Jesus in Genesis: Joseph, Moses & Enoch

I love finding examples of types in the Old Testament, but I have to admit that I do not always see them.  Then when an author points them out to me, I think “How could I have not seen it?” 

In this case the author is Clarence Larkin, author of “Dispensational Truth: God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages.”  I have written previously that Joseph is a type for Christ.  Larkin expands this further by writing that Joseph took a Gentile bride (Asenath) during the time when his brothers rejected him, which was before the famine, a type for the tribulation.  To complete the type, Jesus must also come for his bride before the tribulation.

Larkin goes on to say that Moses is also a type of Christ who took his Gentile bride after being rejected by his brethren, but before they went through their trials under Pharoah, another type for the tribulation.

Enoch was caught out before the flood, which is a type of the rapture of the saints before the tribulation.  Larkin also writes that Noah and his family represent the Jewish remnant; the 144,000 who are sealed and preserved through the tribulation.

I know there are some scholars who believe that the study of types is not a correct method for exegesis of Scripture.  But when you see the repetition of types that relate to the bride of Christ, the rapture, the tribulation, the second coming of Christ, and His millennial kingdom, you know in your heart that they are not merely coincidences, and that God orchestrated all of these events to tell us His story.