A Type Of...

What makes the Word of God so alive and applicable to our lives even today… I mean most of what was written is over 2000 yrs old and was intended as a promise God had made to those people at that time; but the key factor is that it was NEVER INTENDED FOR THOSE PEOPLE, FOR THAT TIME only.

The word of God is everlasting and unchanging (Isa 40: 8; 1Pet 1:23; Mt 5: 18; Lk 16:17). And His promises to us, His people are eternal and will prevail. In this, we find proof of the same; His Word is filled over and over with His promises given to His people and renewed from generation to generation. For example Isa 59: 17 contains the similar instruction as does Eph 6: 14-17 and 1Thess 5:8.
(From the NASB)
Isa 59: 17
He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

Eph 6: 14-17
14 Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 15and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE; 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

1Thess 5:8
8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Biblical Theology refers to these references as a type of the other. But what does this typology mean for us???
> It is His way of reassuring us through the times that His word once spoken will prevail and accomplish what it was meant to do; ‘coz He knew just how many times and how easily we would doubt Him when things are not going as expected them to be.
> His Word has never changed (but only been renewed) since the beginning of time and it will not change now. We can gain confidence in that He will grant us our needs no matter what our immediate situation be.
> Many people try to undermine the power of the Word of God. But we need to realize that it is through His Word that He has chosen to give us strength and something to hold on to in those storms of life (‘coz human that we are, we all desperately look for something to latch onto when going through difficult times).

Some other references of this typology that I’ve come across in my personal study (and these are very very few of the whole number in the Bible) :
Isa 22: 20 – 25 == Mt 16: 17 – 20
Mt 5: 19b == Jam 2: 17
Isa 60: 19, 20 == Rev 21: 23
Isa 60: 3, 11b, 10 == Rev 21: 24
Isa 60: 11a == Rev 21: 25
Isa 60: 6, 7, 12, 13, 17 == Rev 21: 26
Isa 60: 21 == Rev 21: 27
Ecc 7: 20 == Rom 3: 23
Psa 30: 11 == Jer 31: 13