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Do these OT words direct references to Christ and not types or shadows? I'm speaking of LORD (YHWH), LORD God (Yahweh Elohim), God (Elohim) or Almighty (El Shaddai).
Is it true that we need to go beneath the surface of a word or statement to gain a true understanding of the meaning? Is Noah's Ark a type of Christ? See 1 Peter 3:20-22 (NIV).
We are told in 1 Cor 10:4 (ESV) that 'all drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, the Rock was Christ'. To which rock is Paul referring in the OT? We know that there are two Meribah incidents involving the rock (e.g. Ex 17:6-7 ESV; Num 20:10-13 ESV) that were about 40 years apart. The first one was at Horeb, Mt Sinai, which was near the start of their wandering in the wilderness. The last one happened at Kadesh which was as they were about to enter the Promised Land.
Matt 16:16-18 (ESV) and 1 Pet 2:4-8 (ESV) confirm Jesus as the Rock and the 1 Peter 2:6-8 example cites various passages from the OT to lend support for the statements. In 1 Cor 10:1-7a (ESV), Paul tells us that
The issue I am raising is: Do Christians have the right to create their own understanding of what is a type or shadow from the OT that is fulfilled in the NT or do we need the NT's confirmation that it is a type or shadow? To me, the latter seems to be the biblical means of identification.
How can we confirm that YHWH, Yahweh Elohim, Elohim, and El Shaddai are references to Christ in reality and not in type or shadow? What's the biblical evidence?
Oz
Do these OT words direct references to Christ and not types or shadows? I'm speaking of LORD (YHWH), LORD God (Yahweh Elohim), God (Elohim) or Almighty (El Shaddai).
Is it true that we need to go beneath the surface of a word or statement to gain a true understanding of the meaning? Is Noah's Ark a type of Christ? See 1 Peter 3:20-22 (NIV).
We are told in 1 Cor 10:4 (ESV) that 'all drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, the Rock was Christ'. To which rock is Paul referring in the OT? We know that there are two Meribah incidents involving the rock (e.g. Ex 17:6-7 ESV; Num 20:10-13 ESV) that were about 40 years apart. The first one was at Horeb, Mt Sinai, which was near the start of their wandering in the wilderness. The last one happened at Kadesh which was as they were about to enter the Promised Land.
Matt 16:16-18 (ESV) and 1 Pet 2:4-8 (ESV) confirm Jesus as the Rock and the 1 Peter 2:6-8 example cites various passages from the OT to lend support for the statements. In 1 Cor 10:1-7a (ESV), Paul tells us that
For I want you to know, brothers [and sisters] that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were....
The issue I am raising is: Do Christians have the right to create their own understanding of what is a type or shadow from the OT that is fulfilled in the NT or do we need the NT's confirmation that it is a type or shadow? To me, the latter seems to be the biblical means of identification.
How can we confirm that YHWH, Yahweh Elohim, Elohim, and El Shaddai are references to Christ in reality and not in type or shadow? What's the biblical evidence?
Oz