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FEBRUARY 26
DAY 25:What does the term “type of Christ”mean when used to describe
someone in the Old Testament?

Certain persons and practices recorded in the Old Testament serve as hints, clues, and preillus-
trations of what Jesus Christ would accomplish by His life, death, and resurrection. In most cases, the
similarities or parallels are pointed out in the New Testament.The following people are some of those
mentioned as representing,in a narrow way,what Christ accomplished perfectly:(1) Adam (Rom.5:14;
1 Cor. 15:45); (2) Abel (Gen. 4:8,10; Heb. 12:24); (3) Aaron (Ex. 28:1; Heb. 5:4,5; 9:7,24); (4) David (2 Sam.
8:15;Phil.2:9);(5) Jonah (Jon.1:17;Matt.12:40);(6) Melchizedek (Gen.14:18–20;Heb.7:1–17);(7) Moses
(Num. 12:7; Heb. 3:2); (8) Noah (Gen. 5:29; 2 Cor. 1:5); (9) Samson (Judg. 16:30; Col. 2:14–15); (10)
Solomon (2 Sam.7:12,13; 1 Pet.2:5).
The following events and practices also prefigure Christ: (1) Ark (Gen. 7:16; 1 Pet. 3:20,21); (2)
Atonement sacrifices (Lev. 16:15,16; Heb. 9:12,24); (3) Bronze serpent (Num. 21:9; John 3:14,15); (4)
Mercy seat (Ex. 25:17–22; Rom. 3:25; Heb. 4:16); (5) Passover lamb (Ex. 12:3–6,46; John 19:36; 1 Cor. 5:7);
(6) Red heifer (Lev.3:1;Eph.2:14,16);(7) Rock of Horeb (Ex.17:6;1 Cor.10:4);(8) Scapegoat (Lev.16:20–22);
(9) Tabernacle (Ex.40:2;Heb.9:11;Col.2:9); (10) Veil of the tabernacle (Ex.40:21;Heb.10:20).

mother; nor shall he go out of the sanctuary,
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February 26 nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the
consecration of the anointing oil of his God is
upon him: I am the LORD. And he shall take a
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wife in her virginity. A widow or a divorced
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Leviticus 21:1–22:33
woman or a defiled woman or a harlot—these
And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin
21 the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to of his own people as wife. Nor shall he pro-
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them: ‘None shall defile himself for the dead fane his posterity among his people, for I the
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among his people, except for his relatives who LORD sanctify him.’ ”
are nearest to him: his mother, his father, his 16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
son, his daughter, and his brother; also his vir- 17 “Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your
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gin sister who is near to him, who has had no descendants in succeeding generations, who has
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husband, for her he may defile himself. Other- any defect, may approach to offer the bread of
wise he shall not defile himself, being a chief his God. For any man who has a defect shall
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man among his people, to profane himself. not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a
5 ‘They shall not make any bald place on marred face or any limb too long, a man who
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their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of has a broken foot or broken hand, or is a
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their beards nor make any cuttings in their hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has
flesh. They shall be holy to their God and not a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a
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profane the name of their God, for they offer eunuch. No man of the descendants of Aaron
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the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the the priest, who has a defect, shall come near
bread of their God; therefore they shall be to offer the offerings made by fire to the LORD.
holy. They shall not take a wife who is a harlot He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer
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or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a the bread of his God. He may eat the bread of
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woman divorced from her husband; for the
priest is holy to his God. Therefore you shall
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consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your
God. He shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, 21:16–23 defect. Just as the sacrifice had to
who sanctify you, am holy. The daughter of be without blemish, so did the one offering
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any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the sacrifice. As visible things exert strong
the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall impressions on the minds of people,any phys-
be burned with fire. ical impurity or malformation tended to dis-
10 ‘He who is the high priest among his tract from the weight and authority of the
brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was sacred office,failed to externally exemplify the
poured and who is consecrated to wear the inward wholeness God sought, and failed to
garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear be a picture of Jesus Christ, the Perfect High
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his clothes; nor shall he go near any dead Priest to come (see Heb. 7:26).
body, nor defile himself for his father or his
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