The Veiled Generation

In Part I we concluded several chapters with a supporting illustration of Old Testament typology. In similar fashion, this concluding chapter of Part II is a study of the Old Testament typology of the “last days” generation of the New Testament church. We feel that it dovetails all of the elements of this section of our study, and provides a scriptural “foreshadow” of the eschatological framework that we have presented.

In the ensuing pages we will explore how the first generation of national Israel (the Exodus era) is a type of the first generation of spiritual Israel (the New Testament era). This type is established in Scripture for us by Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:

Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor 10:1-12 (pp. 310-311)

Discover the amazing richness of the typology between these two generations in the pages of this chapter.