Alan Dale Gross
Active Member
SCRIPTURE TYPOLOGY AND ATONEMENT SUFFICIENCY.
"All Scripture is given by the Inspiration of God, and is Profitable for Doctrine …" (II Timothy 3:16).
This text most assuredly includes the Old Testament and its many and various types, for the New Testament was not yet in existence.
"A type has been aptly defined as "A Divinely Appointed illustration of some Spiritual Truth." A better definition would be hard to come by and because of the sameness of meaning of type and symbol, I will use them interchangeably in this writing. Typical teaching permeates the Scriptures. Everywhere we turn in the Bible we are confronted with types and they are there for our profit.
"A.) First let us look at the Ark of Noah, a vivid type of Christ. I Peter 3:20-21 is a clear and unmistakable reference to Noah and the Ark passing through the Judgmental flood in connection with the Atoning death and Justifying Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
20 "Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the Longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ:"
"The design of the Ark was given to Noah in minute detail by the Omniscient Designer and Architect of the Universe (Genesis 5:14-16).
"Now the question is, was the Ark sufficient in size to accommodate all who were living on the earth at that time? Surely, this question is answered in the asking.
"It was not the Divine Purpose to Save all the Antediluvian posterity of Adam in the Ark, but only Noah and his family, and seeing there is no negligible quantity in God, all the space and sufficiency Sovereignly Vested in the Ark for flood survival was fully and gloriously utilized.
"Noah was "a preacher of righteousness," and "while the ark wasa preparing,"
Noah preached Christ by symbol and sermon;
because to preach Righteousness is to preach Christ,
because Jesus Christ is the believer’s Justifying Righteousness (I Corinthians 1:30).
"No doubt during this exceeding period of one hundred and twenty years of Ark preparation, Noah warned others as he was warned of God (Hebrews 11:7).
"However, only seven believed his report and they were of his own house (Genesis 7:1).
"Then God brought Judgment upon the world of the ungodly and they perished in the flood (II Peter 2:5).
"The Noachian family is a type of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19), and Christ, the antitype of the Ark (Acts 4:12) and Head "over His own house" (Hebrews 3:6), has made sufficient room for His family and none else.
"Christ is the Sovereign Sufficer, and having Eternally Loved His family, He Made room for them and them alone in the storm swept citadel of His Grace.
"The Ark as a type was not given to us in shorthand, but in minute detail, and every detail speaks of Christ.
"Atonement Sufficiency is anchored in God’s Forelove, and Christ (in His Divinity, not as expressed by His Humanity) Loves only those who were Given to Him by the Father in the Covenant of Redemption (Jeremiah 31:3; John 13:1, 17:6; Romans 8:37).
"In the Redemptive scheme there is no such thing as 'uncovenanted love', WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE TRIUNE GODHEAD and hence no 'Universal Atonement Sufficiency'.
"The Ark was a Divine Provision made before the waters of Judgment Fell from Heaven, and in construction of the Ark, Noah followed the Heavenly specifications with unvarying exactitude. "Thus did Noah; according to all that God Commanded him, so did he" (Genesis 6:22). There was not one extra cubic inch in the fullness of the Ark, nor was there any unused or wasted space. The Sufficiency of the Ark was according to God’s Purpose, and His Elective Purpose was to Save only eight souls from the Flood (I Peter 3:20).
NOTE: All Human Beings since that time have DESCENDED from Noah.
"Likewise, Jesus Christ was Provided by God before the Foundation of the World to deliver His people from the storm of Judgment upon sin (II Timothy 1:9).
Jesus Christ’s Mission to this Earth, as with the Ark, was according in every detail to the need of His people, and not one thing Wrought by the Atoning Death of Christ was extended beyond those for whom He died.
"The Sufficiency and Efficiency of Christ’s Sacrifice was Eternally shut up to the Elect of God, and there was no Redemptive Sufficiency left over, and therefore, wasted..
"The Purpose of Atoning Sufficiency must be measured by its Accomplishments, and Jesus' Blood Atonement Accomplished nothing beyond "the people of His Pasture, and the sheep of His Hand ..." (Psalms 95:7).
"To contend otherwise is to argue for an unsure curse upon the sins of the non-elect, for who can say how long a Sovereign Sufficiency will remain in protraction?
"The 'Universal Sufficiency Theory has the rudiment of 'Universal Restoration of Mankind' in it.
"BEWARE!"
"All Scripture is given by the Inspiration of God, and is Profitable for Doctrine …" (II Timothy 3:16).
This text most assuredly includes the Old Testament and its many and various types, for the New Testament was not yet in existence.
"A type has been aptly defined as "A Divinely Appointed illustration of some Spiritual Truth." A better definition would be hard to come by and because of the sameness of meaning of type and symbol, I will use them interchangeably in this writing. Typical teaching permeates the Scriptures. Everywhere we turn in the Bible we are confronted with types and they are there for our profit.
"A.) First let us look at the Ark of Noah, a vivid type of Christ. I Peter 3:20-21 is a clear and unmistakable reference to Noah and the Ark passing through the Judgmental flood in connection with the Atoning death and Justifying Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
20 "Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the Longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ:"
"The design of the Ark was given to Noah in minute detail by the Omniscient Designer and Architect of the Universe (Genesis 5:14-16).
"Now the question is, was the Ark sufficient in size to accommodate all who were living on the earth at that time? Surely, this question is answered in the asking.
"It was not the Divine Purpose to Save all the Antediluvian posterity of Adam in the Ark, but only Noah and his family, and seeing there is no negligible quantity in God, all the space and sufficiency Sovereignly Vested in the Ark for flood survival was fully and gloriously utilized.
"Noah was "a preacher of righteousness," and "while the ark wasa preparing,"
Noah preached Christ by symbol and sermon;
because to preach Righteousness is to preach Christ,
because Jesus Christ is the believer’s Justifying Righteousness (I Corinthians 1:30).
"No doubt during this exceeding period of one hundred and twenty years of Ark preparation, Noah warned others as he was warned of God (Hebrews 11:7).
"However, only seven believed his report and they were of his own house (Genesis 7:1).
"Then God brought Judgment upon the world of the ungodly and they perished in the flood (II Peter 2:5).
"The Noachian family is a type of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19), and Christ, the antitype of the Ark (Acts 4:12) and Head "over His own house" (Hebrews 3:6), has made sufficient room for His family and none else.
"Christ is the Sovereign Sufficer, and having Eternally Loved His family, He Made room for them and them alone in the storm swept citadel of His Grace.
"The Ark as a type was not given to us in shorthand, but in minute detail, and every detail speaks of Christ.
"Atonement Sufficiency is anchored in God’s Forelove, and Christ (in His Divinity, not as expressed by His Humanity) Loves only those who were Given to Him by the Father in the Covenant of Redemption (Jeremiah 31:3; John 13:1, 17:6; Romans 8:37).
"In the Redemptive scheme there is no such thing as 'uncovenanted love', WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE TRIUNE GODHEAD and hence no 'Universal Atonement Sufficiency'.
"The Ark was a Divine Provision made before the waters of Judgment Fell from Heaven, and in construction of the Ark, Noah followed the Heavenly specifications with unvarying exactitude. "Thus did Noah; according to all that God Commanded him, so did he" (Genesis 6:22). There was not one extra cubic inch in the fullness of the Ark, nor was there any unused or wasted space. The Sufficiency of the Ark was according to God’s Purpose, and His Elective Purpose was to Save only eight souls from the Flood (I Peter 3:20).
NOTE: All Human Beings since that time have DESCENDED from Noah.
"Likewise, Jesus Christ was Provided by God before the Foundation of the World to deliver His people from the storm of Judgment upon sin (II Timothy 1:9).
Jesus Christ’s Mission to this Earth, as with the Ark, was according in every detail to the need of His people, and not one thing Wrought by the Atoning Death of Christ was extended beyond those for whom He died.
"The Sufficiency and Efficiency of Christ’s Sacrifice was Eternally shut up to the Elect of God, and there was no Redemptive Sufficiency left over, and therefore, wasted..
"The Purpose of Atoning Sufficiency must be measured by its Accomplishments, and Jesus' Blood Atonement Accomplished nothing beyond "the people of His Pasture, and the sheep of His Hand ..." (Psalms 95:7).
"To contend otherwise is to argue for an unsure curse upon the sins of the non-elect, for who can say how long a Sovereign Sufficiency will remain in protraction?
"The 'Universal Sufficiency Theory has the rudiment of 'Universal Restoration of Mankind' in it.
"BEWARE!"