“From Everlasting to Everlasting: The Glory of the Divine Christ Blazing Through Every Page of Holy Scripture”
Beloved, I want to take you on a journey this day — not a journey of mere miles or mountains, but a journey through the whole breadth and length of the Sacred Volume, from the towering opening words of Genesis to the burning close of Malachi — and I want to show you something so magnificent, so staggering, so overwhelmingly glorious, that once you have seen it, you shall never read your Bible the same way again. I want to show you that Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the second Person of the eternal Trinity, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world — is not merely a New Testament figure who appeared in a manger one cold night in Bethlehem. No, dear friend! He is the blazing thread of scarlet that runs through every book, every prophecy, every sacrifice, every vision, and every whisper of the Old Testament! He was there before time began, He was active in the lives of the patriarchs, He spoke through the mouths of the prophets, He walked in the furnace with His people, He wrestled on the banks of the Jabbok, He ate bread under the shade of Mamre’s oaks — and when at last He stepped into history clothed in human flesh, it was not His first visit to this world. It was simply the most permanent one.
Open your Bibles, beloved. Open them wide. And let us begin at the very beginning.
I. In the Beginning — Before Bethlehem, Before Time
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1
There it is — the first verse of Holy Scripture. But do you know who is standing there in the beginning? The Apostle John, guided by the Holy Ghost, pulls back the curtain for us in the opening words of his Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:1-3). The Word — the Logos — through whom every galaxy was flung into space, through whom every mountain was thrust upward, through whom every creature that breathes received its first breath — that Word is Jesus Christ. He did not come into existence at Bethlehem. He was there when the morning stars sang together. He was there when God laid the foundations of the earth. The manger was not His beginning — it was His condescension!
And Proverbs 8 confirms it, where divine Wisdom speaks in the first person and says, “I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began… I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his whole world” (Proverbs 8:23-31). That is no mere poetic personification, beloved. That is the pre-existent Son of God, rejoicing in the act of creation alongside the Father, before Adam had drawn a single breath!
II. The First Gospel — Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” — Genesis 3:15
The ink on the story of man’s fall is scarcely dry, and already God is announcing His remedy! Adam and Eve stand broken and ashamed, the garden is filled with the stench of death and sin, and the enemy of souls stands exulting — and yet, hear it, beloved! God turns to the serpent and pronounces a doom so precise, so specific, that we might call it the very first sermon ever preached in human history. A seed of the woman — not of the man, mark that, not of the man! — would come to crush the serpent’s head. One blow from His heel would bring the destroyer down forever, though He Himself would be struck in the process.
This is what the theologians call the Protoevangelium — the first gospel. And it was spoken not in a synagogue, not from a hillside in Galilee — it was spoken in a ruined garden to a couple dressed in fig leaves. The first promise of Christ was uttered at the very moment of humanity’s darkest hour! Oh, what a God we serve! Before the wound had cooled, the cure was promised. Before the exile had begun, the Redeemer was announced.
III. Melchizedek — The Eternal Priest-King
“Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram…” — Genesis 14:18-19
Abraham has returned from battle, and suddenly, as if stepping out of eternity itself, a mysterious figure meets him in the Valley of the King. His name is Melchizedek — meaning King of Righteousness. He is the King of Salem — meaning King of Peace. He brings forth bread and wine — does that not remind you of something? — and he blesses Abraham. And Abraham, the father of the faithful, the friend of God, the man to whom the covenant had been given — gives a tenth of everything to this mysterious priest-king!
Who is this man? The writer of Hebrews tells us plainly: “Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever” (Hebrews 7:3). No beginning of days — no end of life — a priest forever. Beloved, there has only ever been one such person in the history of the universe. Melchizedek is not merely a type or a shadow of Christ — the writer of Hebrews says he resembles the Son of God. Many scholars across the centuries, and not a few with good reason, have seen in Melchizedek yet another pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ — standing in the Valley of the King with bread and wine in His hands, foreshadowing the very night in the upper room nearly two thousand years before it happened!
IV. The Three Visitors at Mamre — Abraham Sees Christ’s Day
“The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.” — Genesis 18:1
Oh, beloved, stop here a moment. Do not rush past this verse as though it were merely a pleasant domestic scene — an old man welcoming three travellers for lunch. Read the very first words: “The LORD appeared.” That is YHWH — the eternal, self-existing, covenant God of Israel — appearing in the heat of an afternoon. And then in the very next breath, when Abraham looks up, he sees three men. The text moves seamlessly between “the LORD” and “three men” — and every careful reader must ask: who are these three?
Two of them go on to Sodom and are explicitly called angels in Genesis 19:1. But the third — the one who stays behind, who speaks face to face with Abraham, who makes divine promises with divine authority — He is none other than YHWH Himself, appearing in human form. Abraham bows to the earth before Him. Abraham calls Him “My Lord.” Abraham washes His feet. Abraham prepares Him a meal of the finest calf and curds and bread. And this divine visitor, seated under a tree in Canaan, says: “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son” (Genesis 18:10).
And then this figure does something staggering — He lingers while the angels go on ahead. He stands with Abraham and reveals to him the judgment about to fall on Sodom. And Abraham, with breathtaking boldness, intercedes before YHWH as a man speaks to his friend.
Now, beloved, here is where this becomes what you rightly called mind-blowing. Centuries later, in Jerusalem, Jesus is standing before the Pharisees who are accusing Him of demon-possession, and He says to them these immortal words: “Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56). The Pharisees scoff — “You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?” — and Jesus does not step back. He does not qualify. He does not soften it. He drives the nail home: “Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was born, I AM!” (John 8:58).
I AM. The very name God gave Moses at the burning bush. The eternal, self-existing name. And Jesus claims it for Himself. He is telling them: that visitor at Mamre — the one who ate bread with your father Abraham, the one who promised him a son, the one Abraham worshipped and interceded before — that was Me. They picked up stones to throw at Him, because they understood exactly what He meant. He was claiming to be YHWH — the God of their fathers — standing before them in the flesh!
V. Jacob’s Mysterious Wrestler — “I Have Seen God Face to Face”
“So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, ‘It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.’” — Genesis 32:30
The night is dark, the river Jabbok is running cold, and Jacob — the schemer, the wrestler, the man who has spent his life grabbing and grasping — finds himself locked in a grip with a mysterious stranger. They wrestle until the breaking of dawn. The stranger touches Jacob’s hip and dislocates it with a single touch — yet Jacob will not let go. “I will not let you go unless you bless me,” he cries. And the stranger blesses him, and gives him a new name — Israel, meaning one who has striven with God.
And then Jacob names the place Peniel, which means the face of God, saying, “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” Not an angel. Not a prophet. Not a theophany from a distance. He saw God face to face and wrestled with Him through the night. And the One who touched his hip and broke it — the One who blessed him — the One who would not tell Jacob His own name — that was the pre-incarnate Christ, the Son of God, visiting His people centuries before the virgin of Nazareth ever heard the angel’s greeting.
VI. The Burning Bush — “I AM WHO I AM”
“God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.’” — Exodus 3:14
The bush burns and is not consumed. Moses turns aside to see, and the Angel of the LORD speaks to him from the fire — and then, suddenly, with no transition, it is not the Angel speaking but God Himself: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob” (Exodus 3:6). The Angel of the LORD and God speak as one voice, as one person. This is the consistent pattern of the Christophanies — the Angel of the LORD and YHWH are simultaneously distinct and identical. The pre-incarnate Son, the eternal mediator between God and man, speaking the very name of God because He IS God.
And when Moses asks for the divine name, the answer thunders across eternity: “I AM WHO I AM.” This is not merely a name — it is a declaration of existence itself. To be God is to simply and absolutely BE — without beginning, without end, without cause, without limit. And when the Son of God stood before the Pharisees in Jerusalem and spoke those two short syllables — “I AM” — before Abraham was — they heard it not as a grammatical curiosity but as the most explosive theological claim ever uttered on human soil. He was reaching back to the burning bush and saying: That was Me.
VII. The Psalms Ablaze with Christ
The Book of Psalms is not merely a hymnbook, beloved — it is a Messianic gallery, painting the portrait of Christ in colours so vivid and so precise that only a blind man could mistake the subject.
Psalm 2 opens with the nations raging against the LORD and His Anointed — the Hebrew word is Mashiach, Messiah — and God laughs at their futility and declares: “You are my Son; today I have become your Father. Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession” (Psalm 2:7-8). The Son is given the nations as His inheritance. He is to be kissed in homage lest He be angry — and His anger means ruin. No mere king of Israel was ever described in such terms. This is the divine Son of God, whose wrath and whose blessing carry ultimate, eternal weight.
Psalm 22 is perhaps the most staggering prophecy in all of Holy Scripture, written by David approximately one thousand years before the cross. Read it carefully and tell me it does not make the hair rise on your neck: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” — these are the very words Jesus cried from the cross (Matthew 27:46). Then: “All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads: ‘He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him’” — and Matthew 27:43 records the crowd saying exactly that at Calvary! And then this: “Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet” (Psalm 22:16). A thousand years before crucifixion was invented as a method of execution — before the Romans even existed as a people — David describes in precise physiological detail the death of his own descendant on the cross!
Psalm 45:6-7 bursts upon us with the brightness of lightning. This is a wedding psalm — a song of celebration for a Davidic king — and suddenly the psalmist addresses the king with words that would have been considered blasphemy if addressed to any mere man: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.” God. Not “O King.” Not “O my master.” O God. The Hebrew word is Elohim — the very title of the one true Creator. And then, extraordinarily, in the very next breath, the same figure is addressed as someone who has his own God — “You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions”. Here in one magnificent couplet is the seed of the whole doctrine of the Trinity — one divine person addressed as God, distinct from another divine person who is also His God. The writer of Hebrews removes all doubt when he applies this passage directly and explicitly to Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:8).
Psalm 110 is the single most quoted Old Testament passage in the entire New Testament. “The LORD says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’” (Psalm 110:1). David, the king of Israel — the man to whom all Jewish sons must show deference — calls his own future descendant “My Lord.” Jesus Himself used this psalm in Matthew 22 to stun the Pharisees into silence: “If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” The Son of David is also the Lord of David — because the Son of David is also the Son of God. And then Psalm 110 adds a second thunderclap in verse 4: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” Do you see it? The same mysterious eternal priest-king from Genesis 14 — the one without beginning of days or end of life — that eternal priesthood belongs to the Messiah. The writer of Hebrews devotes three entire chapters to expounding this staggering truth (Hebrews 5-7).
VIII. Isaiah — The Evangelical Prophet
No prophet sees Christ more clearly than Isaiah, and no book in the Old Testament is more saturated with the divine glory of the coming Messiah. It is not without reason that Isaiah has been called the Fifth Evangelist.
Isaiah 7:14 — “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” The sign is not merely a baby. The sign is the NAME of the baby — Immanuel. In the Hebrew tongue, Immanu means “with us” and El means God. Not “God-like.” Not “godly.” Not “sent from God.” GOD WITH US. God Himself — the infinite, eternal, uncreated Maker of heaven and earth — stepping into human flesh and dwelling among us. Matthew 1:22-23 makes the connection explicit, quoting this very verse as the prophecy fulfilled by the birth of Jesus. The sign is not merely miraculous — the sign is incarnation itself.
Isaiah 9:6-7 — And if 7:14 is the seed, then 9:6 is the flower in full bloom. Written seven centuries before Christ: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.”
Beloved, look at those titles. Wonderful Counselor — wisdom itself personified. Prince of Peace — the one who makes peace between God and man by His own blood. Mighty God — the Hebrew is El Gibbor, and this is not a title that could be given to any creature. Turn to Isaiah 10:21 and you will find the same title — El Gibbor — applied to YHWH Himself. Isaiah calls the coming child by the very same name he uses for God Almighty! And then — Everlasting Father. Everlasting — ad, from age to age, from eternity to eternity. No human being could wear that title for a single breath. This child was not born into eternity — He entered eternity because He IS eternal!
Isaiah 40:3 — “A voice of one calling: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’” John the Baptist quotes this very verse as the description of his own ministry (John 1:23). He is preparing the way — for the LORD. For YHWH. And who comes walking down that prepared road and into the river Jordan? Jesus of Nazareth. The road prepared for YHWH is the road that Jesus walks. Because Jesus is YHWH.
Isaiah 43:11 — God declares, “I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.” Only God saves. Salvation belongs to no one else. And yet — the New Testament declares on every page that Jesus saves. His very name means “The LORD saves” (Matthew 1:21). If only God saves, and Jesus saves, the conclusion is not complicated, beloved — Jesus is God!
Isaiah 44:6 — “This is what the LORD says — Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.” The first and the last — the Alpha and the Omega — the beginning and the end. YHWH’s exclusive title. And then open the book of Revelation and hear the voice of the risen Christ: “I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!” (Revelation 1:17-18). He does not merely use God’s title — He is the God whose title it is.
Isaiah 53 — The entire chapter is a portrait of Christ painted in blood and grief and glory. Written centuries before the cross — yet here is the Suffering Servant, despised and rejected, a man of sorrows. “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). The substitutionary atonement — laid bare in the Old Testament! And who bore our sins? Not a prophet, not a priest, not an angel — only God Himself could bear the infinite weight of human sin. The Servant of Isaiah 53 is the Son of God of John 3:16.
IX. Jeremiah — “The LORD Our Righteous Saviour”
“In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.” — Jeremiah 23:6
Here Jeremiah prophesies of the coming Davidic king — the Branch — and what is His name? YHWH Tsidkenu — the LORD Our Righteousness. Not merely the king who serves the LORD. Not merely the king appointed by the LORD. The king’s very name is YHWH. God’s own covenant name — the name so holy that the scribes of Israel would not even write it in full — is given as the personal name of the coming Messiah. Jeremiah is proclaiming that the King who is coming is not merely divine by appointment or by office — He is divine by nature. He is YHWH in the flesh.
X. Micah — Eternal Origins from Bethlehem
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” — Micah 5:2
The Hebrew at the end of this verse is nothing short of thunderous. “Whose origins are from of old” — the Hebrew words are miqedem and mime olam, and they mean literally from eternity, from the most ancient days, from a time so far back it is beyond calculation. This is not a man born in Bethlehem with a long genealogy. This is an eternal being who happens to be born in Bethlehem — because His origins are not in any human family tree but in the very eternal nature of God. Jesus is born at a specific point in history — but He does not begin at that point. He brings eternity into time when He enters the womb of Mary.
XI. Daniel — The Ancient of Days and the Son of Man
“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away.” — Daniel 7:13-14
This vision is one of the most magnificent in all of Scripture. Daniel sees two distinct divine figures — the Ancient of Days (God the Father, seated in blazing judgment) — and the Son of Man who approaches Him. Two persons, yet both divine. The Son of Man comes with the clouds of heaven — and throughout the entire Old Testament, coming on the clouds is an act reserved exclusively for God Almighty (Psalm 97:2, Isaiah 19:1, Nahum 1:3). No mere man, no angel, no created being rides the clouds. Only God does that. And yet here is a distinct person — like a son of man — doing precisely that.
And what does He receive? All nations worshipped Him. The Greek word used in the Septuagint translation is latreuō — divine worship. The same worship commanded for God alone in the Law of Moses. And Jesus, in His trial before the Sanhedrin, does not quote from the Psalms or from Isaiah to defend His claims — He quotes this specific vision: “From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matthew 26:64). The high priest tears his robes. Blasphemy! he cries. And in that tearing of robes lies the greatest irony in history — the high priest tore his garments because he understood perfectly that Jesus was claiming to be Daniel’s eternal, divine, cloud-riding, worship-receiving Son of Man. He was not wrong about what Jesus was claiming. He was simply wrong about whether it was blasphemy.
Daniel 9:24-26 brings us the most mathematically precise prophecy in the Bible. The angel Gabriel announces to Daniel: “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens’… The Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing.” The Hebrew word is Mashiach — the Messiah, the Christ. Sixty-nine weeks of years — 483 years — counted from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem, lands with remarkable precision on the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Written six centuries before Christ, this prophecy not only names Him Messiah but predicts His death and declares it must occur before the Second Temple is destroyed — which it was, in AD 70, precisely as Jesus Himself predicted. Beloved, this is not coincidence. This is God writing history in advance!
XII. Zechariah — God Says “They Pierced Me”
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child.” — Zechariah 12:10
I want you to feel the full force of this verse, dear reader. Who is speaking here? The chapter is God speaking in the first person — YHWH, the covenant God of Israel. He says: they will look on me, the one they have pierced. God is saying that He Himself will be pierced. And then, half a sentence later, the pronoun shifts to him — they mourn for him — as if God is simultaneously the one pierced and the one mourning. Here, buried in Zechariah five centuries before Christ, is the Trinity at the cross — the Father grieving, the Son pierced, and yet both spoken of as the same divine Being in a mystery no human language can fully contain.
And then John 19:37, as the soldier’s spear pierces the side of Jesus on the cross: “These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled… ‘They will look on the one they have pierced.’” John reaches back to Zechariah and completes the sentence. The YHWH who said “They will look on me whom they have pierced” — was Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross of Calvary. God was pierced. God bled. God died. Because that is the only sacrifice that could ever be sufficient for the sins of a world!
XIII. Malachi — The Lord Comes to His Temple
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come.” — Malachi 3:1
Malachi closes the Old Testament — and he closes it with a blazing promise. A messenger will come to prepare the way — we know him as John the Baptist — and then, suddenly, the Lord Himself will come to His temple. Not a king sent by the Lord. Not a prophet speaking for the Lord. The Lord Himself will come to His own temple. And every one of the four Gospels records Jesus doing exactly this — entering the Temple in Jerusalem and driving out the money changers, declaring: “My Father’s house shall be a house of prayer” (Luke 19:46). The Lord came to His temple. His name was Jesus. His Father’s house was that very house. And the final prophet of the Old Testament saw it coming four hundred years in advance!
XIV. Psalm 110 and the Eternal Priesthood
“The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’” — Psalm 110:4
We return once more to this inexhaustible psalm, because we must not skip this second declaration. The Messiah is not merely a divine King — He is an eternal Priest. And the order of His priesthood is not Aaron’s — it is Melchizedek’s. Remember that mysterious figure who met Abraham in Genesis 14, without genealogy, without beginning of days, without end of life? The Messiah holds the same rank — an eternal, undying priesthood, not inherited by birth, not terminated by death. Jesus died — and yet lives forever to intercede. He offered one sacrifice, once for all, and sat down (Hebrews 10:12) — because the work is finished. The eternal Priest made the eternal sacrifice and entered the eternal sanctuary, and He did so because He is the eternal Son of God!
XV. The Grand Conclusion — One Unbroken Testimony
Beloved, we have journeyed together through Genesis and Exodus, through the Psalms and the Prophets, through the visions of Daniel and the tears of Isaiah, and we have found — on every page, in every book, behind every sacrifice and every prophecy and every Christophany — one face. One name. One eternal Person.
He is the seed of the woman who crushes the serpent’s head (Genesis 3:15). He is the eternal priest-king Melchizedek (Genesis 14). He is the divine visitor who broke bread with Abraham at Mamre and whom Abraham himself saw and rejoiced (Genesis 18; John 8:56). He is the mysterious wrestler on the banks of the Jabbok whom Jacob could not overcome (Genesis 32). He is the I AM in the burning bush (Exodus 3). He is the one whose throne is forever and ever (Psalm 45). He is the David’s divine Lord at the right hand of the Almighty (Psalm 110). He is the Immanuel of Isaiah’s sign (Isaiah 7:14). He is the Mighty God and Everlasting Father of Isaiah’s prophecy (Isaiah 9:6). He is the LORD whose way John the Baptist prepared (Isaiah 40:3). He is the only Savior beside whom there is no other (Isaiah 43:11). He is the First and the Last (Isaiah 44:6). He is the pierced Servant who bears our iniquities (Isaiah 53). He is YHWH Our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6). He is the eternal one whose origins are from of old (Micah 5:2). He is the YHWH who says they pierced me (Zechariah 12:10). He is the Son of Man who comes on the clouds and receives divine worship (Daniel 7). He is the Anointed One cut off for His people (Daniel 9). He is the Lord who suddenly comes to His own temple (Malachi 3:1).
And then — in the fullness of time — He is the Word made flesh, dwelling among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).
Not one iota of this is coincidence, beloved. You cannot explain this by human genius. Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, Zechariah, Daniel — these men lived in different centuries, wrote in different circumstances, addressed different audiences — and yet with one voice, as if orchestrated by a single divine Composer, they all describe the same Person, the same character, the same saving work. There is only one explanation: “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). The Spirit of God was writing one great book about one great Person — and His name is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
The Old Testament is not a collection of ancient Hebrew literature. It is the biography of Jesus Christ written before His birth. And the New Testament is not the introduction of a new religion. It is the glorious unveiling of the One who had been walking through human history since the very first morning of creation.
Oh, let every soul that reads these pages bow the knee before Him! He is not merely a great teacher, not merely a moral example, not merely a martyred prophet. He is God Almighty, wrapped in human flesh, nailed to a Roman cross, risen from a Jerusalem tomb, and seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high — even as David saw Him in vision, even as Daniel beheld Him in his dream, even as Isaiah heard His voice and saw His glory (John 12:41) and fell undone before it.
The testimony of the whole Bible — from the first verse of Genesis to the last Amen of Revelation — sings with one magnificent, unbroken, triumphant chord:
Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
“To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy — to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.” — Jude 1:24-25