It doesn’t make sense of physical Zion on earth. It contradicts reality. Further, no victory like this for “Zion” has ever happened, so far!

But we have come to heavenly Zion and Jerusalem, Heb 12:22. We have “not come to a mountain that might be touched,” Heb 12:17 WEB, at least physically

But the earthly are mere copies of the heavenly things,
Heb 9:24.

The kings of the earth will be gathered against God’s people at a final time in Rev 20:7-10 and many Old Testament passages. The heavenly Jerusalem will come down out of heaven for all to see, Revelation 21, and the kings of the earth and all opposition will flee away.

“ … from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.”
Rev 20:11 WEB

Psalm 48 then is a parallel to those passages in Revelation 20, and Zechariah and Ezekiel, and others. Physical Zion is symbolic, a type, of the heavenly throne where Jesus now sits Heb 8:1, etc.

But if you try to make Psalm 48 fit mere physical geography and history past, it makes no sense. The seeming “contradictions” are clues to a type.

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Why Types Can Confuse: Things Lacking

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Biblical types are where one person, place or thing is symbolic of another person place or thing. Such symbolism is sometimes called a “type.” The Greek word is tupos, and in Greek the fulfillment is sometimes called an anti-type antitupos. In 1Pe 3:21 in the KJV antitupos is translated as “The like figure,” and in the WEB it is translated as “symbol.” Such symbolism in Scripture is sometimes also called a “pattern” or a “shadow.”

A special son of David was to come, 2Sam 7:12.

This son was to build a temple of the Lord. This was discussed in some detail in two posts in early May, 2019 about “Two Sons of David.” Both Kings and Chronicles claim that Solomon fulfills this, and Solomon did build a temple to the Lord.

Perhaps there was some uneasiness from the first.

Of the son of David fulfilling 2Samuel 7 it was said that God would be a father to him and he would be God’s son. There were many kings of the ancient near East who claimed to be descended from “the gods.” Perhaps some had uneasiness about this claim for Solomon even from the first.

Also it said that God’s lovingkindness for this special son of David could NOT be lost, 2Sam 7:15! However, Solomon’s father David, speaking to Solomon by the Holy Spirit of God, said to Solomon,

“ … if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.”
1Chron 28:9 WEB

So David speaking by the Holy Spirit said that Solomon could loose God’s lovingkindness. That is quite a difference. And it says of Scripture,

“Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. ”
Prov 30:5 KJV

So how can Solomon be the son of 2Samuel 7?

And what about later, when Solomon’s kingdom
fell in 586 BC.

For the prophecy in 2Samuel 7 clearly says that,

“ … I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”
2Sam 7:13 WEB

And again.

“Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever. ”
2Sam 7:16 WEB

So what is the answer?

The answer of course is that two different men are being talked about in 2Samuel 7. Parts only fit Solomon, and parts only fit Jesus, and parts fit both, but in different ways. Two men are prophesied of in this one prophecy! A DUAL SUBJECT. Some are very dogmatic that one prophecy can only talk about one thing, but that is just not so. Two different “sons of David.” The other son of David is Jesus of Nazareth, and Heb 1:5 quotes 2Sam 7:14 of Jesus.

The seeming “contradictions” are the tipoff.

These contradictions tell us that more than one subject is involved in 2Samuel 7, two different “sons of David,” and one is only a type, a shadow of the other.

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Time Order in Types

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Quite often when God wants to tell us about what will happen in the future, He uses people, places or things which have happened in the past as examples of what will happen in the future. The examples are symbolic of what will happen in the future. The examples are sometimes called “types” in Scripture. We might in modern English call them “prototypes.”

Jesus is our passover lamb.

“ … For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.”
1Cor 5:7 WEB.

Of course the first passover lambs were sacrificed in Egypt around 1440 BC. They put the blood of the passover lamb on the door posts of their dwelling, and when angel of death came, he would passover their houses, and not strike them. But the yearly passover lambs were merely symbolic. Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment.

“The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
Jn 1:29 WEB.

So the symbolic was early and yearly. The ultimate fulfillment was nearly 1500 years into the future.

God will raise up a prophet like Moses.

That is what God said.

“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.”
Deut 18:18 WEB

A prophet “like you,” that is to say, like Moses. What would that mean? Well he would be a leader of God’s people. He would be a lawgiver and would bring a new law. He would lead God’s people into the promised land (heaven). And we could go on and on. Peter quotes this passage as applying to Jesus Christ in Acts 3:22. There is a great deal more to say about the ways that Moses is symbolic of Jesus Christ.

Notice that the “type” (Moses) was already present when the prophecy was given. Howerver, the fulfillment (Jesus) was about 1500 years into the future.

The promised land.

As was discussed in “The Author of Hebrews Identifies a Type:The Final Rest,” evidently the land of Canaan, the promised land, is symbolic of our final rest in heaven.

Canaan was taken over in the 15 century BC. The Final rest in heaven, is still yet to come.

The types often occur soon in history.

The original “abomination of desolation” (Dan 11:31) was evidently an idol set up in the temple in Jerusalem in the early 2 century BC in the times of the Greek King Antiochus Epiphanes. The ultimate fulfillment is sometime in the future. So Jesus says,

“15 When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.”
Mtt 24:15 WEB

The fulfillments are often in the distant future

Often times there is more than one type of an important person, place, or thing in the future. Moses, Solomon, the passover lamb, and more, are all types of Jesus the Christ.

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