WHAT JESUS SAID IN THE BIBLE

EXODUS  CHAPTER  30 30:34  Frankincense is not to be confounded with incense ( to which it was to be added ), as it is often used apart from incense, We are told what composed the incense__never in Scripture what the frankincense was. All speaks of Christ__the sweet spices of those perfections which we may apprehend, the frankincense of that which God saw in Jesus ineffable. 30:38  What is condemned here is making worship a mere pleasure to the natural man, whether sensuous, as in beautiful music to please the ear, or eloquence, merely to give delight to the natural mind.  JOHN  4:23__24.  30:18  Laver, type of Christ cleansing us from defilement, and from "every spot or wrinkle or any such thing" ( JOHN  13:2__10;  EPHESIANS  5:25__27 ). It is significant that the priests could not enter the holy place after serving at the brazen altar till hands and feet were cleansed. 30:31  Anointing oil, type of the Holy Spi...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  27 27:9  The fine linen commonly typifies personal righteousness ( EXODUS  26: ), and in the hangings of the court stands for that measure of righteousness which God demand of any who would, in his own righteousness, approach. Christ, figuratively speaking, put up the hangings of the court in Luke  10:25__28. The only way of approach was the "gate" ( Verse 16, JOHN  10:9 ). The hangings of the court bar out equally the self-righteous man and the open sinner, for the height was above seven feet ( EXODUS  27:18 ). 27:1  Brazen altar type of the Cross upon which Christ, our whole bunt-offering, offered Himself without spot to God ( HEBREWS  9:14 ). 27:1  EXODUS  25:10 The altar of burnt-offering is double the height of the mercy-seat. The atonement more than saves us__it glorifies God ( JOHN  17:4 ).

EXODUS  CHAPTER  26 26:31  The inner veil, type of Christ's human body MATTHEW  26:26;  27:50;  HEBREWS  10:20 ). This veil, barring entrance into the the holiness, was the most expressive symbol of the truth that "by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified" ( ROMANS  3:30;  HEBREWS  9:8 ). Rent by an unseen hand when Christ died ( MATTHEW  27:51 ), thus giving instant access to God to all who come by faith in Him, it was the end of all legality; the way to God was open. It is deeply significant that the priests must have patched together again the veil that God had rent, for the temple services went on yet for nearly forty years. That patched veil is Galatianism__the attempt to put saint or sinner back under law. ( GALATIANS  1:6__9 ). Anything but "the grace of Christ" is "another gospel," and under anathema. 26:19  Silver symbolizes redemption ( EXODUS  25:1;  38:27 ). All the tabernacle rests up...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  25 25:30  Showbread, type of Christ, the Bread of God, nourisher of the Christian's life as a believer-priest (  PETER  2:9;  REVELATION  1:6 ). In John  6:33__58 our Lord has more in mind the manna, that food which "came down;" but all typical meanings of "bread" are there gathered into His words. The manna is the life-giving Christ; the showbread, the life-sustaining Christ. The showbread typifies Christ as the "corn of wheat" ( JOHN  12:31__33 ). We, as priests, by faith feed upon Him as having undergone that in our stead and for our sakes. It is meditation upon Christ, as in HEBREWS  12:2__3.  25:10  All begins with the ark, which, in the completed tabernacle, was placed in the holy of holies, because, in revelation, God begins from Himself, working outward toward man; as, in approach, the worshipper begins from himself, moving toward God in the holy of holies. The same order is followed in the Levitic...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  20 20:4  There is a threefold giving of the law. First, orally, in Exodus  20:17. This was pure law, with no provision of priesthood and sacrifice for failure, and was accompanied by their "judgments" ( EXODUS  23:14__19 ) directions for keeping three annual feasts, and ( EXODUS  22:20__33 ) instructions for the conquest of Canaan. These words Moses communicated to the people ( EXODUS  24:3__8 ). Immediately, in the persons of their elders, they were admitted to the fellowship of God ( EXODUS  24:9__11 ). Second, Moses was then called up to receive the tables of stone ( EXODUS  24:12__18 ). The story then divides. Moses, in the mount, receives the gracious instructions concerning the tabernacle, priesthood, and sacrifice ( EXODUS  25:31 ). Meantime ( EXODUS  32 ), the people, led by Aaron, break the first commandment. Moses, returning, breaks the tables "written with the finger of God" ( EXODUS  31:18;...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  14 14:30 - Redemption: ( EXODUS  type ) Summary. Exodus is the book of redemption, and teaches:  ( 1 ). -   redemption is wholly of God (EXODUS  3:7__8;  JOHN  3:16 ); ( 2 ). -  redemption is through a person ( EXODUS  2:2;  JOHN  3:16__17 ). ( 3 ). - redemption is by blood ( EXODUS  12:13,  23,  27;  1  PETER  1:18 );  ( 4 ). - redemption is by power ( EXODUS  6:6;  13:14;  ROMANS  8:2 ). The blood of Christ redeems the believer from the guilt and penalty of sin ( 1  PETER  1:18 ) as the power of the Spirit delivers from the dominion  of sin  ( ROMANS  8:2;  EPHESIANS  2:2 ). CHAPTER  15 15:25 - These bitter waters were in the very path of the Lord's leading, and stand for the trials of God's people, which were educatory and not punitive. The "tree" is the cross ( GALATIANS  3:13 ), which became...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  12 12:11 - The Passover, type of Christ our Redeemer ( EXODUS  12:1__28;  JOHN  1:29;  1  CORINTHIANS  5:6__7 ). ( 1 ). - The lamb must be without blemish, and to test this it was kept up four days ( EXODUS  12:5__6 ). So our Lord's public life, under hostile scrutiny, was the testing which proved His holiness ( LUKE  11:53__54;  JOHN  8:46 ). ( 2 ). - The Lamb thus tested must be slain ( EXODUS  12:6;  JOHN  12:24 ).   ( 3 ). - The blood must be applied ( EXODUS  12:7 ). This answers to appropriation by personal faith, and refutes universalism ( JOHN  3:36 ). ( 4 ). - The blood applied of itself, without anything in addition, constituted a perfect protection from judgment ( EXODUS  12:13;  1  JOHN  1:7 ). ( 5 ). - The feast typified Christ the bread of life, answering to the memorial supper ( MATTHEW  26:26__28;  1  CORINTHIANS...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  4 4:6 - The sign of leprosy. The heart ( "bosom" ) stands for what we are, the hand of what we do. What we are, that ultimately we do. It is a sign of Luke  6:43__45. The two signs, rod and hand, speak of preparation, for service:  ( 1 ). - consecration__our capacity taken up for God:  ( 2 ). - the hand that holds the rod of God's power must be a cleansed hand swayed by a new heart ( ISAIAH  52:11 ). 4:21 - Exodus  8:15,  32;  9:34. In the face of the righteous demand of Jehovah and of the tremendous attestations by miracle that He was indeed God, and that Moses and Aaron were His representatives, Pharaoh "hardened his heart," Instrumentally God hardened Pharaoh's heart by forcing him to an issue, against which he hardened his own heart in refusal. Light rejected, rightful obedience refused, inevitably hardens conscience and heart. Romans  9:17__24. 4:24 - Genesis  17:14. The context ( verse  25 ) inter...

EXODUS  CHAPTER  2 2:2 - Moses, type of Christ the Deliverer ( ISAIAH  61:1;  LUKE  4:18 ).  ( 1 ). - A divinely chosen deliverer ( EXODUS  2:11__15;  ACTS  7:25;  18:5 ). ( 2 ). - Rejected by Israel he turns to the Gentiles ( EXODUS  2:11__15;  ACTS  7:25;  18:5 ).  ( 3 ). _ During his rejection he gains a Gentile bride ( EXODUS  2:16__21;  MATTHEW  12:14__21 ).  ( 4 ). - Afterward he again appears as Israel's deliverer, and is accepted ( EXODUS  4:29__31;  ROMANS  11:24__26 ).  ( 5 ). - Officially, Moses typifies Christ as Prophet ( ACTS  3:22__23 ), Advocate ( EXODUS  32:31__35 ), Intercessor ( EXODUS  17:1__6;  HEBREWS  7:25 ), and Leader, or King ( DEUTERONOMY  33:4__5;  ISAIAH  55:4 ); while, in relation to the house of God, he is in contrast with Christ. Moses was faithful as a servant over another's house; Christ as a Son...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  41 41:45 - Asenath, the Gentile bride espoused by Joseph the rejected one ( JOHN  19:15 ), type of the Church, called out from the Gentiles to be the bride of Christ during the time of His rejection by His brethren, Israel ( ACTS  15:14;  EPHESIANS  5:31__32 ). 43:34 - Genesis  35:18, note. It is important to observe that Benjamin now becomes prominent. Joseph is peculiarly the type of Christ in His first advent, rejection, death, resurrection, and present exaltation among the Gentiles, but unrecognized of Israel. As the greater Benjamin, "Son of sorrow," but also "Son of my right hand," He is to be revealed in power in the Kingdom ( GENESIS  1:26__28;  ZECHARIAH  12:8, note. It is then, and not till then, that Israel is to be restored and converted ( DEUTERONOMY  30:1__9, note ). Typically Genesis  45:1__2  anticipates the revelation prophetically described, Ezekiel  20:33__36;  Hosea...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  35 35:7 the God of Bethel. Genesis  28:19.  There it was the place as scene of the ladder-vision which impressed Jacob. He called the place "Bethel," the house of God. Now it is the God of the place, rather than the place, and he calls it El-Bethel, "the God of the house of God." Genesis  33:20. 35:14 The first mention of the drink-offering. It is not mentioned among the Levitical offering of  Leviticus  1__7,  though include in the instructions for sacrifice in the land ( NUMBERS  15:5__7 ). It was always "poured out," never drunk, and may be considered a type of Christ in the sense of Psalm  22:14;  Isaiah  53:12. 35:18 son of my right hand. Benjamin, "son of sorrow" to his mother, but "son of my right hand" to his father, becomes thus a double type of Christ. As Ben-oni He was the suffering One because of whom a sword pierced His mother's heart ( LUKE  2:35 ); as Benjamin, head to the warrior...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  32 32:28 Both names are applied to the nation descended from Jacob. When used characteristically "Jacob" is the name for the natural posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; "Israel" for the spiritual part of the nation. Isaiah  9:8.  The "word" was sent to all the people. "Jacob," but it "lighted upon Israel" was comprehended by the spiritual part of the people. See "Israel" ( GENESIS  12:2__3;  ROMANS  11:26 ). GENESIS  CHAPTER  29 29:1 Jacob at Haran becomes a striking illustration, if not type, of the nation descended from him in its present long dispersion. Like Israel, he was:  ( 1 ). Out of the place of blessing ( GENESIS  26:3 );  ( 2 ). without an alter ( HOSEA  3:4__5 );  ( 3 ). gained an evil name ( GENESIS  31:1;  ROMANS  2:17__24 );  ( 4 ). but was under the covenant care of Jehovah ( GENESIS  28:13__14;  ROMANS  11:1;  25:30 );  ( 5 )....

GENESIS  CHAPTER  25 25:1 As Sarah stands for "the mother of us all," of those who by grace, are one with the true Son of promise, of whom Isaac was the type ( JOHN  3:6__8;  GALATIANS  4:26,  28__29 - HEBREWS  2:11__13 ); and joint heirs of His wealth ( HEBREWS  1:2;  ROMANS  8:16__17 ), so Keturah ( wedded after the full blessing of Isaac ) and her children by Abraham may well stand for the fertility of Israel and natural seed, Jehovah's wife ( HOSEA  2:1__23 ) after the future national restoration under the Palestinian covenant ( DEUTERONOMY  30:1__9 ). 25:25 Esau stands for the mere man of the earth ( HEBREWS  12:16__17 ). In many respects a noble man, naturally, than Jacob, he was destitute of faith, and despised the birthright because it was a spiritual thing, of value only as there was faith to apprehend it. 25:31 The "birthright" had three elements:  ( 1 ) Until the establishment of the Aaronic priest...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  24 24:1 The entire chapter is highly typical:  ( 1 )  Abraham, type of a certain king who would make a marriage for his son ( MATTHEW  22:2;  JOHN  6:44 );  ( 2 )  the unnamed servant, type of the Holy Spirit, who does not "speak for himself," but takes of the things of the Bridegroom with which to win the bride ( JOHN  16:13__14 );  ( 3 ) the servant, type of the Spirit as enriching the bride with the Bridegroom's gifts ( GALATIANS  5:22;  1  CORINTHIANS  12:7__11 );  ( 4 )  the servant, type of the Spirit as bringing the bride to the meeting with the Bridegroom ( ACTS  13:4;  16:6__7 );  ( 5 ) Rebekah, type of  Church, the ecclesia, the "called out" virgin bride of Christ ( GENESIS  24:16;  2  CORINTHIANS  11:2 );  ( 6 ) Isaac, type of the Bridegroom, "whom not having seen," the bride loves through the testimony of the unnamed Servant ...

GENESIS CHAPTER 23 23:4 Genesis 33:19;  Joshua  24:3;  Acts  7:15__16. A discrepancy in these statements has been fancied. It disappears entirely before the natural supposition that in the interval of about eighty years between the purchase by Abraham of the family sepulchre ( GENESIS  23:4__20 ) and Jacob's purchase ( GENESIS  33:19 ), the descendants of Hamor ( or "Emmor," ACTS  7:15__16 ) had resumed possession of the field in which the burial-cave was situated. Instead of asserting an ancient title by inheritance, Jacob repurchased the field. Heth was the common ancestor.

GENESIS  CHAPTER  22 22:1 The spiritual experience of Abraham was marked by four great crises, each of which involved a surrender of something naturally most dear. These were: ( 1 ) Country and kindred ( GENESIS  12:1  MATTHEW  10:34__39 ).  ( 2 ) His nephew, Lot; especially dear to Abraham by nature, as a possible heir and as a fellow believer ( 2  PETER  2:7__8;  GENESIS  131__18 ). The completeness of Abraham's separation from one who, though a believer, was a "vessel unto dishonour," is shown by Genesis  15:1__3.  2  Timothy  2:20__21.  ( 3 ) His own plan about Ishmael ( GENESIS  17:17__18 ).  ( 4 ) Isaac, "thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest" ( GENESIS  22:1__9;  HEBREWS  11:17__18 ).   22:9 The typical lessons here are:  ( 1 )  Isaac type of Christ "obedient unto death" ( PHILIPPIANS  2:5__8 );  ( 2 )   Abraham, type of the F...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  21 21:3 Sarah. type of grace, "the freewoman," and of the "Jerusalem which is above." See Genesis  17:15__19;  Galatians  4:22__31. Isaac is typical in a fourfold way: ( 1 ) of the Church as composed of the spiritual children of Abraham ( GALATIANS  4:28 );  ( 2 ) of Christ as the Son "obedient unto death" ( GENESIS  22:1__10;  PHILIPPIANS  2:5__8;  ( 3 ) of Christ as the Bridegroom of a called-out bride ( See GENESIS  24;  also, "Church," MATTHEW  16:18 and refs. );  ( 4 ) of the new nature of the believer as "born after the spirit" ( GALATIANS  4:29 ). 21:33 "Everlasting God" ( Hebrew  E. Olam ).  ( 1 )  The Hebrew Olam is used in Scripture:  ( a )  of secret or hidden things ( LEVITICUS  5:2,  "hidden;"   2  KINGS  4:27,  "hid;" );  ( b )   an indefinite time or age ( LEVITICUS  25:32,  "at any time;...

GENESIS  CHAPTER  19 19:36 Abraham and Lot are contrasted characters. Of the same stock  ( GENESIS  11:31 ), subject to the same environment, and both justified men ( GENESIS  15:6;  2  PETER  2:7__8 ), the contrast in character and career is shown to be the result of their respective choices at the crisis of their lives. Lot "chose him all the plain of Jordan" for present advantage; Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations" ( HEBREWS  11:10 ), and ( GENESIS  13:18 ) "came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre ( fatness ), which is in Hebron" (communion ). The men remain types of the worldly and the spiritual believer.

GENESIS  CHAPTER  16 16:3 Hagar is a type of the law "which gendereth to bondage" ( GALATIANS  4:24__25 ). GENESIS  CHAPTER  17 17:1 "Almighty God" ( Hebrew  El Shaddai ) ( 1 ) The etymological signification of Almighty God ( El Shaddai ) is both interesting and touching. God ( El ) signifies the "Strong One" ( GENESIS  1:1 ). The qualifying word Shaddai is formed from the Hebrew word "shad," the breast, invariably used in Scripture for a woman's breast; Genesis  49:25; Job  3:12. Shaddai therefore means primarily "the breasted." God is "Shaddai," because He is the Nourisher, the Strength-giver, and so, in a secondary sense, the Satisfier, who pours Himself into believing lives. As a fretful, umsatisfied babe is not only srengthened and nourished from the mother's breast, but also is quieted, rested, satisfied, so El Shaddai is that name of God which sets Him forth as the Strength-giver and Satisfier of His p...