The Plan of the Ages

God’s Dispensational Dealings with Humanity

Dispensational Types

Part II

Lesson XIV

August 21, 2005

Another Definition of a Type

“A type is a Divinely purposed illustration of a truth.”

I Adam, the first type of Christ in the Bible

Who is the most important person of the Bible?

II Eve, the first type of the Church in the Bible

Who then, are the next important people of the Bible?

III Enoch, the first type of the Rapture in the Bible

What is the Rapture?

1 Thessalonians 4:17 caught up

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in a moment

1 John 3:2 is this doctrine important to you?

Who will be Raptured?

1 Thessalonians 4:16 the dead in Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:17 the living in Christ

Why will we be Raptured?

Philippians 3:20 we belong to Heaven

IV Methuselah, the first type of the patience of God in the Bible

A picture of this age of grace and tolerance of God

Genesis 5:21 son of Enoch, his name means, “he shall not see it”

Genesis 5:27 He lived the longest life

1 Peter 3:10 the longsuffering of God waited

2 Peter 3:9 He is not willing that any should perish

V The Flood, the first type of the Great Tribulation in the Bible

Genesis 7:11-12 the flood came

Genesis 7:19-24 it was world-wide

Matthew 24:21-22 the great tribulation will come

1 Thessalonians 5:2 it will be the day of the Lord

VI Noah and his family saved, a type of those saved during the Tribulation

Genesis 7:7 Noah was in the Ark

Hebrews 11:7 he saved his family

Revelation 7:14 some will be saved in the Tribulation

VII The Antediluvians, the first type of the ungodly who will be taken in death by the sudden return of Christ

2 Peter 2:5 ungodly were taken by a flood

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ungodly will be taken by fire

Luke 17:14-17 around the world, some are in bed, others at a mill, others in a field

Matthew 24:24:-44 not taking the saved, but the lost

Eagles? See Job 39:27-30