Types and Shadows-Evidence of the Divine Fingerprint

The Feast of Passover foreshadows Christ

How does Passover, one of the most well-known feasts of Israel, foreshadow the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? The Feast of the Passover, is celebrated on the fourteenth of Nisan― the very day Christ was crucified. With Passover there are many other types and shadows of the death of Christ on the cross and also types anticipating salvation by His shed blood. The Passover feast commemorated the night when the blood of the lamb sacrificed was put on the doorposts of the houses of Israelites so that the angel of death would pass over the houses so marked. It didn’t matter whether...

Abraham and Isaac-human sacrifice or prophecy of Christ?

Was the story of Abraham and Isaac a sordid tale about child sacrifice, as some skeptics allege? Not a chance. Abraham's faith was not only being proven, but he and Isaac were in fact acting out prophecy. First of all, the choice of Hebrew words shows that God did not demand, but request of Isaac that he trust God enough to be willing to sacrifice the possession he most loved, the son of promise, Isaac. And Abraham had come to such a level of trust in God, that he figured that if Isaac dies, and the Lord said he promised many descendants through him, then the Lord is obviously...

There are over 100 ways that Joseph in the Old Testament was a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ

Did you know that many of the heroes of the Old Testament foreshadow the life of Jesus Christ in some fascinating ways? There are many prophetic types and shadows in the Scripture. Joseph, the one with the “coat of many colors,” is the son of Jacob who was sold by his brothers as a slave and ended up becoming a prince in Egypt. The following are a small sample of over 100 ways that Joseph is a prophetic type of Jesus Christ. In Genesis 37:4-5, 8, he is hated by his brethren because of his words. The antitype is fulfilled in John 5:18, 7:7, 8:40, and many other places where Jesus is hated...

How does Noah’s Ark prophesy the resurrection of Christ and salvation through Him?

Did you know that Noah's Ark points to Jesus' resurrection? And that the date the Ark landed in the mountains of Ararat is prophetic? The ark of Noah is referenced in the New Testament as a type of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and salvation through Him (1 Peter 3:18-22). In the Genesis account we see that God specified the exact day the ark came to rest: the seventeenth day of the seventh month, which represented a new beginning on the earth (Genesis 8:4). Why are we given this date in the story of the Ark? The Jewish New Year is celebrated in the fall, on the first day of the month...

The Christian Gospel in an Old Testament Genealogy?

When we read the Bible, many of us often find wading through some of the genealogies in the Old Testament to be boring and tedious. But believe it or not, there are some amazing discoveries in them that await the careful reader. In Genesis 5 a genealogy of ten names begins with Adam and goes to Noah. Each name in the Bible of course has a specific meaning, as names do today. As Chuck Missler points out, to get to the proper meaning, a study of the original roots making up the name is needed, and sometimes this is not provided by a standard lexicon or concordance.[1] When these...