Thursday, September 01, 2011

Where's Christ in the OT?

In a similar vein to my last post, do you ever read a passage and wonder where Christ is in the passage?

One thing I've found helpful is to remember that all the Bible is about communication/action from God to humans. Therefore there are three elements to it:

  1. The speaker/actor: God
  2. The message/the means of action
  3. The hearer/the acted upon (both good and bad guys)

Because Christ is God, the message of the Bible, and the representative man/Israel etc then you can find Christ in each of these elements.

For example in Wisdom you can find Jesus as:

  1. The ultimate wise man we should listen to
  2. The content of wisdom we should learn
  3. The person who obediently listens to his wise Father and receives all the blessings that come from wisdom and/or the person who receives all the curses of being a fool (in our place)

Or, for another example, in the story of Noah he is:

  1. The God who rescues his chosen people from the coming wrath
  2. The ark in whom we are saved from death
  3. The person who is brought through the flood (death) to become the firstborn of a new people and/or the person who is drowned in the wrath of God's judgment against sin (in our place)

Or in prophecy he is:

  1. The person who appeared to the prophets and gave them the words to say
  2. The content of the prophecy
  3. the people who will receive the promise (land, life etc) and/or the people who will be rejected and destroyed (in our place)

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