Topic: Types and shadows

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What does the brass serpent in the wilderness have to do with healing through Jesus Christ?

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Let’s read a little farther. Don’t bow down to them. Don’t serve them. Destroy their images. You shall serve the Lord your God. And He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness out of the midst of thee. (Hallelujah.) God said that. If God said that in the type of the journey, how...

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What do the crow and the dove on the ark illustrate?

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Even put it back in the ark, in the destruction of the world. There was the crow and the dove setting on the same roost. One was just as much bird as the other one was. Is that right? But what was it? One was a crow by nature, and the other was a dove by nature. One could fly just like the other one...

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What were Cain and Abel types of?

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Now, Cain and Abel was both very religious men, and one of them was the type of Christ, and the other was the antichrist. Cain was just as religious as Abel was. Amen. Notice him. Then many times you notice, looky here, as Cain killed Abel at the altar, so did Judas kill Jesus at the altar, which Ca...

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What does the wedding garment represent?

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Brethren, there’s no big me and little you then, when you come by the way of the Door. And then He found a man back there that didn’t have a wedding garment on. He come in some other way besides of the door. And Jesus said, “Friend, what are you doing here?” And he was speechless. And you try to cli...

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What do the stages of Elijah and Elisha's journey to the Jordan represent in the history of the church?

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First stage: Martin Luther stage: first stage of the journey. Second stage was the school of the prophet. Elijah went up there and he said to Elisha, “Now, you stay here, I pray thee, for the Lord is calling me to Jordan. But Elisha was really a prophet. He said, “As the Lord lives and your soul nev...

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In the type of Moses and Joshua, what does each one represent?

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Looky here. The organized church was Moses, the law-giver. And the law-giver, Moses, glorified himself in the stead of God, and wasn’t permitted to take the children over Jordan. And the church today is glorifying themselves: “I belong to the Assemblies”; “I belong to the Church of God”; “I belong t...

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What is the double portion that was promised to the church?

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Keep your eyes on Jesus. Watch. Jesus was a type of the church. He was standing one day and a woman run up, said, “Well, I want my son to set on one side and one on the other.” Said, “Can you drink the cup that I drink?” She said, “Yes, Lord.” Said, “Truly, you can. But can you be baptized with the...

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What was the manna laid up in the holiest of holies a type of?

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And now, watch, the manna kept falling. Now, Moses told Aaron, go out and take up several omer-fulls of it, and put it back in the holiest of holies around the ark, that after this, that every priest (Get it?), every priest coming into the priesthood could have a mouthful of the original manna that...

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What did the brass serpent Moses put on a pole represent?

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Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. M...

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Why was the brass serpent lifted up in the wilderness?

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God provided an ark for the saving of the household of Noah and his family. God prepared twelve stones by Elijah one time, for the preserving of the children of Israel. God’s always made a provided way. When they was in the wilderness, and the first thing you know, sin set in. Now, watch! Here’s one...

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Why did Moses lift up the brass serpent?

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But the serpent was raised up for a compound reason, that they might be forgiven and healed. So help us tonight, Lord. As Thou did say here on earth, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent,” the same way, be lifted up, the Son of man, same reason, forgiveness of sin, healing of the body. Then if the...

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What are the 'three Bibles' God wrote?

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God’s wrote three Bibles: one, the Zodiac, one in the pyramids, one on paper. Now, He’s writing His first, the Zodiac. It starts off with a virgin, ends up with Leo the lion: Jesus’ first coming and His second coming. If we had time to run down through it, you’d see it. But He writes that because He...

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What does the land of Canaan represent?

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Now, when He brought the children of Israel out of the wilderness, out into the wilderness, He led them by a Pillar of Fire. Is that right? The Bible said He did, and He went before them. That was the Anointing, the Holy Spirit, Christ, that went before the children of Israel. Well, if He’s the same...

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Why did Aaron's priestly garment have bells and pomegranates on its hem?

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Why, when Aaron, the great priest, when he went into the Holiest of holies, packing the blood, they had to dress him a certain way, and he had to walk a certain way. He had to be a witness for God. And he took the blood and he went forward. And on the hems of his garments, at the bottom, was a bell...

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What did David's five stones and five fingers spell out?

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Little David starts. When he gets about in the sling throw, he had…Watch, he had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped up in five fingers, f-a-i-t-h. Brother, he got the thing to working right, around and around and around.

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What do Gilgal, the school of the prophets and Jordan represent?

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Three places. Justification, Gilgal; sanctification, the school of the prophet; and to the baptism of the Holy Ghost, at Jordan, where Jordan represents death. Notice! Martin Luther; John Wesley; Pentecost, down to the Jordan, dying-out time.

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What was the first Bible ever written?

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What’s He doing? He is writing His first Bible. The first Bible was ever written, was written in the skies, the Zodiac. It starts out with the virgin, that’s how He come first. It ends up with Leo the lion, the second Coming. And He is writing His first Bible.

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What does God taking a rib from Adam's side typify?

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A beautiful type there, all in type, of God taking from the side of Christ, the Bride. See? God opened up Adam’s side, taken a rib; which, a man has one less rib than a woman, in the structure of the—the body. And now God opened up the side of Christ, in the…at Calvary, and taken out the Bride. The...

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What does brass symbolize in Scripture?

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The children of Israel had come up out of Egypt. They got into the wilderness, begin to murmur. God sent fiery serpents among them and bit them, they were dying, by the thousands. And then He made an atonement, a brass serpent. Oh, how beautiful! That brass serpent, speaking of judgment, “Divine jud...

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What did Balaam fail to see about Israel?

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But where Balaam failed, to see that Brazen Serpent and that smitten Rock going before Israel, making atonement. It was God’s calling, God’s election. They were God’s people. Hallelujah! God had called them and separated them, and put a Serpent before them (as an atonement) and a smitten Rock, and B...