[the_doc]

I have never thought of him specifically as a type of Christ..but rather it was an opportunity to peek into a fathers heart...David loved him inspite of his murder and later betrayal. The Scriptures testify of Christ in some very startling ways.

Absalom means "Father of Peace." He was the son of David. He was the rightful heir to the Throne of Israel. He died the death of the accursed, hanging from a tree. He was pierced in the side with Joab's dart as he hung there.

His death quelled the rebellion of Israel and saved Israel.

(Ah, but this just goes to show that types are figurative. Absalom's death saved national Israel just as the Lord's death saved spiritual Israel. But national Israel and spiritual Israel are not the same thing any more than Absalom and Christ are the same person. As I said earlier, the type and the antitype are spiritually connected, but they are different.)

[jude24]

You're starting to sound like people within my denomination (Plymouth Brethren) when they try to use types, which are inherently subjective, to prove doctrine.

Types carry ABSOLUTELY no weight in my mind because I can name types alleged to demonstrate the pretrib rapture, etc. One of the first rules I learned when I was taught hermaneutics was that types were to be completely subject to doctrine, never used to prove them.