Posted on 12/20/2007 12:38:19 PM PST by Gamecock
Christ is the theme of the entire revelation of God. He is promised in Genesis, revealed in the law, prefigured in its history, praised in its poetry, proclaimed in its prophecy provided in its Gospels, proved in its Acts, preeminent in its Epistles and prevailing in Revelation.
He is seen in every book of the Bible. Take a journey through the halls of the Bible and in every one of them you will see Christ.
IN Genesis He is the Seed of the woman
IN Exodus the Lamb for sinners slain
IN Leviticus our High Priest
IN Numbers The Star of Jacob
IN Deuteronomy The Prophet like unto Moses and the Great Rock
IN Joshua the Captain of the Lord of Hosts
IN Judges the Messenger of Jehovah
IN Ruth our Kinsman Redeemer and Faithful Bridegroom
IN 1 Samuel He is seen as the Great Judge
IN 2 Samuel He is the Princely King
IN 1 Kings as David's choice
IN 2 Kings as the Holiest of all
IN 1 Chronicles as the King by birth
IN 2 Chronicles as King by judgment
IN Ezra He is seen as Lord of Heaven and Earth
IN Nehemiah as the Builder
IN Esther our Mordecai
IN Job our Daysman and our Risen Returning Redeemer
IN Psalms the Son of God and the Good Shepherd
IN Proverbs our Wisdom
IN Ecclesiastes as the One Above the Sun
IN Song of Solomon the Great Church Lover, the One Altogether Lovely and the Chiefest among Ten Thousand
IN Isaiah He is the Suffering and Glorified Servant
IN Jeremiah the Lord Our Righteousness
IN Lamentations the Man of Sorrows
IN Ezekiel the Glorious God
IN Daniel the Smithing Stone and the Messiah
IN Hosea He is the Risen Son of God
IN Joel the Out Pourer of the Spirit
IN Amos the Eternal Christ
IN Obadiah the Forgiving Christ
IN Jonah the Risen Prophet
IN Micah the Bethlehemite
IN Nahum He is the Bringer of Good Tidings
IN Habakkuk the Lord in His Holy Temple
IN Zephaniah the Merciful Christ
IN Haggai the Desire of All Nations
IN Zechariah the Branch
IN Malachi the Son of Righteousness with Healing in His Wings
IN Matthew He is the King of the Jews
IN Mark the Servant
IN Luke the Perfect Son of Man
IN John the Son of God
IN Acts He is the Ascended Lord
IN Romans the Lord Our Righteousness
IN 1 Corinthians Our Resurrection
IN 2 Corinthians Our Comforter
IN Galatians the End of the Law
IN Ephesians the Head of the Church
IN Philippians the Supplier of Every Need
IN Colossians the Fullness of the Godhead
IN 1 Thessalonians He comes for His Church
IN 2 Thessalonians He comes with His Church
IN 1 Timothy He is the Mediator
IN 2 Timothy the Bestower of Crowns
IN Titus our Great God and Saviour
IN Philemon the Prayer of Crowns
IN Hebrews the Rest of the Faith and Fulfiller of Types
IN James the Lord Drawing Nigh
IN 1 Peter the Vicarious Sufferer
IN 2 Peter the Lord of Glory
IN 1 John the Way
IN 2 John the Truth
IN 3 John the Life
IN Jude He is Our Security
IN Revelation the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Lamb of God, the Bright and Morning Star, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Consider Luke 24:25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
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John 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Great post. Thanks.
Amen !!!shalom b'SHEM Yah'shuaBaruch HaShem Adonai
So very true! Thank you for reminding us.
Great stuff!!!
Thanks for posting.
I agree, great stuff! I knew Christ was in every book, but it is nice to see it in such clear outline form.
When I saw the headline, I could think of a few books I read when I was younger, that didn’t have Christ in them, unless it was a swear word :>)
Were it so clear why a New Testament?
I can’t speak for Gamecock, but let me try to give an answer he’d agree with. Once the Messiah came, it was such a major event, the New Covenant Jesus started needed writing down.
Christians have always understood that the Old Testament cannot be properly understood apart from the New Testament, and...importantly, the New Testament cannot be understood apart from the Old Testament.
The good news of “salvation,” the gospel, of Jesus Christ, is meaningless apart from the bad news, of our inability to obey God’s holy laws (found in the Old Testament) which is why the Church has always relied on both testaments. The OT anticipates and points to a future event, and a future person, the coming Messiah.
(One serious issue today is too many Christians try to understand the NT without any understanding of the OT...)
The NT gives us the picture (or 4 pictures) of that Messiah, Jesus, the 4 gospels, and in the rest of the NT shows us just how faith in Him, His life and work on the cross, works out.
I bet Gamecock will agree. But, I’m curious to hear his response to your question as well.
I believe Jesus was the moshiac in the same sense that David, Solomon and other Kings of Israel were: anointed with oil, and that he was to guide Israel into the Messianic era. That his whole career had led him to the point where, perhaps anticipating a miracle, he was rather arrested at Succot in the fall, jailed and crucified some 5-6 months later during the Passover.
In that sense he failed.
Agnostic though I may be to Jesus' divinity, he yet succeeded in the sense that he became the Messiah which gradually culminated in his inspiring America as the guarantor of Liberty in the world. And in that sense Israel and America are chosen of God in their respective missions.
Hayam Maccoby, Revolution In Judaea: Jesus and The Jewish Resistance.
All Good to You and Yours.
IMHO, the angelic conflict continues. For every age in which major themes are manifest for all creation to behold His Soverignty and Majesty, there arises new assaults upon His perfect plan for all creation.
By communicating the good news of His Incarnation and what He has told to man, we are shown so much more what and how He has prepared for us to perform the Great Commission.
There are elements of faith involved in the OT believers and a different set of new types of faith in post Incarnation ages. Both OT and NT believers are saved through faith in Him, but unlike the OT believers, we are today indwelt by all three persons of the Godhead. Our growth through faith in Him during this Church Age is well presented in the NT.
Wasn't it Augustine who said The New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed?
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