List three Old Testament “types” and give the New Testament meaning. Which is the most meaningful to you? Why? BTE 502-02-2

Years ago I was shopping in a Christian bookstore in my home state of Michigan. There was papier-mâché facsimile of the tomb in the garden. I looked in and saw the empty slab on which Jesus's body would have rested and remembered that "While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:" Luke 24:4-6.
 
While shorter than the resting place of Jesus, is the bare slab and the two angles a representation of the mercy seat? Another DQ asks if the Mercy Seat would be a fitting throne for Jesus during the Millennium. Absolutely, as I would imagine that the blood was still dripping from his body onto the slab. Very similar to the mercy seat which is sprinkled with blood from sacrificed animals and has cherubim on either side. Jesus paid the price!

At Rephidim the Israelites were out of water and God told Moses to strike a rock with his staff to procure water. Later at Meribah the Israelites were again without water and then God told Moses to talk to the rock and it would produce water. In his frustration Moses struck the rock with his staff and yes he produced water but at a very big cost to himself. The first rock that Moses was to hit was prophetic of the crucifixion of Jesus and talking to the second rock was prophetic of a calling to Jesus, the Living Water.

40 years in Egypt, 40 years in the desert waiting to be called by God and finally 40 years of wandering in the wilderness after bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. After all this, God would only let Moses see the promised land but not in enter into it due to his disobedience.
The last night the Israelites spent in Egypt, the Angel of death went throughout the country killing the firstborn of both human and animal. A lamb was sacrificed and the blood placed on the door frame as a sign for the Angel of death to pass by. This Passover lamb had to be presented and found perfect several days before was sacrificed.

A few years earlier as Jesus was starting his ministry John the Baptist had the following testimony. "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29.

Jesus, our sacrifice a lamb, rode into Jerusalem on a colt as prophesied hundreds of years before and was found to be the perfect sacrifice. This is the most meaningful to me as by Jesus sacrificig Himself for my sins, I have salvation I couldn't earn on my own.