Bible Study The Gospel in the Old Testament

[ezrider]

Hey Buddy, good post. I am studying the book of Revelation, again! I'm drawn to this book even though I don't understand some of it. I was reading Chapter 2:1-7 and I'd like your take on 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."....How often do you think we will eat of the tree of life....I don't want to derail this thread so where can you answer this?

Thank you Chopper. All I can say is that by Faith and by Christ who lives in me, he has given to me the Tree of Life. It is written in the book of Revelation that the tree shall bear 12 manner of fruit. To what and how often I can not say, except to tell you that I do not thirst nor do I hunger, for His Spirit sustains me.

Perhaps you would like to join my thread on the Passover of God. It been a little free wheeling so to speak, so any questions could be taken there. I look forward to your comments. http://christianforums.net/Fellowship/index.php?threads/the-passover-of-god.59046/

 

[Edward]

Yep. Jesus and the Gospel is all over the OT; plainly in prophecy, in bible code (Chuck Missler did not discover that brother, it was brought to his attention and he passed it on.), and in types and shadows. In viewing the OT types and shadows we can see Jesus in almost every verse. Even when God made Adam & Eve skins from an animal to cover them, that spoke of Jesus as redeemer which would cover their skins and did/would require the shedding of blood to do so. Moses and the brazen serpent spoke of Jesus also. Our Lord is all over the OT!

Chuck Missler has a saying he says...The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.../ I like that one too.

 

[dianegcook]

Mark 15:3-5 Jesus answered nothing.
Isa.53:7, He openeth not His mouth.

PSA.22:
My God My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?

Matt.27:46
My God My God why hast thou forsaken Me?

PSA.22:7,8
All they that see me laugh me to scorn, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him
Matt.27:39
And they that passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads,
Matt:27:43
He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him,....

PSA.22:18
They part My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture.
Luke 23:34
And they parted His raiment, and cast lots.

 

[JohnD]

Matthew 12:39–40 (AV)
39But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

So the fate of Jonah in the prophecy that bears his name is the testimony in the Old Testament about the Son of man being three days and there nights in the heart of the earth in death and then being raised on the third day.

Other passages that mention three days or on the third day infer to this, but the Jonah account is the most prophetic.

You will notice that the Lord seems to imply that the preaching of Jonah was not as effective to convince the Ninevites as was his apparent coming back from the dead (which was the sign Jesus refers to). In Jonah, all one gets is he preached the destruction of the city in so many days. There was a case if memory serves of a man who was swallowed by a large fish and survived after several days. The stomach acids had eaten at him bleaching his hair and skin... an underlying story to Jonah which the Lord's reference back to it suggests that the Ninevites probably took the threat of destruction with a grain of salt until they asked why Jonah looked the way he did... Well, I was, uh, running from the LORD and got swallowed whole by a fish and three days later it vomited me on land...

Some read Jonah as a man survives the most impossible odds. Others read in the language he used about going to the foundations of the mountains as going to the grave and in fact he was resurrected.

 

[JohnD]

There are many interactive passages like this in the Bible. When put together the prophetic details emerge. When separate they are poetic sounding statements or even actual events that people lived out oblivious at the time as to its prophecy. In Genesis 22 Abraham knew that God could raise the dead when he was about to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice the Lord commanded. But you don't read that in Genesis 22. Rather it is in Hebrews 11:19.