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Creative Bible Study
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this chapter you will be able to:
• Write the Key Verse from memory. • Define the typological method. • List four general groups into which all Bible types are classified. • Do a typological Bible study.
KEY VERSE:
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Hebrews 10:1)
INTRODUCTION
This chapter explains how to study the Bible by the typological method. This method is also referred to as study by "types." The method is defined, explained, and an example is provided. In the "For Further Study" section you are given an opportunity to do a topological Bible study.
THE METHOD DEFINED
To understand how to do a typological study you must first understand the meaning of the word type. There are several verses in the Bible which explain the meaning of a Biblical type. The Key Verse for this chapter, Hebrews 10:1, speaks of the law having a shadow of good thing to come. "Shadow" is one word to describe a Biblical type. A shadow is an exact outline, although the details may be dim and sometimes it contrasts the thing that casts the shadow.
"Figure" is another word which describes type:
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him that was to come. (Romans 5:14)