Our Men’s book has been studying Exodus. It’s evident that the typology of the story of the Exodus is The gospel.
You mentioned that you couldn’t find much of the messiah in Leviticus. I think it would be very helpful to contrast an link the types and shadows found in the Levitical laws and ordinances to the New Testament realities found in heaven. Then connect their significance both present and future for believers and the Kingdom of God.
MSH
on August 26, 2015 at 11:40 am
I don’t see much in either testament where *a biblical writer* read something out of Leviticus and thought messiah. The modern Christian imagination isn’t the biblical writer. I assign interpretive authority of biblical content only to biblical writers, so if I don’t have a passage from one of them that says “this passage in Leviticus makes me think of messiah” or where one of them has intertextual links into Leviticus in some way (harder to detect since they are in Hebrew and aren’t direct citations), I don’t think there is a basis for such a claim. The book of Hebrews has several good examples, where the writer comments on certain items in Leviticus. What I see all too often is homiletical imagination with no textual roots. That doesn’t interest me.
Our Men’s book has been studying Exodus. It’s evident that the typology of the story of the Exodus is The gospel.
You mentioned that you couldn’t find much of the messiah in Leviticus. I think it would be very helpful to contrast an link the types and shadows found in the Levitical laws and ordinances to the New Testament realities found in heaven. Then connect their significance both present and future for believers and the Kingdom of God.
I don’t see much in either testament where *a biblical writer* read something out of Leviticus and thought messiah. The modern Christian imagination isn’t the biblical writer. I assign interpretive authority of biblical content only to biblical writers, so if I don’t have a passage from one of them that says “this passage in Leviticus makes me think of messiah” or where one of them has intertextual links into Leviticus in some way (harder to detect since they are in Hebrew and aren’t direct citations), I don’t think there is a basis for such a claim. The book of Hebrews has several good examples, where the writer comments on certain items in Leviticus. What I see all too often is homiletical imagination with no textual roots. That doesn’t interest me.