---designed by God
---to bear resemblance to some spiritual truth.
The value of these types consisted in the fact that they
---were chosen by God Himself
---to shadow forth the different phases of the complete plan of redemption, made possible by the death of Christ.
The likeness between type and antitype is never accidental, but is simply a fulfillment of the great plan of God."
Stephen Haskell
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Hebrews 8:5