I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. Okay, all right so we're going to do something very

special tonight. You guys know Hebrews 11 as the Hall of Faith, right,

where it discusses all these Old Testament figures and how they had these great lives of faith,

or at least great moments of faith, trusting in God. But I think that it is also a

hall of types or typology or foreshadowing Jesus. We already have established

this. Typology is a very biblical thing and according to Jesus typology is going to

be throughout the entire Bible. Numerous passages and a bunch of different examples

we've already given throughout this series and we've dealt with things like the Bronze Serpent, how the Bronze Serpent represented Jesus.

We've dealt with Moses, how Moses represented Christ in so many ways and even themes throughout the Old Testament like out of Egypt.

How people keep coming out of Egypt into Egypt out of Egypt and this ends up being something

Jesus does and even a theme like that represents Jesus.

So let me tell you what made me first think of

Hebrew 11. This is for me a fairly new understanding of Hebrew 11. It doesn't

change the meaning of the text. Rather, it's a theme I see running through the text. But maybe think of

this is previously I told you guys when we talked about Genesis 22, which was the passage

where Abraham's offering Isaac and how this is like so clearly a picture of Jesus in the

location and all everything about it right and I said this passage is nowhere in the

new testament and I chose my words carefully I said it is

nowhere clearly identified as a type of Christ. Well I was I used the word

clearly on purpose because there is this one passage in Hebrews

Hebrews 11 verse 17 where it says by faith Abraham when he was tested offered up

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