Christ in the OT #3

This tells us a LOT of very cool stuff about Jesus/God/the Bible

I felt the need to slightly expand the title of this one to include "/God/the Bible". I'm not planning on spending too long on this one, though there's plenty that could be said. I'm going to look at two of the examples that stand out to me, and you can look up more for yourself if you're interested.

1) The Bible Is Consistant and Understandable
No more confusing divides between the Old and New Testaments, they're all part of the same book. God doesn't suddenly change who He is, what He's like and what He expects from us between the two. Now we can begin to make sense of otherwise confusing passages, prophecies, laws and so on.

How have I got that conclusion? A few examples:
a) The Ten Commandments, the rest of the laws, the need for priests and sacrifices etc. Remember the Precepts in the last post? What's the point of the Ten Commandments and the Law? To show us our need to be saved, our need for Jesus (check out Romans and Hebrews, they talk a lot about this stuff). It's not about obeying rules, it's about having a way to be saved because we can't obey the rules.
b) Relitively ointless seeming books, like Judges and Samuel. They stop just being about history, they're all pointing forward to Jesus, what he'll be like (/is like!) and the need for him. Abraham, Moses, Joshua, all the Judges, David, Solomon, Hosea etc, they are all meant to show us a little bit of what Jesus is like (but they're messed up and flawed, Jesus isn't!). So reading these books, with the right mindset, can tell us more about Jesus!
c) Prophecies and promises start to make sense when you put Jesus into the picture. All the promises of redemption and hope, for an everlasting kingdom of righteousness, the promises of saving and deliverence from oppression and suffering... they're all possible through Jesus!

It's all about Jesus!

2) Jesus is Really Awesome
If the Angel of the LORD really is God, and if every time the people in the Old Testament see or hear God directly they're actually seeing or hearing Jesus, then your perception of Jesus is expanded massively from just his time on Earth in the New Testament. It says that the Angel of God (who is interchangeably used with God, leading me to think it's Jesus, but I might be wrong) stays with the Israelites when they're wandering around the desert moaning about God for FORTY YEARS. He cared about his people so much that he was prepared to spend 40 years non-stop, 24/7, leading them despite their hatred and unfaithfulness towards him. And in places like Isaiah 6, which I mentioned in the last post, we see just how glorious Jesus really is, he's amazing! He's awesome!