Types and Shadows: Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written law of Mosesin the, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES:

The Tripartite Division of the Old Testament: The Jews early divided the Old Testament writings into three classes: (1) the Torah, or Law; (2) the Nebhium, or Prophets; and (3) the Kethubhim, or Writings, called in Greek the Hagiographa. The Torah included the 5 books of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), which were called "the Five fifths of the Law." The Nebhi'im embraced (a) the four so-called Former Prophets, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, counted as one book, 1 and 2 Kings, also counted as one book; and (b) the four so-called Latter Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, counted as one book; a total of 8 books. The Kethubhim, or Writings, were 11 in all, including Psalms, Proverbs, and Job, the five Meghilloth or Rolls (Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther), Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, counted as one book, and 1 and 2 Chronicles, also counted as one book; in all 24 books, exactly the same as those of the Protestant canon.

This was the original count of the Jews as far as we can trace it back. Later certain Jewish authorities appended Ruth to Judges, and Lamentations to Jeremiah and thereby obtained the number 22, which corresponded to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet; but this manner of counting was secondary and fanciful. Still later others divided Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah and Jeremiah-Lamentations into two books each respectively and thereby obtained 27, which they fancifully regarded as equivalent to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet plus 5, the number of letters having a peculiar final form when standing at the end of a word. Jerome states that 22 is the correct reckoning, but he adds, "Some count both Ruth and Lamentations among the Hagiographa, and so get 24." 4 Exodus, which is the oldest (85-96 AD) witness to the number of books in the Old Testament, gives 24.

TORAH LAW OF MOSES 1 GENESIS 2 EXODUS 3 LEVITICUS 4 NUMBERS 5 DEUTERONOMY:

KETHUBBIM- WRITINGS:

PSALMS 2 PROVERBS 3 JOB The five books of rolls or Meghilloth 4 SONG OF SOLOMON/CANTICLES 5RUTH NEBHUM PROPHETS IJOSHUA 2JUDGES.

3 JST AND 2ND Samuel (considered as one volume) 4 lst and 2nd Kings(considered as one volume)

5 Isaiah 6 Jeremiah 7 Ezekiel 8 The twelve minor prophets (considered as one volume)

our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

St. Paul also suffered with wounds from beatings,2Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND ISRAEL AND HOW IT WAS FORGED:

The relationship between God and Israel began with the promises He made to the Fathers, Abraham Isaac and Jacob.

Genesis 35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Through spiritual revelation and experience Jacob received a new name from Jehovah in Heaven. Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with 2 Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtaii, Gad, and Asher.

Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

GOD CALLED MOSES AND REVEALED TO HIM THAT HE WANTED TO FULFILL HIS PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. SO HE COMMANDED HIM TO GO TO PHARAOH AND DEMAND TH;: RELEASE OF HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL WHOM HE REGARDED WITH AFFECTION AND AS A SON.

Exodus 6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and great judgments:

7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD yor God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

In Deuteronomy 7:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after

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