Types of the Messiah - Edwards - II

Required reading

Continue Types of the Messiah in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to the paragraph beginning with 'The things that are said of the burning bush, do wonderfully agree with the Old-Testament representations of the Messiah.'

My summary

Today we continue Edwards' lists of types of the Messiah from the Old Testament, including from:

(i) the manna in the wilderness;

(ii) Joshua's battles;

(iii) Deborah's victory;

(iv) Gideon's victory;

(v) destruction of Sennacherib and Babylon;

(vi) Baalm's prophecies;

(vii) the flood;

(viii) the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah;

(ix) the life of Joseph.

What grabbed me

I always enjoy considering Joseph in the light of Christ: 'The manner of Joseph’s comforting his brethren in the manifestations and fruits of his special and peculiar love, his bringing them near him, making known himself to them as theirs in a near relation, his treating them with such great tenderness, his embracing them, his manifesting so great a concern for their welfare, his putting such honour upon them before the Egyptians, his entertaining them with a sumptuous joyful feast in his house and at his own table, his clothing them with change of raiment, his bringing them into his own land and there giving them a goodly inheritance, plentifully providing for them in Goshen, a land of light; all is remarkably agreeable to descriptions given in the prophecies of the manner of God’s comforting, blessing, exalting, and manifesting his great favour to his church, after her long-continued sin and sorrows, in the days of the Messiah’s kingdom, in places too many to be enumerated. Joseph’s brethren at this time are like them that dream, Gen. xlv. 3,. &c. which is agreeable to what is said of the church of God, when delivered and comforted by the Messiah. Psalm cxxvi. 1. “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.” There is joy in Pharaoh’s court among his servants and nobles on the occasion of Joseph’s receiving his brethren. Gen. xlvi. 16. Answering to this in Isaiah xliv. 22, 23. “I have redeemed thee. Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it.” And chap. xlix. 13. “Sing, O heaven, and be joyful, O earth for the Lord hath comforted his people.” And Psalm cxlviii. 4. “Praise him, ye heaven of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens,” with verses 13, 14. “Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. He also exalteth the horn of his people.”'

Next week's reading

Continue Types of the Messiah in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to the paragraph beginning with 'There is a yet more remarkable, manifest, and manifold agreement between the things said of David in his history and the things said of the Messiah in the prophecies.'

Now it's your turn

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