Foreshadows

Old Testament stories that echo the life of Jesus.

Genesis 2 God put Adam to sleep and opened his side to make his bride. On the cross, Jesus' side was opened too. The first bride came from the side of a sleeping man. The Bible's second Adam was opened in the side too. Read it → Around 1400 BC In the desert, Moses struck a rock and water poured out for a dying people. Paul says the rock was Christ. A rock struck in the desert gave water to a dying nation. Paul says that rock was Christ. Read it → John 19:34 John recorded a medical detail at the cross that doctors couldn't explain for 1,900 years. John recorded a detail at the cross that no one could explain for nineteen centuries. Then medicine did. Read it → Genesis 6 to 8 Noah's ark had one door, set in its side. Everyone who went through it was saved. One way of salvation, one door in its side, and eight people saved through the water. Read it → Around 1400 BC A scarlet cord in a window saved Rahab's family. She became an ancestor of Jesus. A red cord in a window, a whole family saved inside, and a foreign woman written into the family tree of Jesus. Read it → Around 1450 BC For 1,500 years, Israel killed a lamb at Passover. Jesus died at Passover, as the Lamb of God. A spotless lamb, its blood on the door, not a bone broken. For fifteen centuries, Israel acted out the cross every year. Read it → Around 1450 BC God gave Moses the blueprint for his house. Every piece of it points to Jesus, and the floor plan is a cross. God's own blueprint for the tent where he lived among Israel. Every piece is a picture of Jesus. Read it → Around 760 BC Jesus gave one sign to prove who he was. Jonah, three days in the belly of the fish. Of all the signs he could have offered, Jesus picked one. A prophet swallowed for three days, then brought back up alive. Read it → Around 1400 BC Moses lifted a serpent on a pole to save the dying. Jesus said it was a picture of his death. A serpent lifted on a pole saved anyone who looked at it. Jesus said it was a picture of the cross. Read it → Around 1450 BC On Israel's holiest day, one goat died and one went free. At Jesus' trial, the crowd made the same choice. Two goats, one sacrificed and one set free. Fifteen centuries later, two men stood before a crowd. Read it → Around 2000 BC Two thousand years before the Last Supper, a priest-king of Jerusalem brought out bread and wine. A king of Jerusalem who was also a priest of God, offering bread and wine two thousand years before the Last Supper. Read it → Around 2000 BC Abraham offered his only son on the same mountain where Jesus died. A father, his only son, wood carried up a hill and a ram in the thorns, on the same mountain as the cross. Read it → Exodus 33 to Matthew 17 Imagine the Transfiguration was not Moses visiting Jesus, but Jesus visiting Moses. Moses could not see God's face on Sinai. On the mountain of the Transfiguration, he stood face to face with Jesus. Read it → Genesis 37 to 50 Joseph's life is the life of Jesus, written 1,500 years early. Beloved son, betrayed for silver, between two condemned men, raised to the right hand, and named the saviour of the world. Read it → Matthew 27:51 The moment Jesus died, the curtain hiding God was torn in two, from the top down. The curtain that sealed off God's presence for centuries tore in two the moment Jesus died. Read it → Genesis 3 to Matthew 27 Thorns are the mark of the curse. Jesus wore them as a crown. The curse on Adam brought thorns into the world. Jesus wore them on his head. Read it →
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