Author: PJD
Company: SymCast

©1998  Joe Griffin		     						98-08-09-B/JSH-005

Introduction: Types in the Pentateuch: Feasts: Tabernacles; Numbers: Obedience Testing; Deuteronomy: Obedience Implored

Psalm 27:5 - In the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tent.  In the secret place of His tent He will hide me.

y. This same protection extends to the exigencies of cosmos diabolicus:

Psalm 31:20 - You do hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man.  You do keep them secretly in a tent from the strife of tongues.

z. Such provision, protection, and tranquility is the environment for the future Millennial kingdom:

Isaiah 4:6 - There will be a tent to give shade from the heat by day and refuge and protection from the storm and rain.

aa. Thus it can be seen that the same God of Israel Who provided every need in the Jornada is the One Who will provide every need during the Millennial rest.
bb. Finally there is the image of this temporary earthly body which will be replaced by a more perfect and permanent dwelling place at the Rapture.

2 Corinthians 5:1 - We know that if the earthly tent [ biological life ] which is our house [ ο’ικια, oikia:  earthly residence for soul life ] is torn down [ physical death ], we have a house [ ο’ικια, oikia:   resurrection body ] from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

cc. Therefore, the Feast of Tabernacles is a type for the logistical grace support provided by God to the believer in the Jornada of the    Devil’s world and is the image of the permanent physical body supplied for the eternal state at the various stages of the first resurrection.

dd. Remember, the first resurrection consists of four stages: (1) The resurrection of Jesus Christ at the close of the dispensation of the    Incarnation, (2) the Rapture at the close of the dispensation of the Church, (3) the resurrection at the close of the Tribulation and the dispensation of Israel, and (4) at the close of the dispensation of the     Millennium.

Numbers: (Bemidbar: “In the Jornada”)

4) Presents a redeemed people who have been taught the procedure for serving God through worship and executing His plan by keeping His mandates.

a. Numbers provides the Israelites with tests and challenges designed to train them to execute the spiritual life assigned them by    God.
b. The book thus documents the complete failure of the first generation to comply and indicates that the the second generation    was willing to be trained to take the land.
c. This book documents the events in the Jornada between the second month of the second year to the tenth month of the fortieth year.  It covers the  departure from Mount Sinai all the way to  the arrival at    the Plains of Moab on the eastern shore of the Jordan River.
d. The book demonstrates God’s grace policy toward the Israelites who were all believers.  This policy provided unconditional     logistics and protection accompanied by divine discipline to those who failed to follow divine instructions and directives.
e. The divine objective was to teach the Israelites to place their entire trust in Jehovah Elohim along with a disciplined adherence to His Word revealed through Moses.
f. The first generation failed to learn or execute the plan of God although they had Moses’ leadership, the Shekinah Glory’s    presence, and the Law’s direction.
g. Therefore, Numbers could have been a history of how God’s people walked in wheel-tracks of righteousness all the way to the Promised Land.
h. Instead, it became a documentary of the failure of a redeemed but rebellious people who come to typify the believer in the Church Age who, although saved, refuses to execute the Christian way of life.

Deuteronomy: (Elleh haddevarim: “These are the words”)

5. Moses’ commencement address to the graduates of the Sinai Seminary, the Sinai Military Academy, and the Sinai School of Government.    It reiterates the Law and stresses the importance of obedience to God’s Word.

a. The title “Deuteronomy” is taken from the Greek and means “Second Law.”  However, it is not a “second” Law in the sense of an   update, addition, revision, or, in the parlance of the day, a redaction.  It is a reiteration and summary by Moses of the Law given at Mount Sinai.
b. His great emphasis is on the imperative of obedience.  Israel’s compliance with divine mandates is the key to entering the land,    taking the land, and holding the land; it is the source of all blessings and rewards and noncompliance is the cause of all cursing and discipline.
c. The address is Moses’ final official public act before he went to Mount Nebo to die.  It is Moses’ “Auld Lang Syne” for Israel,     recalling to mind all their experiences beginning with the Exodus and ending with   the arrival at the Jordan River.
d. Since obedience to the Word is stressed, our Lord often used quotes from Deuteronomy during the Incarnation.  The book is quoted in the New Testament at least 98 times.

11- Let’s review by noting the major subject found in each of the five books of the Pentateuch:
1) Genesis: Beginnings
2) Exodus: Redemption from Egypt
3) Leviticus: The rebound, worship, and service of a redeemed people.
4) Numbers: Divine supervision of the spiritual life with blessings for compliance and discipline for   noncompliance.
5) Deuteronomy: Obedience

12- Within these five books is introduced quite a number of  theological concepts which are communicated through types, or typology.

13- Before  moving on, I want to give you a rather technical definition of typology from the writings of Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer:

Chafer, Lewis Sperry.  Soteriology.  Vol. 3 of Systematic Theology.  Dallas: Dallas Seminary Press, 1948; pp. 116-17:

A type is a divinely purposed anticipation which illustrates its antitype. These two parts of one theme are related to each other by the fact that the same truth or principle is embodied in each.  It is not the prerogative of the type to establish the truth of a doctrine; it rather enhances the force of the truth as set forth in the antitype.  On the other hand, the antitype serves to lift its type out of the commonplace … and to invest it with riches and treasures hitherto unrevealed.

14- In the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Dr. Chafer expresses a very insightful concept in which he asserts that types and their antitypes form a unity which could only occur by means of divine revelation.

Chafer, Lewis Sperry.  Bibliology.  Vol. 1 of Systematic Theology.  Dallas: Dallas Seminary Press, 1948; p. 31:

A true type is the counterpart of its antitype, and, being specifically devised by God, is a vital part of revelation and inspiration.  Even if the human mind could conceive the marvels of the antitype (which it could never do), it could not draw the pattern found in the type nor invent the manifold details—often incorporating many particulars and expansive circumstances which are a part of ancient history.  Thus typology as incorporated in the Bible demonstrates the Bible to be such a book as man could not write if he would.