ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 7 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> Hello, Dr. Scaer. I haven't yet introduced myself. I'm Joshua. And I serve a congregation in rural Wyoming. I really like what you've had to say about Christ being the author and the content of the Old Testament as he is the New. In past classes we've certainly explored how scripture communicates truth about Christ. Some of what we've learned leads me to want to ask you: What does all this have to do with what is called Messianic prophecies and typology? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: Josh, it's -- you really have an appropriate name, also, to ask this kind of question because I'm assuming your name is Joshua, which means God saves, which is the same name as Jesus, that Jesus has. Now, the question -- your question has two parts. That is what about Messianic prophesies and what about typology? There are certain sections of the Old Testament which the church has recognized as being more explicit in predicting and describing the future figure who'll come to redeem God's people Israel. We know them in Genesis 3. That the seed of the woman will defeat the seed of the serpent. There's the explicit prophesy that the Messiah is going to be born in the city of David in Bethlehem. These are called direct Messianic prophesies. Typology has to do with those figures in the Old Testament which have certain characteristics which resemble Jesus and which Jesus will bring to performance. Let's just take the most important one. And that would be the figure of Moses. Moses is the person who established Israel as God's people. It was Moses who brought the word of God to God's people. It was Moses who served as the redeemer of God's people in bringing them through the Red Sea and saving them from the Egyptian forces. We should be very careful about using the term typology as if we are putting something into the Old Testament that's not there. I'm very uncomfortable with the phrase typology because it leaves that kind of impression. Rather, we should see the entire Old Testament not only as the inspired word of God given us by the Holy Spirit, but also the place from which Christ speaks to us. And when he speaks to us, he speaks about himself. And therefore, we should be ready and willing to find Christ in all places of the Old Testament. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***