Typology
Typology is something I am going to be using in many of my posts, so I am going to type this up once and link it whenever I use it. What is Typology? Mister Webster defines it thusly: "A doctrine of theological types; especially: one holding that things in Christian belief are prefigured or symbolized by things in the Old Testament." St. Augustine talks about this mystery when He says, "The New Testament is concealed in the old, and the Old is revealed in the New." Michael Barber (in his book, Coming Soon, Unlocking the Book of Revelation and Applying its Lessons Today ) describes typology this way, "God is the Author of all history, which He fashioned for the salvation of the world. When humans write books, we use words to signify realities.... God "writes" the world as men write books - except, instead of using only words, He can use historical realities to signify other historical realities. "An example is the Passover. Th...