Typology... eh?

I recently received this picture via email from a friend and fellow Christian. It was displayed among those recognized in a National Geographics photo contest of some sort.


Look closely and you will notice that the horse like images are not quite what they seem, but rather "shadows" cast by a group of zebras. Interesting!

At our church we are presently attending a wonderful class entitled "Illuminating Shadows". Its focus being the numerous type/anti-type comparisons found throughout the Bible wherein New Testament Christianity is compared to Old Testament "Shadows" foretelling the advent of Christ and the New Testament Church established therein.


Hebrews 10:1-14 states,


For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year,make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,"SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE. THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (INTHE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'" After saying above, "SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them" (which are offered according to the Law), then He said, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL." He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

This text is a Type:Antitype tool. Author Wayne Jackson states, "A type is a real, exalted happening in history which was divinely ordained ... by God to be a prophetic picture of the good things which He purposed to bring to fruition in Christ Jesus".

Think of the Zebras as The Church, and the Shadows as Old Testament prophecy, etc. Wow! What a history we as Christians enjoy, what a story we have to share...