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The land of promise finds its realization in Jesus: not in types and shadows

See, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are to be signs and portents in Israel, sent by the LORD of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. Isa. 8:18  In the Pauline writing two basic typological patterns appear—Adamic or Creation typology and Covenant typology. Each is related to a particular aspect of God’s redemptive purpose in Christ,(These two ideas may be present in Rom. 1:3f, where Christ is described as  descended from David and  Son of God . and, over all, they unite to form one interrelated whole. Thus, becoming a Christian is spoken of as a  new birth  (Exodus typology) and  a new creation  (Adamic typology); sometimes (e.g. Rom. 6:3) both ideas are apparently joined in the figure of resurrection.    Two principles are fundamental to Paul’s understanding of the OT. First, he reads the Scripture from the viewpoint of the ‘End-time’ in which  OT history and prophecy have become realized and fulfilled in Christ . The OT ...
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Then what about the law: What then was the purpose of the law?

An account of the genealogy of  Jesus the Messiah , the son of David, the  son of Abraham . (Gen 12:3; 22:18; Ps 132:11; Isa 11:1; Lk 1:32; Jn 7:42; Acts 2:30; 13:23; Rom 1:3; Gal 3:16) Matt. 1:1  I will  bless those who bless  you , and the one who curses  you   I will  curse, and  in you  all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”, ( Gen 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 27:29; Ex 23:22; Num 24:9; Acts 3:25; Gal 3:8) Gen. 12:3  And the king will answer them, ‘Truly  I tell  you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,  you did it to me .’ Matt. 25:40  Inevitably, this leads to an inevitable question: “What, then, was the purpose of the law?” (Gal.3:19). The answer is complex, and, judging by what he says elsewhere (e.g. Rom 7), Paul makes no attempt to give a complete answer in Galatians 3. But intrinsic to its significance is its function in preparation for the coming of Christ “ ...
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This generation will not pass away: Before All these things take place.

  devils of delusion The text of 1 Enoch (late 3rd–2nd century B.C.) sketches a loose timeline of “seven weeks” over the course of which the “chosen righteous” will endure and receive from God “sevenfold teaching concerning his whole creation” (93:10; cf. Dan. 12:10–13). “After that in the seventh week an apostate generation shall arise; its deeds shall be many, and all of them (Lit. “all its deeds.”) criminal.  At its completion, there shall be elected the elect ones of righteousness [“there shall be chosen the elect, for witness to righteousness .”] from the eternal plant of righteousness, to whom shall be given sevenfold instruction [ Or “learning,” “knowledge.” 4QEng: “wisdom and knowledge.” ] concerning all his flock . 1 Enoch 93.9–10.  James H. Charlesworth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1 (New York;  London: Yale University Press, 1983), 74.  Ron Haydon, “The ‘Seventy Sevens’ (Daniel 9:24) in Light of Heptadic Themes in Qumran,” Journal for the ...
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