A Biblical Vision, Part I: Mastering the Old Testament Witness to Christ

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A B i b l i ca l Vi s i on, Par t I : Mas ter i ng the Ol d Tes tament Wi tnes s to Chr i s t

1. The seed of the woman would destroy the serpent, Gen. 3.15.

2. In Abraham, all the families of the earth would be blessed, Gen. 12.1-3.

3. Messiah’s life and ministry would be a Light to the Gentiles , Isa. 49.6 – he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

4. God would be sought by a nation not called by his name .

a. Isa. 65.1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here am I, here am I,” to a nation that was not called by my name.

b. Isa. 55.5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

5. All the ends of the earth would remember and turn to the Lord, Ps. 22.27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

6. All the nations would flow in the latter days into the house of the Lord, Isa. 2.2-3 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, [3] and many peoples shall come, and say: