People are rebellious, even God’s people, but God himself insists on doing his people eternal good anyway.
Christ in All of Scripture
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As an oracle of judgment, Obadiah presents unique challenges for gospel application.
Once we begin to pull back the layers of the story, we discover that it is not really about what Jonah is doing for God, but what God is doing for Jonah.
God deals with sinners in one of two ways: deserved justice, or undeserved grace.
The salvation God has accomplished in Messiah Jesus is the fulfillment of all that was prophesied in the Old Testament.
In typical prophetic form, Joel gives his readers both the bad news of God’s judgment and the good news of his promised deliverance.
In four ways, the Old Testament book of Amos is essential for a robust understanding of the gospel.
Out of the smoking ruins came cries of lamentation and confession, and the daring hope of restoration.
Understood rightly, however, Ezekiel contains and continues a beautiful story of God’s grace to his undeserving people.
The “gospel according to Daniel” comes in glowing revelations of the power of God to redeem his people, overcome their enemies, and plan their future.
We gain insight into the loving nature of the God who inspired this Song, and are made able to love him in return although we constantly require his fidelity, protection, and undeserved love.
Isaiah’s messianic profile informs Christian worship of Jesus as the suffering servant who brings a new creation through his life-giving resurrection.
Jeremiah plays a strategic role in God’s revelation of his purposes that will be fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
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Jesus considered the book of Psalms to be ultimately about him.
The book of Proverbs is one of the “many ways” God spoke, leading us to his only Son Jesus.
Throughout Ecclesiastes we are led forward to other answers, other solutions, and other wisdom than the world’s vain promises of satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment.
Rather than focusing mainly on human faithfulness to God, the book of Nehemiah shows God’s faithfulness to his unfaithful people.
For believers today, the significance of the book of Esther is that it coordinates with the rest of the Old Testament to foreshadow Jesus as deliverer and mediator for God’s people.
The book of Job helps free us from believing in a “score-keeping” God.
The clear contrast between God’s covenant-keeping and Israel’s covenant breaking, particularly among Israel’s kings, is perhaps the most important theme in the book of Kings.
As the last books in the Hebrew Old Testament, the books of 1–2 Chronicles prepare God’s people for the arrival of Jesus.
God’s covenant promises are gloriously on display as this weak, struggling remnant returns to Jerusalem after the exile to live together again as his people.
The language of redemption permeates the story of Ruth.
In the riveting stories of 1 and 2 Samuel we catch glimpses of who God is, what he does, what life is like with him and without him, and what life can become by his grace and in the power of his Spirit.
Numbers is especially relevant for God's people in “wilderness” times when we must practice faith and trust in God's guidance and provision.
Deuteronomy is clearly one of the most important books in the Old Testament.
Even Joshua’s name (“Yahweh Saves!”) points away from himself to the real hero of the story. Joshua is a story of grace.
The foundation stories of Genesis set the stage of the drama of Scripture in many ways.
Exodus offers the greatest paradigmatic redemption event in the Bible prior to Christ’s incarnation.
Is Leviticus just a collection of disconnected laws? How does this book of the Bible really point to Christ?