Old Testament Snapshots

OLD TESTAMENT SNAPSHOTS

Luke 24:25-27

“He said to them, [two men walking], ‘How foolish you are, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?’ And He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.”

The Holy Bible is sort of Jesus’ photo album in words, a scrap book of various snaps of Jesus Christ. As Advent draws to its breathless climax of Jesus’ birth on earth as God-man, let’s browse through some Old Testament snapshots.

Genesis 3:15 snaps God’s subtle hint of Messiah being divine, human, AND born of a woman! God says to Satan, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”

Isaiah 7:14 snaps specific nuggets: “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and call Him Immanuel.” Micah 5:2 snaps more clues: “But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times.” Now we know where, and that He’s ancient!

Bethlehem means “house of bread.” What does Jesus call Himself in John 6:51?

God promised Abraham in Genesis 22:18: “through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed.” Through Isaac, we find Jacob blessing his sons in Genesis 49:10. His words narrow the Anointed One’s roots to descendants of Judah: “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until it comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations are His.”

God gives clues of Jesus to Moses in Deuteronomy 18:18: “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in His mouth, and He will tell them everything I command Him.” Psalm 110:4 (and Hebrews 5:10) tells us that He would be a “priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

God snaps His claim on Christ, in Psalm 2:4: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.” Isaiah 53:2b snaps a portrait of Jesus: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him.”

Take Home Nugget

Isaiah snaps Jesus’ trial and execution in 53:8: “By oppression and judgment He was taken away. And who can speak of His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people He was stricken.”

Jesus broke into human history to offer us eternal life.

J.D. Griffith

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