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:
- The speaker/actor: God
- The message/the means of action
- 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:
- The ultimate wise man we should listen to
- The content of wisdom we should learn
- 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:
- The God who rescues his chosen people from the coming wrath
- The ark in whom we are saved from death
- 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:
- The person who appeared to the prophets and gave them the words to say
- The content of the prophecy
- 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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