We know that the Tabernacle of Moses pointed to and was patterned after Christ or heavenly things (Ex 25:40, Heb 8:5). As part of the Tabernacle, we were shown seven feasts or holy convocations. Passover (Lev 23:5) Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:6-8) Firstfruits (Lev 23:11) Pentecost (Lev 23:15-16) (the Spring feasts) Trumpets (Lev 23:24) Atonement (Lev 23:27) Tabernacles (Lev 23:34, 36) (the Fall feasts) What is an overview from a Catholic or Protestant perspective on whether or not all of these have been fulfilled in Christ? For example, we know the exclamation of John the Baptist. >The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29) And its Passover fulfillment that led Paul to say this. >Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (1 Cor 5:7) Likewise, with Firstfruits as the type of resurrection out from the dead. >But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Cor 15:20 So, which feasts have been fulfilled and which remain?

In His conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus referenced the story of the snake in the desert and indicated that it foreshadowed Himself. How exactly does this story foreshadow Jesus? > And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. John 3:14 ESV

Absalom dies on a tree (2 Samuel 18). He's rebelled against his father, David, and taken the throne. He'd rallied all Israel to his side. David has fled, but he's sent in his army and they've totally crushed Absalom. Absalom is fleeing into the forest when he gets caught, hangs on the tree, and eventually gets speared to death by Joab (the leader of David's army). Reminds me of Jesus's death on a cross. After hearing of Absalom's death, David is sad. *really sad*. So sad he can't even rejoice that he's gotten his kingdom back. Is there any Christological significance to this scenario? What about David? Does he play a metaphorical role?

In theology, there are many things identified in the Old Testament as foreshadowing things in the New. The life of Joseph, the son of Jacob, is one of these that is identified as such the life of Jesus. What is the identification based on and how exactly does the life of Joseph foreshadow the life of Jesus the Messiah?

I have seen Noah's Ark listed one of the "types" in Scripture -- something that occurred, but that also foreshadowed something else that would come later. What exactly, then, does the story of Noah's Ark foreshadow?

> The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” **And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.** **(Numbers 21:6-9)** Someone recently told me that this was symbolic, and that the serpent is a symbol for sin, and that this was foreshadowing Jesus becoming sin for us and being lifted up and crucified so that we would live. My question is, how do we know that this is the right interpretation, and not just an interesting idea that someone had?