Christians may have little trouble seeing how the Lamb of God was prefigured in the Passover and Exodus, foretold as the Servant and Sufferer in prophets like Isaiah, and is the Son of David who prays the Psalms, but what about Proverbs? If all the Old Testament is about Christ, https://t.co/ZRZrPpKHS9
It isn’t enough just to agree with the idea, in the abstract, that Jesus is, in some sense or other, God. (People often say to me, ‘Is Jesus God?’, as though we knew who ‘God’ was ahead of time, and could simply fit Jesus in to that picture.) God, as we have already seen in Revelation, is the creator, who is intimately involved with his world, and
... See more“God, in God’s wisdom, formed the earth,” Beresheit Rabbah, a collection of midrashim on the book of Genesis, reads “wisdom” not as a quality but as a character in the creation story.11 And
Once again we can only cast ourselves on the mercy of God, pray that he will forgive us for everything we have failed to do, and ask him to accept us through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one who ever kept all his promises to God, including his own vow to offer a holy sacrifice — the sacrifice of his body for our sins.
THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS
Bible study Luke 1:39–80; 2:25–32 What do the words of Mary, Zechariah and Simeon teach us about the salvation Jesus brings? How do they point to the fulfilment of the following Old Testament passages? Genesis 12:1–3 2 Samuel 7:11–16 Isaiah 9:2–7 Isaiah 42:5–7 Isaiah 49:5–7 Jeremiah 31:31–34 Malachi 3:1 How should we respond?