Teaching Tool of Prophetic Types

The Teaching Tools of Scripture

In particular the Torah (since the purpose of Torah was to write about Messiah, Joh 5:46), but also in the Hebrew Testament, we find, not only History that Prophesies of Messiah, but persons whose lives strangely contain amazing elements that mirror Messiah’s life and ministry. We say that Isaac is a prophetic type of Messiah, first, since he was the promised heir to Abraham, although there seemed no way in the natural that the promised could be fulfilled (Gen 18:10-11). The promise to Abraham mirrors the promise YHVH made to Eve, that through her a Seed would come who would break the head of the serpent (Gen 3:15), so that both Isaac and Messiah Yeshua are known as the Promised Seed in Scripture. Second, Isaac was bound to be sacrificed by his father Abraham, but then he was restored to life, seemingly miraculously (Gen 22:1-19). This event in Isaac’s life strangely coincides with the same event in Messiah’s life (Mat 26:39, 27:50, 28:5-7). Isaac is not the only type of Messiah in Torah or the Hebrew Testament; and in fact, the Hebrew Testament contains types of antichrist also.

Examples:
Genesis 18:1-21:21, The Promised Seed prophesied and realized
Genesis 22:1-19, The Akedah as a prophetic type
Genesis 41 and 42, Joseph a messianic type
Genesis 44:18-34, Judah’s request
Exodus 1:1-6:1, Finding Messiah in Shemot
Exodus 2 and 3, Moses the messianic type
Numbers 16:1-18:32, The messianic significance of Korah
Deuteronomy 25:17-19, Amalek the antichrist type
1 Samuel 17 and 18, David, a messianic type
2 Kings 23:31-24:7, and 2 Chronicles 36:1-8, Strong theme Chiastic structure
Esther 7 through 10, And the prophecy of persecution
Daniel 8, Spiritual and natural rulers
Malachi 1 and 2, Prophetic types in Scripture