For example, Paul, in Hebrews: Isaiah and his 2 sons Tabernacle prefiguring the great spiritual temple.Īnd from the apostle Paul we learn even more about types andĪntitypes. Serpent and put it, not on a rock, but on a stake. He told Moses, for example to fashion a copper Well notice that in both these examples, the tabernacle and theĬopper serpent, Jehovah was involved. Wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyoneīelieving in him may have everlasting life.” Now, would anyone doubt “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the You are using an iPad, I’ll give you a chance to catch up. Let’s turn to JohnĬhapter 3, John chapter 3 and verses 14 and 15. Now Jesus explains what it was a type of. Wilderness were bitten by poisonous snakes, Moses is told by Jehovah toįashion a copper serpent and to place that serpent on a pole. The Day of Atonement, the type, and the perfect sacrifice of Christ, the Have to realize that something was going to have to picture orįoreshadow the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The sacrifices on the Day of Atonement: Jehovah was very carefulĪbout how events on the day of atonement were to unfold. The tabernacle to be a type of something greater: his great spiritual Why? Well, apparently because he had designed What materials were to be used, theĭimensions and so forth. Jehovah was very clear about theĬonstruction of the tabernacle. Might add that Jehovah is usually involved in designing the type. So that is the definition that was given by The Watchtower. The antitype is the reality of the thing which It said, “A type is a representation of something that will come to Noticed that, in recent years, that is seldom done, and the purpose ofįirst of all what is a type and what is an antitype? Well, the Watchtower of Septemdefined them this way: Now, years ago, our publications often applied certain bible accountsĪnd certain bible characters as types of something greater. Let’s get right into our subject: types and antitypes. Our site’s commentary on the MaWatchtower article is found here.

The Watchtower article that was derived from it.

Informative to note the differences between this, the original talk, and The following is an unofficial transcript of that talk. IT’S NOT FUNNY IF YOU HAVE TO “SPLANE” IT “David Splane of the Governing Body will speak to us on the theme: ‘Types and Antitypes.’” The following speech can beįound about the 2 hour and 8 minute mark in the video. (currently found under Programs and Events). The 2014 Annual Meeting Program video can be found on tv.jw.org

As usual, the article that finally saw print had evolved quite a bit from the original.Īnyway, here's the transcript that I also put up on the site. While working on a comments for one of the articles in the MaWatchtower (on Types and Antitypes) I decided to make a transcript of the talk that turned into that particular article.

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