The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-12-14

5l lsagA MsS by large and in
ESASlQR RuSSElL ] tellgent audiences.
We report his ad-
dress from these words of Scripture:
And Isaac brought Rebecca into hic
mother Sarah's tent, and she became his
wife and he loved her. '-Genesis xiv, e..
When we sometimes speak of Abra-
ham, Isaac and others rs types we
should not be understood to mean that
they were merely types-that the Bi-
BILE stories respecting them are tic-
tons. a person or thing is type
when, in addition to the actual eXpe-
riences, the Scriptures indicate that it
prefigures and illustrates on a small
scale some person or things yet flu
ture. As, for instance, Adam in GER
tain respects. rs the head of the race,
was a type of 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 will regenerate, as his chill
dren, all the posterity of the First
Adam. Messiah is thus declared in
prophecy to 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 heritage of weakness. imper-
lection and death.
Similarly. Moses not only was real
character, the leader of the nation of
Israel, but, additionally, he was type
of a greater Messiah. As
Moses mediated the Law Covenant for
Israel, so Messiah, the Prophet like
unto Moses, or antitypical of him
ACTS iii, 23,, is to be the Mediator Of
Israels New Covenant, under which
the Abrahamic blessings will reach
them and through them reach all the
families of the earth Ger 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 Levites, 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 to his son
Isaac, the Son of Promise, born out of
the natural order, miraculously, when
his mother was old: also to Isaac's
wife, Rebecca, selected by Abraham
to be the companion and joint-heir
with his son Isaac in his Inheritance.
These personages lived their lives
wholly unconscious Of the fact that
God was using them and overriding
their affairs so as to make of them
prophetic pictures of his own great
Plan of the Ages. These type-pictures
are always to be read in full harmony
with the inspired writings of the Bible
and never to be understood in contra
diction Of the same.
Abraham a 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 and
justice. The blessings promised to go
through him to his Seed, which would
constitute him the father of many ma
lions, made of him, as st. Paul points
out, a type of the Almighty, from
whom flows every good and every per-
feet gift-from whom proceeds the
blessing which ultimately Is to flow
through Messiah, his Son, and through
Israel, his people, unto all the families
of the earth.
All Christians, presumably, are aware
of st. Paul's Interpretation of Abra-
ham and his family as types. As
Abraham typified God, so his wife
the vitality of the promise ultimately
develops the Seed of Promise-Isaac in
a type, and Messiah in the antitype
st, Paul also explains that Sarah's serv-
ant, Hagar, at Sarah's wish, became
for time her representative with
Abraham and brought forth Ishmael.
Hagar, st. Paul explains, typified the
Law Covenant, vitalized by the gra-
cious arrangements of the same God
and Father. And Hagar'S son, lit
orally Abraham's frst-born, typifed
the Jewish nation, the first develop
ment under the Covenant
AS Abraham loved Isaac and desired
a blessing upon him, so God loved Is
rael and desired blessing upon Israel,
the offspring of the Law Covenant.
Nevertheless, as Ishmael, the offspring
of the bond-woman, was declared not
to be the primary heir of the Abra-
hamic promise, but secondary one,
so the children of Israel, the offspring
of the Law Covenant, were not intend
cd to be the Spiritual Messiah through
whom the promise declared that the
blessing should first proceed.
In the type We see that Sarah, Abra-
hams wife. who represented the origi-
nal A{,rahamic Covenant, brought forth