Monday: Type and Antitype

Daily Lesson for Monday 1st of December 2025

Interpreters of the Bible cannot arbitrarily decide on what constitutes a biblical type or how that particular type is fulfilled in the New Testament and beyond. The Bible itself provides some controls and principles as to the application of biblical typology.

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Similarly, the New Testament unfolds the antitypical fulfillment of a type in three distinct phases: (1) in the life of Christ (the Christological fulfillment), (2) in the experience of the church (the ecclesiological fulfillment), and (3) at the end of time (the eschatological fulfillment).

We can find these types and antitypes all through the Bible, and they are very helpful in showing readers how to understand the Bible and what truths the Word of God is teaching about Jesus, salvation, and the ultimate hope that we have.

1. Israel

a. Christological phase (Matthew 2:15)

b. Ecclesiological phase (Galatians 6:16)

c. Eschatological phase (Revelation 7:4-8,14)

2. The Exodus

a. Christological phase (Matthew 2:19-21)

b. Ecclesiological phase (2 Corinthians 6:17)

c. Eschatological phase (Revelation 18:4)

3. The Sanctuary

a. Christological phase (John 1:14, John 2:21, Matthew 26:61)

b. Ecclesiological phase (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:16)

c. Eschatological phase (Revelation 3:12, Revelation 11:19, Revelation 21:3, Revelation 21:22)

“Since Scripture has a single divine Author, the various parts of Scripture are consistent with each other. . . . All the doctrines of the Bible will cohere with each other; interpretations of individual passages will harmonize with the totality of what Scripture teaches on a given subject.”—Raoul Dederen, ed., Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2000), p. 65.

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