The whole of the Word of God is Truth, but we need to distinguish between Truth that

has a temporary significance (e.g. animal sacrifice), and Truth that is eternal. When this

is not done, confusion results. There is distinction between dispensational truth and basic

or foundation truth. The former may be limited to a certain period and certain people;

the latter does not change but remains eternally the same for all God's family. God's

remedy for sin and death is not dispensational, but depends on the basic truth of

redemption by the One Offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. God has not one way of saving

sinner in O.T. times, and a completely different one in the N.T. Nor is the salvation of a

Jew any different from that of a Gentile.

It is a good and reassuring thing for us to consider the certain and unchanging

foundations upon which our faith rests. God taught His earthly people, the nation of

Israel, basic truth by illustration or "types", as the N.T. calls them. I Cor. 10: 11 states,

"now all these things happened unto them (Israel) for ensamples" and the margin shows

that the Greek word translated "ensamples" means "types". Many were the types or

pictures of truth in the O.T. and they were prophetic, they looked forward to their

fulfillment in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The rich teaching of the Scriptural types is well nigh forgotten today to our great loss.

An hundred years ago that great Christian barrister, Sir Robert Anderson, who was a

first-rate expositor of the Word of God, lamented the fact that the doctrine of the types

was little known in Christian circles. One wonders what he would have thought of the

state of things today! In these studies we hope to bring forward truth which he presented

so ably.

He wrote of the apostasy which existed at that time. The spiritual declension that has

set in since then has made this all the more evident. Today the foundations of the

Christian faith are being attacked from all quarters. And for the most part this attack

does not just come from the unsaved world. Prominent leaders of churches are denying

the truth of the virgin birth of Christ and His resurrection. "When the foundations are

being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psa. 11: 3, N.I.V.).

The best thing is to keep sounding out the truth of God's Word. This is the only

lasting remedy; and a careful consideration of the types of Christ in Scripture will help

to this end. The book of Genesis closes by informing us how Israel came to be dwellers

in Egypt. As we open the book of Exodus, we find that they had become slaves,

oppressed by hard and cruel bondage from the Egyptians.