2 types in 1 Sam 25:14-44

Type and Anti-types in the Bible

by Steve Janke

When talking about the Bible and we say this is a type or that is a type. What are we talking about?

The word “type” comes from the Greek word tuptein, to strike. In Webster's dictionary, type is defined as "to figure, to represent by a model or symbol beforehand.

Type is defined as person, object, or event in the Old Testament regarded as foreshadowing a corresponding reality in the New Testament.

What is an anti-type?

Antitype is defined as a person, thing, or idea represented by an earlier type or symbol, such as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.

The person or thing when it becomes evident or clearer is called the antitype.

How do we know whether we should be talking about this or not? Do we really need to learn or do this?

Heb. 10:1 = For the law, having a 1shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things,²

Col 2:16-17 = "Let no one, then, call you to account for what you eat or drink or in regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ."

Matt 13:34

Lk 8:9-10 = Christ spoke in parables and aphorisms.

PS 78:1 = God spoke differently “I will open my mouth in a 3parable;…”

According to C. I. SCOFIELD, he defines it this way:

1. Nothing may be insisted upon as a type without explicit NT authority (e.g. Eph 5:22-32);
2. All types not so authenticated must be recognized as having only the authority of analogy, of spiritual congruity.

“Wherever a person assumes a thing to be symbolic of something else in the Bible, the Bible must itself interpret the symbol or it cannot be accepted as symbolic.” (Copyright 1998: William A. Simpson)

What are some types in the Bible?

1. Adam is a type of Jesus, Romans 5:14
2. Melchizedek was called the "King of Righteousness”, Hebrews 7:3
3. The brazen serpent was a foreshadowing of the lifting up of Messiah on Calvary, John 3:14-15

We have types because God loves to communicate in and with symbolism. See attached,

These symbolisms we call types. It helps us humans put in a class or category, the item. To get a grasp of understanding..

1. Heb. 8:5

2. The New King James Version. 1982 (Heb 10:1). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

3. Matt. 13:34, 35

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2 types in 1 Samuel 25:14-44

Its ice-cream!

Here God displays his glorious creativity and symbolism in a story of events. He puts the story together so that the construction in and of itself is symbolic, a type and an antitype. Like presenting us a bowl of ice cream half vanilla and half chocolate.

Let’s read it together. Are there any types here? Any anti-types?

1 Abigail type of Christ and David type of man:

1. v. 19 she sends her servants ahead of her.
   1. To prepare the way.
   2. She is coming after them
2. v. 20 She saw him first
3. v. 23 She rode on a donkey
4. v. 23,24 She goes to him first
5. v. 24 she speaks first
6. v. 24 She came as a servant
7. v. 24 She offered herself up when she was innocent. “On me let this iniquity be!” Later she claims her innocence by saying she “did not see” v. 25. Jesus was innocent and has not seen sin of himself.
8. v. 37 The word cuts to the heart and bone (Heb 4:12-13), even when it is stone!
9. v. 41 She washed the [disciples] messengers feet

2 David as type of Christ and Abigail type of man:

1. V. 14 She was witnessed too.
2. V. 18 She bore fruit
3. V. 19 Like some of us she realizes her impending doom and searches for her redeemer and judge.
4. V. 28 She asks for forgiveness “Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant.”
5. V. 28-31 Knowledge of what to do and what is, comes from God. Even though a person may mix their own works in. Obedience to the Word teaches. “He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you iruler over Israel,”
6. V. 35 Whole household is saved from the judge (David).
7. V. 35 David cared about her heart, not the gifts.
8. V. 37 Abigail is a witness and follows the great commission. (Acts 1:8, Matt. 28:19-20)
9. V. 42 She followed the messengers (prophets of truth)
10. V. 42 She was married, the old is dead and gone! (Rom. 6:2-8, II Cor 5:17)

Abigail used words with intelligence. Indication of inspired knowledge about David. She used a play on words to either see David's reaction or for poetry. "…He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling"

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