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by Floyd R. Cox
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BIBLE CODE & DUALITY
Symbolism, Type, Anti-type, Forerunner, and Fulfillment
From childhood, writers of
the first century heard stories involving riddles and parables hard to
understand and viewed the Bible as a sealed book, as stated in Revelation
5:1. Moreover, they felt compelled to view various events throughout the Old
Testament as forerunners of what was happening in their time. The events were
considered to be dual and have a “dual fulfillment”. Here are some examples:
There
are old things and new things: The tree in the Garden of Eden was fulfilled
by a Tree of Life in the first century, Jerusalem below and above, old
covenant and new covenant, old and new testament, law on stone and laws on
the heart, a curse of the law and the mercy of having grace, a first and a
second exodus, first and second Pentecost, a serpent on a stake and Christ on
a cross, anti-Christians and Christians, hired shepherds and true shepherd,
Adam and second Adam, old and new creature, old wine skins and new wine
skins, old wine and new wine, flesh and spirit, fruits of the flesh and
fruits of the spirit, Hagar a bond servant, and Sarah, a free woman, Ishmael
and Isaac, Jew and neither Jew nor gentile in the new, a former rain and a
latter rain, the darkness and the light, an old garment and the new garment,
soiled garment and spotless garment, clean exterior and clean interior, the
dead and the resurrected, earthly and the heavenly, evil heart and pure
heart, tithing and giving, the blind who receive sight, goats and sheep,
tares and wheat.
The
Exodus
I Corinthians 10:1-5. The
Israelites were baptized in the Red Sea and had spiritual meat (i.e., manna),
and spiritual water from a spiritual Rock, and that Rock was Christ. Christ
claimed to be the True Manna from heaven, the Serpent on a stake, which takes
away the sting of death. He was the Passover and defeated death, the prince
of this world, after three days and three nights in a grave as Jonah was in
the belly of a whale three days and three nights. Israel observed the
Passover and defeated death, the prince of Egypt, after a three-day trip to
the Red Sea (Ex. 3:18 & 8:27 & 14:9 & Josephus’ Antiquities
15:1). Armies of the Pharaoh drowned at sunrise (Ex. 14:27-28). Christ said
that, if they destroyed the temple, He would raise it back up in three days
(speaking of his body as a temple, John 2:19-21).
Egypt was covered with
frogs and rivers turned into blood, and the Pharaoh released the Israelites
and withdrew his release the first time. Egypt was covered with lice,
flies and pestilence, and the Pharaoh released the Israelites and withdrew
his release the second time. Animals of Egypt are plagued, and the
Pharaoh released the Israelites and withdrew his release the third time.
Egypt is plagued with boils, pestilence, hailstones and lightening, and the
Pharaoh released the Israelites and withdrew his release the fourth time.
Egypt was covered with locusts, and the Pharaoh released the Israelites and
withdrew his release the fifth time. Egypt was covered with darkness,
and the Pharaoh released the Israelites and withdrew his release the sixth
time. Egypt is covered with death of all its firstborn, because they had
no blood on their doorposts, and the Pharaoh released the Israelites and
withdrew his release the seventh time by going after the Israelites at
the Red Sea.
In Revelation, angels
cover the land with seven plagues: Rivers turn into blood; 2. Land covered
with pestilence; 3. Land covered with sores; 4. Land covered with sores,
hailstones and lightening; 5. Land covered with locusts five months; 6. Land
covered with darkness; 7. Israelites from 12 tribes washed in the Lamb’s
blood.
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