The Amazing Creativity of the Bible

The creativity of God isn’t just manifest in creation itself, it’s manifest in the historical record of the Bible. Jesus said that if people were to search the scriptures (the Old Testament), that it would all testify of Him. All the way back in Genesis, Moses wrote of Jesus before he even knew there would be a Jesus. The seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent, and the serpent will bruise his heel - which is about Jesus’ finished work on the cross.

The priesthood, the Temple, the sacrificial system, the manna in the desert, the door on Noah’s ark, David and Goliath, Jonah in the belly of the whale, Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac and God preparing a ram - they’re all pictures of Christ. Jesus is our great high priest, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ is the last and perfect sacrifice, Jesus is the bread of life, Jesus is the only way to the Father, Christ is the greater David who killed the giant of sin and death, He was in the grave for 3 days and nights, He is the sin who the Father gave, and He is the sacrificial ram given by God to save us.

Jesus Himself read the Bible that way and so we should too - leading us to realize that entire Old Testament incredibly points forward to Christ, and the entire New Testament reflectively points back while looking forward to His return. Once you dive into prophecy, it reveals even more that the Bible is truly the inspired revelation from God Himself.

We have such a treasure that people bled and died to translate into our language, and yet for most of us, it sits dormant in a drawer somewhere. It’s not impacting our hearts or lives and because some of the things we misunderstand, we ignore it. We willingly take salvation and build our church cultures around what we think love is, but all the while rid ourselves of what God Himself has said. If we really understood Jesus, we wouldn’t be ignoring the whole counsel of God found in the Bible.