Shadow and Substance

"In speaking of the relation between the types of the Old Testament and the gospel they prefigured, Paul calls the former 'a shadow' and the latter 'the body,' or substance (Col. 2:17). Having thus linked type and antitype, it follows that the gospel must have existed in the mind of Jehovah at the time he set the type. We reason that without reality there can be no shadow. In harmony with this thought, it is recorded that God chose us in Christ 'before the foundation of the world' (Eph. 1:4...