Mortal Messiah Victorious King, Part 2

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MORTAL MESSIAH,

VICTORIUS KING

Part II

May 10th 2026

So in light of last week, where we appealed to the fact that human beings have, according to the scripture been able, without any direct appeal to Yeshua of Nazareth, to please God (and we named them Enoch, Job, David, Samson, Rahab, and even others like Cornelius, we also asked, so why the incarnation of Christ.

Of course, we know the answers – at least in part – and we mentioned one last week – He paid the sin debt that put even those who pleased God before Him in a space separated from Him – called sheol, the grave, the covered place or hell.

But let’s get a little more thorough on the list so as to try and get the big picture in the clearest way possible.

The first thing we notice about Him is understood through the whole of scripture as Genesis 1 says,

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (a plural) created the heaven and the earth.

Then verse 3 add how, saying 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Then looking to Psalm 33:6 we read,

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Then we read in the Gospel of John

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Then we read Paul in Colossians 1, speaking of Yeshua and saying,

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

So, He was the very means by which God created all things – as His preincarnate logos.

The first prophetic reference is thought to be from Genesis 3:15, called by theologians, the “protoevangelium” or first gospel and that is where we read God speaking to the serpent who tempted Eve and we read in verse 14,

Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

(And here is the first prophecy mentioned)

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Biblical scholars often call this the first gospel because it introduces the ultimate hope of a Savior right at the moment sin enters the world.

This suggests that the plan of the incarnation of God with us was from before the foundation of the world – quite frankly, it seems that before even considering the material manufacturing of heaven and earth and all that in them is, God knew the dark would invade and had a plan set to beat it.

This would answer the question as to God’s knowledge and intention of all things before acting.

The "seed of the woman" refers to a descendant who would break the serpent's power. Most believers interpret this as Yeshua of Nazareth, born of a woman (virgin-born), acting as the representative of humanity in the same way that Adam represented humanity too.

From the start God appears to establish a permanent conflict between a force of good (Yeshua and those who would follow Him) and evil (ha Satan and those that followed it).

We also have the serpent’s strike (biting the heel) which refers to the crucifixion of Yeshua, a temporary wound that resulted in His sacrifice for sin and then

conversely, the seed’s strike (which was Yeshua crushing the serpents head) which would serve as the first blow in the final, fatal victory of Yeshua over Satan, which we have clearly pointed out would ultimately and finally occur through His death and Resurrection, followed literally in His ascension and return to take His Bride.

And the fourth thing we notice about Yeshua is that His given name, in Hebrew, Yeshua, (also written, Joshua) is used 77 times in the Old Testament, often referencing God as the source of deliverance as the word means, He will save.”

This is not that big of a deal as names almost always have meanings taken from a language but it is purposeful in the fact that then the scripture says God will save, the word is Yeshua.

The fifth thing we notice is the number of pictures or types or shadows of Him and His life found in the Old Testament.

It is a long list but super important as it directly confronts the idea that a corrupt Flavian collection of men concocted the Yeshuan tale from Hebrew stories.

So not only does the Old Testament reveal the promised Messiah through prophecy, it also reveals him through typology. Typology refers to historical people, places, objects, or events which foreshadow Christ and his work in the Old Testament.

Consider the verses below, which speak of OT typology:

Colossians 2:16-17

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days—these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!

Hebrew 10:1

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Many of the laws, festivals, and stories in the Old Testament shadowed or pictured the coming messiah—meant to prepare Israel for him.

As with shadows today, they present the border of something real but do not fully give the picture.

So first, Adam

Adam is a type of Christ. Adam was the leader of the world who failed when tempted by the devil, leading the world into sin and death.

Of course, Christ, like Adam, was also tempted by the devil but succeeded for the world leading us to righteousness and eternal life.

Adam was simply an imperfect shadow of a coming perfect, human ruler.

1st Corinthians 15:45 says,

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

And 1st Corinthians 15:21-22

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Romans 5:19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

Then we have Abel as a type of Christ.

Abel, the son of Adam, was murdered by his older brother, Cain, simply for being righteous. Likewise, Christ was murdered by his brethren, the Jews, for being righteous.

When God approached Cain about the murder in Genesis 4:10-11, He said,

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Just as Abel’s blood spoke about the need for justice, in contrast, Christ’s blood speaks offers justice for all thereby offering mercy, forgiveness, and salvation to all as well.

Hebrews 12:24 says, “and to Yeshua, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.”

Paul said to the church at Ephesus, “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.”

Noah’s ark is a type of Christ in some radical ways.

In the same way that God saved Noah’s family who entered the ark from the judgment of the flood, God now saves all who are in Christ.

To the Bride Peter wrote in 1st Peter 3:20-21,

In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Yeshua Christ,

When verse 21 says this “prefigured baptism,” the word “prefigured” can also be translated “type” or “antitype.” The ark which saved Noah’s family from God’s judgment through water prefigures a future baptism. Peter makes it clear that he is not referring to “water baptism,” as he says, “not the washing off of physical dirt” but the “pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Yeshua Christ” (v. 21).

Those who put their faith in Christ are baptized into him, including his death and resurrection, and they will be saved from God’s future wrath.

1st Corinthians 12:12-13 says, speaking of the Spiritual baptism Christ gives says,

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body—though many—are one body, so too is Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

Then speaking to all of the mortal works of Christ Paul wrote in Romans 6:3-5

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Yeshua were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

Baptism really means to be “identified” with something. Those who by faith accept Christ as Lord and Savior are identified with his life, death, and resurrection and, therefore, will be saved from God’s judgment. Noah’s ark was a type of Christ, in that people who identify with him will likewise be saved.

The mysterious man Melchizedek was a king of Salem (an old name for Jerusalem) and priest of Yahweh who met with Abraham in Genesis 14.

He was as mysterious a human being as Christ to be honest.

Abraham honored Melchizedek by paying tithes to him (v. 20) and one of the things that made Melchizedek unique was that he was both a king and priest.

In Israel, those roles were kept distinct. The king was not a priest, and the priest was not a king. Kings were supposed to come from the line of David and priests from the Levitical line, through Aaron’s children.

But in Hebrews 7, the author makes the argument that the New Covenant is greater than the Old Covenant because it has a greater priesthood.

God promised that Christ would be a priest like Melchizedek instead of a Levitical priest. The priesthood of Melchizedek is greater than the Levitical priesthood for at least two biblical reasons:

1, Abraham, who is the grandfather of Levi, paid tithes to Melchizedek which shows how great Melchizedek was (as Hebrews 4:9 makes mention) and 2, because there is no record of Melchizedek’s death, that means he has an eternal priesthood.

This caused the writer of Hebrews 7:3 to describe Melchizedek as being, “Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.”

Priests typically remained in office till death (Hebrews 7:23). Therefore, since there is no record of Melchizedek’s death, technically, he remains a priest. Because of this, Melchizedek was a type of Christ—a priest and king, with an eternal priesthood.

Another type of Christ is Jacob’s ladder. In Genesis 28, Jacob has a vision of a heavenly ladder with angels ascending to heaven on it and descending to earth from it (v. 12). In John 1:50-51, when Christ met with Nathaniel—who became one of the original twelve disciples—he said this to him:

… “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” But He continued and said,

“I tell all of you the solemn truth—you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Nathaniel, as one raised hearing and studying the Old Testament stories, would have quickly understood the picture Christ gave. Jacob’s ladder typified Christ, and therefore, Christ was the way to heaven.

This is backed by Yeshua Himself who said in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.”

Though Isaac is never clearly called a type of Christ in Scripture, many have seen the similarities as unmistakable.

Isaac was the child God promised to give Abraham. Isaac had a miraculous birth when Abraham was 100 years old and Abraham’s wife, Sara, was 90 years old. Abraham was called by God to sacrifice Isaac; however, Isaac was miraculously delivered from Abraham’s knife as God provided a ram in a thicket.

According to Hebrew 11:17-19 The reason Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac was because he believed God would raise him from the dead that is why it says,

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son. God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Likewise, Christ was the only begotten Son of God as Isaac was God’s only begotten son in the flesh (though God did have another son in flesh named Adam who was a precursor to Yeshua just like Ishmael was a physical son of Abraham before the son of promise.

So while he is never clearly declared a type of Christ in the text the similarities between Isaac and Christ are clear.

Likewise, Joseph is never clearly called a type of Christ, but the similarities are many.

Joseph was the favorite child of his father, Jacob. He was hated by his brothers and sold into slavery in Egypt. While a slave, he was eventually falsely accused by his master’s wife and thrown into prison. While there, he interpreted Pharaoh’s dream of seven years of plenty in the land and seven years of famine. Because of that, Pharaoh promoted him to second in command of Egypt in order to prepare the country to survive the famine. Eventually, as second in command, Joseph also saves his family, including the brothers who enslaved him, and other nations from starving during the famine. God used the bad that happened to him to save many lives.

What are some of the ways people have seen unmistakable similarities between Joseph and Christ? Here are a few,

(GRAPHICS)

He was a seed of Abraham whom the nations of the earth were blessed through, even as Christ was (Genesis 41:53-57; and Genesis 22:18).

He was the beloved son of his father, even as Christ was (John 3:16).

He became a poor servant, even as Christ did (2nd Corinthians 8:9).

His brothers hated him because of his dream that one day he would reign over them (Genesis 37:4,8). The Jews hated Christ and would not have him reign over them (Luke 19:14).

The Jewish brothers would eventually bow down to Joseph, even though they previously rejected and harmed him. Likewise, Israel initially rejected Christ and killed him, but one day they will submit to him and worship him as their messiah (according to Zechariah 12:10, Romans 11:26-27).

Joseph and Yeshua were betrayed by their brothers (the Jews) and sold for the price of a slave in pieces of silver (Genesis 37:28, Matthew 26:15).

Joseph was exalted to prince in Egypt. Everything was under Joseph’s rule except Pharaoh. In Genesis 41:40, Pharaoh said, " Only I, the king, will be greater than you." Likewise, God has exalted Christ and 1st Corinthians says, “For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says ‘everything’ has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.”

Joseph was given a Gentile wife, an Egyptian. Christ has been given a bride who is both Jew and Gentile, the church (Ephesians 2:11-22, 5:25-26, Galatians 3:28, Revelations 19:7-8).

Joseph wept over his brothers (Genesis 45:2). Christ wept over the sins of the Jews as well (Luke 19:41).

Joseph was a prophet that received messages from God. Yeshua was “the Prophet” (Deuteronomy 18:15, John 7:40, Acts 3:18-22).

Joseph saved the lives of those who came to him for help, including many nations in the world (Genesis 41:57). Likewise, Christ saves the lives of those who come to him for help (John 3:16).

Again, though never clearly pointed to in Scripture as a type of Christ, Joseph’s story, in many ways, mirrors that of Yeshua.

Moses is also a type of Christ. As God made Moses the mediator of the Old Covenant, Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant.

In Deuteronomy 18:15-19 Moses even prophesied that there would be a prophet like him who would come that Israel must listen to. It says:

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you—from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him. This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.” The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good. I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.”

Since “the Prophet” became a messianic title, the Jews were waiting for him and recognized Christ as that prophet.

Here are some other similarities to consider between Moses and Yeshua,

John 6:14

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Yeshua performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

We have had others come since Christ claiming to be a prophet (even a few who claim to be The Prophet) but our Prophet, Priest, King, Lord and God is Christ. End of story.

Also, in John 7:40 we read of them in that day,

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

Of course, David is a type of Christ.

Scripture teaches that Christ is the prophesied Son of David who would one day rule on his father’s throne over Israel and the world.

But did you know that sometimes in scripture, Yeshua is simply called David.

For example, Ezekiel 37:24 says, “My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.”

Because of this language, some people actually believe God will resurrect David to rule over Israel in the millennial kingdom (Rev 20).

However, it seems that God is just using the name David to refer to the messiah, the Son of David as Jeremiah 23:5-6 confirms, saying,

I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by: ‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’

Interestingly, Solomon was also a type of Christ. In 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 God made a covenant with David that he would have a son who would build God a house and have an everlasting rule. It says:

When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you, but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.

Solomon, David’s son, did build the temple for God to dwell in. However, Solomon died, just like his father, David, did so Solomon only partially fulfilled God’s promise.

It was ultimately fulfilled in Christ—a future son of David. Christ also built God a house.

Many have seen this fulfilled in at least two ways. (1) Christ built God a house by building the universal church, which is called the temple of God. In 1st Corinthians 3:16, Paul says this to the church, “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?”

Also, in 1st Peter 2:5, Peter says this to believers,

“you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Yeshua Christ.”

(2) Some also believe that Christ will one day build a future physical temple, even as Solomon did in his day. This is based on their interpretation of Ezekiel 40-43, where Ezekiel prophesies about the dimensions of a magnificent temple that has never yet been built, which many believe will exist during Christ’s millennial reign on the earth based on Revelation 20 but which we see as an errant interpretation foisted to promote futurism over fulfillment.

Jonah also was a type of Christ. When Jonah was in the big fish for three days and nights and then spit up onto dry land, that was a picture of Christ being in the earth for three days and nights and then resurrecting.

In Matthew 12:38-41, we read,

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them—and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

Additionally, Israel itself was a type of Christ as Matthew 2:14-15 says,

Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt. He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”

Matthew also describes how Joseph and his family hid in Egypt while Herod was executing babies in Israel. Then, Matthew quotes Hosea 11:1 which says,

“I called my Son out of Egypt.” Without close examination, it seems that Matthew was saying Christ fulfilled an Old Testament prophecy about him.

However, Matthew is really describing how Israel was always a typology—a shadow which pictured the coming messiah. We can say this because Hosea 11:1 says this,

“When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.”

Of course the quoted text, as originally written, had nothing to do with Christ. It originally was spoken by Hosea about how God called Israel out of Egypt, but Matthew uses it for how Joseph left Egypt with his son, Yeshua, after initially fleeing there from Herod.

This wasn’t a prophecy; it was a typology. Matthew was saying Israel leaving Egypt was an Old Testament shadow of Christ. No doubt, Israel’s forty years of being tempted and tried in the wilderness before going into the promised land was also meant to picture how Yeshua was tempted and tried by the devil in the wilderness for forty days before beginning his ministry.

However, where Israel failed God when tempted, Christ succeeded.

In fact, all through Isaiah (Isaiah 42:1-4, 49:1-6, 50:4-9, 53) many struggle to discern when God is speaking about Israel or Yeshua as the suffering servant. Sometimes it is clearly talking about Israel. At other times, it is clearly talking about Yeshua (as in Isaiah 53), and sometimes, it is unclear.

Listen to Isaiah 49:1-6 where it reads,

Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.” But I thought, “I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me. So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant—he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the Lord’s sight, for my God is my source of strength—he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

In verse 3, God calls the servant “Israel.” But in verse 5, the servant is separate from Israel and is called to bring “Jacob” back to God. How do we explain this?

Israel was meant to be a type of Christ—to reflect the future glory of the Savior to the Gentile world. However, because they failed God, the Savior, Yeshua Christ, needed to turn the nation back to God and ultimately bring salvation to the unbelieving, Gentile world (v. 6). In this Israel too was a type of Christ—a shadow of a much greater reality.

In part III next week, we will wrap up our third part on the Mortal Messiah by talking about other things that pictured Him from the Old Testament, including

Shepherds, lambs, brazen serpents, Sabbath days, the form of the cross, manna, living water, Israel herself, the Tabernacle, the veil, the mercy seat, cities of refuge, then three hundred plus prophecies, with all of it culminating in one grand event that triumphs over them all setting the world on such a new course that both heaven and earth were shaken and the human race entered into this eternal age of Grace –

All because of Him, all through Him and all established forever by Him for God, His Father, and ours.

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