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Feb 24, 2020 · There is a tradition that Jesus can be identified as the Angel of the Lord who appears to Hagar, Abraham and Moses, and in Judges and Zechariah. This is not actually a modern interpretation, but was espoused by the Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr (in his Dialogue with Trypho).
- Genesis 31
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- Daniel 3.25
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- John 1
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- Genesis 31
- Jesus is the Last Adam. From the beginning, the full story of Scripture reveals the full glory of Christ—even with Adam. Hunter and Wellum remind us that Adam was “not just the first man in God’s story.
- Jesus is testified to by ‘the Law and the Prophets’ Paul is clear about Christ’s whereabouts in the Old Testament: “But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify” (Romans 3:21).
- Noah: a Foretaste of judgment and salvation through Christ. If Jesus is the last Adam, Noah was meant as a new Adam. In his story, two themes emerge, judgment and salvation—which offer a foretaste of Jesus in the Old Testament.
- Isaac: Jesus is the “seed” of Abraham and true substitute. Remember, God promised Abraham that “all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3), and then repeated it: “Through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed” (Genesis 22:18).
Jan 4, 2022 · Jesus shows up often in the Old Testament—not by that name, and not in the same form as we see Him in the New Testament, but He is there nonetheless. The theme of the entire Bible is Christ. Jesus Himself confirmed the fact that He is in the Old Testament.
- What Does Isaiah Say About Jesus’ appearance?
- John’s Apocalyptic Vision of Jesus
- Where Do Images of Jesus Come from?
- What Did Jesus Wear?
Bible readers might expect that Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John would describe Jesus’ appearance. They occasionally mention Jesus’ clothes (see below) and describe his physical condition (e.g. he got tired; John 4:6), but they never describe features like his height, weight, skin tone, eye color, or hair color. The prophet Isaiah, in the Old Testament...
In the book of Revelation, John describes a vision he had of Jesus (Rev. 1:12-16). The description doesn’t reflect the appearance Jesus had while he was on earth, except perhaps at his Transfiguration (Matt. 17:2). Like Daniel’s visions, what John sees is full of heavenly imagery. John says he saw Jesus with a robe and a sash: “Then I turned to see...
Christian art has depicted images of Jesus since the early church, though none of them have a biblical basis. Images of Jesustend to reflect that artist more than anything else. For example, an artist from Greece is likely to depict Jesus as Greek and an artist from England is likely to depict Jesus as English. Historical items that some people thi...
Jesus wore a tunic:“When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in o...
- Christ Patterned. The flood and the ark, the Passover and the Red Sea, the wilderness and the Promised Land, exile and return, war and peace, kingdom and kings, prophets and priests, the temple, its sacrifices, and its rituals, wisdom in death and in life, songs of lament and rejoicing, the lives of faithful sufferers and the blood of righteous martyrs — the Old Testament is extraordinarily Jesus-shaped.
- Christ Promised. Old Testament saints were not simply tiles in a mosaic, witnessing, unwittingly, to a gospel pattern of which they were ignorant. They too looked forward to the fulfillment of these patterns.
- Christ Present. But more than just patterned and promised, perhaps the most underappreciated facet is that Christ also is present. It’s surprising how explicit the New Testament authors are about Jesus’s presence in the Old Testament
- As It Was in the Beginning? The passages quoted thus far have been from the New Testament. Armed only with these, you can mount a strong case that the Hebrew Bible proclaims Christ.
Sep 14, 2022 · Jesus, our Savior who took on flesh, bore our sin, and died in our place, is the hero of this redemptive story, and as such, can be found throughout Scripture, beginning with Genesis, when sin...
Oct 12, 2021 · In Jesus in the Bible, Kenneth Boa writes that though the word “Messiah” is not used until much later in Scripture, God begins hinting at a Savior sent from heaven who would “undo the terrible effects of Adam’s choices” in the book of Genesis.
