Joseph – A Type of Jesus Christ (Part 1)

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Joseph: A Type of Jesus Christ

1. The lessons and pictures in the OT should be used as our examples by which we should be instructed, admonished, and reproved (1Co 10:11; Rom 15:4).
2. Many things in the Old Testament were types of spiritual realities in the New Testament.
3. Type – 1. a. That by which something is symbolized or figured; anything having a symbolical signification; a symbol, emblem; spec. in Theol. a person, object, or event of Old Testament history, prefiguring some person or thing revealed in the new dispensation; correl. to antitype. in (the) type, in symbolic representation.
4. The tabernacle service and sacrifices, dietary law, and sabbath law were shadows and figures of Christ and His work of redemption (Heb 10:1; Heb 8:1-5; Heb 9:8-9,23-24; Col 2:14-17).
5. Shadow – 6. fig. c. An obscure indication; a symbol, type; a prefiguration, foreshadowing.
6. Signify – 1. a. trans. To be a sign or symbol of; to represent, betoken, mean.
7. Figure – II. Represented form; image, likeness. 9. a. The image, likeness, or representation of something material or immaterial.
8. Adam was a figure of Christ (Rom 5:14; 1Co 15:45-47).
9. Noah’s ark was a figure of Christ (1Pe 3:20-21).
10. Isaac was also a figure of Christ.
11. Abraham offered up his only begotten son, accounting that God was able to raise him from the dead, from whence he received him in a figure (Heb 11:17-19).
12. Abraham’s offering up of Isaac was a picture of God offering His only begotten Son (Gen 22:8 c/w Joh 3:16 c/w 1Pe 1:19 c/w 1Jo 3:16 c/w Heb 1:3).
13. Though above all, Joseph was probably the most clear type of Jesus Christ in the OT.

III. The life of Joseph bears many similarities with the life of Jesus Christ — at least 64 of them.

1. Joseph was Jacob’s favorite son (Gen 37:3), born to his favorite wife, Rachel (Gen 30:22-24).
2. Jesus was God’s only begotten Son (Joh 1:18; Joh 3:16).
3. Jesus was born from God’s favorite nation (Rom 9:4-5; Deu 7:6-8), which was His wife (Jer 3:8).
4. Joseph was the son of his father’s old age (Gen 37:3).
5. Jesus was the Ancient of Days’ Son (Dan 7:13) whom came after a long wait (Gal 4:4).
6. Joseph’s father made him a coat of many colors (Gen 37:3).
7. Jesus was given a special garment from His Father (Isa 63:1-3 c/w Rev 19:13).
8. Joseph’s brethren were jealous and envious of him (Gen 37:4,11).
9. Jesus’ brethren, the Jews, envied him (Mar 15:10).
10. Joseph told his brethren a dream (a prophetic revelation) that he had in which it was revealed that he would rule over them, and they hated him more for it (Gen 37:5-7).
11. Jesus came with a revelation from God for His people (Heb 1:1-2).
12. He told them that He would rule over them (Joh 5:22-23; Mat 25:31-32).
13. They hated Him for it (Joh 15:22-25).