ordained by God so that specific types do in fact point beyond themselves to their fulfillment in Christ. Apart from this doctrine of God, the traditional view of typology makes no sense. As noted, this is not to say that everyone associated with the Old Testament type understood and knew the pattern to be pointing forward. Rather, it is to say that when the type is discovered to be a type (at some point along the trajectory of its repeated pattern in redemptive history), it is then rightly “seen”