Powerful internal evidence that the Bible is divine in origin. Human wisdom would not and could not write such content, couching shadows of Jesus in the Old Testament before Jesus came.

1. Jesus Typified and Prophesied
The Amazing Word of God

2. The Common Thread
Genesis to Malachi
A Person Who Will Save US is
Coming

3. Old Testament Written Long Before
Christ
• Fact:
• Jews agree that OT scriptures were
written before the 1st
century
• Dead Sea Scrolls verify this, and
that the OT Scriptures were
unchanged
• Septuagint = Greek translation
given 200 years before Christ

4. From Paradise to Sin
• The Walk with God Impaired
• Sin is the poison of heart, mind, and
soul
• A wall of separation created by the
tempter and the tempted
• God will begin the repair program
• Which envisions a serious blow to the
tempter and his power over the
tempted – 3:15
• Which envisions a great “blessing” to
a sin-cursed world – 12:1-4

5. The Care to be Factual
• Real people
• But, not perfect gods
• Not people made out to be more than
human
• Genealogies with purpose
• Keeping accuracy unchallenged and
uncontestable
• The record builds with time to present
the credentialed Messiah of prophecy

6. Shadow Before Reality
• Old Testament
=Jesus
Concealed
• But darkly
foreshadowed
• New Testament =
Jesus
REVEALED

7. The Pre-illustrated Plan
• Sacrifice for sin
• The Lamb of God – Gen.22
• The sacrifices on the Altar
• The Tabernacle & furnishings illustrating
the heavenly things
• The Prophet -revealer
• The Priest – mediating for sinners
• The King – ruling and leading

8. Pre-Illustrating Events
• Abraham’s only Son,
Isaac Gen.22
• Isaac carries the wood of
his sacrifice
• The intervention of God
in the provision of a ram
for the offering is a
foreshadowing of the
sacrifice of Jesus.
• God will provide Himself
a Lamb – God’s only
Son

9. Pre-Illustrating Events
• Ex. 15:22-27
• Bitter waters of death
are certain unless
you throw in the “tree”
• The tree will provide
healing and
refreshment

10. Pre-Illustrating Events
• Ex. 17:8-15
• Failure to hold up the
Rod = defeat
• Supporting the
banner (rallying point)
= VICTORY

11. Pre-Illustrating Events
• Serpents inject the
poison of death
• Only a representative
of evil sacrificed can
heal
• Must look to the
brass (alter) serpent
on the pole

12. Pre-Illustrating Events
2 Cor.3:14 -But their
minds were blinded.
For until this day the
same veil remains
unlifted in the reading
of the Old Testament,
because the veil is
taken away in Christ.
15 But even to this
day, when Moses is
read, a veil lies on
their heart. 16
Nevertheless when one
turns to the Lord, the
veil is taken away.

13. The Prophesied Plan
• A Greater Prophet – Deut.18:15f
• A Greater Priest – Psa.110
• A Greater King – Psa.2
• A Greater Temple – Isa.2; Hag.2
• A Greater Kingdom – Dan.2
• A Greater Covenant – Jer.31:31f

14. Various Authors Over Time
• Yet, one common hope
• One common theme:
• God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness
• Believers will be remedied in the
coming Messiah

15. Human Wisdom
• COULD NOT write these things
• So many detailed prophesies
• WOULD NOT write these things
• Terrible stories about Israel
• Even the lack of belief and rejecting
the stone

16. The Plan Will Unfold
• The Mystery will be revealed
• It is amazing how God said a lot, without
fully disclosing the plan
• Too much information gives the
enemy too much power to counter-act
the plan
• Too little information gives the enemy
too much power of deniability

17. It Was All About Christ
• Yet, in shadowy form – so as not to be
too clear
• Yet, clear enough to see the obvious
connection when the person is
compared to the shadow form
• Those who see this enjoy the Old
Testament with even greater
amazement at the Wisdom of God

18. The Amazing Revelation
• “We have the prophetic word made
more sure” – 2 Pet.1:19
• “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the
wisdom and knowledge of
God!...Rom.11:32-36