rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Hebrews 7 - Bible Study":
This was an astute commentary by Lenski. Many like to make reference to the rectilinear Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. But, the typological prophecies can help give a more complete picture of the nature of Christ. This example from Hebrews is very fitting.
I am fascinated by what Jesus said in Matthew 16:4:
"A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed."
also at Matthew 12:38-42:
38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.”
39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here. 42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.
