The Messiah Pre-figured in the Old Testament

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00:0200:02 - all right so the next thing we’re going to be talking about as we discuss the idea of the Trinity sort of being in the
00:0900:09 - Old Testament is we’re going to talk specifically about how the Messiah is prefigured in the Old Testament so how
00:1700:17 - uh the life and suffering of Jesus Christ is actually demonstrated through some of the things that the Old
00:2300:23 - Testament Believers did or what God had told them so that uh it should have pointed to him uh they should have been
00:3100:31 - able to see that when the Messiah came certain things would be true um and so this is specifically looking at Jesus
00:3900:39 - Christ um as he shows up in the Old Testament even though yet as yet at that point in time the Trinity had not really
00:4700:47 - been revealed in totality to these Believers so we’re going to be sort of starting out by talking about blood
00:5400:54 - sacrifice this is probably sort of the most obvious thing that points us towards uh the sacrif ice of Jesus
01:0001:00 - Christ upon the cross for us but then we’re also going to be talking about just some miscellaneous prophecy and
01:0601:06 - this section is actually quite short I I don’t think this video will be super long here um but both of these things
01:1201:12 - help point us to uh the suffering of Christ and what the Messiah would do when he came to save us from our sins
01:1901:19 - and so these things present in the Old Testament text and we’re just going to be examining a bit how the Old Testament
01:2501:25 - speaks of the Messiah so how the Messiah is prefigured in in the Old Testament so first general introductory
01:3701:37 - point we’re going to be making here when we talk about the old testament’s portrayal of the suffering of Christ is
01:4301:43 - that even though there’s sort of conventional wisdom here about the Old Testament and you know the Old Testament
01:4901:49 - you know talks of just one God God the father and in fact sort of a different topic but people sometimes say that
01:5701:57 - there’s like a almost seems like God different right you know this this this judgmental mean God of the Old Testament
02:0502:05 - versus the the god of love in the New Testament of course we know that’s not true um and part of why we know that’s
02:1102:11 - not true is because God’s plan has always been the same from the beginning he did not change God does not change
02:1602:16 - he’s always been the loving God um but at any rate with respect to what we’re currently talking about the Old
02:2402:24 - Testament actually does talk about Jesus Christ and his sacrifice on our behalf that is the substitutionary death he
02:3202:32 - died to pay for our sins here um taking judgment upon his shoulders so that we might be reconciled to God that’s
02:3902:39 - actually depicted everywhere in the Old Testament so very far from somehow the Old Testament not speaking of Jesus
02:4502:45 - Christ like I don’t know the Old Testament speaks of of just God and then the New Testament rolls around and only
02:5102:51 - then do we hear about Jesus Christ and and the idea of you know his sacrifice on our behalf to save us from our sins
02:5802:58 - it’s actually true that from the very beginning this has always been the plan of God and in fact if you look with eyes
03:0403:04 - of Faith it’s all over the place in the Old Testament so she was actually very much on the other foot here people who
03:1003:10 - want to say well you know Christians just made up a bunch of new stuff and stuck it in the New Testament we’re kind
03:1603:16 - of like I think about the right way to say this like we’re we’re piggybacking on the Jewish Traditions but we just
03:2303:23 - made a bunch of stuff up and added it on as if you know only Jesus Christ shows up in the New Testament like we just
03:2903:29 - made him up and and sort of tacked him on top that’s just not true because the Old Testament points everywhere to Jesus
03:3903:39 - Christ in the suffering you know Isaiah chapter 53 I don’t actually think we’re even talk about that in this set of
03:4403:44 - slides here but you know just off the top of my head the suffering servant passage in Isaiah chapter 53 it very
03:5203:52 - much speaks of Jesus Christ um and so this idea that he’s not there in the Old Testament or that the Messiah isn’t
03:5903:59 - there or even more specifically the suffering Messiah rather than you know when Jesus returns with with the crown
04:0604:06 - in Revelation chapter 19 when he’s destroying the armies of antichrist you know obviously the people in Judea at
04:1304:13 - the time that he was there wanted him to kick out the Romans it’s kind of what they wanted the Messiah to do not
04:1904:19 - necessarily suffer and die on a cross it’s not what they were thinking the messiah’s role was but even this role of
04:2704:27 - the Messiah so not the Conquering King but the suffering servant and in fact the fact that Jesus would be shedding
04:3304:33 - his blood to pay for our sins that is prefigured all over the place in the Old Testament so it’s everything important
04:4004:40 - is actually all there it has always been there and and we’re just going to take a look at that a bit as we go here so from
04:5004:50 - New Testament scripture that the necessity for the mission and the suffering of Messiah we actually have it
04:5604:56 - from the Bible itself that what we’re saying is true as in the Bible itself says that the Old Testament
05:0505:05 - points to Jesus Christ like we’re not just like asserting this and uh waving our hand at it as if you know maybe we
05:1105:11 - could be wrong because sometimes humans come up with these theological uh uh propositions that don’t directly tie
05:1805:18 - back to scripture and you can be wrong about those and you can make a mistake you can miss a jump in the logic
05:2305:23 - somewhere or something like that but in Luke 24: 27 this is Jesus on the road to a
05:3005:30 - with the others and he it says that um Luke 24:27 says then beginning with Moses and all the prophets he he being
05:3905:39 - Jesus yeah uh explained to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures and all the scriptures there
05:4705:47 - being the Old Testament scriptures so we dearly wish that we knew exactly what Jesus had said here like which passages
05:5505:55 - was he using to support you know the idea of the Old Testament speaking of himself you know we we quoted one in our
06:0306:03 - last lesson about Psalm 110 when David says you know the Lord says to my Lord um that Messianic Psalm you know that’s
06:1106:11 - a possibility uh Isaiah chapter 53 we just mentioned that’s a possibility there’s in fact there’s all sorts of
06:1806:18 - things as we’re going to kind of see in in very brief form here there’s all sorts of things that point to Jesus
06:2506:25 - Christ in the Old Testament and and like I said not not just him but actually what going to do for us too it’s all
06:3106:31 - foreshadowed it’s all there um so we we really kind of do wish we knew exactly what Jesus had said you know because
06:3806:38 - those are certain to be you know convincing and correct you know evidence of him but we don’t we just know that he
06:4606:46 - did explain it to them but this is actually Fenty noteworthy all on its own because it means if the Bible says that
06:5306:53 - Jesus explained to them all you know the things concerning himself in all the scriptures
06:5906:59 - it means that there’s a way to explain the things concerning himself from the Old Testament scriptures I hope that
07:0507:05 - makes sense because he did it well obviously we are not him but we can do it too is the point um so that’s Luke
07:1507:15 - chapter 24 vers 27 we also have this verse in uh 1 Peter 1: 10-2 here we I I think we’ve talked about this before uh
07:2507:25 - in recent history here in this series talking about how the prophets who prophecied of the grace that would come
07:3207:32 - to you you know you being the people of the time that this was written uh so Peter’s audience made careful searches
07:3907:39 - and inquiries seeking to know what person or time the spirit of Christ within them was indicating as he
07:4607:46 - predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glory to follow so you know it was revealed to them that they were not
07:5307:53 - serving themselves but you in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preach the gospel
08:0008:00 - um things into which Angels long to look so these prophets prophecied of the grace that would come to you that is the
08:1008:10 - suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ that he would die to take our sins on his shoulders so that we might
08:1608:16 - be reconciled to God so this another place in the New Testament where it says explicitly the
08:2408:24 - Old Testament prophets were prophesying of these things it’s not like you know suddenly we changed our or something
08:3008:30 - these things have been there since the beginning and in fact the Old Testament prophets they wanted to know and
08:3608:36 - understand and I mean uh maybe we could even have a bit of sympathy with them some of these men no doubt great
08:4208:42 - believers they could feel it that there was something more but it wasn’t something that God had chosen to reveal
08:5008:50 - to them at that point in time that must have been a little bit frustrating we might think right um you know sitting
08:5608:56 - there God open my eyes let me see let me understand but but it wasn’t the right time um but anyway the point is here
09:0409:04 - that these folks also were prophesying things about the grace that would come to us that is Jesus Christ and what he
09:1209:12 - did for us and so these things it’s another point of evidence that we’re not just like asserting willy-nilly that the
09:1909:19 - Old Testament prefigures the Messiah or or speaks of the Messiah and and what he would do for us but the Bible itself is
09:2609:26 - making this claim and so you know it’s not something that we should be skeptical of is what I’m saying is that
09:3309:33 - it it is something that we just need to say well how that’s the right question to ask not not like well does the Bible
09:3909:39 - speak of the Messiah or Jesus in the Old Testament that we just need to take for granted the Bible says it does it
09:4409:44 - obviously does we need to ask well how in what ways can we see Jesus in the Old Testament so of course that’s what we’re
09:5209:52 - going to be turning to here um another interesting passage that Dr Lugo brings up to sort of support this is Hebrews 11
09:5909:59 - 26 um and this is talking about Moses considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of
10:0610:06 - Egypt for he was looking to the reward it it took my brain I confess a while to be like well why is Dr bgo referencing
10:1410:14 - this one here like what is this have to do with you know the the Old Testament speaking of Jesus Christ but when you
10:1910:19 - think about it for Moses to do this he would have had to understand something about what Christ was going to do with
10:2810:28 - with us right so how could he understand the reproach of Christ if he didn’t at least have an inkling of what that meant
10:3610:36 - um and so obviously we wish we knew more here as well like how much did people like Moses and Abraham and David how
10:4310:43 - much did they understand about what was coming um so Abraham you know Isaac being a type of Christ was willing to
10:5010:50 - sacrifice his own son trusting that God would somehow make it all work out Abraham understood something you know
10:5710:57 - but exactly how much did they know it’s a very fascinating question but the point is here in context Moses had an
11:0611:06 - inkling of some of what was to come and he knew that it was worth prioritizing following what God would have him do
11:1411:14 - instead of all the material blessings in this world he was looking to his eternal reward the spiritual reward rather than
11:2211:22 - the material and to do that to have that motivation he had to know that some of what was to come the Messiah delivering
11:3111:31 - his people you know obviously Moses is a type of Christ too not that I think we really get to that here but he is um
11:3811:38 - well he had to have at least some vague understanding of what God was going to do so all of these things point to the
11:4611:46 - fact and it is a fact like I’ve been saying because the Bible says it it’s not an inference it’s not a something
11:5111:51 - that we’re a bit shaky on the Bible says that the Old Testament speaks of Jesus Christ speaks of the Messiah and so uh
12:0112:01 - that’s kind of how we’re going to open this it’s just that we need to be in the mindset that it’s there we just have to
12:0512:05 - figure out how to explain it um so we’re not arguing about whether this is true or whether it exists but we’re just
12:1112:11 - going to be talking about well how does the Old Testament point to Jesus Christ and so there are a number of types you
12:1812:18 - know quote unquote types employed to prefigure the Incarnation death and suffering of the Son of God in our
12:2312:23 - behalf and so the subject of typology proper uh this is actually covered in part four a of this Bible basic series
12:3112:31 - that we’re going through which is christology proper so right now we are talking about theology which is the
12:3712:37 - study of God and so we’ve been talking about such things as God’s nature and his uh and uh the Trinity and how the
12:4412:44 - Trinity is explained in the Bible Well when we talk about the person of Jesus Christ specifically that’s part 4A of
12:5012:50 - this series that is kind of where all of the the types of Christ are covered and so some of the Old Testament things that
12:5712:57 - point to Jesus if we ever get there in this video series we’ll be going over those in part 4A of this series um but
13:0513:05 - for the time being we’re actually going to be going over um two separate categories of the old testament’s
13:1113:11 - portrayal of the suffering of Christ so that is in this series in in this video Lesson right now so we’re going to be
13:1713:17 - talking about blood sacrifice and prophecy and how both of these things are some of that evidence that points us
13:2413:24 - towards the Messiah in the Old Testament so that’s kind of intro here it’s how we need to be thinking about this topic
13:3213:32 - that we’re going over a you have any points you want to interject before we actually get to those uh uh specific
13:3813:38 - examples here I don’t think there’s much to say I think you have really covered the whole
13:4513:45 - ground um yes the the Old Testament does speak of Christ it speaks of him even as a suffering servant it’s actually one of
13:5413:54 - the very first things that the Lord said to the couple in the after they sinned and he was passing
14:0114:01 - judgment on them um he told them that her seed will bruise uh or rather crush the head of the serpent and that the the
14:1214:12 - serpent would bruise his heel that’s something that was ever present from the beginning of human
14:2014:20 - history so um we can take for granted that that is um absolutely part of the story of the Old
14:3014:30 - Testament by the time we get to Moses this was entrenched because sacrifices had been a normal part of human history
14:4014:40 - by at this point I mean Noah carried out something similar we we have that record of it at the end of the flood and we can
14:4914:49 - take for granted he was not the first there was also Abel who took um uh we’ll get to them
14:5914:59 - here you know the evangelium Abel Noah that’s the next slide but the point is very Ono here yeah um because like you
15:0915:09 - said from the very beginning have these things been there um yeah it’s it’s not it’s not
15:1615:16 - new yep and uh I I should just say by way of comment that maybe it seems kind of odd
15:2315:23 - for us to be like arguing this like why are we emphasizing this so much it’s because there are actually people who
15:2915:29 - make the claim that that I don’t know that the Old Testament doesn’t speak about Jesus somehow and actually most
15:3615:36 - specifically uh people who are still Jewish today who reject Jesus as the Messiah I mean some of them would say oh
15:4615:46 - I don’t know Christians Just Like cherry-picked Old Testament scriptures and like they they like made a version
15:5215:52 - of Jesus to like fake fulfill the prophecy you see what I’m saying like they think that it’s kind of like um uh
15:5915:59 - uh sort of as an analogy uh there’s this Book of Enoch mentioned in somewhere I think is is it Jude you know off the top
16:0716:07 - your head aie I can’t remember yeah but no book of it was just Enoch that was me that he he he made a prophecy that was
16:1316:13 - in Jude that’s true okay or I think there’s there’s actually a book you know or or an apocryphal go somewhere
16:2016:20 - mentioned in the Bible that basically someone decided that they were just going to like the Bible mentions this
16:2616:26 - thing we don’t have access to it so someone just wrote one that’s it’s obviously not the inspired scripture
16:3016:30 - they just like tried to make something that would like seem like it was the real thing and so where I’m going with
16:3816:38 - that example is that may be somehow how Jewish people view Jesus Christ like a bunch of people read some Old Testament
16:4616:46 - prophecy and they like came up with a person to organize around who seemed to like fulfill some of it but it’s all
16:5316:53 - fake it’s all made up that’s how they might view Jesus and so there are actually people who don’t think that the
17:0017:00 - Old Testament prefigures Jesus Christ as we know him or or the Messiah you know I’ve always been kind of curious about
17:0717:07 - this so I am not ethnically Jewish I I don’t actually know uh in my close personal life uh folks who are like it
17:1517:15 - hasn’t been uh people in my Social Circles but when we have all of this stuff in the Old Testament that points
17:2117:21 - to the suffering servant what do they make of Jesus Christ I I guess they just must think
17:2717:27 - that he wasn’t the real one right he’s just a pretender um but it’s all over the place you know and and so anyway
17:3517:35 - what I’m trying to say is that the reason why we’re talking about this and emphasizing that no really Jesus Christ
17:4017:40 - as the Messiah was there in the Old Testament not even particularly hided you know you don’t have to try real hard
17:4717:47 - to find prophecy that directly lines up with the suffering of Christ um and you know we’re not going to spend a lot of
17:5317:53 - time on it here in this section because the point is almost self-evident you read some of these passages in the Old
17:5817:58 - Testament can’t escape it um but people don’t buy this they don’t believe this point that
18:0618:06 - somehow I don’t know that that this wasn’t God’s plan from the beginning um and so I we don’t need to concern
18:1218:12 - ourselves over much with the fact that some people reject this um because people reject all sorts of truth but it
18:1718:17 - is just worth emphasizing that Jesus is there from the very first pages of scripture God’s Redemptive plan from
18:2418:24 - human history through the shedding of the blood of his one and only son has always been there um we’ve made the
18:3118:31 - point before that when God kicked off creation you know because God exists outside of SpaceTime he knew that in
18:4018:40 - doing this he was kicking off a chain of events that would send Jesus Christ to die on the cross um he knew that upfront
18:4818:48 - before he did anything and that’s something that we struggle to understand as humans because that’s not how our
18:5318:53 - knowledge works but that is how God works and so because everything is forn and for our ordained when God chose to
19:0019:00 - make creation he was at that very instant choosing to send Jesus to die on the cross for our sins um and so we’ll
19:0819:08 - get to this a little bit more you know a started go in there we’ll cover blood sacrifices perhaps the most obvious
19:1419:14 - typological parallel we’ll cover that next but just that point that it’s been there from the beginning is so crucial
19:2019:20 - for us in in kind of having the faith we ought in the consistency of the Bible you know the uh message message that God
19:2919:29 - has seen fit to give Humanity across all of human history has always been consistent this has always been the plan
19:3619:36 - and it is 100% consistent in a way that other books are not that’s why inspiration is such a big deal for us
19:4419:44 - it’s important stuff is what I’m trying to say yeah I I actually would have pointed
19:5119:51 - out just one more thing that it’s not just that people tend to reject this but also that
19:5919:59 - the Old Testament is part of the scriptures even though we Believers uh of the church
20:0720:07 - age um derive so much from the New Testament there’s plenty in the Old Testament
20:1520:15 - that shows us exactly who God is it’s not something we we get away from so even though the Old Testament is um It’s
20:2620:26 - The Testament that has been done away with the plenty in it that actually shows us or or or would I say
20:3420:34 - illuminates I rather it’s the other way around the New Testament actually illuminates a lot of the stuff in the
20:3920:39 - old so yeah and that stuff in the old is useful for us today as well so it’s not just for people who struggle to believe
20:4820:48 - that um Christ is actually in the Old Testament the whole thing is the word of God for us yep I mean you might compare
20:5620:56 - how certain parts of like Daniel and Ezekiel are in fact quite necessary for us to make sense of Revelation um some
21:0221:02 - of the the eschatology there like the Daniel has stuff that you have to understand it to properly be able to
21:0921:09 - interpret that I mean so that’s one example but also things like creation our understanding of creation and even
21:1621:16 - Satan’s fall um is that Ezekiel 28 trying to remember Ezekiel 28 and isah king of you know Ty as a typological
21:2621:26 - parallel to Satan our understanding of Satan and his fall mostly comes from the Old Testament you know so together like
21:3321:33 - you said it is the word of God and and uh generally speaking as a principle it’s true that we mostly understand the
21:3921:39 - old through the lens of the new that is true as a generalization but there are also plenty of New Testament passages
21:4621:46 - that make no sense without the context of the old you know it is the uh the Bible together all parts of it you know
21:5321:53 - equally inspired word of God we have to interpret it in light of itself um and that that cuts both ways um
22:0022:00 - so not to get too off topic but yes very important point for us um and why it’s important for us to emphasize
22:1022:10 - this so the first of these things that we’re going to be talking about that really prefigures the Messiah and the
22:1722:17 - suffering of Jesus Christ is blood sacrifice so Audi actually started just off the top of his head going through a
22:2322:23 - lot of these uh when we were kind of introducing this idea of the old testament’s betrayal of the Messiah here
22:3022:30 - um but from the very beginning blood sacrifice has been pointing us to the Cross so from the coats of skin that God
22:3822:38 - provided Adam and Eve to indicate the one that will die in their place this is right after the fall in Genesis chapter
22:4422:44 - 3 Genesis 3:21 says the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them this is often called
22:5122:51 - the Proto evangelium or the first gospel because we see from the very beginning that that covering Adam and Eve requires
23:0023:00 - the shedding of blood um so clothing them in in this way kind of as a metaphor for you know covering their
23:0823:08 - unrighteousness is seen as requiring the shedding of blood of another um and we also see this in Abel sacrifice Superior
23:1823:18 - to Cain’s because it depicts the substitute’s death so we at least not we I have something up on my side somewhere
23:2523:25 - about how it’s not like God just like arbitrarily decided Well you know Abel raised sheep and stuff in the pasture
23:3223:32 - and and Cain was a farmer who grew you know things in the field therefore God just arbitrarily liked Abel better or
23:3923:39 - whatever we are to understand God’s rejection of Cain’s offering uh in large part because Cain was presenting it as
23:4823:48 - his labors his work look at me God I’m so great look at what I gave you whereas Abel was taking the life of an animal
23:5623:56 - and looking towards what that represent Ed um and so we’re making that by inference because the alternative is
24:0324:03 - just that God’s arbitrary in a way that is borderline unjust right we understand that when God does this it’s not for no
24:0924:09 - reason it’s because Abel must have been looking with eyes of faith in fact I I’m making it sound even wishy washer than
24:1524:15 - it is in Hebrews chapter 11 um Hebrews chapter 11 specifically calls out Abel’s Faith right by faith Abel still speaks
24:2424:24 - even though he is dead that’s Hebrews chapter 11 verse4 uh by faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain
24:3124:31 - did what does that mean it means that Abel was looking towards the truth of this his offering of blood represented
24:4024:40 - his understanding that he couldn’t do it on his own another person had to pay for him um and of course Cain did not have
24:4824:48 - that that is why God Favored Abel’s offering and rejected Caines not because God’s arbitrary and just liked Abel
24:5624:56 - better for whatever reason was because was doing things of righteousness um looking towards ultimately the sacrifice
25:0425:04 - of Jesus Christ on the cross now did Abel know exactly that that was what was going to happen no probably not but he
25:1125:11 - understood through faith that God was the one who would provide a sacrifice to redeem him um in the same way that Adam
25:1925:19 - and Eve would have believed in God’s promise through the Proto evangelium in Genesis 3:21 and then comes up again in
25:2625:26 - the noic Covenant here the end of Genesis or sorry Genesis chapter n um when you know during the Covenant that
25:3525:35 - God gives to Noah said that we’re not supposed to eat flesh with its life that is its blood blood representing Life as
25:4325:43 - a metaphor super common across cultures and languages not just Hebrew um you know this blood is the life force think
25:5025:50 - of vampires right not the vampires actually exist but the idea that human beings have their life in their blood is
25:5725:57 - like not new but in the Bible because that’s the only version of things we should care about
26:0326:03 - in the Bible this idea that life is caused by the shedding of blood you know that our our Redemption costs the blood
26:1226:12 - of another this is why we are to respect the blood of animals even because we understand what it means what it
26:2026:20 - represents so of course this was this is important in the Jewish dietary code but this is the Covenant God gives to Noah
26:2726:27 - so-call noic Covenant Genesis 9:4 you shall not eat flesh with its life that is its blood you have to drain the blood
26:3426:34 - first because the blood represents payment for sin um it’s important it’s not for no reason that God gives this to
26:4326:43 - Noah and then of course perhaps most clearly we have the elaborate series of sacrifices commanded by the Mosaic law
26:5226:52 - all of which portray Redemption through another’s blood and so we’re going to just briefly here I’m not going to read
26:5826:58 - this whole passage but uh there’s this this passage in Hebrews chapter 9 talking about how Jesus was a sacrifice
27:0427:04 - once for all in a way that the blood sacrifices under the Mosaic law were not but just look at verse 22 here Romans
27:1227:12 - chapter 9:22 and according to the law one may almost say all things are cleansed with blood and without the
27:2027:20 - shedding of blood there is no forgiveness think about that for a second without the shedding of blood
27:2727:27 - there is no forgiveness this been in the law for centuries at this point it has always been pointing towards Christ’s
27:3527:35 - ultimate sacrifice for us so verse 23 therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the Heavens to
27:4227:42 - be cleansed with these but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
27:4827:48 - these so verse 25 um and Jesus did not offer himself as the high priest here did year by year with blood that was not
27:5727:57 - his own but he offered his own blood to redeem us um so you know we go through more of
28:0428:04 - the passage here Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22 again without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness all of the blood
28:1028:10 - sacrifice in the Old Testament were just Shadows of Christ sacrifice pointing us to him the coming Messiah who would
28:1728:17 - suffer and die to reconcile us to God the father and so as we can see here God made extensive use of the the teaching
28:2728:27 - Aid if you will of blood sacrifice to make it crystal clear to all the Old Testament Believers
28:3428:34 - that forgiveness of their sins was no light matter it required the shedding of blood that is serious I mean and and we
28:4228:42 - can today properly appreciate that taking the life of an animal you know in this in this uh this understanding that
28:5128:51 - it represents you know that being dying in place to forgive you your sins not even not even your life but just your
29:0029:00 - sin requires the death of something that should just show how serious it is um now um pointing out here taking a step
29:0929:09 - back Christianity sorry rather uh Judaism was not the only language sorry the only religion I’m having a hard time
29:1729:17 - here the only religion that had blood sacrifice so this was common in for example the Greek and Roman state
29:2329:23 - religions as well however christianities and and the Jewish form of this points towards that understanding that it is
29:3229:32 - God who takes away our sins it’s not like the animals have any power themselves right um contrast what these
29:3829:38 - other systems of religion might have thought but it is only because God has providing the substitute just like he
29:4529:45 - did uh when Abraham was going to offer Isaac God is the one who provides the substitute for us um but the shedding of
29:5429:54 - blood just shows how serious sin really is it causes is the death of another being um and only through their blood
30:0330:03 - can we be forgiven our sin just shows how serious it is right and so this is something that only God could do for
30:0930:09 - them and it involved a steep and bloody price that God would somehow have to pay himself on behalf of those who trusted
30:1730:17 - in him God is the one who provides the payment for our Redemption and so in this way you can see that all the way
30:2730:27 - back from the very beginning part of Genesis and AI was making this point when we were talking the last time this
30:3330:33 - idea of blood sacrifice has pointed us right to Jesus Christ and you can’t get you can’t get away from this this is
30:4030:40 - what the Old Testament says this is the system of symbolism in all of this points directly to the sacrifice of
30:4730:47 - Christ upon the cross a you want to elaborate on any of this anymore um any points that I missed you always cover it
30:5530:55 - so completely there is not much to say um it’s enough to know that all the blood sacrifices that were in the Old
31:0531:05 - Testament were pointing to the Cross so it’s not a new thing um even if uh people have issues dealing with the
31:1631:16 - coats of skin understanding them to be the very demonstration of what God had said God did say that the seed of the
31:2431:24 - woman would crush the head of the serpent look at you and that the serpent will
31:3131:31 - bruise his heel everybody who has read that I don’t think I have seen a single um interpretation in all my years of
31:4031:40 - looking at the Bible and reading commentaries where anyone had an issue with that being a pointing to the cross
31:4731:47 - and uh just as as Stephen very eloquently pointed out right
31:5231:52 - now if we investigate every culture that has existed in in this world there has always been blood sacrifice in every one
32:0332:03 - of them or at least some form of appreciation for such things why because it’s innate
32:1332:13 - every every collection of human beings every nation that you have found has had some appreciation of the fact that what
32:2132:21 - we ow to God is a blood death even if they did not really you know follow through on that understanding to come to
32:2832:28 - the knowledge of God himself and his Messiah it’s always been there in fact in the time of the um Israelites when
32:3832:38 - they were marching to Canaan one of the problems with Canaan at the time was the sort of sacrifices they were offering it
32:4732:47 - got to the point of actually murdering their children as sacrifices to their gods these are perversions of that
32:5432:54 - understanding that what we owe God is a blood debt that’s someone has to die in our place for us to regain or to be
33:0133:01 - reconciled to him so we it’s always been there there is no question about it it’s not just that everything in the
33:0933:09 - scriptures have been pointing to what the Messiah would do when he would come but everything in the scripture has been
33:1733:17 - pointing to Christ himself so now I think it’s it’s almost interesting to think about how the the
33:2633:26 - willingness of the sacrifice so to speak um I’m trying to think about how the symbolism plays into this a bit but you
33:3533:35 - know you have these people who would be willing to sacrifice their own family to escape judgment right if if it would
33:4233:42 - work right and it’s unfortunate in the history of the world that some people think like this you know they they will
33:4833:48 - sacrifice maybe not literally on a physical altar but you know in how they behave with their children they’ll do
33:5433:54 - whatever it takes to save their own skin this is not what blood sacrifice pointed to in the Old Testament as in oh well
34:0134:01 - I’m going to go sin so now I have to kill like three Lambs instead of two you see what I’m saying like it was never
34:0934:09 - this idea of well you know it’s just commensurate to the amount of sin I commit so if I sin more I just need to
34:1534:15 - kill more things that is not God’s attitude towards sin um and you know Paul talks about this somewhere else you
34:2334:23 - know that Christ died does not give us a license to sin this idea that our debt has been paid what now shall we sin no
34:3034:30 - more you know let that not be Paul tells us that is not how we are to take this and and in Jewish culture it’s not like
34:3834:38 - you know the laws prescription of the killing of animals to cleanse them from their sin meant that that you could have
34:4534:45 - well I mean it would not Shock me if there were people in the history of the world that did think like this but this
34:5034:50 - is not how we ought to think about it who said well I’m rich and Powerful so I can s more because I can afford to buy
34:5734:57 - more things to pay for my sin right um yeah you know it is a sad sad thing that there are people who probably did act
35:0735:07 - like that under the old Covenant um you said I’m a rich and powerful man I can afford to do what I please because I can
35:1635:16 - pay for it I me I can pay for it right you see that you see how that Twisted that is relative to how this actually
35:2435:24 - works where God is the one providing us the sacrifice what one of us actually provides animals and makes them grow
35:3335:33 - none of us right humans don’t control that God controls that and so what one of us can actually provide the sacrifice
35:4035:40 - for our own sin we do not provide animals you know arrogant as some people might think well I own you know I own
35:4735:47 - the mother animal and the father animal therefore I own the baby animals it’s not yours nothing in this life is ours
35:5235:52 - it’s only given to us put in our hands by God right where at best we are are stewards in fact we are slaves we are
35:5935:59 - Servants of God and anything past that thinking well I get to pay God pay god with what the currency that he gave you
36:0936:09 - the clothes that he gave you the life that he gave you I hope you see where I’m going with this yeah that is the
36:1536:15 - arrogance of this to think that somehow we can pay for this on our own that well I can acquire animals to cover my sin
36:2436:24 - therefore I can sin because you see it’s okay I satisfy God’s justice you know people actually say things like I mean
36:3236:32 - probably not so directly right but they act like this that as long as the scale is balanced I can do what I want I can I
36:3936:39 - can follow that letter of the law because you see I’m following the law you know the law says I have to
36:4536:45 - sacrifice this if I do this and look I made the sacrifice I am good in the eyes of the
36:5136:51 - Lord that’s not how it works you know um so I I think maybe given how I separated we are from the the um it’s
37:0537:05 - the right way to put it like the the visceral nature of killing something with your own hands to pay for your sin
37:1237:12 - I think we’re a little bit separated from that and it’s not necessarily a bad thing it just means that maybe this
37:1737:17 - doesn’t hit as hard for us as going up to an altar putting your hand on the neck of an animal and taking its life to
37:2537:25 - pay for your own sin I think perhaps now I’m not I’m not saying we need to go reinstitute this
37:3237:32 - although you know the Bible does say under the tribulation uh uh you know the ministry towards people of Jewish belief
37:4037:40 - that some of the temple sacrifices will start back up pointing to Jesus Christ but I think maybe if people had to with
37:4837:48 - their own hands take the life of an animal every time they sin they would sin less you think that um again not
37:5637:56 - saying we need to go start this but but understanding exactly what it costs we don’t want to cheapen that uh by being
38:0638:06 - quick to sin and I feel like sometimes we do we don’t we don’t keep in our mind what it cost Jesus to pay for even the
38:1238:12 - smallest of our sins sorry I’m rambling a bit I don’t want to get off topic but you know it’s
38:1738:17 - just blood sacrifice is so essential but we have to understand it properly that God is the one who provides this not us
38:2438:24 - it’s not a matter of us being able to somehow level the scale through actions we take through just
38:3038:30 - acquiring more payment if you will because ultimately everything only comes from the hand of God and failing to
38:3738:37 - appreciate that means we really cheap in Grace and we should not do that um yeah very
38:4938:49 - true other than blood sacrifice the other main thing we’re going to be talking about here in this somewhat s
38:5638:56 - somewhat short section in our study of theology proper is going to be talking about how prophecy helps point us to the
39:0539:05 - Messiah and the sufferings of Jesus Christ so prophecy prefigures the coming Messiah and like we mentioned before um
39:1239:12 - all of the typology kind of gets covered in more depth in part 4A of this series on ichus but for our purposes here we’re
39:1839:18 - just highlighting a couple of the high level areas in which the Old Testament points to Jesus Christ as the Messiah
39:2539:25 - and so we just finished talking about blood sacrifice here and now we’re going to be talking about just a few of the
39:3039:30 - prophecies that point us towards Jesus Christ as the Messiah now of course this list is very far from comprehensive and
39:3839:38 - we’re really not going to go into too much detail here we’re just introducing some of these examples that point us to
39:4539:45 - Jesus Christ that are in the Old Testament so as we’ve been saying uh in this lesson this has been the case from
39:5239:52 - the beginning this has always been God’s plan for redeeming humankind and the New Testament didn’t just like come up with
39:5939:59 - some Grand new idea that hadn’t been there before it is fulfilling these things that have been around from the
40:0740:07 - very earliest days that God communicated with humanity and so here in Genesis 3:15 we have a prophecy so we spoke of
40:1540:15 - the Proto evangelium with blood sacrifice here the the animal skins that represent the shedding of blood for the
40:2140:21 - Forgiveness of sins well in Genesis 3:15 just a few verses earlier in that chapter we have a prophecy it’s says
40:2840:28 - that enity will be put between the serpent uh being Satan you know at least metaphorically here and the woman and
40:3540:35 - between your seed and her seed he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel so he here we
40:4440:44 - interpret now through the revelation of the New Testament to be Jesus Christ and the Serpent’s Seed you know well uh
40:5340:53 - we’re going to interpret it you know among other things as being Antichrist so it has multiple fulfillments uh in
40:5940:59 - the events of Revelation for example but also Jesus crushed the head of the serpent upon the cross he paid for our
41:0741:07 - sin and overcame death this was that final Victory Satan’s already positionally
41:1441:14 - defeated but this prophecy in Genesis 3:15 this is talking about the Messiah the one who saves his people from their
41:2241:22 - sins it’s what the Messiah is in by conception right he saves God’s people um well Genesis 3:15 clearly referencing
41:3141:31 - the Messiah right this is book chapter 3 the first book of the Bible this is really early on in our understanding of
41:3941:39 - God um and it’s right there um now of course we have the benefit of some hindsight in interpreting this nowadays
41:4741:47 - but this has been there from the very beginning and whatever this meant however the oops however the the early
41:5541:55 - people of Israel interpreted this they would have understand this to be a comforting promise right this is a
42:0142:01 - prophecy that that the seed of the woman will be victorious Over The Serpent and all that he represents in a negative
42:0942:09 - sense so that’s Genesis 3:15 we have a another verse here in Numbers chapter 21 so this is the bronze
42:1842:18 - serpent put up on a staff that when the people were bitten by venomous snakes in the wilderness they would look up at
42:2742:27 - this serpent who was put up again think about the symbolism of the Cross here who was put up here to take away you
42:3742:37 - know the the Venom that would lead to their death right I mean I don’t know how exactly what people think you need
42:4442:44 - to be a metaphor for the cross in Jesus Christ but this is certainly one of them um Numbers chapter 21 Moses made a
42:5342:53 - bronze Serpent and set it on the standard and it came about that if a serpent B any man when he looked the
42:5842:58 - bronze at when he looked to the bronze serpent he lived clearly prefiguring Jesus Christ being put up on the cross
43:0543:05 - to pay for our sins right um now there’s more context to this we’re not going to get into all of that here but this is a
43:1243:12 - clear typological reference to the Messiah taking away the sins of his people um numbers CH
43:2043:20 - 21:9 we have Psalm 22 verse1 another Messianic Psalm and and we hear Jesus say this from the cross my God my God
43:3043:30 - why did you forsake me um far from my Deliverance are the words of my groaning um we understand that this speaks of the
43:3943:39 - suffering of Jesus Christ right when God the father was having Jesus take the punishment for human sins that face the
43:4843:48 - Judgment for human sins Jesus says this on the cross not because you know God uh you know the right way to put this um
43:5743:57 - you know not because the father hated Jesus or wanted to cause him harm or things like this but because when Jesus
44:0544:05 - was paying for human sin he was taking the sins of the world upon his shoulders and and Jesus saying this should be a
44:1144:11 - powerful reminder to us of exactly how much this costs now we will never properly appreciate this as humans we
44:1844:18 - can’t um and and we should do our very best to try but we won’t really understand what it means to take the
44:2644:26 - sort of the the Eternal weight of sin upon Jesus’s shoulders for one sin much less the sins of the entire world we
44:3444:34 - cannot even comprehend that what that cost but this should help give us a sense of of how much it would hurt so to
44:4244:42 - speak what Jesus would feel like on the cross but notice that this is quoting from a Psalm Psalm 22 long before Jesus
44:5144:51 - was born into this world and came to die for our sins um and then I Isaiah chapter 53 as it is mentioned here in
44:5944:59 - this series this is the suffering servant right um Isaiah 53:3 he was despised and forsaken of men a Man of
45:0745:07 - Sorrows and acquainted with grief and like one from whom men hid their face he was despised and we did not esteem
45:1445:14 - him a prophecy of Jesus Christ right he lived this this life of of suffering and then put to death the most unglamorous
45:2345:23 - way possible crucified upon a cross to pay for our sin sins this is the suffering servant who has been prophecy
45:3145:31 - for centuries before Jesus Christ came into the world and so this idea here that we’re going with with all this
45:3845:38 - prophecies is the idea that the Old Testament did not prophecy the the coming Messiah or what he would do for
45:4445:44 - us in suffering for our sins upon the cross it it’s simply false all of these things are there in the Bible and I mean
45:5245:52 - again as as we’ve been going over from the beginning since we started talking about uh the trinity in the Old
45:5845:58 - Testament it’s not exactly as if all of these things would have been completely obvious to them in the same way it is to
46:0446:04 - us now with the benefit of the additional revelation of the New Testament and and hindsight but these
46:1046:10 - things have been there since the very beginning and as I say we could go on these are not the only things that we
46:1846:18 - could use to show how the Old Testament prefigures the coming Messiah but it’s just a collection of examples that
46:2446:24 - should show how the Old Testament points to Jesus Christ and what he did for us long before Jesus ever came into the
46:3146:31 - world um and that’s this all this is alongside blood sacrifice right which we said that symbolism clearly points to
46:3746:37 - Christ but all of these things these prophecies these other types this typological symbolism that points us to
46:4446:44 - Christ all of that was given to us as well all of these things together point us to Jesus Christ as the Messiah who
46:5346:53 - will suffer for our sins and so this is why we say that the Messiah is prefigured in the Old Testament and
46:5946:59 - clearly too like not not just in a maybe we think that you could kind of interpret things this way when Jesus
47:0747:07 - explained things to those people on the road to Emmas he wasn’t just drawing connections that weren’t there he was
47:1447:14 - explaining these things that had been there from the beginning and making it clear what they actually pointed to um
47:2147:21 - and that’s just the way we need to take this these things clearly point to Jesus Christ and when we look with faith we
47:2747:27 - should see that from the beginning God’s plan has not changed here it’s been consistent always pointing us to Jesus
47:3447:34 - Christ and what he did for us on the cross so anything you want to contribute here Audi um about any of these verses
47:4247:42 - or or any others that you can think of uh not not really not not really the these are just a sampling
47:5147:51 - of the scriptures that speak to the um coming of the Lord Jesus and what he would do for our sins suffice to say
48:0148:01 - that the Old Testament is replete with this basically if you spent a whole day reading through Isaiah you’d come away
48:0948:09 - wondering why anyone would would even think that the Messiah was supposed to come and do what just chase the Romans
48:1948:19 - away and take the throne everything that you read will point you to that to the Cross to Jesus coming
48:2748:27 - it’s it’s very hard to read the Old Testament and the New Testament and go away you know thinking that they’re
48:3548:35 - disconnected from each other they feed into each other very well and um one clearly foreshadows the other perfectly
48:4748:47 - so if if we just if all we wanted to do was to come up with examples of this it would make for a full session that’s the
48:5648:56 - fact of it I don’t think there is uh much more to say there is very little that needs to
49:0249:02 - be interpreted in many of these things the words are very straightforward it takes a deliberate hardening of one’s
49:0849:08 - heart to miss these um these references and what they’re talking about and just to emphasize you know
49:1649:16 - that’s why Dr Lil titled the the section of this here well um you know this introduction the portrayal of the
49:2449:24 - suffering of Christ it’s not just the person of the Messiah that’s prophecied it’s also his sufferer um and what you
49:3149:31 - need to emphasize that is that you know like it’s not simply that a messiah would come to save the Jews that is true
49:3949:39 - save God’s people but that he would come to suffer for them that is right there as well um and as I say this is a
49:4949:49 - stumbling Bo has been a stumbling PO for the Jewish people for centuries Millennia now um but that doesn’t mean
49:5649:56 - what we’re saying isn’t right there yeah yeah all right so as I said a bit
50:0850:08 - shorter this week here talking about the old testament’s portrayal of the suffering of Jesus and how the Messiah
50:1650:16 - was prefigured in the Old Testament so Jesus Christ specifically and what he came to do for us by suffering for our
50:2350:23 - sins and our place upon the cross uh we talked just about how from the very beginning the Bible has has given us
50:3050:30 - this understanding of the Messiah who was would come to save us from our sins we mentioned this verse in Luke chapter
50:3750:37 - 24: 27 that talks about you know Jesus explaining to those men on the road to emus everywhere that the scripture spoke
50:4550:45 - of him and uh you know we don’t have that conversation but we’ve just gone through some things that should show us
50:5050:50 - that yay verily the Old Testament really does point to Jesus and him crucified at that and so that that is just what we’ve
50:5750:57 - been talking about here in this lesson and so blood sacrifice is very obvious symbolic pointer that that points us
51:0451:04 - straight to the cross the blood sacrifice are just Shadows of Jesus’s sacrifice upon the cross the symbolism
51:1051:10 - has been clear it has been there from Genesis 3: 21 the prto evangelium it’s been there since the beginning has
51:1851:18 - always been consistent in pointing us to the necessity of shedding blood to pay for sin um and of course Jesus is that
51:2651:26 - final sacrifice like Romans sorry Hebrews chapter nine talks about once for all he died upon the cross to deal
51:3351:33 - with sin and death then we talked about prophecy various verses like genesis chapter 3:1 15 with the uh you know
51:4151:41 - Jesus crushing the head of The Serpent and the serpent striking his heel you know the bronze uh the bronze serpent
51:4951:49 - put up on the staff to take away uh the sins of the people you know the Venom saving them from when they were bitten
51:5551:55 - and all these other things that point to Jesus’s suffering as the Messiah like Isaiah chapter 53 the suffering servant
52:0252:02 - just also serve to point us not only to Jesus Christ as the coming Messiah but also point us directly towards him
52:1152:11 - suffering for our sin both of these things together give us that picture that the Old Testament very much spoke
52:1952:19 - of the Messiah and what he would do for us so that’s been this section here um in the next lessons here we’re going to
52:2552:25 - be focusing on appearances of God in the Old Testament so theophanies and christophanies and what the differences
52:3352:33 - between them are and things like that so that’s where we’re going to turn next