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The meaning of the word "antitype" is "symbol" and Peter makes it clear he is not talking about the flood and ark (then), but [now].
Jonah being in the belly of the fish for three days is the type, Christ in the grave for three days is the antitype. Was Christ's burial a symbol? Or is Jonah's time spent in the fish the symbol which points to the greater reality of Christ? The answer is the latter.
But if you are not convinced, here it is again...with no mention of water, but in fact of "repentance" and the "Holy Spirit" [only], leaving water baptism to the past as John's baptism:
And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said,‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?”
18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” Acts 11:15-18
And this baptism with the Holy Spirit happened, as promised, in Acts ch. 2.
Read Acts ch. 1.
I haven't been talking about the baptism with the Holy Spirit which took place two thousand years ago on Pentecost; I'm talking about Christian baptism, i.e. what Peter talks about in Acts 2:38, 1 Peter 3:21, what Paul administers to the disciples of John in Acts 19:1-13, what Paul talks about in Romans ch. 6, and in Galatians 3:27.
Baptism with the Holy Spirit, as described in Scripture, is what happened when the Holy Spirit was poured out on Pentecost. It is never described as an individual experience, it is always the corporate outpouring of the Spirit. On Pentecost, and later on the house of Cornelius as a sign of God's acceptance of the Gentiles.
What always happens in surrounding these unique, historical outpourings of the Spirit--however--is the administration of normative Christian baptism.
-CryptoLutheran
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