The Teaching Tools of Scripture
The history of Israel, recorded in Torah and the Hebrew Testament history books, is not merely simple history, but it is a history which prophesies of things to come. Most Christians are very aware of one example: Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt, on the night the Passover lambs were slain and their blood applied to the doorposts of their houses. This history actually happened, but this history also prophesies of our deliverance from slavery in the kingdom of darkness, when the blood of the Passover Lamb, Messiah Yeshua, is applied to the doorposts of our hearts. It is history that foretells the Gospel. However, this is not an isolated incident, but all the history of Israel recorded in Scripture likewise prophesies. Only the history of Israel contained in the Hebrew Testament prophesies in this manner, as Messiah Yeshua is the Word of God made flesh, and the substance which casts the shadow of the written Word—so that the written Word points to and reveals Him.
Examples:
Genesis 6:9-9:17, God Preserves the Righteous
Genesis 12:1-13:18, Torah: A Unique Book of History-Prophecy
Genesis 45, Forerunners in Gentile Courts
Numbers 1 and 2, Warfare in the Kingdom
Judges 5 and 6, And the Gideon Narrative
2 Kings 13 and 14, Joash King of Judah: History that Prophesies
2 Kings 23:28-24:20, Josiah King of Judah: History that Prophesies
2 Chronicles 14 and 15, The Sons of David in History and Prophecy
Psalm 81, Structures and Patterns
Jeremiah 15 and 16, The Destruction of the Wicked
Matthew 1, The Foremothers of Yeshua
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