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Gleanings: Reloaded; originally posted by Josh'sGen
Topic Started: April 30, 2012, 2:16 pm (692 Views)
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Post: Gleanings: Reloaded

Posted by: Joshua's Gen

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Rule number one: There will be no setting of dates in here.
No hinting, speculating, alluding, nadda. (/stern face)

Now I put on my happy face! :D: (smile) :B:

A refresher...
(Either that or there's a glitch in the Matrix)

Welcome.. :):

This is just really kindv'e a place I made to store & gather (online) gleanings I've picked up in the past, and perhaps also to currently retrieve any other gleanings from fellow members.

Feel free to drop anything that you feel would be applicable.

Until then, I'll just be talking to myself, and hopefully you'll learn a thing or two in the meantime about God's perfect Word.

;):

Purpose of thread:

Submission and gathering of prophetic gleanings & redemptive truths, etc..

To kickstart, I should make special mention of the fact that I personally, (as if some of you didn't already know!), have had a special interest regarding the area of typology and the usage of shadows & parallels contained in the Word of God - furthering in my mind, and others, the fact that God's Word is perfect, and divine. Written with pattern, and a purpose.

Gleanings aren't soley restricted to this area, but a great deal of what I post will probably be connected to such things.

That area is prophetic in nature, IMO - and prophecy was my first love in regards to studies of the Bible.

For those ignorant, firstly..
the definition of a "type" is:

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A figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, such as an event in the Old Testament that foreshadows another in the New Testament.
Same with "shadow":

1. An imperfect imitation or copy.
2. A mirrored image or reflection.
3. A faint indication; a foreshadowing.

We see Paul make mention of this thought in Hebrews 8:5:

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

And also..

Hebrews 10:1:
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

The tricky part is coming to a right conclusion & interpretation of God's Word - rightly dividing it.. and by no means taking away the fact that the word of God should first be interpreted literally unless otherwise called for in the passage..

I do not mean to butcher God's Word, and I hope no one here does either. But I realize, as I hope you come to too, that God's Word is rich, and can have double or triple + layers of application if properly handled..

I do not expect to have all truth, or my conclusions to go unchallenged.. If I'm shown to be in error, feel free to point it out or question it..

I think this is a good read for what I just discussed..

http://www.yashanet.com/studies/matstudy/mat1.htm

:):

A few simple examples are as follows..

Redemptive Truths...

The Ark of Noah

ONE ARK YET THREE STORIES.
ONE GOD YET THREE PERSONS.

* The Foundation - symbolic of the Father
* The Door - symbolic of the Son (John 10:9)
* The Window - symbolic of the Holy Spirit


A few diddies on the number of Eight.
A number that bears the significance of New Beginnings in scripture.

* Their are 8 biblical covenants God established with man, the eighth being the New covenant (Hebrews 8:8-12)
* On the 8th day after birth circumcision was to be performed in the covenant begun between God & Abraham.. (Genesis 17:12)
* Also, the "8th Day" since Creation is Eternity coming into place..
(Right after the "7th Day" of the Millennial Reign..)
When the "New Heavens" and the "New Earth" come into being.. (Revelation 21:1)
* The world was saved and started afresh by the space of 8 persons aboard Noah's Ark. (2 Peter 2:5)
* Jesus Christ, the Root and Offspring of David, resurrected from the dead on the 8th day! (Matthew 28:1-6)
* King David was the 8th in his line of family. (1st Samuel 17:12-14)
* Oxygen the eighth element in the periodic table having 8 protons 8 neutrons and 8 electrons.


That little fact about Oxygen, our very natural life source, happens to pair up well with the fact that it's also 888 - the number of Jesus in Greek gematria (our spiritual life source).




A few texts I thought were appropiate ~

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.



Edited by Servant, April 30, 2012, 2:18 pm.
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