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How should we really read the Bible
When you start reading your Bible like THIS, you will see the entire Old Testament in a completely different light. Just be prepared to have your mind completely blown!
What we are about to talk about, will long-term , probably be among the most important lessons we could ever learn!
If you read the rest of the New Testament, one of the things that is striking is, after a certain point (and I will tell you where) the ENTIRE rest of the New Testament is showing how everything in the Old Testament was about Jesus and you didn't know it!
Basicaslly, the entire New Testament is the extrapolation of whatever Jesus told them in Luke 24 on the Emmaus Road.
What a lot of Christians do is they think, "I just need to read the Bible chronologically! And I love chronological study! But then you interpret the Bible in chronological fashion! You know, Genesis . . . on through the rest of the Old Testament and THEN Jesus . . . finally ending in Revelation. And yeah, that's great i get it. But no, no, no, That is NOT how we should read the Bible.
It's not just some novel and if we skip around we will get lost and not fully understand the story! Remember, Jesus said in Luke 24, "Everything that happened before, was about Him."
Have you ever watched the movie, "The Sixth Sense?" It's the only movie I have ever watched twice . . . back to back . . . immediately! Because you see the whole thing and then there's that moment; "OH! HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME!" Then, you go back and this time when you watch it, you're interpreting the entire movie through the lens of what was revealed at the end the first time! The whole movie takes on a completely different outlook as you see things you missed before!
That is how we are supposed to read the Bible! The Old Testament happens, then jesus shows up and He does the life, death, resurection, and then Jesus goes, "yeah, by the way, all that stuff that's been written for like the last 4000 years . . . ALL THAT WAS ABOUT ME!"
And then, what a Christian Bible reader does, is he or she goes, "OH WOW! I NEED TO GO BACK" and you start realizing that every single thing that happened, was pointing to Jesus and was ABOUT Jesus!
Adam and Eve sin, they hide in their shame, Theologians call it the "protoevangelion" which in Latin means, the first telling of the Gospel. And remember what God does . . . He walks up to him and finds an innocent animal, uses these skins from the slain innocent animals to cover their sin and their shame!
Does that sound familiar at all?
here's anonther one; Cain kills Abel, God comes up to Cain that just killed Abel and asks, "Where's your brother?" And Cain is like, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Then God God tells him, "The blood of your brother is crying out for your condemnation!" And the book of Hebrew says that the blood of Jesus, who is the second Adam, innocently slain . . . it says, "His blood cries out from the ground and speaks a better word."
The blood of Abel was crying out for a man's condemnation. The blood of Jesus Christ, a descendant of Adam, Cain and Abel, cries out for our acquittal and forgiveness.
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How should we really read the Bible
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