Types of Christ

Covenant Presbyterian Church

Sunday School Class

Summer 2017

In the Fall of 2017, the area Bible Studies will begin going verse by verse through the Epistle to the Hebrews. This adult Sunday school class is intended to be a "prelude" to those Bible Studies. The basic premise of Hebrews is that Jesus Christ is superior to the religious institutions of the Old Testament, because He is the fulfillment of all the types and shadows in the old covenant. Now that the new covenant in Jesus Christ has been revealed, the old has been fulfilled and has faded away. Thus, Hebrews presupposes that its readers are familiar with the institutions and religious practices of the Old Testament.

This Sunday school class will help new covenant Christians become more familiar with those religious institutions of the Old Testament. Special emphasis will be given on how Jesus Christ fulfills these Old Testament types. Our text by Tremper Longman III is a good introduction to this topic. During the quarter we will look at four broad categories of Old Testament types and how they are fulfilled in Jesus Christ: sacred spaces; sacred acts; sacred people; and sacred times. Please join us this summer as we discover Jesus Christ in the Old Testament!

Text: Immanuel in Our Place: Seeing Christ in Israel's Worship by Tremper Longman III

Course Outline, Key Verses, and Bibliography

Illustrations of the Tabernacle, Temple, Tabernacle Furniture, and Priestly Garments

No.	Lesson	Longman Chapters	Date
1	Introduction to Typology	Forward/Preface	June 4, 2017
2	Sacred Spaces: Eden & Altars	Chapters 1&2	June 11, 2017
3	Sacred Spaces: Tabernacle & Temple	Chapters 3&4	June 18, 2017
4	Sacred Spaces: The Heavenly Pattern	Chapters 3&4	June 25, 2017
5	Sacred Spaces: Worship Furniture	Chapter 5	July 2, 2017
6	Sacred Spaces: Christ Our Holy Temple	Chapter 6	July 9, 2017
7	Sacred Acts: Burnt Offerings	Chapter 7	July 16, 2017
8	Sacred Acts: Other Sacrifices	Chapters 8&9	July 23, 2017
9	Sacred Acts: Christ Our Perfect Sacrifice	Chapter 10	July 30, 2017
10	Sacred People: Priests & Levites	Chapters 11&12	August 6, 2017
11	Sacred People: Christ Our Great High Priest	Chapter 13&14	August 13, 2017
12	Sacred Time: Sabbaths	Chapters 15&16	August 20, 2017
13	Sacred Time: Festivals	Chapters 17-19	August 27, 2017

Key Verses:

²⁷And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself (Lk. 24:27).

¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come (Rom. 5:14).

⁶Now these things took place as examples [types] for us, that we might not desire evil as they did (1 Cor. 10:6),

¹⁶Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. ¹⁷These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ (Col. 2:16-17).

⁴Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. ⁵They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain” (Heb. 8:4-6).

¹For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near” (Heb. 10:1).