History and Type

When I was a new Christian, still twelve years old, I used to read everything in the Old Testament as types. Everything. And they are! 

In my mind I jumped straight to making New Covenant spiritual applications out of everything I read. It was a feast!

But on my second or third reading of the Bible, I slowed down a bit and considered the passages as history - considered the Bible as a whole - as a single unfolding story.

After all, the story that unfolded is the only reason why - it's the authority we have - for why the Old Testament could be taken as types anyway.

History and type. Now I read the Bible as both. One cannot happen without the other. One is not complete without the other. They are not the same, but they are interdependent. 

But many are losing the historical aspect, jumping straight to type. Losing the sense of the process that was.