The old Testament Tells Us About Jesus

The Old Testament Announces The Coming Of Jesus

May

I Give New Testaments to New Christians

I enjoy telling people about Jesus and my greatest pleasure is to show a non believer the path to forgiveness, faith and a new life in Jesus. I also give the new convert a New Testament: “How to Find God New Testament- Living Water for Those Who Thirst”. This is a wonderful, modern translation published by Tyndale and it includes notes about sin, prayer etc. I suggest that you purchase some to give away. Bibles At Cost sell boxes of these very cheaply: www.biblesatcost.com

The New Testament introduces us to Jesus and that is why I give away New Testaments. However, I do not want anyone to stop there. I do hope that those who have received a New Testament will soon get into the Old Testament as well. How can we understand why sin is in the world, and why there is suffering unless we read Genesis, the book of beginnings?

The Old Testament Teaches us That Man is to Blame, Not God

The Old Testament is full of wonderful truths about God and how He interacts with man, but one of the most important truths is that God created man in His own image: good and incredibly capable. It was the first people, Adam and Eve who disobeyed God, choosing to submit to Satan in their quest to be like God. Only then, once they picked the forbidden fruit, did life become dominated by sin, pain, disease and death. Don’t blame God, blame Adam and Eve!

The Old Testament is full of prophecies about our Savior Jesus (God Himself) who would enter into the world to die in our place, so that we can be forgiven the sin that we inherited from Adam. Jesus did not merely arrive in Bethlehem unannounced. When my kids were born we sent out announcement cards. The first two included sweet baby photos, our third, Alice, was announced minus a photo. We were too busy!

The Old Testament Announces Jesus With Prophecies.

God proclaimed the birth of Jesus with an incredible star and angels, declaring the good news to local shepherds. But God started announcing the Savior thousands of years before. In Genesis 3:15, God cursed the snake, soon after the serpent, Satan deceived Adam and Eve. God announced the first of many prophecies proclaiming that Jesus would come to triumph over Satan: ..”I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head , and you will strike his heel.”

Let’s study the Old Testament and notice the many other startling prophecies, written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Micah 5:2 foretells Jesus’ birth place. The passover in Exodus describes the passover lamb and how the blood was put round the door frame to save the first born from death- foreshadowing the “lamb of God”- Jesus who died to save us from eternal death. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” in Psalm 22 describes exactly the words that Jesus would call out from the cross hundreds of years later, and Isaiah 53 is full of prophecies about the suffering servant- Jesus, who would die for us. These are just a few of the many events in Jesus’ life that were predicted years before His arrival on earth.

God’s Plan Was For Jesus To Die For Us.

A good understanding of the Old Testament strengthens our faith and helps us understand why Jesus needed to die for us, and to what extent His birth as well as His sacrificial death were planned right from the beginning. God always planned to rescue us from the power of sin and death. I hope that this makes you realize how He loves you!