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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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Prophecy is NOT Rigidly Chronological, 2Sam 7:12-16

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Sometimes it can hardly be chronological at all.

This prophecy in 2 Samuel 7 has two subjects in mind. The general subject is the building of the“house” of David, the family line of David. David had wanted to build “the house of God,” the temple of God. God told David that He would not allow David to build Him a house, because he had been a man of war, not a man of peace.

Instead, God tells David, that God will build a house of David, a family of David, which will last forever. Then He tells David that his son will “build a house for my name,” 2Sam 7:13.

“12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.”
2Sam 7:12-16 WEB

The issue is that Scripture says that this prophecy is fulfilled by Solomon (for instance in 1Kgs 8:17-20), but it also says that Jesus is the fulfillment of this prophecy. Hebrews 1:5 is a quotation from 2Sam 7:14 and applies it to Jesus the Christ!

“ … and again,
“I will be to him a Father,
And he will be to me a Son?””
Heb 1:5 WEB

Both Solomon and Jesus are “sons” (descendants) of David. Solomon built a literal temple, a literal house of God. Jesus, beginning in the first century of our age is building spiritual temple, a spiritual house of God, the church.

“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. ”
1Tim 3:15 KJV

How much time separate Solomon and Jesus?

Well, as a minimum, about 1,000 years. Notice that evidently Solomon is symbolic of Jesus, that is to say, Solomon is a “type” of Jesus. We might say in modern English that Solomon is a “prototype” of Jesus.

Notice that part of this does not fit Solomon at all.

Solomon’s kingdom was not “established forever,” 2Sam 7:16. Solomon’s kingdom ended in 586 BC when Jerusalem fell and the city was destroyed.

Notice that part of this does not fit Jesus at all.

Jesus was not a disobedient son of His Father, so the part, “if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;” (2Sam 7:14) does not apply to Jesus at all. The two subjects, Solomon and Jesus are intertwined, with no clear line of division.

You CANNOT divide up this prophecy by either subject
(Solomon and Jesus), or by time.

It just cannot be done. A full discussion of this prophecy and its fulfillment is in Prophecy Principles.

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Joseph, Never Referenced as a Type, Part III of III

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Joseph went to a far country to receive a crown.

Then Joseph was shipped off to a far country, where he became a leader of Egypt. Jesus also went to a far country to receive a crown. ““A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.” Lk 19:12 WEB. It was the far country of heaven.

“9 Now this, “He ascended,” what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.”
Eph 4:9-10 WEB

Near age 30, Joseph became second in command to all.

“Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.””
Gen 41:44 WEB

Joseph became the Vice-President of Egypt. Likewise Jesus became second in command. All authority is given Him in heaven and on earth, Mtt 28:18.

“ … But when he says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.”
1Cor 15:27 WEB

There is more than can be told here.

Joseph had a revealing to his brothers, and he told them who he really was in Genesis chapter 45. Jesus had a revealing to this world in the first century, and will yet be revealed as the True Christ of God to the Jews, and He will yet save the Jews as a nation, as all the prophets and Paul in Romans chapters 9 through 11 reveal.

Joseph did not take personal revenge, and indeed saved his brothers from death. So will Jesus, yet to come in history.

Is there a more perfect type of Jesus than Joseph?

There is much more to tell of the parallels between Joseph and Jesus. One of the most important things to notice is that, despite all of these parallels between Joseph and Jesus, Joseph is NEVER mentioned in the New Testament as a type of the Christ!

NOTICE: Not ALL types and shadows are IDENTIFIED.

If we study types and shadows, can we make mistakes, and perhaps “see” things which are really not there? Yes, that is possible.

“… In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”
2Pe 3:16 WEB

Even so, not everything is spelled out. We are supposed to use our heads and think and learn from the many Biblical examples of both good and evil. We must read and think and learn!

To not use the Bible examples/types of both good and evil is like playing with half a deck of cards.

We are warned, “Don’t despise prophesies.” 1Thes 5:20 WEB.

If we make a point of avoiding prophecy and the symbolism/typology of prophecy, then we also avoid the many warnings and admonitions we should heed, and will never come close to having or delivering “the whole counsel of God,” Acts 20:27 WEB.

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Joseph, Never Referenced as a Type, Part II of III

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Joseph had many trials, had much unjust treatment

First he is sold into slavery for no just reason. Later he is falsely accused of sexual immorality because he will not engage in immorality, and is thrown into prison.

Jesus likewise will not be a part of misconduct, and denounces it, and becomes a political target.

“Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.”
Mtt 22:15 WEB

“They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.”
MTT 26:4 WEB

Joseph was symbolically killed

He was committed to a pit with plans to kill him. “Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits …” Gen 37:20 WEB. It was a pit with no water in it, Gen 37:24.

Hades (Greek) or Sheol (Hebrew) is the world of the dead. It also is associated with a pit.

“Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.”
Psa 30:3 WEB

“For Sheol can’t praise you, death can’t celebrate you:
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.”
Isa 38:18 WEB

It is called in Greek abussos, the abyss, or bottomless, Rev 9:1, Rom 10:7. Further, as a prison it is a place without water.

“… I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.”
Zech 9:11 WEB

The rich man in hades, in anguish in the flames, pleads for Lazarus to be sent with a drop of cool water to cool his tongue, Lk 16:24

Both Joseph and Jesus were sold for silver

Then Joseph was sold out by his brothers for silver. He was at least symbolically killed, and to at least his dad, he was sincerely counted as dead.

Jesus was sold out by His brother Jews, opposed and targeted because he will not turn a blind eye toward their abuses of others, or their abuses of Scripture. Jesus was also betrayed for silver, a mere thrity pieces, Mtt 26:15. He was quite literally murdered in a rigged trial, when it was known that He was innocent of all of the charges.

Joseph was rescued from the pit

“and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. ”
Gen 37:28 WEB

Symbolically Joseph is rescued from death. Jesus told ahead of time that He would spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, Mtt 12:40.

“or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
Rom 10:7 WEB

During that time Jesus preached to the spirits in prison to those who died in the flood.

“19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, …”
1Pe 3:19-20

And of course, Jesus was rescued from death, never to die again.

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Joseph, Never Referenced as a Type, Part I of III

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The purpose here is to show how Joseph son of Jacob was such an excellent type or shadow, symbolic of Jesus the Christ. The fidelity with which he foreshadowed Jesus is astonishing. However, he is never cited in the New Testament as a type of the Christ.

Joseph reported on the bad conduct of his brothers

Joseph as a mere boy of seventeen was pasturing the sheep with his brothers, and he brought back to his father a bad report of the conduct of his brothers, Gen 37:2. Also Jesus reported on the bad conduct of his brothers to His Father.

“He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.”
Jn 1:11 WEB

In chapter after chapter Jesus testified against all the bad conduct of the Jews, but only some of the poor would repent. The leaders tried to prevent the repentance and change of anyone!

Joseph was loved above all of his brothers

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, …”
Gen 37:3 WEB

We all know the story of the colored robe which his father made him. Similarly, Jesus was a special son of His Father, and who especially loved by Him. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”Mtt 3:17 WEB

And God emphasized the same thing before the apostles in Mtt 17:5. And of the Son He says,

“You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
Heb 1:9 WEB

Josephs brothers were jealous of him.

“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,”
Acts 7:9 KJV

So it was also with Jesus. Pilate “knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.” Mtt 27:18 WEB

Joseph brothers hated him.

“Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.”
Gen 37:5 WEB

And the Jews hated Jesus.

“The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.”
Jn 7:7

“If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.”
Jn 15:24

Joseph was committed to the pit

His own brothers were going to kill Joseph. “Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, …” Gen 37:20 WEB. They did cast him into a pit, to let him suffer there.

Jesus in fact was murdered, and was put to suffer in what Rev 9:1 WEB calls “the pit of the abyss.” The KJV translates the Greek word abussos as bottomless in Rev 9:1, and as “deep” in Rom 10:7. This is the pit where Jesus went for you and me.

“Or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (that is to bring up Christ again from the dead.”
Rom 10:7 nf

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nf is my own translation based on the WEB