People often ask the question, who is God, and why doesn’t he just reveal himself to us? Why doesn’t he give us some kind of proof that he exists so we can believe?
It’s a good question but it’s the wrong question to ask because God does want you to know that he exists and that he loves you enough to give you ways to find him, but only if you seek him with love and try to understand why he hasn’t made it obvious and easy to prove that he is up there.
Faith is believing in something without seeing it or having proof of its existence. The reason that faith is necessary to finding God is because man joined sides with the father of evil and sin when he ate of the tree of sin, whose fruit produces useless knowledge that is not Godly and can only end in death.
In other words, the devil and man challenged God by saying we know a better way, our own way to do things and we don’t need you telling us what is good and what is evil anymore. God accepted this challenge, but it meant that he would no longer intervene or be a part of our choices unless it is necessary because doing so would affect the outcome of our very long lesson that we have chosen to learn the hard way.
So, in that summary, we can see that he does not give us proof of him or his actions because we have decided that we don’t need him. In many cases, it would seem that there are far more reasons made easily available to not believe in him than their are reasons to believe, but this is by design and on purpose to allow those who trust in usless knowledge to find exactly what they are looking for, which is a reason to not believe.
However, for those who do seek him with their heart, mind, and soul, he does find ways to reveal himself and his plan for the salvation of man to them. One of these ways that provides proof to the believer is called typology.
What is typology? As if there wasn’t enough biblical terminology to memorize already. But this one is just as important as prophecy because, in a way it is prophecy, accept its prophecy without actually saying anything. let me explain.
The bible is filled with stories that involve people, objects, and events that, by themself, seem to convey what happened and what we need to know about the story that’s being told. Yet hidden within almost all of the stories in the bible, there is a typology that links or groups other events yet to happen or to be revealed that are so closely related to each other that when they did come to pass they actually become prophecy fulfilled from the first story.
For example, Paul conveyed in Roman’s 5:14 that Adam was a type, a foreshadowing or pre-figure of Christ in that Adam was the first man created by God, he was created to be perfect yet because of his wife Eve and the deception of the serpent, he chose to join her fate of death and ate also of the tree whose fruit is sin. He was cast out of the garden and God’s presence because of sin and clothed with the skins of animals that represented the sacrifice that must occur in order to cover their sin.
Jesus was the second Adam, born in this world of sin, but lived a sinless life even though the same serpent tried to decieve and tempt him. He then conquered death by taking on all of our sin and dying naked on a tree so that we could be redeemed of our sin by his sacrifice and once again be in God’s presence in the Garden.
So Adam and all of these things that he and his story represented are a typology of the future actions and symbolic death of Jesus, hidden in this simple little story about Adam and a tree.
Adam was created perfect in a perfect world without sin but fell and became imperfect and created a world of sin.
Jesus was born in a world of sin but became perfect to undo the curse that Adam had created and bring man and the world back to perfection and back to God
Adam was created naked but died clothed because of sin
Jesus died naked because he had removed our sin
Adam created sin at a tree
Jesus overcame sin at a tree
Adam created the need for sacrifice in order to cover and atone sin.
Jesus became the sacrifice in order to redeem Adam and atone for his sin once and for all.
So you see, Adam’s life and choices became a prophecy of the reversals that Jesus would perform when he came and was born as an ordinary man more than 4000 years later. Not because Adam was not in control of his life or choices but because Jesus and God are one and the same and not bound by time like we are. They saw our future and knew what we would do and what would have to be done in order to save us from ourselves. This was Gods plan for our salvation was for himself to become a man and die in our place for us and with us, even by our own hand.
This is typology, that all of these are linked together across long lengths of time and it is in a way definitive proof that God exists because only he could see beyond time and have the Hebrews tell these stories and write down their history for thousands of years and then not even understand or believe who Jesus was when he did come as a man to fulfill all of the typology prophecies that they had created a religion and lifestyle around. You can not make this stuff up.
Another example of a typology is the flood and baptism. The flood of Noah occurred as a judgment on the evil and wicked offspring of the fallen angels who had mated with human women and created wicked souless giant monsters. Only Noah and his three sons were perfect in their generations and had not been corrupted by the fallen anglels and the seed of the serpent. Because the world could not continue in this state of chaos and evil and still allow for Gods plan for the salvation of man, God instructed Noah to build an ark and to put the animals and his family inside because he would destroy the earth and all of the wicked giants and chain the angels who created them in the abyss. Noah did as he was told, and God submerged the ark with water by opening the windows of heaven and drowned all of the inhabitants of the earth. Afterward, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and Noah and his family emerged to a cleansed earth to start over. This story is significant enough by itself, but the typology and prophecy of it are beyond profound.
First would be the judgment on the evil offspring who would later be referred to as rephaim or the drowned giants and the fallen Angels who created them.
The typology of this would have three separate future fullfilments of the giants being drowned in the flood and the fallen angels chained in sheol.
After the flood, the spirits of the rephaim would haunt men and possess them because their hatred for man and anything that is associated with God drives them with a relentless psychopathic desire to hurt and destroy. This desire led to men murdering other men and the deception of men believing in the existence of false gods and idol worship whose end goal was always the sacrifice of the innocent to appease the false gods, even if it means sacrificing one’s own child. Sound familure? Thats because Abraham and his being asked by God to sacrifice Isaac was yet again a typology of the other false gods requiring that children be sacrificed to them, even in the very same spot that God led Abraham to sacrifice Isaac at. The key difference being that God did not allow Abraham to go through with it because it was only a display of Abraham’s faith in God and a way for it to be recorded for the rest of history that the God of Abraham does not desire or allow his creation to sacrifice their sons, but instead Abraham prophecied that God himself would come down and provide for himself the Lamb for a sacrifice
This false god worship and sacrifice of children had finally reached its apex in the egyptians and pharoh who had believed so wholeheartedly in the god resheph (who later became apollo to the greeks) that the pharoh himself began to believe that he was the physical imbodiment of the god and began throwing the male children of the hebrews into the nile river in order to control their population and prove authority over all other gods even the God of the Hebrews. Moses was spared from this fate, and after living a life of ease as egyptian royalty, he was exiled to the wilderness for the murder of an egyptian. God then revealed himself to Moses in order to bring his chosen people the Hebrews out of egypt, and he would do so by proving to the Egyptians that he was the only true God by punishing them with the very same plagues and miracles that they believed their pharoh and god resheph possessed.
Here is where the typology of the first flood of Noah gets fulfilled in that pharoh in his prideful rage chased the Hebrews to the coastline of the sea intending to destroy them just as the wicked giants of Noah’s day intended to destroy all of mankind. But God once again intervened, and instead of Moses building an ark to survive the coming flood, God created an ark in the water itself by parting it in the very same shape as the hull of a ship would be. After Moses and the last of the Hebrews touched the ground of the mountainside on the other end of the sea, God no longer restrained the waters that had been parted for his people, just as he no longer restrained the waters of the heavens that flooded the giants. All of pharoh and his chariots of men drowned just as the children of the fallen angels had in the first flood, only Gods children were saved.
The second fulfillment of the flood typology would be the baptism of men by John the Baptist and his followers just before Jesus would begin his ministry and mission that would lead to the cross. When we think of getting baptized, most people think of it being a commitment to God and a purification of our body by the washing away of our sins in water. But if we are to fully interpret and understand all that the typology of it seems to present, then it is symbolic of even more than that.
When we get baptized, we are in fact, becoming a member of the small family of Noah on that giant ark that was symbolic of Jesus because he is the Ark and he is the one and only door of the ark that allows for salvation. All who enter in through him will be saved John 10:9. Because we all have been born in sin we are part of the family of the fallen angels and their wicked offspring. Because of this we are submerged in water and drown in our sins with them, but because we are God’s children and not the offspring of angels we are offered one last choice and lifeline that is Jesus and if we believe in him and his sacrifice for us then unlike the drowned giants and the chained angels we have the possibility to emerge from the water by stepping through his door and entering in his ark and joining the family of Noah.
As if that wasn’t enough to make the typology and symbolism of baptism amazing, remember those spirits of the rephaim who possessed and tormented men up to Jesus’s day. Well their time was now up once again because not only did Jesus get baptized and cast them out by sending them to the abyss to be with their chained parents, but the followers of Jesus also got baptized and because they believed in him, they also cast out demons in his name. Once again, just as the flood of Noah they had been judged and sentenced to another form of death (confinement to the abyss) but this time not through a flood of water but by men themself being submerged and coming out alive and victorious because of Jesus. Who as it turns out rose from the grave on the very same day that the Ark rested on the mountainside and again the very same day that the Hebrews crossed the through the parted sea to arise on the other side free from the evil and death that phoroh represented.
This brings me to the last and final typology of the flood, which has yet to be fulfilled. We are nearing its fullfilment now because the world has become disillusioned with money, technology, and selfish pride, which is only paving the way for the apostasy that is to come. The devil himself will come proclaiming himself to be God and the fulfillment of prophecy and provide all the proof that anyone could ask for, accept one thing, his time will be short because unlike God he is not eternal and can not tell or predict the future because he is bound by time. Unfortunately, many will believe him though, and the earth will once again become corrupted and evil like it was in the days of Noah. The rephaim and the angels who were bound will be released once more and will be the cause for God to come once again to judge and destroy the wicked but this time the flood will not be with water but with fire and it will be never ending for those who chose it.
Many people think they have got it all figured out and that there is no God because everything is just chance and chaos just as science proves. And that not being able to prove that there is a God is proof enough that there isnt one. To those people I would like to say, now is the time to decide who’s team you are on before the great deception comes and you are given the proof you have asked for. As much as you might firmly believe that people of faith are ignorant and that you have found all of the proof and evidence that you need to decide they are wrong and that there is no God. Is it enough proof if you had to stand in front of him right now and explain to him why you dont believe in him or his son?
The Tree To The Cross 