https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhOlFw56ew8&list=PLD9o3pQYhVMF2TXItDBjF2-WOro3i93Af&index=16
Lots of handouts to accompany the Epistle to the Hebrews:
John Widtsoe in 1931.
"One may quite as easily find himself in mistaken notions
if he attempts the interpretation of the scriptures without getting a full
perspective of the subject and adequate knowledge of human events that led to
the giving of the scriptures, including origins and translations."
In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of
people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a
blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing
in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are
the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world.
The shadows represent the fragment of reality that we can normally perceive
through our senses, while the objects under the sun represent the true forms of
objects that we can only perceive through reason. Three higher levels exist: the natural sciences; mathematics, geometry, and deductive logic; and the theory of forms.
Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is
freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are
actually not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher aims to
understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other
inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no
better life.
Jesus, in John 3, tells Nicodemus “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has
risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.- C.
S. Lewis
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness…'” (Genesis 1:26)
The Hebrew word for “in our image” is “betzalmenu בצלמנו .” The word “tzelem צלם”
is from an unused word, which means “to shade” according to the
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon. Here is the detailed definition: “images
(of tumours, mice, heathen gods); image or likeness (of resemblance).”
“Tzelem” is related to the word “Tzel צל”,
which is the modern-day Hebrew word for “shadow”. This gives us a deeper
understanding of “btzalmenu”, which means “in our shadow.” We were created in
the shadow of God! When we think of this, how does a shadow form? It is when
sunlight or any light hits an object, and the exact form of that object casts a
shadow. The shadow is an exact representation of the person.
There is one more person we should look at in the Bible who
reflects the idea of being a shadow of our God. It is Betzalel בצלאל, who appears for the first time in the Torah in Exodus 31:
The LORD spoke to Moses,
saying, ‘See, I have called by a name Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah. I have filled him with a Godly spirit רוח
אלהים, with wisdom, בחכמה ,
understanding תבין, and knowledge דעת , and with every craft.’ – Exodus 31:1-2
One of the meanings of Betzalel is “In the shadow of El (God).”
The other remarkable thing about him is that he is the “son of Uri.” “Uri אורי” means “my light”. We have a perfect picture of the shadow which
is cast by sunlight! But there’s more. The words that describe the Godly spirit
of Betzalel in the Torah are the same words used to describe someone else:
And the spirit of the
LORD רוח יהוה
shall rest upon him – a spirit of wisdom חכמה and understanding בינה, a spirit of counsel and strength, a
spirit of knowledge דעת and the fear of the LORD. – Isaiah 11:2
Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an
hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image;
and called his name Seth:
צָלַל shadow, shade through
the idea of hovering over); to shade, as twilight or an opaque object:—begin to
be dark, shadowing.
BELOW http://tcemission.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Types_Shadows_Patterns.pdf
TYPES A type is a divinely purposed illustration
of some truth. It may be: (1) a person (Rom 5:14); (2) an event (1 Cor 10:11);
(3) a thing (Heb 10:19-20); (4) an institution (Heb 9:11-12); or, (5) a
ceremonial (1 Cor 5:7). Types occur most frequently in the Pentateuch, but are
found, more sparingly, elsewhere. The antitype, is found generally in the NT
Rom
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of
Adam's transgression, who is the figure
τύπος of him that was to come.
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not
the very image of the things...Heb 10:1
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses
was· admonished of God when he was about to make
the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount. Heb 8:5
Howbeit for this cause I
obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might· shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should
hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 1Ti 1:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect
of an· holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days: Which are a shadow of things to
come; but the body is of Christ. Col 2:16-17·
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.1Co 10:11
a person (Rom 5:14); (2) an event (1 Cor 10:11 Exodus); (3) a thing
(Heb 10:19-20 veil); (4) an institution (Heb 9:11-12 copy of heavenly temple);
or, (5) a ceremonial (1 Cor 5:7 passover).
1Co 10:1Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant,
how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the
sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown
in the wilderness. 6 Now these things
were our examples,
Liken ὁμοίωμα homoiōma
that which has been made after the likeness of something; a figure, image, likeness,
representation; likeness i.e.
resemblance, such as amounts almost to equality or identity
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude
of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been
planted together in the likeness
of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 8:3 For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Phil 2:7 But made himself of
no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness
of men:
Rev 9:7 And the shapes
of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads
were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men
Matt 6:8 Be not ye therefore
like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before
ye ask him.
Matt 7:24 Therefore
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken
him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which
built his house upon the sand:
Matt 11:16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children
sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Matt 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field:
Matt 18:23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a
certain king, which would take account of his servants.
Matt 22:2 The kingdom of heaven
is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Matt 25:1 Then shall the
kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of
this generation? and to what are they like?
Luk 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto
shall I resemble it?
Act 14:11 And when the
people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the
speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Rom 9:29 And as Esaias said
before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma,
and been made like (HB דָּמָה damah דָּמָה
dâmâh, to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider, devise, (be)
like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes. ) unto Gomorrha.
Heb 2:17 Wherefore in all
things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might
be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make
reconciliation for the sins of the people.
