Topic: Types and shadows

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What did the smitten Rock in the wilderness represent?

Answer

On up they come, into the smitten Rock. Notice when they come to the Rock, they had need. Now, Moses smote the Rock with the rod. That’s where we left last night. Smote the Rock with the rod, and the rod was God’s judgment rod. And he smote the Rock, and there was a cleft in the left side of the Roc...

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In the brass serpent, what did the serpent and the brass each represent?

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Brass, the serpent being made out of brass, meant “Divine judgment.” Now, the serpent was “sin already judged,” and the brass meant “Divine judgment.”

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What do Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph each represent?

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Call, election, in—in Abraham. Justification, in Isaac. Grace, in Jacob. Anybody that ever read Jacob’s life, know you have to believe in grace. It’s grace, in Jacob. And perfection, in Joseph, nothing against him, in the Bible; perfect man, perfect of Christ. Then we find out that the patriarchs al...

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When Elisha said to dig ditches in the desert, where did the water come from?

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They started to praying. And Elisha got in the Spirit and he saw a vision. Now, he said, when he saw the vision, he said, “Go out yonder in that desert, right where you’re at, and go to digging ditches. And the—dig them out. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’ll not hear any wind, any rain, but there’ll b...

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What was the manna kept in the holiest of holies a type of?

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Notice. Yes, on with this manna a minute. That manna was a type of the Holy Spirit. That’s right. God told Aaron, now, said, “You go out and pick up several omer fulls of it. Take it into the holiest of holies, and there keep it there. And every generation that comes down after this generation, one...

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

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Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was b...

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Why was Jesus born in a stable?

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Now, before this Redeemer could come in the days of our text, when Jesus had become very popular. Although He was born with an awful scorn, He came in by the way of a stable door and went out the way of capital punishment (Did you know that?), considered a fanatic, laughed at, spit upon, made fun of...

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

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And in the days when the children of Israel were journeying through the wilderness, God had a message of a brass serpent on a pole, provided for a compound reason: for forgiveness of sin and healing of their body from a snakebite, which their medical aids would not touch. And Moses was learned in al...

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What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it?

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Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you migh...

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What did the brass serpent in the wilderness represent?

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Now, closely, I want you to notice this. God shouldn’t have to have this, but He’s always had to have it, seemingly, some object that people could look to, some object like the brass serpent. Now, they should not have had that, they should’ve believed God. But for a memorial, that there’d been an at...

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What does Boaz redeeming Naomi and gaining Ruth show about Christ?

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He’s our Kinsman Redeemer. Isn’t that right? God was manifested in the flesh to take our place, to be a Kinsman to us. As in the Book of Ruth, and Exodus, and so forth, how it preaches, teaches there of how that we become kinsmen to God, and God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, became K...

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How does God's leading of Israel relate to what He is doing for the Church today?

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I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He’s doing for us spiritually today. We’re all very familiar with this Scripture that I’ve just read. And we’re going to try to set fort...

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How is the Holy Spirit like the fire in the burning bush?

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All right. Notice now, that…Then when God spoke to him, attracted his attention by a Pillar of Fire that fell into a bush and begin to burn and pop, and burn. Now, looks like if it was fire, it would’ve scorched the bush or burned it. But it was a supernatural Fire Who could burn the bush, and yet i...

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Why do we now speak to the Rock instead of smiting it?

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And the rod that Moses had in his hand, it was not the rod of Moses, it was the rod of God: God’s judgment rod. Moses held it out over Egypt and flies came up. He held it out and fleas came up. Wherever he dumped this rod, it was a judgment rod. It brought judgment upon a disobedient people. And the...

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How is the church today like the Israelites who complained after leaving Egypt?

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Maybe some of those poor Israelites…They left garlic and onions to eat Angel’s food, and was complaining about it. They had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the fountain of life, and were complaining about it. They had led—left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physic...

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Why was Moses told to speak to the rock instead of striking it a second time?

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Now, remember, Divine gifts can easily get a person into trouble. That God, if He finds someone that He figures that He can entrust a Divine gift with, we should reverence with all of our hearts… Now, you remember, how many believes Moses was a Divine gifted prophet of God? He was. Everyone believes...

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How is the Body of Christ like Solomon's temple?

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Now, one of these days the Body’s going to come together just like that. That’s right. Just like Solomon’s temple, cut out all over the world. But when it come together, there wasn’t a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer. It went right straight together. Every mis-fit cube went right to its right p...

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What did the law of the kinsman redeemer require?

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Now, look, I want you to notice something. Then when this, the only way that God Himself could ever redeem this man, was to come down and take his place. And that was a law that was given by Moses, of redemption, that it had to be through a kinsman redeemer; a man first who was worthy, a man who was...

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What does it foreshadow that Joshua, not Moses, took the people across Jordan?

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You notice one more thing before I close this series of this. Now, before…Now…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] shadows and types here has come on up to this hour. If that was shadow and type, then the rest of it must come to pass. Now, so that you’ll get this…And I want you ministers especially to get this....

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How is Joseph a type of Christ?

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Notice. They’re going down in there, how perfect it was with the Scriptures. How Joseph, the younger son, rejected of his brethren: Christ, rejected of His brethren. He wore a coat of seven colors, Joseph. And the seven colors, of course, represented seven colors in the rainbow, which was a covenant...