Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-12-17


We report his adj
dress irons these words OF scripture:
"And Isaac brought Rebeeaa into his
mother Ssrab's tent, and she became his
wife and he loved her. Genesis xiv, g.
When we sometimes speak of Abra.
ham. Isaae and others as types we
should not be understood to mean that
they were merely types-that the BIZ
BILE stories respecting them are fc-
tons. 4 person or thing is type
when, in addition to the actual @xpe-
riences. the Scriptures indicate that l.
prelpures and illustrates on small
scale some person or things YET fh-
ture As. for instaaoe, Adam in GER
tain respects. as the head OF the race,
was a type II Messiah. the Second
Adam.
The first Adam was the head Of our
race, but failed to give the eternal life
desired In Gods providence Messiah
is TO be the Second Adam, in the sense
that he viii regenerate, as his chill
dren, ali the pesterity of the First
Adam. Messiah il thus declared in
prophecy 10 be the Everlasting Fa-
Their of mankind-the Father or Life
giver better than Adam. and who will
give TO our race everlasting life. in
stead of a heritage Of weakness. imper-
fectlon and death.
Similarly Moses not only was a real
character, the leader of the nation Of
Israel. but. additionally, he was type
of q greater Mediator-Messiah. As
Moses mediated the l.1w Covenant for
Israel, SO Messiah. the Prophet like
unto Moses, or antitypicaI of him
facts iii, 81 IS TO be the Mediator Of
Israels New Covenant. under which
the Abrahamc blessings will reach
them and through them reach all the
families Of the earth der. XXI, 81.
Similarly. Aaron was a type Of the
higher priesthood and its better sacri-
fees connected with the New Cove
nant So, also. the under priests and
the J.evites, additional TO their own
Experiences. served, in Gods provi-
dence as types OF the higher institu-
=, tons by which the New Covenant will
be inaugurated shortly,
On this occasion we ask your atten,
ton to Abraham. known In the Scrip
lures as the friend of God, as the
father Of the faithful and 10 his son
Isaac, the Son of Promise, born out OF
the natural order, mlraculously, when
his mother vas old; also to Isaac's
wife, Rebecca, selecied by Abraham
TO be the companion and joint-heir
with his son Isaac in his inheritance.
These personagcs lived their lives
wholly unconscious of the fact that
God was using them and over-ruling
their affairs 50 us to make of them
prophetic pictures of his own great
Plan Of the Ages These type pictures
are always TO be read in fun harmony
with the Inspired writings of the Bible
and never 10 be understood in contra
diction of the same,
~ Abraham Type of God.
Not everything that Abraham did,
however, is to be esteemed typical. In
a general way this grand man Of the
past looms up before our minds as a
monument of faith and integrity aud
justice The blessings promised to &c
through him to his Seed which would
constitute him the father OF many ma
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through Messiah. his Son, and through
Israel, his people, unto all the families
OF the earth.
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typlned lhe Covenant 'nIouSn "'i'C'
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develops tue seed oi Ipn'ise- lsaac II