Bo Chouest

The Messiah and the Law Bo Chouest

Christ is Throughout the Bible. He is in the New Testament, but He is also throughout the Old Testament. He is in the Pentateuch; He is in the Writings; He is in the Prophets. He is in every verse of the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. We are to see Christ within the Bible and then within ourselves. We must also see Him everywhere outside of ourselves. We must not only see Him; we must hear His constant calling to us; we must feel His gentle touch as He holds us close in times of need; We must smell the pleasing sweet-smelling aroma of His Sacrifice; We must taste His Flesh and Blood when taking the Host and Wine. He is everything to us, and we are everything to Him. The Old Testament starts with creation. It presents the agreement that God made between Himself and mankind. The agreement was broken and began the long process of the covenants that culminated with the Messianic Covenant. It is God's Plan for our salvation and has many parts to it. The purpose of the Old Testament covenants is to foreshadow the numerous elements of the Messianic Covenant. The prior ones provide not only the elements but definitions for the last one. It lets us know why Christ did what He did. We wouldn't know what Christ's Commandment would mean in relation to sin. We wouldn't understand His Sacrifice in relation to salvation. We wouldn't know that the journey we make, as Christians, was acted out thousands of years ago to show us all the steps needed to reach the Promise. The prophets when put together provide a body of knowledge that is statistically so improbable to be coincidence that to deny that Jesus is the Messiah has no basis at all. This document shows that the Old Testament is all about Christ, from beginning to end. Christ is everywhere we look. He is in the numerous covenants, in the Law of Moses, in the Psalms, and in the Prophets. Christ is the fulfillment of the entire Law of Moses and the Prophets. The Old exist not for us to follow but for us to understand why we follow the New. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The Old Testament exists to teach us why.