It’s not important.” Genesis 5 is a great example it provides us with the sequence of the first 10 generations of mankind, and contained within this genealogy is the first mention of the Gospel itself. However, I am convinced that every name, every place name and every number in the Bible has significance. The Old Testament contains a variety of genealogies and we are tempted to skip over these boring lists at times. In providing the inspired Word to Moses, He begins to reveal His plan of salvation from the very beginning of the Bible. From Eve came all men, even Jesus Christ, by whom we gain eternal life. Genesis 3:20 refers to Eve as the Mother of all living. We know from the New Testament, though, that God had a sound reason for referencing the prophetic offspring in this manner Jesus, the Messiah, came by way of God’s work in Mary while she remained a virgin, not sexually known by a man. It is strange that Genesis 3:15 refers to the “seed of the woman” rather than the seed of Adam. We now know that the sperm of a man fertilizes the egg of a woman, thus giving rise to the zygote - that both contribute to the new life in the womb. The seed of humanity even then was believed to come from the man. That’s a strange statement to make, that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent. He tells the Serpent:Īnd I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Immediately after the sin of our first parents is exposed, God declares His plan of redemption to Adam and Eve (and Satan).
To find the first indication of the Messiah in the Old Testament, one simply has to turn to the first few pages of Genesis. The first prophecy of the Messiah does not show up in Isaiah or even in Deuteronomy. Through the pages of this book, we begin our own journey to answer that question, to retrace the footsteps of the Messiah. What words did Jesus give to those two disciples on the road to Emmaus that Sunday morning? That must have been quite some walk! What passages did Jesus quote in reference to Himself in order to open the understandings of Cleopas and his companion? Luke 24:44–48: Jesus with the Apostles in the Upper Room.Luke 24:13–27: Jesus with two disciples on the way to Emmaus.Jesus Himself adds two more to this list, two occasions in which He presented Himself from the Scriptures: We can imagine how frustrated these disbelieving persecutors must have been as Paul and Peter rubbed their noses in the mess the Jewish authorities had created. In every case, they reminded their adversaries that, though they had killed Jesus, He had beaten death.
They never let that chance go by, even when they were defending themselves against the authorities. Not once in these passages did Paul or Peter preach without mentioning the Resurrection of Christ.
Peter, Stephen, Philip, Paul, Apollos, Aquila, and Aquila’s wife Priscilla each had the important challenge of presenting Jesus as the Messiah from the Tanakh, the Hebrew Old Testament. Jesus taught from the Hebrew Scriptures, and after His resurrection the first lesson He gave came straight from the Old Testament:Īnd beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. In the early years of Christianity there was no New Testament. What Bible study is mentioned twelve times in one book of the Bible, was given on seven different occasions by seven different people, and is hardly ever offered today? Jesus as the Old Testament’s Messiah of Israel! Print this article Mystery of the Messiah
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