The Experience of Christ in the Local Church Described in the Old Testament Types
The Old Testament presents countless types and prefigures of Christ in order to expand and enrich our understanding of the real experiences of Christ in the New Testament. The Old Testament is replete with types of our corporate experience of Christ portrayed in various aspects of God’s habitation (the tabernacle, the temple, the house of God, the sanctuary, the flock, and Zion). A selection of these types is outlined below:
1. Experiencing Christ in the Priesthood and Kingship
2. Offering Christ as the Real Worship to God
3. Experiencing Christ as Our Garment of Wrought Gold and Embroidered Work
4. Experiencing Christ as Our Retreat
5. Experiencing Christ as Our Tower
6. Experiencing Christ as Our Guide
7. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Helps the Helpless
8. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Delivers Us and Applies His Victory to Us
9. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Strengthens What He Has Wrought for Us
10. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Provides the Revelation We Need
11. Experiencing Christ as the One Whom We Take As Our All
12. Experiencing the Crucified and Resurrected Christ at the Two Altars
13. Experiencing Christ as the Descending Grace
14. Experiencing Christ as the Shepherd Who Brings Us Back to the Rivers and into the Fat Pasture
15. Experiencing Christ as the Shepherd Who Causes Us to Lie Down
16. Experiencing Christ as the Shepherd Who Strengthens and Heals Those Who Were Sick
17. Experiencing Christ as the Shepherd Who Breaks All Yokes and Sets Us Free
18. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Showers Us with Blessing
19. Experiencing Christ as the Plant of Renown to Supply Us and Make Us a Garden
20. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Measures Us to Deepen the Flow
21. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Causes Everything to Live
22. Experiencing Christ as the One Who Swallows Up Death by Life
23. Experiencing Christ as the Drink Offering—Poured out for God’s Interest
These twenty-three examples from the Old Testament portray in exquisite detail the multifaceted experience of Christ that can be partaken of in the local church.
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