A Brief Recall of the Summary of Part 1.

God made the heavens and the earth which he judged and then renewed, chose Adam to come into covenant with Him (Adam was the first COVENANT man, not physical man), the judgment of Adam following his fall and the subsequent ongoing (SAME) covenant ‘updates’/judgments and narrowing of the faithful remnant down to Israel, then specifically Judah, and finally, following the judgement of Judah at the harvest at the end of the Age in 70AD, singled down to the Last Adam, Jesus Christ, the only man found to be truly faithful from the covenant which was originally made way back with Adam. 

BUT PLEASE NOTE, YOU MUST READ PART ONE TO SEE THE FULL CONTEXT OF THE MESSAGE OF PART TWO AND I CAN’T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, THAT IS….

THE RECURRING THEME OF ‘CREATION’.

Part 2 – The New Covenant.

Only one man was found faithful from the Old Covenant and because that Old Covenant ended, God made a New Covenant with this man, Jesus.

So, diving straight in where we left off with the creation theme, it’s fairly well understood even in popular Bible teaching today that the phrase ‘the land’ often refers to Israel and ‘the sea’ refers to gentiles. 

Following in the continuing progressive pattern of creation/covenants mentioned in the previous page I think it’s reasonable and even logical that looking back we could extend the interpretation of the land to more generally mean ‘God’s covenant people’ rather than limit it to Israel. Would you agree? If you do, keep that in the front of your mind for this next paragraph, and a double take might be needed here.

So, a key question, and its important to pay attention here. Have you ever wondered, like John the Baptist did, why Jesus had to be baptised? That’s always puzzled me. Shouldn’t Jesus be baptising John? What did Jesus have to repent of? Can you tell me? 

I always thought He was baptised for the same reason as most other people seem to get baptised today, just because it’s something that we do as part of our religion ie baptism is an ordinance (with the only other ordinance mentioned in the NT being the Lord’s Supper), but I was never truly happy with that understanding nor anything Google offered either. 

Well, this was the ‘Bingo!’ moment for me – see if this makes sense. 

Jesus said at the Last Supper “this is the new covenant in my blood”. So, Jesus is effectively saying HE is the New Covenant (just as He actually said I AM the Resurrection – which becomes so important in proving this message here further down the line when the alleged scriptural objections start being thrown at us).

To see why this is so important, let’s look now how all this parallels the earlier covenant stories that we have looked at but you really will need to think about this with no distractions.

Baptism symbolises new life just as we saw when Paul said Israel was baptised into Moses as they passed through the waters. So. Jesus, at His baptism , rises out of the water. As He himself is the New Covenant, Jesus the covenant person, ie the land, is separated from or comes out of the water. The Spirit of God hovers above the water like a dove and God saw that this was good and says ‘this is my Son in whom I am well pleased’, just as God also called Israel His firstborn son. Looking now at John 1 speaking of ‘In the beginning’, could John be referring symbolically to the New Covenant in the Last Adam (or more accurately, in Jesus’ relevant role here as the ‘Second Man’), deliberately mirroring Genesis 1 speaking symbolically of ‘In the beginning’ of the Old Covenant in the first Adam? How did I miss that for so many years?? Even more interesting when we find out the word ‘son’ in Hebrew has the idea behind it of ‘building’ or ‘a building block’. Adam is called a son of God also, and now the covenant with that building block has gone we need a new building block. And, discovering the context behind John’s use of the word Logos, The Word, in John 1,1 ‘In the beginning was the Word’, is even more fascinating. The Greeks had various different explanations for the force which held the world together and they called this ‘Logos’. Here, John is telling his contemporary readers that Jesus is the one who holds their whole world system, the kosmos, together – now that’s slightly different to what all our teachers taught us about ‘The Word’ isn’t it! The detail of that would over complicate things here but a mention of it might switch the lights on for someone like it did for me, ditto this next point. The Hebrew language is a root-oriented language, meaning that every Hebrew word is derived from a root word and that root word is the foundation to other Hebrew words. Each word derived from one root will be closely related in meaning to all the other words derived from the same root. I found it fascinating that the seemingly unrelated English words ‘create’, ‘choose’, and ‘covenant’ apparently are very closely connected like this in the Hebrew. If you didn’t know that before, try reading this paragraph again remembering ‘to create’ is intrinsically linked ‘to covenant with’ (you may even be reminded too of Romans 8 where Paul mentions ‘all creation’ – and then this gets really interesting…).

I could go on and on but the New Testament better provides all the evidence and saves me time ha ha, and I’ll just put a few key points here to keep it simple. 

Paul says Jesus was born of a woman and subject to the Law like other Israelites, so He was given commands just like Adam and Noah, those other people that God covenanted with but this time Jesus was successful. He kept the Law, the Covenant. And then we see how Jesus, here not in the role of Son of God but of Son of man, bore Adams curse for us too, I believe this is why He would have almost certainly been found naked when crucified, as well as wearing Adam’s covenant/land curse on His head, the crown of thorns, experiencing God’s covenant wrath on behalf of mankind.

And here’s where it provides the answer to what for me was always Dispensationalism’s greatest weapon of maintaining their deception, the return to the land promises of Deuteronomy 30:3; Isaiah 43:6; Ezekiel 34:11-13; 36:24; 37:1-14. After all, there it is, Israel’s return in 1948, prophetically written down, how could I argue with that?!! Well I tried for many years but I always struggled to answer that – until I started to think in terms of Covenant. 

And here we see that Jesus fulfilled the ‘you will return to the land’ promise given by the prophets to Israel because He himself is the Land that rose out of and was separated from the water at His baptism and Paul says believers are God’s garden. The Northern Tribes also could now return to the land, not in 1948 but 2000 years ago, the True Land (not the mere physical type, but) Christ, by faith in Him. You see, for all those who believe that 1948 is a fulfilment of prophecy, can you explain how that can be the case when this prophecy would only be fulfilled “when Israel repent”? We’ve only got to look at the secular state of Israel now and that should be enough evidence in itself that there is little repentance there, so can that be prophecy fulfilled? But, if we think about it, a person HAS to repent to be able to find Jesus. Everyone who comes to Jesus ie returns to the land, must by implication have repented. True Israel never was about the flesh, the flesh was only a type of the true spiritual kingdom. Paul says that a real Jew is not one circumcised in the flesh but one circumcised in the heart, and he also says in Gal 6:16 that any believer in Christ Jesus becomes part of “the Israel of God”, a true Jew. Now can you see how it really is only the ‘Jews’ who have always been and will always only be Gods chosen people and that salvation still only comes through “Israel”?!!! We must stop thinking physically like Nicodemus when he couldn’t understand being ‘born again’, and start thinking spiritually, ie thinking God’s way not man’s, or Adam’s way. If you believe 1948 was a fulfilment of prophecy you are simply still thinking in the flesh, ‘the flesh’ here being figurative for Old Covenant, a covenant which according to Paul leads to death.

Jesus is simply the final and perfect fulfilment of the same covenant God made with Adam. Adam tried, Noah tried, Israel tried but all expressions of the first man ultimately fail, except the Last Adam, Jesus, who was the one who fulfilled all righteousness. And ‘to fulfil all righteousness’ was actually the answer and reason He told John the Baptist that He must be baptised, and this enabled ‘the return to the land’ ie the return back into covenant fellowship with God. Covenant life is and always has been ‘life in the land’. Wow, how precious was that illumination when it came to piecing together so many of the last stubborn few remaining difficult pieces of this great jigsaw!! Now it makes sense why John had to baptise Jesus!

We know Noah and Moses were types of Christ but they were also continuations of “Adam” too. That’s why the Bible calls Jesus the LAST (continuation of) Adam. There will be no more expressions of Adam, Jesus was the last one because He perfectly fulfilled Adam’s mission, before taking Adam’s curse. He then rises to become the second, heavenly, man. The book of Revelation describes in OT style poetry how in Jesus Christ, with the curse gone, man can right now go back into the garden, into the presence of God. The meaning of a garden is a fenced or hedged off area, gardens in Bible times had a temple, and a temple is anywhere where God dwells together with man. Ephesians 2 tells how we are being built into the temple of God, where God and man dwell together, the ecclesia, the New Jerusalem descending out of heaven. Jesus told his disciples “you are the city on a hill”. This is the return to the Garden of Eden, only the last Adam is better than the first Adam so we never get kicked out of this garden.

There is no longer any sea ie non covenantal people and we have access by/to the tree of life, Jesus. All the nations pour into the New Jerusalem, meaning that this New Jerusalem, what you most likely call the Church, AND what the author of Hebrews says is ALREADY HERE (Heb 12:22), is composed not just of physical Jews but of people from all nations who now all have access by and to the tree of life. 

Prior to that though the Book of Revelation speaks of the covenant curses of Deuteronomy 28 being poured out on the apostate Old Covenant people (Revelation is not talking about the future tribulation on the whole world, see note **). Just as God judged covenant people long ago with the flood (and that’s why only the creatures of the land died, think about it, the land, covenant people, it’s all symbolic) so too were only the people of this Old Covenant Israel judged, and that’s the context of Peter referring to the flood and Jesus mentioning ‘as in the days of Noah’ ie the impending judgement of covenant people.*** Luke gives us clear detail when he tells us “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near”, telling the covenant people, the Christians, to get out – and Josephus records that every single one of them did. Jesus also says in Matthew 22:7 “the king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city”. What else could that mean I wonder but the destruction of Jerusalem in 70A.D by Titus and his armies who did actually burn the temple to the ground? It must be observed that yes, all this WAS future to the authors of the New Testament, but it is actually very clearly our distant past.

The context of a lot of the New Testament writing is to warn those living in ‘the Last Days’ of the Old Covenant of its imminent destruction at the end of that age upon all who didn’t want this New Covenant. (We’ve all been taught about how much the Last Days are nearly here before us right now, but hopefully you’ll see now that is pure futurist deception to keep us in fear, and to usher in the counterfeit physical kingdom. The Last Days spoken of in the Bible were almost 2000 years ago now and for those of us who don’t realise that, you should ask yourself if you have been deceived, just as I concluded I had been for virtually 50 years of my life). 

In the Jewish mindset there are only two ages, the age before Messiah and the age of Messiah. Now please think carefully. Paul’s unquestionable use of typology in 1 Cor 10 shows us that just as God was not pleased with the Israelites in that 40 year period before they entered the promised land, that this was typological of the 40 year period that Jesus called ‘this generation’, the Second Exodus, the Exodus antitype, between 30 and 70AD, warning them of the wrath to come, before the believing remnant entered their promised land at the consummation of the New Covenant in 70A.D.

Our Bibles have that page just before Matthew’s Gospel that says ‘The New Covenant’ but that page was added at that point by uninspired men and is only partly true because the New Covenant begins proper in 70AD. Without going into detail here please consider this. Joshua 5:9 says ‘Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you” ‘. This was NOT the night Israel left Egypt, but was 40 years LATER, AFTER the Israelites had entered the promised land and is the typology for the corresponding point of the New Covenant consummation at the passing away and total destruction of the Old Covenant in 70A.D. which was 40 years after the Cross, the start of the Second Exodus. I’m sure you can now see these things now but I’ll show this anyway, the Passover and the Passover Lamb of the first Exodus being a type of Jesus’s crucifixion, which was, you guessed it, on the Feast of Passover, 40 years before the ‘rolling away of the reproach of Egypt’ in 70AD, and if you needed any more convincing, John clearly shows the Exodus from Egypt as being typological when he writes in Rev 11:8 ‘the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified’. Do I need to write anything else? Well, I’ll just put the final nail in the coffin lid for Dispensationalism, the Hebrew word for the Holy ‘convocation’ of Passover means ‘a rehearsal’, according to Strong’s concordance…..  

Once we see through the correct lens, we no longer have to read PhD theses on whether the Book of Revelation is written before or after 70AD as it becomes perfectly obvious! It doesn’t matter what falsified “evidence“ anyone puts before us, it is clear that the post 70A.D. authorship jigsaw piece simply does not fit anywhere in this almost completed jigsaw and can therefore be discarded. Revelation is a prophecy about the impending judgement of the covenant people. The harvest of the Northern Tribes took place long before this and now, just as the prophets predicted too, Revelation warns of the imminent Harvest of Judea at the End of the Age, fulfilling the covenant curses of Deuteronomy 28-32.

Hopefully now you’ll see the monumental deception that covers practically the whole church now. If you are still sitting on the fence, please just consider this. The whole doctrine of Dispensational Theology that talks of future raptures and tribulations etc only appeared about 150 years ago. It only appeared because the world system had to blind the eyes of the Church to their coming Zionist deception**** otherwise they would never get away with it. They chose two main men to pull this one off, John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Ingerson Schofield and it is worth an hour or two of your study time to look at the very questionable histories of these two men (and who funded this work….). Following these men’s new doctrine, just as schools were introduced to shepherd the secular world towards conformity to the global system, so Bible colleges were introduced to similarly shepherd the church, who have fallen for it all hook line and sinker. 

It’s worth remembering too, or studying to discover, that the source preaching texts of ALL the prophets was Deuteronomy 27-32, which talks of the blessings and curses towards Israel NOT THE END OF OUR WORLD 2000 YEARS LATER. The realisation of the fact that they were all fulfilled in A.D.70. is known as the Full Preterist view and is a very lonely path in England nowadays.

The Final Frontier.

Most of us are intrigued by the unknown aren’t we, to some degree or other. I always have been. Those opening words of the old Star Trek series often ring in my ears, ‘Space, the Final Frontier’, as do Linda Hamilton’s words on the very prophetic film Terminator 2 as she realises the point in time ‘as we head into the unknown….’. Similarly with this next part being the frontier of where my journey has taken me so far, if I get too close to an upstairs window or get falsely accused of something ”found on my hard drive” you will know why – I’ve gone too deep into dangerous territory.

With the realising that every expression of God’s Covenant, beginning with Adam and going right through to Jesus, is typological of the next level of progressive revelation in the plan of redemption, now I’m suggesting let’s just carry on with that typology just a little further than I’ve seen it taken so far on my journey. But, is that wise? Can (or could) anyone ever really see into the future from their vantage point other than in vague shadow form? Is it wise to talk about things which could well be veiled still? Maybe I’m being unwise in continuing now, you tell me….

But, intrigue drives me. Did you know that there are actually very very few things that are common to all four gospels, just a handful – and Barabbas is one of them. Why did the Holy Spirit think this so important to include this man in all accounts rather than some of those amazing miracles Jesus performed? Keeping in mind the core points of Dispensationalism, see if you can work that one out, and here’s a clue, the name Barabbas means ‘son of the father’…. 

Those of us who use typology as a hermeneutic are quite happy to use the history of Israel up to Joshua, as being typological of church. And Paul clearly validates that in 1 Cor 10 as we have seen. My big question though is why do they all stop there? And my suggestion is that we continue the typology from when Joshua entered the Promised Land right through to 70AD as being typological also of linear church history, the antitype commencing in 70 AD when the spiritual Promised Land began right up to and even beyond our day. This begins with Spiritual Israel, the Church, entering their spiritual promised land in 70AD and being instructed to conquer the spiritual ‘giants in the land’ ie heal the sick, cast out devils, cleanse the lepers and raise the dead. Fast forward that to today, where most people recognise something is coming to an end, me included, and can those of you with eyes to see, see why the gospel writers all thought Barabbas, the imposter ‘son of the father’ was a vital detail? Clue – don’t forget Barabbas was a type….

The Cost of This.

If you are a pastor, I know full well that if you accept everything mentioned here on this site, your career in England in 2024 is finished and you lose your pension. But, please very carefully consider this. Jesus said of the Jewish leaders ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves’ ie they convert people, many of whom are even more enthusiastic than their leaders but they have been put on the wrong path. That is my personal testimony and looking through my lens of interpretation, that is typological of exactly what church is doing to so many other dear souls nowadays and it has been heart breaking for me to see so many new converts baptised over the years only to then fall by the wayside, whilst all the time I’ve been side lined and even labelled ‘troublemaker’ in my first church when I dared to question the teachings of the leadership. As a mere naive babe I toed the line back then but 20 years later and I’ve learned who this mysterious character ‘the satan’, the adversary, really is.

If this typological interpretation is correct, it shows that most church goers today are on the path that most Jews were on in their day and also, maybe you can see who the ‘synagogue of satan’ was typological of in our day. The Bible warned the believing Jews just before the destruction of 70AD to come out of Mystery Babylon, the city where our Lord was crucified, Jerusalem, and typologically this is suggesting to me that true believers are to distance themselves from the broader church’s counterfeit teachings of today. 

Consider this. They all laughed at Noah and few made it into the ark. They all laughed at Moses and just two made it into the Promised Land. The overwhelming majority of Jews, so zealous for God, actually perished under Titus, because Paul said they didn’t base their zeal on accurate and vital knowledge (Rom 10:2). Get the drift? 

Don’t be afraid to be in the minority, which you will be if you take this message on board. Christians today too often think we are entitled, but I’ll end with a great quote, “Christ didn’t die in the flesh so we could live in the flesh”. If we want to share in His glory, we need to be prepared to stand out and share in His suffering. There’s far more than our pensions at stake here.

Be blessed. 

(I have to say that several people have presented me with very convincing arguments as to why that last part regarding reading into our future is not correct. At this moment in time I am not able to answer all of those very valid questions*****. However, elsewhere in this site I describe building a jigsaw and how once we have got the bulk of the jigsaw made, we can then recognise whether a remaining piece fits or whether it doesn’t (eg hopefully you will now see that Jesus couldn’t have been crucified part clothed, that piece simply won’t fit in the jigsaw) and in this case I think I have got enough of my jigsaw built to know that even though I can’t answer those questions at the moment, I will find their correct place in my jigsaw one day. Experience also tells me that too – it’s only fairly recently that I’ve been adequately able to explain the promise of the return of the Jews to the land. That one stumped me for several years and it is a very valid question, but, the point here is that I had enough of my jigsaw built to know that one day the answer to that would come, which it did, the one that already appears earlier on this page, and that I didn’t need to throw away the whole jigsaw just because for such a long time one stubborn piece just wouldn’t fit anywhere). 

Notes. 

Note** A good friend of mine introduced me to importance of legal issues in spiritual areas eg Paul before Roman courts in Acts 18 accused of teaching of other gods before Caesar. Cleverly, Paul legally identifies himself using his physical Jewish identity rather than his spiritual Christian one because Judaism was not illegal (the Romans realised they needed to keep peace with Jews and excluded them from their law on this subject). 

Context is clearly king in this understanding and here in this page, a legal context can help find the correct interpretation of the book of Revelation, which along with the book of Deuteronomy, is written in legal document style. In Deuteronomy 28 we see both blessings and curses and in the Book of Revelation is God’s lawsuit bought against Israel for breaking that covenant, with the prophets acting as God’s prosecuting attorneys against Israel. It goes on to describe His Covenant wrath. 

Revelation is not in our future. That’s the Zionist deception. It is only “in Him” that we are saved. Hebrews 10:9 says He takes away (not postpones) the first so He can establish the second . A convenient rapture for believers so they don’t have to suffer or subsequently return to the shadows of the OT Law and Offerings is attractive to the carnal Christian about to suffer persecution but is out and out rejecting Christ. Everything that Dispensationalism teaches about the future is attractive and popular because it pleases the flesh but it is pure counterfeit – it’s antichrist. 

Note*** this for me was also one major illumination that led me to Full Preterism. This Covenant stuff all made sense to me but this passage in Matthew 24 “as in the days of Noah” necessitated the coming of Jesus to be in 70AD! Once again, at first this sounds absurd. But I had to hold on to it because that’s what the context of covenant judgement demands. 

The evidence finally became overwhelming when, seeing that Jesus is quoting Daniel, I was looking at Daniel 7:13,LXX. Here, Jesus is not coming to Earth on the clouds but coming to Heaven. Bingo!! Another example of the benefits of proper word studies, here the Greek word erchomai. 

Full and rock solid proof of that can be seen from a proper typological study of the feasts which will appear on this site in due course when I learn how to do tables!! I cannot overemphasise the importance of interpreting these feasts correctly as it was when I studied this subject that the whole Bible really began to make proper sense, and certainly led to the creation of this site, especially the kingpin, which is this particular page.

Note**** Judaism based on the Talmud is very different to that of the Torah. Speaking of the former, preacher Larry T Smith says “Zionists and International Jews have resurrected this system today and believe they will rule the world with it as God’s chosen people. They have put the doctrine of Dispensationalism in the world to deceive the world and the church into believing this is the plan of God”. What a quote. Just add ‘banking’ into that quote and every time we read the news headlines, when read through that dispensational lens they become perfectly clear and guys from modern history we once viewed as so terrible thanks to their media portrayal, suddenly become heroes when looking through our new lenses, although virtually always martyrs it’s sad to say. Nothing new there though, Jesus and 11 of his apostles met the same fate.

Note***** A large part of the very valid point these people make is that we have no biblical authority to do what I have suggested regarding types and anti types. And that is as I have said a very valid point, there is no direct scripture to turn to that authorises what I suggest. But, I’ll leave it to you to decide whether the Apostles really did exhaust all the typology in the Word of God? It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Quotes.

Below are some very relevant thoughts on this subject by some great men of God from what I would call this country’s golden church era.

”The real secret of the neglect of the Types, I cannot but think may in part be traced to this, — that they require more spiritual intelligence than many Christians can bring to them. To apprehend them requires a certain measure of spiritual capacity and habitual exercise in the things of God, which all do not possess, for want of abiding fellowship with Jesus” – Andrew Jukes  

Studying typology. ”To my own mind the principle they involve is one more and more confirmed by a continually accumulating weight of evidence, evidence, indeed, which is not of such a nature as to be recognisable by all, inasmuch as it requires both a certain capacity and an exercise of it in the things of God; but which will be increasingly satisfactory, I believe, to those who will test it in the daily study and meditation of the Word of God. With time, transparent allusions become delicate cross references that are now the discoveries of the learned”.

 

”DIRTY WATER CONTAMINATES GOOD. Typology is a key lens of interpretation. Good typology has been contaminated by the devil though and the whole lot thus thrown out. The church is too lazy to decontaminate”. 

”Though many have a general notion that Genesis contains types, few have any idea of the immense extent or depth of this hidden wisdom. Just as in nature the distinct orders under which plants are found to range are quite beyond the conception of any but a botanist, though every one must have generally noticed their great differences, or marked some peculiarity of this or that flower. Just as it needs the patient study of years to make an astronomer, though every educated man understands something of the phenomena of the heavenly bodies. So is it with the Word. And in this book of Genesis, diligence and prayer and God’s Spirit will bring to light worlds of truth infinitely beyond the conception of the carnal mind; and humble faith will discover systems of wisdom as complete and wondrous in the Word, as science with all her researches has found in the material universe. We may indeed read the Scriptures, as men cultivate the earth, simply to find food to support the life which God has given. But we may also read with higher views, to know the ways of God”. What a wonderful quote from Andrew Jukes.

And possibly my favourite ”The symbolic, typical, and figurative teaching of God’s Word is an inexhaustible source of delight to those who meditate on it day and night, and who ponder over the infinite beauties and varieties of the written thoughts and wisdom of Him whose words are full of spirit and full of life. But the solid and immovable foundation of God’s truth must be well laid and insisted on before its symbolical and figurative illustrations and side-lights can be safely taught” – E W Bullinger.

The bigger picture for me is always the main goal. When I use the word typology on this site it is intended to cover the study of passages in the Old Covenant which foreshadow, hint at, or openly predict things fulfilled in the New Testament, i.e., all linkages of a typological, allegorical or prophetical nature. It is simply convenient to use one word to embrace the study of all such linkages but I admit technically, an allegory is not a type, nor is a prophecy. Please let’s not get lost in technicalities here, or argue for example about where the type/allegory boundary between Paul’s use in Galatians of Hagar and Sarah really is, does it really matter? And here is another example of a little freedom of thought even from the Gospel writers themselves. Mark sees John the Baptist as a fulfilment of the prophecy that ‘Elijah must come first’ but Matthew doesn’t and for technical reasons sees Elijah as typological of John. Did the difference matter to the Holy Spirit? 

Many respected authors have used this bigger picture approach and that’s why I haven’t been too technical here also. English literature was one of my most hated subjects at school. I understand these things have a place but for me it’s all about illumination, what is the text trying to tell me. Too often clever people just get lost in the woods and never find the tree they are looking for. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day were a classic case of this and it was the uneducated fisherman that saw the light. 

To protect what little, if any, credibility I may have, whilst I have always been a bigger picture man, simply because I’m not clever enough for the scholarly stuff, I am not alone and what I wrote in the last two paragraphs above is based very loosely on a section of text from page 3 of a scholarly book called “The biblical origins and patristic development of typology” by K.J. Woollcombe rather than let it appear as my own fanciful thoughts! Another very short book on this subject that is well worth reading if you are interested specifically in this area of the credibility of typology, and you’ll read both of them in a couple of hours, is “The Reasonableness of Typology” by GWH Lampe. You’ll be in no doubt after reading that.

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Maybe helpful….

Israel’s covenant with God was contingent on obedience (Deuteronomy 28-32)! Throughout the Bible, Israel’s relationship with God is portrayed as a marriage (Isaiah 54:5; 62:4; Jeremiah 2:2; 3:20; 31:31-34; Ezekiel 16:8, 32, 38; Hosea 2:2, 7, 16; Malachi 2:14). Whenever Israel was unfaithful, she is characterized as a harlot or adulterer (Deuteronomy 31:16-18; Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:20; 3:6-9; Ezekiel 6:8-9; 16:15, 26, 28; Hosea 1:2; 6:10; 9:1). The central theme of Revelation is a story of two women—the harlot Babylon who is judged/divorced (Revelation 17:1, 5, 15; 18:9, 21; 19:2) and God’s new bride the New Jerusalem (Revelation 19:7; 21:2, 9). The faithless harlot is apostate Old Covenant Israel. The new bride is the Christian church, the wife of the Lamb, the New Jerusalem (Revelation 3:12; 19:7; 21:2, 9-27). Compare to the Parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14, as well as such passages as John 3:29; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-27.

And Heb 8:13 AMPC When God speaks of a new (covenant or agreement) He makes the first one