The Christ Key
Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament
Chad Bird
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The Christ Key
Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament
Chad Bird
About This Book
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with all sorts of strange rooms. The creation room, vast and sublime. The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas. The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls. The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums. What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah's divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. The Layered Bible
- Chapter 2. Christophanies: Walking Backward to Bethlehem
- Chapter 3. Pencil Sketches: How Old Testament Individuals Outlined the Messiahâs Colorful Life
- Chapter 4. The Genesis of Revelation: Old Creation, New Creation, and the Messiah
- Chapter 5. Exoduses: Exile and Return as the Messianic Mission
- Chapter 6. The Sanctuary Garden of God
- Chapter 7. Furnished for Atonement
- Chapter 8. The Psalms as the Prayerbook of Jesus and the Church
- Afterword. A Prayer for the Reader
- Scripture Index