Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The trials of Jerusalem are a foreshadowing of the trials of the Church, and of the trials of Christ Himself…

We must remember that a great deal of what we find in the Old Testament, which is true of God’s activity in Israel historically, is also a foreshadowing of Christ and the Church. Moses is a foreshadowing or “type” of Christ; Israel and Jerusalem are foreshadowings or “types” of both the Church and of Heaven itself. This is why we can read many things, especially in the prophets, as referring to the situation of the Church on earth now, even in our own time…