Messianic Foreshadow

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

• [FORESHADOW] God rested on the seventh day. This rest points to the rest believers find in Christ → HEB 4:4; HEB 4:9-10 MEDIUM

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

And Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

• [FORESHADOW] God covered Adam and Eve with animal skins, a picture of sin covered by sacrifice → HEB 9:22 MEDIUM

“What have you done?” replied Yahweh. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

• [FORESHADOW] Abel's blood cries out from the ground. Jesus' blood speaks a better word → HEB 12:24; MT 23:35 MEDIUM

And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

• [FORESHADOW] The promised line would continue through Seth after Abel died → LK 3:38 MEDIUM

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

• [FORESHADOW] Enoch's bodily translation prefigures Christ's bodily ascension → HEB 11:5; MK 16:19 MEDIUM

Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

• [FORESHADOW] Noah's family is saved by going into the ark. The ark pictures salvation through Christ → 1PE 3:20-21

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

• [FORESHADOW] The flood came suddenly and swept away all who were outside the ark. Jesus said His coming will be like this → MT 24:37-39; 2PE 3:6-7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

• [FORESHADOW] God confused the languages at Babel and scattered the people → ACTS 2:5-11 MEDIUM

So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

That is why it is called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole world, and from that place Yahweh scattered them over the face of all the earth.

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

• [FORESHADOW] Sending away the slave woman and her son pictures the old covenant giving way to the new → GAL 4:22-31

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

• [FORESHADOW] Abraham was told to offer his only son whom he loved → JN 3:16; HEB 11:17-19

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.

• [FORESHADOW] Isaac carried the wood for his own sacrifice up the mountain → JN 19:17 MEDIUM

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

• [FORESHADOW] God Himself would provide the Lamb for sacrifice → JN 1:29

Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

• [FORESHADOW] A ram died in Isaac's place on the mountain where Yahweh would provide → 2CH 3:1; JN 1:29; MK 10:45 MEDIUM

And Abraham called that place Yahweh Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of Yahweh it will be provided.”

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

• [FORESHADOW] Jacob's ladder prefigures Christ as the bridge between heaven and earth → JN 1:51

I await Your salvation, O Yahweh.

• [FORESHADOW] Jacob waits for Yahweh's salvation → LK 2:30 MEDIUM

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

• [FORESHADOW] What Joseph's brothers meant for evil, God meant for good to save many lives → ACTS 7:9-10; ACTS 2:23 MEDIUM

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”

• [FORESHADOW] God reveals His name I AM → JN 8:58 MEDIUM

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

• [FORESHADOW] A spotless, blemish-free Lamb required for atonement → HEB 9:14; 1PE 1:19

The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

• [FORESHADOW] The blood of the Lamb saves from divine wrath → ROM 5:8

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

• [FORESHADOW] The Passover ordinance fulfilled in Christ our Passover → 1CO 5:7

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

When Yahweh passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

When you enter the land that Yahweh will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

• [FORESHADOW] Not one bone of the Passover Lamb to be broken → JN 19:31-36

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

• [FORESHADOW] Israel passed through the sea. Paul calls this a picture of baptism → 1CO 10:1-2

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

• [FORESHADOW] God would rain down bread from heaven → JN 6:32-35

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then place it before Yahweh to be preserved for the generations to come.”

• [FORESHADOW] A jar of manna was kept before Yahweh for later generations → REV 2:17; HEB 9:4 MEDIUM

Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

• [FORESHADOW] The Rock that gives life in the wilderness → 1CO 10:4

So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

• [FORESHADOW] This is the blood of the covenant → MT 26:28; HEB 9:18-20

And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

• [FORESHADOW] God would dwell among His people in the tabernacle → JN 1:14; HEB 8:5

And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.

• [FORESHADOW] God would meet His people above the mercy seat → ROM 3:25; HEB 9:5 MEDIUM

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

• [FORESHADOW] The veil separated the people from the Most Holy Place → MT 27:51; HEB 10:19-20

“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

• [FORESHADOW] Aaron was called by God to serve as high priest → HEB 5:4-5; HEB 7:26-27

The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to Yahweh.

• [FORESHADOW] The burnt offering was a pleasing aroma to Yahweh → EPH 5:2

Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

• [FORESHADOW] Day of Atonement prefigures Christ's once-for-all sacrifice → HEB 9:7; HEB 9:11-12; HEB 9:24-26

So he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them in the midst of their impurities.

No one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he leaves, after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.

• [FORESHADOW] The scapegoat carried the people's sins away into the wilderness → IS 53:6; JN 1:29; HEB 9:28 MEDIUM

The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

• [FORESHADOW] The sin-offering burned outside the camp foreshadows Christ's death outside Jerusalem → MT 27:33; HEB 13:11-12

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

• [FORESHADOW] The life is in the blood → MT 26:28; MK 10:45
• [FORESHADOW] It is the blood that makes atonement → ROM 3:23-24; 1JN 1:7

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

• [FORESHADOW] The firstfruits sheaf was waved on the day after the Sabbath → 1CO 15:20-23

And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

• [FORESHADOW] Fifty days were counted to the feast of new grain → ACTS 2:1-4 MEDIUM

You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to Yahweh.

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to Yahweh begins, and it continues for seven days.

• [FORESHADOW] The Feast of Tabernacles ended with a great eighth day → JN 7:37-38 MEDIUM

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

For seven days you are to present a food offering to Yahweh. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

• [FORESHADOW] The Jubilee proclaimed liberty to all the people → LK 4:18-19 MEDIUM

“This is the statute of the law that Yahweh has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.

• [FORESHADOW] A spotless red heifer was killed outside the camp for cleansing → HEB 9:13-14; HEB 13:12 MEDIUM

Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

“Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”

• [FORESHADOW] Water would flow from the rock for the people → 1CO 10:4 MEDIUM

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

• [FORESHADOW] The bronze serpent lifted up foreshadows Christ lifted on the cross → JN 3:14-18; 12:32

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. Yahweh their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

• [FORESHADOW] 'The King is among them' → Matt 1:23 MEDIUM

“May Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

• [FORESHADOW] Moses' request for a leader so the congregation be not as sheep without a shepherd → Matt 9:36; JN 10:11 MEDIUM

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

• [FORESHADOW] Cities of refuge gave safety to those who fled there → HEB 6:18 MEDIUM

You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

• [FORESHADOW] Exodus deliverance extended to messianic deliverance → LK 22:15-20

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

• [FORESHADOW] The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart → ROM 10:6-8 MEDIUM

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.

• [FORESHADOW] The scarlet cord in Rahab's window saved her whole household → HEB 11:31; JAS 2:25 MEDIUM

“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of Yahweh’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”

• [FORESHADOW] The Captain of the Lord's host → HEB 2:10 MEDIUM

The Commander of Yahweh’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

• [FORESHADOW] Boaz the kinsman redeemer buys back the land and takes Ruth as his wife → EPH 1:7; GAL 4:4-5

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

• [FORESHADOW] A faithful and lasting High Priest would arise → 1KI 2:35; HEB 2:17; HEB 7:24-25 MEDIUM

The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,

• [FORESHADOW] 'He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God' → HEB 1:8-9; JN 5:30 MEDIUM

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

• [FORESHADOW] Morning light at sunrise → LK 1:78; 2PE 1:19 MEDIUM

And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.

• [FULFILLS] A faithful and lasting High Priest would arise ← 1SA 2:35 MEDIUM

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

• [FORESHADOW] Elijah's bodily ascension foreshadows Christ's bodily ascension → LK 24:51 MEDIUM

Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• [FULFILLS] A ram died in Isaac's place on the mountain where Yahweh would provide ← GEN 22:13-14 MEDIUM

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

• [FORESHADOW] Job's longing for a Mediator fulfilled in Christ → 1TI 2:5 MEDIUM

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

• [FORESHADOW] The suffering righteous man is struck on the cheek by a crowd → MT 26:67; MK 14:65 MEDIUM

I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

• [FORESHADOW] Job's confession that his Redeemer lives and will rise → JN 5:24-29 MEDIUM

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

• [FORESHADOW] A mediator says spare him from the pit, I have found a ransom → 1TI 2:5-6; MK 10:45 MEDIUM

to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

• [FORESHADOW] The resurrection foreshadowed in David's hope of awakening → LK 24:6 MEDIUM

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!

• [FORESHADOW] 'The king shall rejoice in Your strength, O Yahweh' → PHIL 2:9 MEDIUM

For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.

• [FORESHADOW] Crown of pure gold set on His head → REV 19:12 MEDIUM

He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.

• [FORESHADOW] 'Length of days forever and ever' → HEB 7:16 MEDIUM

Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.

• [FORESHADOW] 'Honor and majesty You have laid upon Him' → JN 17:5 MEDIUM

A Psalm of David. Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall not want.

• [FORESHADOW] The Good Shepherd who lays down His life → JN 10:11; 1PE 2:25

Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.

• [FORESHADOW] 'Give the king Your judgments, O God' → JN 5:22 MEDIUM

May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, the people of its cities like the grass of the field.

• [FORESHADOW] The grain of wheat falling into the ground (His death and harvest) → JN 12:24-25 MEDIUM

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

• [FORESHADOW] God's angels guard the one who trusts Him; Satan misused this verse against Jesus → LK 4:10-11 MEDIUM

They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

• [FORESHADOW] Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts → HEB 3:7-8; HEB 4:7 MEDIUM

I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of Yahweh.

• [FORESHADOW] I will lift up the cup of salvation → MT 26:27-28 MEDIUM

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

• [FORESHADOW] He would be scourged (plowers plowed upon His back) → MT 27:26 MEDIUM

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

• [FORESHADOW] Foreordained from everlasting → JN 1:1-3; COL 1:15-17 MEDIUM

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

• [FORESHADOW] Who went up to heaven and came down, and what is the name of His Son → JN 3:13 MEDIUM

His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

• [FORESHADOW] The Altogether Lovely One → EPH 5:25-27; 5:32 MEDIUM

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

• [FORESHADOW] Given all authority → REV 3:7

For your husband is your Maker— Yahweh of Hosts is His name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

• [FORESHADOW] 'Your Maker is your husband' → EPH 5:25-27; 5:32 MEDIUM

Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which Yahweh made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

• [FORESHADOW] Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Is any sorrow like my sorrow → MT 27:39; MK 15:29 MEDIUM

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

• [FORESHADOW] On the third day He will raise us up → LK 24:46; 1CO 15:4 MEDIUM

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

• [FORESHADOW] He would be called out of Egypt → MT 2:15

And in that day, declares the Lord Yahweh, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

• [FORESHADOW] God would make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in the daytime → MT 27:45; LK 23:44-45 MEDIUM

Now Yahweh had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

• [FORESHADOW] Three days and nights in the heart of the earth → MT 12:40; 16:4

And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

• [FORESHADOW] A pagan city repented at one prophet's preaching → MT 12:41; LK 11:30-32 MEDIUM

Look to the mountains— the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

• [FORESHADOW] One would come on the mountains bringing good news and proclaiming peace → ROM 10:15 MEDIUM

On that day, declares Yahweh of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares Yahweh, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares Yahweh of Hosts.”

• [FORESHADOW] God would make Zerubbabel like His signet ring → MT 1:12-16; LK 3:27 MEDIUM

So the angel said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.”

• [FORESHADOW] Joshua the high priest had his filthy clothes removed and was dressed in clean robes → 2CO 5:21 MEDIUM

Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.

• [FORESHADOW] A crown was set on Joshua the high priest, joining priest and king → HEB 5:5-6 MEDIUM

After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

• [FULFILLS] God would make Zerubbabel like His signet ring ← HAG 2:23 MEDIUM

Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.

Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.

Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

• [FULFILLS] He would be called out of Egypt ← HOS 11:1

When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

• [FULFILLS] Moses' request for a leader so the congregation be not as sheep without a shepherd ← NUM 27:16 MEDIUM

The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

• [FULFILLS] A pagan city repented at one prophet's preaching ← JON 3:5 MEDIUM

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

• [FULFILLS] Abel's blood cries out from the ground. Jesus' blood speaks a better word ← GEN 4:10 MEDIUM

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

• [FULFILLS] The flood came suddenly and swept away all who were outside the ark. Jesus said His coming will be like this ← GEN 7:23

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

• [FULFILLS] Enoch's bodily translation prefigures Christ's bodily ascension ← GEN 5:24 MEDIUM

the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

• [FULFILLS] The promised line would continue through Seth after Abel died ← GEN 4:25 MEDIUM

For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully,

• [FULFILLS] God's angels guard the one who trusts Him; Satan misused this verse against Jesus ← PS 91:11-12 MEDIUM

and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

After taking the cup, He gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.

For I tell you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.”

And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

• [FULFILLS] On the third day He will raise us up ← HOS 6:2 MEDIUM

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

• [FULFILLS] Elijah's bodily ascension foreshadows Christ's bodily ascension ← 2KI 2:11 MEDIUM

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

• [FULFILLS] Foreordained from everlasting ← PROV 8:23 MEDIUM

He was with God in the beginning.

Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

• [FULFILLS] Jacob's ladder prefigures Christ as the bridge between heaven and earth ← GEN 28:12

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

• [FULFILLS] Who went up to heaven and came down, and what is the name of His Son ← PROV 30:4 MEDIUM

that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

• [FULFILLS] Abraham was told to offer his only son whom he loved ← GEN 22:2

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

• [FULFILLS] 'Give the king Your judgments, O God' ← PS 72:1 MEDIUM

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

• [FULFILLS] Job's confession that his Redeemer lives and will rise ← JOB 19:23-27 MEDIUM

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

• [FULFILLS] 'He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God' ← 2SA 23:3 MEDIUM

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

• [FULFILLS] God would rain down bread from heaven ← EX 16:4

For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

• [FULFILLS] The Feast of Tabernacles ended with a great eighth day ← LEV 23:34-36 MEDIUM

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

• [FULFILLS] God confused the languages at Babel and scattered the people ← GEN 11:7-9 MEDIUM

And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language.

Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?

Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,

both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

• [FULFILLS] What Joseph's brothers meant for evil, God meant for good to save many lives ← GEN 50:20 MEDIUM

Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

• [FULFILLS] What Joseph's brothers meant for evil, God meant for good to save many lives ← GEN 50:20 MEDIUM

and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

• [FULFILLS] It is the blood that makes atonement ← LEV 17:11

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

• [FULFILLS] God would meet His people above the mercy seat ← EX 25:22 MEDIUM

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

• [FULFILLS] The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart ← DT 30:12-14 MEDIUM

or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

• [FULFILLS] The Passover ordinance fulfilled in Christ our Passover ← EX 12:21-27

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.

• [FULFILLS] Israel passed through the sea. Paul calls this a picture of baptism ← EX 14:22

They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

• [FULFILLS] The Rock that gives life in the wilderness ← EX 17:6
• [FULFILLS] Water would flow from the rock for the people ← NUM 20:8 MEDIUM

that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

• [FULFILLS] On the third day He will raise us up ← HOS 6:2 MEDIUM

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

• [FULFILLS] Sending away the slave woman and her son pictures the old covenant giving way to the new ← GEN 21:10

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

• [FULFILLS] Boaz the kinsman redeemer buys back the land and takes Ruth as his wife ← RUTH 4:9-10

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

• [FULFILLS] The burnt offering was a pleasing aroma to Yahweh ← LEV 1:9

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

• [FULFILLS] The Altogether Lovely One ← SONG 5:16 MEDIUM
• [FULFILLS] 'Your Maker is your husband' ← IS 54:5 MEDIUM

to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

• [FULFILLS] The Altogether Lovely One ← SONG 5:16 MEDIUM
• [FULFILLS] 'Your Maker is your husband' ← IS 54:5 MEDIUM

For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

• [FULFILLS] Job's longing for a Mediator fulfilled in Christ ← JOB 9:32-33 MEDIUM
• [FULFILLS] A mediator says spare him from the pit, I have found a ransom ← JOB 33:23-24 MEDIUM

who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

• [FULFILLS] A faithful and lasting High Priest would arise ← 1SA 2:35 MEDIUM

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

• [FULFILLS] Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts ← PS 95:7 MEDIUM

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”

• [FULFILLS] God rested on the seventh day. This rest points to the rest believers find in Christ ← GEN 2:2-3 MEDIUM

God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

• [FULFILLS] Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts ← PS 95:7 MEDIUM

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

• [FULFILLS] God rested on the seventh day. This rest points to the rest believers find in Christ ← GEN 2:2-3 MEDIUM

For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.

No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.

• [FULFILLS] Aaron was called by God to serve as high priest ← EX 28:1

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

• [FULFILLS] Cities of refuge gave safety to those who fled there ← NUM 35:11-12 MEDIUM

one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

• [FULFILLS] 'Length of days forever and ever' ← PS 21:4 MEDIUM

But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.

• [FULFILLS] A faithful and lasting High Priest would arise ← 1SA 2:35 MEDIUM

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

• [FULFILLS] Aaron was called by God to serve as high priest ← EX 28:1

Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

• [FULFILLS] God would dwell among His people in the tabernacle ← EX 25:8

containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

• [FULFILLS] A jar of manna was kept before Yahweh for later generations ← EX 16:33 MEDIUM

Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

• [FULFILLS] God would meet His people above the mercy seat ← EX 25:22 MEDIUM

But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

• [FULFILLS] Day of Atonement prefigures Christ's once-for-all sacrifice ← LEV 16:15-17

That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

• [FULFILLS] This is the blood of the covenant ← EX 24:8

For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

• [FULFILLS] God covered Adam and Eve with animal skins, a picture of sin covered by sacrifice ← GEN 3:21 MEDIUM

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

• [FULFILLS] Day of Atonement prefigures Christ's once-for-all sacrifice ← LEV 16:15-17

Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

• [FULFILLS] The veil separated the people from the Most Holy Place ← EX 26:33

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

• [FULFILLS] Enoch's bodily translation prefigures Christ's bodily ascension ← GEN 5:24 MEDIUM

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

• [FULFILLS] Abraham was told to offer his only son whom he loved ← GEN 22:2

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

• [FULFILLS] The scarlet cord in Rahab's window saved her whole household ← JOSH 2:18 MEDIUM

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

• [FULFILLS] The sin-offering burned outside the camp foreshadows Christ's death outside Jerusalem ← LEV 16:27

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

• [FULFILLS] The scarlet cord in Rahab's window saved her whole household ← JOSH 2:18 MEDIUM

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

• [FULFILLS] Noah's family is saved by going into the ark. The ark pictures salvation through Christ ← GEN 7:1

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

• [FULFILLS] The flood came suddenly and swept away all who were outside the ark. Jesus said His coming will be like this ← GEN 7:23

And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

• [FULFILLS] A jar of manna was kept before Yahweh for later generations ← EX 16:33 MEDIUM

To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.

• [FULFILLS] Given all authority ← IS 22:22

He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.

• [FULFILLS] Crown of pure gold set on His head ← PS 21:3 MEDIUM