Topic: Types and shadows

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness foreshadow?

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Jesus said, “I can, if you believe.” Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won’t believe on...

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What did the fig leaves in the garden of Eden represent?

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Man has always wanted to make his own way. In the garden of Eden, God made a man so he didn’t have to shift for nothing. God made him perfect, but man wanted his own way. He wanted to tamper. He wanted to find out. And then as soon as he fell…We’ve went through that this week, in the studies of the...

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Matthew 24:28: (The person’s coming right down. They never signed it; yes they did. I beg your pardon. I won’t call these names, because it’s not necessary. See?) Matthew 24:28: “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Who is the carcase and who are the eagles?

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Now, that’s a good question, nothing wrong with that! What is the carcase? The carcase is what the eagles feed on. Now, a eagle is considered in the Bible, a prophet. A prophet is a eagle. God—God calls Himself a Eagle, and we’re “eaglets” then, the—the believers. You see? And what is the carcase th...

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What did Jesus mean in Saint Matthew 16:9 and 10? What do the twelve baskets and the seven baskets represent? Question for Sunday morning.

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Let’s see—let’s see, Matthew 16:10. I’m not too sure just now. Let me get where it’s at, Matthew 16:9 and 10—16:9 and 10. Here we are. Do you not…understand, neither remember the five loaves or the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves or the four thousand, and ho...

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What do the stones in the…represent in Revelation 21:19 and 20?

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If you wish to take the time to open your Bibles, which we haven’t too much time now, but I’ll try to answer them quickly. Revelation twenty-…I believe it’s 21:19 and 20. Yes. All right, in there you’ll find out that he was talking of the stones that was in the building. And the stones were foundat...

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What did the scarlet thread in Genesis 38 represent?

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The scarlet thread, if you’ll notice, it was Judah. And he had sons, and one of his sons married a Canaanite woman. And this Canaanite woman didn’t have any children, and his son died. Then, the law then was to take…the next son had to take the brother’s wife, and raise up seed to the dead. And the...

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Why did God say He would give the land little by little instead of all at once?

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Now, look. God said, “I’m not going to give it to you all at one time. If I give it to you at one time, if I do, then you’ll…the whole land will swept bare, then the wild beasts will multiply against you, and will overcome you. I’m just going to give it to you little by little, as you’re able to pos...

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Why was Moses not allowed to enter the promised land?

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How many knows that you can—you could send your soul to hell with a Divine gift? Sure, you can. You have to watch what you’re doing. How many believe Moses was God’s prophet? Say, “Amen.” He was God’s prophet, but do you know what he done? God told him to go down there and speak to the rock. The roc...

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What was the Tree of Life, and who guarded it?

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Now, the Tree of Life, I believe, was Jesus Christ. “He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has Everlasting Life.” He is the Tree of Life. God was guarding It with a Cherubim, an Angel with a flaming sword.

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What does brass stand for in the Bible?

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Now, God showing in the—the type: Now the first thing, the pole represented “the cross,” the wood. The serpent itself, being a serpent, spoke of “sin already judged,” for God had judged the serpent in the garden of Eden. But brass spoke of “Divine judgment,” which was, like the brazen laver. In the...

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What do the three stages of Israel's journey — Egypt, the journey, and Palestine — stand for?

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If I ever get a chance again, maybe over in the next little city, you’ll be over there anyhow. So you come over. I’m going to get a chance to talk on that over there: show you in the Bible, that’s the truth. Now, we’re going to talk about a journey, how that God brought His people out of Egypt into...

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Is the land of Canaan a type of heaven?

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Now, a lot of people apply Canaan, to being over in the promise land, to being the type of heaven. No, it couldn’t type heaven. It’s the stages of the journey of the Church. They had wars and everything over in Canaan. There’s no wars in heaven, you know. So they had dying, and murders, and everythi...

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What does the moon reflecting the light of the sun picture about the Church?

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Oh, I think of that. I think of it in Genesis when the—when God made the sun and made the moon. Now, the moon is the wife of the sun. Now, when the sun goes away, the moon reflects the light of the sun (Is that right?) on the earth. And now, when Jesus was taken away, we are the Bride which is the m...

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What does the smitten Rock stand for, and what poured out of it?

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John 3:16 is a perfect type of this Church today, for us. That’s the smitten Rock, Christ, God’s judgments. We being worthy of death, worthy of all this condemnation, and the judgments of God smote the Rock, Christ; and out of Him poured out everlasting water, that a perishing people might not peris...

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In the parable of the net cast into the sea, what comes up besides fish?

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Here’s a Gospel preacher of…As like unto the Kingdom of heaven, a man went forth and cast the net into the sea, and when he drawed the net in, that’s the Gospel. And when he drawed it in, he had some fish in there. He had some crawfish in there. And he had some turtles in there. And he had some snak...

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Why was Jesus born in a stable rather than a house?

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Let’s look down along the line now, with a—with a mental vision. I see standing along the line, rich women with babies with little lace handwork garments, holding a lamb, a rich baby’s offering. Way down along the line, I see a little girl about eighteen years old with a veil over her face, poorly d...

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What does brass stand for in the Bible?

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Oh, I wished I had time to go into that right now, what brass means. Brass speaks of “Divine judgment.” The laver at the altar, where the sacrifice was offered, it was a brazen altar, where the lambs were throwed, the sacrifice, judgment, Divine judgment. Look back there…Moses, when he lifted up the...

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Why did Aaron wear bells on the hem of his garment when he went into the holiest of holies?

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Aaron when he went into the holiest of holies once a year, he had to wear a certain kind of a garment, and he had to be anointed, and he had to take blood with him. Is that right? And on the hem of his garment he had a pomegranate and a bell—a pomegranate and a bell; and as he walked he had to make...

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Why was a portion of the manna kept in the holiest of holies?

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Now, Aaron as soon as the first manna fell, God told Aaron and Moses, “Go out there and pick up several omer’s full of it and put it back in the holiest of holies, that when your children children, all that come into the priesthood, will get a taste of the original manna.” Oh, what a privilege when...

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How was Joseph a type of Christ?

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[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] God told Moses now…Before you leave, wish we had time to back it up a little bit, pick up how they went down into Egypt. God prophesied through Abraham, said his seed would sojourn in a strange land for—for four hundred years. And then He would bring them out with a strong h...