Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1039. Biblical typology is the study of persons, events, and institutions in the Old Testament that God designed in advance to prefigure greater realities fulfilled in Christ and the new covenant. It is one of the most rewarding areas of biblical study once its rules are properly understood, and one of the most abused…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1189 Open the New Testament and you are never far from the Old. The apostles quote it, allude to it, and build their arguments on it, returning again and again to the words this was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet. They were Jewish men steeped in the Hebrew Scriptures, and when…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10158 Typology is one of the most important interpretive tools for understanding how the Old and New Testaments relate to one another. It is the recognition that God embedded patterns, persons, events, and institutions within the earlier stages of redemptive history that foreshadow and anticipate what He would later accomplish in Christ and in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10157 One of the most important principles for understanding biblical prophecy is the law of double reference, sometimes called prophetic double fulfilment. This is the observation that a single prophetic passage may address both a near-historical situation and a far-future eschatological reality, with the nearer event serving as a partial fulfilment or preview of…