Jesus in the Old Testament

A New City Church Message _MF-NCC

• Intro: The Word and the Law
  
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    John 1:1 — In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God.
    • Where Jesus 1st shows up. In the beginnig
    • Jesus was the Word in Genesis 1:1
    • Jesus was the Word before his name Yeshua
  • John 1:45 — Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophetsdid write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
    • They both new that Jesus was the one that the entire Old Testament wrote about
  • Galatians 4:4 — BUt when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
    • Because he was the Word, the law was Jesus
    • The Law and The Word became flesh
  • Hebrews 10:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do they will, O God.
    • Quote from Psalm 40:7
    • Psalm 40:7 — Then said, I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me,
    • 77% of the Bible is the Old Testament.. "In the volume of the book...
    • (602,585 words in OT; 180,552 in NT)
      
      
• Intro: How about in the words of Jesus
  
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    John 5:39 — Search the scripture; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
    • When Jesus shows up they only have the Old Testament
    • So they are searching the scriptures for eternal life, but he tells them the scriptures are talking about me.
  • See →John 5:45-47
    • Moses wrote the 1^st 5 books of the Old Testament
    • Holy Spirit wrote them, but Moses penned them
  • Matthew 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  • Matthew 5:18 — For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
    • A jot is the tenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
    • The Hebrew spelling for jot is yod
    • It is the smallest of the Hebrew alphabet letters.
    • It looks like an apostrophe
    • Jot is related to our modern English word iota, meaning “a very small amount.”
    • It so small, it would be like the dotting of an "i" or crossing of a "t"
    • A tittle is a letter extension, a pen stroke that can differentiate one Hebrew letter from another.
    • Looking at the Hebrew letters resh and daleth
    • The letters are very similar to each other, but the distinguishing mark of the daleth is the small extension of the top line of the letter
    • That extension is a tittle
      
    • So, what Jesus is saying the very specificity of the word I will fulfill all the way down to the very letter of the Word of God.
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• 1. Where does Jesus show up the first time?
  
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    Genesis 3:15 — And 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.
  • • God declares war! He drew the battle line!
    • Also notice the pronoun "his" in the verse where it say his heel. This his refers to Jesus' heel.
    • The Seed of the woman...it is not just biologically incorrect
    • So the seed of the woman he will bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel, in other words you are going to strike Satan, you and your demonic horde, are going to strike Jesus at his heel and bruise him, that the cross; but he is going to crush you head
    • The seed of the woman prophesies from the very beginning a prophetic nature of God that he will be born of a virgin because the seed is not in the women. Seed comes from man, but in this case from God himself
    • As early as Genesis chapter 3, we have the virgin birth predicted of Jesus
    • If you take this 1 verse actually you can trace it troughout the entire Bible, the seed war.
    • That is what Genesis 6 is all about with the crazy Nephilim and the fallen angels. It is Satan trying to corrupt the genome of man so that the seed of the woman cannot come.
    • That is what Satan is trying to do right there, and he has continued to do that all thoughout history.
    • And we see that Jesus declare war on our behalf!
      
      
• 2. Adam as a type of Jesus
  
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    I Corinthians 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • • Another title for Jesus... "The last Adam..."
  • I Timothy 2:14 — And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression.
  • • Adam was not deceived, but willingly joined Eve
    • Rather than leave her in her predicament, he chose to join her
    • This is some sort of forshadowing of Jesus so that it fits some kind of model
    • Jesus is our bridegroom. He willing joined us in our predicament of a fallen state where we are forever doomed without Him
    • And he joined us in that place and because he did and took our sin on the cross; we forever have eternal life with him
    • So, it is exactly what Adam did, he willing join his bride, Eve, in her predicament so that the Messiah could come
    • So, it is forshadowing from the beginning what Adam did as to what Jesus would do for us later on.
      
      
• 3. The covering
  
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    Genesis 3:7 — And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
  • Genesis 3:21 — Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
  • • Adam and Eve fall. Eve is deceived, remember The Shining One the Nachas, which means serpent, deceived her. She added to God's Word and she fell and looked at what happened to the both of them.
    • Their eyes were opened and they knew that the were naked.
    • The modern day version of this is what Satan tries propagate on the people by becoming Woke, your eyes will be opened. You'll know something better, some unique something that will give you enlightened and you'll be stronger because of it. That is how Satan is playing it right now.
    • Sewing fig leaves together is the first religion in the Bible, where man knows he has sinned and is trying to cover himself for his sin.
    • What was God teaching them?
    • By the shedding of innocent blood they would be covered
    • God took it upon himself to provide them a covering.
      
      
• 4. A predictive genealogy
  
  
  
  • • Here you have the first list of a genealogy in the Bible from Adam to Noah; 10 names in Genesis 5
    • If you translate the names to what they actually mean, the lay out the Gospel all the way back in Genesis 5
    • Methuselah was the oldest man in the Bible. He live to be 969 year old.
    • There was a prophecy that when he died the flood would come onto the earth.
    • Enoch was probably nervous because when his son dies, the flood is going to come upon the earth.
    • Enoch was raptured and did not die.
  • • 1. Adam
    • 2. Seth
    • 3. Enosh
    • 4. Kenan
    • 5. Mahalalel
    • 6. Jared
    • 7. Enoch
    • 8. Methuselah
    • 9. Lamech
    • 10. Noah
    • Man (is)
    • Appointed
    • Mortal
    • Sorrow; (but)
    • The Blessed God
    • Shall Come Down
    • Teaching (that)
    • His Death Shall Bring
    • The Despairing
    • Comfort
    
    
• 5. The Ark
  
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    • There was only one ark; There was only one door to the ark and God chose when that door was closed
    • Noah had preached about the flood for 120 years; God was patient, He gave people a chance
    • The ark was open to all, but forced on none
    • Once the door was closed, all theological debate was over
      
      
  • Genesis 8:4 — And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
    
    
  • • Two Jewish calendars; 7th month called Abib, but on religious calendar it is Nisan
    • See Exodus 12:1-3
      
      
  • Exodus 12:18 — In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
    Exodus 12:19 — Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
    
    
  • • Jesus was crucified on the 14th of Nisan...
      
      
• 6. Offering of a Son (The Akedah)
  
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    Genesis 22:2 — And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah: and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
    
    
  • • "your only son..."—Abraham had other sons (Ishmael for example)
    • See Genesis 22:4-8
      
      
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• 7. God's arranged marriage (the gathering of the bride)
  
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    • After the substitute ram, Isacc does not show up in the Bible for awhile
    • Abraham (type of the Father) makes a marriage for His Son
      
      
  • Matthew 22:2 — The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son.
    
  • John 6:44 — No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
    
    
  • • The unnamed servant (type of the Holy Spirit) who does ot "speak of Himself," but takes the things of the Bridegroom to win the bride (John 16:13-14); his name is Eliezer (means comforter)
      
      
  • John 16:13 — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whosoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
    
  • John 16:14 — He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
    
    
  • • The servant (type of the Holy Spirit) enriches the bride with the Bridegroom's gifts
      
      
  • Galatians 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
    
    
  • • See →I Corinthians 12:7-11
      
      
    • The servant brings the bride to the meeting with the Bridegroom
      
      
  • Romans 8:11 — But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
    
    
  • • See →I Thessalonians 4:14-16
      
      
    • Rebekah (a type of the church) the ecclesia, the "called out" virgin bride of Christ
      
      
  • Genesis 24:16 — And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any many known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
    
  • II Corinthians 11:2 — For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
    
    
  • • See →Ephesians 5:25-32
      
      
    • Isaac (a type of the Bridegroom) whom "not having seen" the bride, loves her through the testimony of the unnamed Servant
      
      
  • I Peter 1:8 — Whom having not seen, ye love, in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
    
    
  • • Isaac goes to meet and receive His bride (Genesis 24:63)
      
      
  • Genesis 24:63 — And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
    
    
  • • I Thessalonians 4:14-16 after the bride is complete Jesus will descend from His place to meet His bride!
      
      
    • See →I Thessalonians 4:14-16
      
      
• 8. The Passover
  
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    See →Exodus 12:1-13 — Institution of the Passover
    
    
  • • The blood of the lamb on the two doorposts and lintel
    • Anyone in the house was saved, it was not Jew or Gentile specific
    • There was one remedy to be saved
      
      
    • The Requirement...
      
  • Exodus 12:46 — In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
    
    
  • • The Prophecy...
      
  • Psalm 34:20 — He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken.
    
    
  • • The Fulfillment...
      
  • John 19:32 — Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
    
  • John 19:33 — But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
    
    
  • I Corinthians 5:7 — Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
    
    
  • John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
    
    
  • • See Revelation 5:4-6
      
      
• 9. The Tabernacle (God's wa to be with His people)
  
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    John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father,) full of grace and truth.
    
    
  • • "Dwelt"...the Greek word means "Tabernacled"
      
      
  • Hebrews 9:24 — For Christ is not entered into th eholy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but in heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
    
    
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• 10. The Camp of Israel
  
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    Numbers 1 & Numbers 2
    
    
  • • West - Ephraim 108,100 (Ox)
    • North - Dan 157,600 (Eagle)
    • East - Judah 186,400 (Lion)
    • South - Reuben 151,450 (Man)
      
      
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• 11. The daughters of Zelophehad
  
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    Numbers 27
    
    
  • • If you only had daughters, they could not inherit unless they married within the tribe
    • When that happened you could pass your inheritance to your son-in-law
      
      
  • Jeremiah 22:30 — Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
    
    
  • • Jeconiah also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin
      
      
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• 12. The Brazen Serpent
  
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    • See Numbers 21:5-9
      
      
  • John 3:14 — And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
    
  • John 3:15 — That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
    
    
  • • The serpent — Represents sin; established in Eden Genesis 3
    • Brass — Metal that can withstand fire; speaks of divine judgement, as in the brazen alter Exodus 27:2
      
      
  • Exodus 27:2 — And thous shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
    
    
  • • The brazen serpent is a type of Christ who was "made sin for us."
    
    
• 13. The Torah
  
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    • Every letter in the Bible is written down by God in a specific order
      
      
  • Proverbs 25:2 — It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
    
    
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• 14. The Book of Esther (Whose name means "Something Hidden")
  
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    • Rabbi Michoel-Dov Weissmandl, the Torah sage from Hungary known as "the Father of Torah Codes."
    • He conducted his work with his mind, not a computer
    • He stated there are 12,196 letters in the book of Esther all together
    • He discovered starting from the first instance of the letter alef (the third letter in the first word of the Torah — Ed.), if you count an interval equal to the number of letters in Megilat Esther (12,196) you arrive at a letter samech
    • If you continue another 12,196 letters you get to a letter tof
    • And if you keep going for another 12,196 you land on the letter reish
    • alef-samech-tof-reish spells Esther, that is pretty amazing!
      
      
• 15. David's Name Encrypted in Genesis 38
  
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    • In Genesis 38, Tamar had married Judah's firstborn son, Er, who died without having any children
    • Under Mosaic law, Judah was expected to provide Tamar a brother to raise up issue but did not comply
    • Tamar then resorted to posing as a prostitute and Judah unknowingly got her pregnant
    • When confronted with the evidence, he confesses that his sin was greater than hers
    • Tamar gives birth to two sons, Zarah and Pharez
    • Both are, of course, illegitimate
    • The Torah provides that a bastard results in being cast out of the congregation for 10 generations
      
      
  • Deuteronomy 23:2 — A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
    
    
  • • The strange remark in Ruth 4:12 was, in fact, a prophecy: the tenth generation from Pharaz was none other than David
      
      
  • Ruth 4:12 — And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
    
    
  • • To emphasize this, the book of Ruth closes with David's genealogy:
    • See →Ruth 4:18-22
    • The inheritance of David is here prophesied before the days of Samuel
    • One of the reasons that the sordid tale of Juda and Tamar has been included in the Scripture is because this incident is included in the family tree of the Messiah
      
      
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• 16. The 144,000 Sealed by God in Revelation 7
  
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    • Every letter in the Bible is written down by God in a specific order
      
      
  • • Tribe (Hebrew)
    • 1. Juda (Judah)
    • 2. Reuben (Reuben)
    • 3. Gad (Gad)
    • 4. Aser (Asher)
    • 5. Nepthalim (Naphtali)
    • 6. Manasses (Manasseh)
    • 7. Simeon (SimeonO
    • 8. Levi (Levi)
    • 9. Issachar (Issachar)
    • 10. Zabulon (Zebulun)
    • 11. Joseph (Joseph)
    • 12. Benjamin (Benjamin)
    • English translation, (not transliterated)
    • 1. Praise the Lord
    • 2. He has looked on my affliction (and)
    • 3. granted good fortune
    • 4. Happy am I
    • 5. my wrestling
    • 6. has made me forget my sorrow
    • 7. God hears me
    • 8. has joined me
    • 9. purchase me
    • 10. exalted me (by)
    • 11. adding to me
    • 12. the Son of His right hand
    
    
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