Wow. That was a lot of Bible. Genesis 1 – Exodus 15.
“It’ll probably not be the most “devotional” trip through God’s Word” – Those are the words Matt Henslee struck through on his blog after starting this regiment, and I would’ve done the same. Although I’m sure there are finer points and subtle nuances( is “subtle nuances” redundant?) that I missed, but looking at it from a Christ-centered perspective, I can see all sorts of things pointing to Jesus that I may have just glazed over before.
What most stuck-out to me was Joseph’s representation of the Christ to come. Joseph began serving directly under Pharaoh when he was 30 (The same age as Jesus, when he began his ministry). Genesis 45 : 5,7 & 8 says
5And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.” …” 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.”
Joseph tells his brothers that everything he endured, blessings and trials, were all in God’s plan to bring about “a great deliverance”. So it was with Jesus. God sent him, that he might save a remnant (those who would believe) for his Heavenly Father and give us life, rather than preserve it. I love it!
There is more detail there to me than I explained, but I digress…
I can’t wait to see what truths the Holy Spirit shows me throughout this study or what I’ll have to seek further study on.
If anyone has more to add to that please do, I am by no means an Old Testament scholar and my interpretation may be flawed, but I see Jesus clearly in that text.
