Eschatology 101: The Victory of Messiah

Manny and Fred are the ones that told me about Jeff and He has had a tremendous influence on their lives, and we're so glad That these young men have given us a shot of new life in our midst and We always want to be as little children.

Humility Before God as Little Children

Jesus said I thank you father that you've hidden these things from the wise and the prudent and you have revealed them to babes. So we want the revelation of God we want to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and be teachable like little children, right?

This is the number one requirement. Jeff is the pastor of Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona. That's the suburb of Phoenix start of church with two families and three singles, right and It runs about a hundred now.

Somebody just gave him a free building That'll seat over 200 people. He has a ministry on the radio and is influenced internationally all over the world. That that program does. He was featured in in a series for the History Channel.

It was called the stone the stoned ages. It was about the subject of drugs and alcohol. And the radio station is called Apologia radio, so It's Apologia radio .com. So go on and listen to it. You can put on your podcast and we had a great time fellowship with him with him last night the elders and deacons and Great Sunday school lesson this morning.

And so I'm immediately after we dismiss this morning. We're gonna have a Q &A time that's going to be recorded on film. And they're gonna sit up here in two chairs. And so for those of you who want to stay behind after we dismiss come up towards the front and you can ask questions.

We're gonna have both both Bo and Jeff up here on the stage. Okay? Well, that's for the left behind yeah people left behind. Yeah, because the Bible does teach that the left behind like Noah got left behind, you know.

And it says in Isaiah, it says the remnant shall be called holy those that are left over.

Hi, I apologize about Manny and Fred by the way, so. Well, if I seem a little more relaxed than the Bible study It's because we usually don't have communion at my church before the message. So I see how you do that.

Prayer for God’s Blessing on the Message

Well, let's pray and ask God to bless the message. We have let's pray father. I want to pray Lord a you bless your people. God, I pray with all my heart Lord that you'd get me out of the way. That I would decrease you would increase that you'd bless this time.

We didn't your word God that you would speak by your spirit God and you would Change our hearts and minds encourage us Lord. I pray that people would leave here. They would forget me and remember Lord you and your gospel of your kingdom and that Lord you would ignite Lord within this generation a passion For the good news of the kingdom and I pray Lord you correct us get Lord your church on a course of correction and transformation where God where We focus on you and your kingdom.

We see you as you truly are Lord as reigning putting your enemies into your feet Lord. Let this not be about Lord theological combat alone in gymnastics God. But about just about the simple truth Lord that you are King you brought the kingdom Lord and you are reigning and that Lord you Are defeating your enemies and you Lord and history in victory in Jesus name.

Amen. Okay, turn to your Bibles. I'm not sure is it up? Yeah, we do have it. Okay good right on. Okay, so turn to your Bibles last chapter of the book of Acts. I'm going to give you By way of just springboard into this discussion Acts book of Acts last chapter.

The Kingdom of God in Acts 28

Just to notice something that occurs at the end of the book of Acts guys really important to pay attention to and it was something for me that was Challenging because I came to Christ later on in life wasn't raised in a Christian home.

And when I did go to Bible College, it was a Bible College that's I fit right in. I mean Tim LaHaye was my homeboy Jerry B Jenkins how Lindsay used to watch how Lindsay every night he came on. I I was a fanatic about end time stuff.

I was an absolute fanatic. I was I was freakish about it. I would scare my wife I would go to this bookstore just to get a copy of the Jerusalem Post to see what new stuff was happening in Jerusalem. Hey, look, they got the red heifer in in Jerusalem and the foundation like they've got that and like, you know.

They're gonna build the temple again, and I was excited and and you know. What those helicopters like that's the locusts of Revelation and and I was just a fiend and going to Bible College. It's all I understood about eschatology was this view of the future that's ultimately pessimistic that we the church is defeated in history that essentially we get beat up and Jesus is going to come back to rescue a Defeated church that we're going to be secretly raptured away only to leave behind seven years of tribulation where two-thirds of the Jews are slaughtered and then Jesus comes back and There's a thousand-year kingdom reign of Christ physically on the earth and and that was my view of the future that's all I thought that there was and so the the idea in the in the scriptures of the gospel of the kingdom that's just heralded in the New Testament and the fact that the book of Acts ends with the Apostle Paul in the Discussion about the things of the kingdom was something that was it took it jolted me.

It was it was a jolting moment for me in my own walk with Christ to see like it's not about just a theological Position, you know, what's theological team? Are you on are you on mill? Are you post mill?

Are you pre mill? Yeah, like, you know, whatever it wasn't just that it's just that the Bible has a relatively simple story about the fall about redemption about a kingdom and about God's victory over the world and I think that as Christians were missing a big part of the story in our culture and that missing part of the story is At least in some respect an answer as to why we are so ineffective in this generation as Christians.

We've lost the big part of the story. It's the good news about the kingdom that Christ has brought and so I'm going to just show you that happening in the book of Acts if you go to acts again 28. There's many places you can see this in but acts 28 verse 23.

Interesting moment. About the Apostle Paul. It says after arranging a day with him and he came to him at his lodging from dawn to dusk. He expounded and witnessed about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them concerning Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

Some were persuaded by what he said, but others did not believe. That's a is powerful to see that here's Paul the Apostle and It's interesting because Paul preached forgiveness and salvation, right? He did that He would be in a city and he would proclaim repentance and faith.

He'd tell the story of Jesus. He's the Messiah. He died. He was buried. He rose again. And he would say all who come to him have forgiveness and salvation. Believe in Christ repent and believe and there's that message in that call for forgiveness and salvation that Christians Generally are pretty decent at telling Jesus is the Savior.

He died. He was buried. He rose again repent and believe and it's amazing that We see here in the book of Acts that Paul didn't just simply have a message of salvation and forgiveness for individuals he was teaching people and he took opportunity to teach people about a Significant part of God's story in Revelation and that is something that we're missing a lot today.

And that is the good news of the kingdom notice that Paul says that from dawn to dusk He expounded and witnessed about the kingdom of God. Where is that story today? Where is it being taught? Church of the King that's where it's being taught.

I know I'm saying no, okay. I Mean, this is I mean, it's a peculiar thing. Listen, I it's you know, weird you guys are you strange people you are. It is a church. That's post-millennial reformed the on a theonomic.

You're an odd bunch and I like you. It's it but it's an amazing thing. And it's not so much. What makes this church? I think really powerful and exciting for me as a young guy. That's post-millennial reformed theonomic what makes it exciting for me is not so much that hey, this is cool.

You're part of my club. We're in the same club that club had guys like Greg Bonson and Rush Dooney. And so yeah, awesome Jonathan Edwards and wonderful work. We have a good club going on with some Giants.

It's not that. What's exciting about a church like this is that you have an emphasis where the Bible has an emphasis. You haven't lost it and that is that you expound from dawn till dusk the truths about the kingdom of God the reign of Christ and I want to show you again in the same chapter just go a little bit further down to the last verse in the book of Acts it cannot be an accident.

Brothers and sisters, it cannot be an accident the Bible and the book of Acts ends with this. As the last few verses then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. This is Paul, by the way, and he welcomed all who visited him proclaiming what?

The kingdom of God and teaching The things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with full boldness and without hindrance. I want to say that it's amazing and powerful. They've been Jesus walks into his ministry in the book of Matthew Mark Luke.

You see Jesus talking about repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. You see Jesus talking about the gospel of the kingdom. The book of Acts ends after it tells us the story of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the church and the gospel going out.

Paul's missionary journeys and the persecution and the victories and the Tragedies and all that's going on that the Bible talks about the kingdom the kingdom the kingdom it was on their lips. Constantly from dawn till dusk and everything else is the gospel of the kingdom the gospel of the kingdom the gospel of the kingdom and We are missing that today.

You see by how do we change things? What's gonna go on? Do we just need to try harder? I want to say that I think the cancer in The church today is that we've lost This beautiful part of the whole story.

It's good news. Not just about your own private individual salvation before God, of course, that's true. As I've said before give me the t-shirt. I'll buy the bumper sticker. I'll wear it. I'll put it on my car.

Salvation in Christ. Amen, and that's a major part of the story. But we are missing something entirely important that in the Bible is a central theme. It's the good news about his kingdom and I think the reason why we've missed it is that we're so wrapped up in Self-absorbed thinking.

There are more excited about our own story than his story. This is important. If you want to think about the fact that we've got before us. Something astonishing the Bible is God's revelation. God has condescended.

He has walked among us. God has revealed himself to us you you listen young people children in the room. You have something spectacular. It's not just the writings of a madman with false prophecies. A Book that changes with time ebbs and flows throughout history.

You've got before you the revelation of God the true and living God the one who has no beginning and no end. He's the first and the last. There's no gods before him or after him. He knows all things decrees all things.

He spoke into nothing and out of nothing sprang. Everything that he called into existence. This is the God who carries eternity to its destination. He is all-powerful. There's no there are no maverick molecules in the universe and this is his revelation that he has deposited into history so that you can know him.

That's his revelation. 66 different books and letters over a thousand years of composition. God has spoken and he has a story a revelation of history. He is sovereign. He decrees the end from the beginning.

He works all things the Bible says after the counsel of his will. No one can stay his hand and say what have you done? What are you doing? He is all-powerful and does according to his will the Bible says in the host of heaven and We miss this part.

We say oh, yeah, Jesus is he's God over Neverland, right? Like he's in charge in heaven, but not here the Bible says he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth.

He's all-powerful. He declares the end from the beginning and Christians can actually say something like Romans 8 28 God causes what all things what things some things kind of things all things. To work together for good.

He is sovereign and he has a story of where history is going. Listen, the fact that Christians can even talk about history going somewhere is something that should shock you. You should be excited and like hooting and howling.

This is Texas, right? Right about the fact that God is sovereign over history. Listen, and I'm gonna talk to the young people in here very very Directly you have something powerful. You have something powerful that you have a story that history is going somewhere the unbelieving world doesn't have that.

History for them is either in cycles or it's chaos. It's just stuff moving throughout history and the world believes that you know. We came from the goo to you fish to philosophers stuff like out of nothing something came.

They're not supposed to believe in miracles, but that's pretty astonishing. History is not going somewhere. It doesn't have a goal or an aim. The fact that we even think like that is showing that our country the people around us that have been trained in a secular Worldview haven't been able to shake the residual Christianity that's on them.

History is going somewhere. That's a story from God. He's in control history has a climax and that is something that Christians own and it should excite you. But I want to say something about that revelation the fact that God has told us history and where it's going is awesome.

You have hope guaranteed assurance as to what's coming in front of us as Christians and thus you have every reason to lay your life Down for the gospel you have every reason to die for the gospel. You have every reason to sacrifice everything for the gospel.

You have every reason to seek first his kingdom above everything else because you know the end of the story. You do but here's what's wrong today in our culture. And when I say our culture, I mean our Christian culture is That God has this story of history and it is a symphony.

It is a symphony and heard together. It is beautiful. It is majestic. It is powerful. It will give you goosebumps. Inspires you makes your heart flutter entirely but the the amazing thing about this symphony is That it's built to play together and it has a Climax to it and our problem today is that we have stripped that symphony of its climax.

We have stripped the symphony of a third of the players. We have this music playing and don't get me wrong, it's beautiful parts. Don't get me wrong. We talk about salvation and forgiveness and the Trinity and everything going on in God's sovereignty.

Powerful play that music. Play it let it be heard. It's powerful, but we are missing a third of the instruments. We're missing the part where the story starts to climax and you start to get tears filling your eyes and your heart pounds.

And you get goosebumps. We've missed the part of the story that this is not just good news of salvation and forgiveness. It's good news of the kingdom of God the rule and reign of God in history and his Messiah.

We've missed it and the story starts to sound stunted. It doesn't have its climax. There's not quite the peak. It's not that the instruments playing are wrong. They are right, but we're missing the part of the story.

You've either turned it down or turned it completely off in our culture and we wonder why? We are impotent. It's not that God isn't ruling and reigning. It's not that God is not going to have victory in history.

It's that his people today are losing that part of the story. That God has placed in the story and that gives his people hope and it gives them direction. Listen, I had Douglas Wilson on my radio show once and he simplified it.

I love how I always simplifies things for me. He said listen ultimately Jeff you hit what you aim at if you believe and I'm going to switch to the slide here if you believe. That history is ultimately ending in chaos for the church.

Jesus came. Kind of sort of kind of in a way brought the kingdom. But ultimately the church is defeated in history. Jesus comes back to secretly raptured away for tribulation on earth where there's an Antichrist figure and locusts and bees and It's just a terrible mess on earth.

If you believe that and Jesus comes back for a defeated church, then you don't do a lot in history to fight. Because the worse it gets The better be honest it is for us and this is coming from a guy that used to believe it.

I used to wish myself under rapture. It was hilarious. The left-behind books, I loved it. I can remember distinctly believing oops that the rapture was coming in any moments and I was reading the left-behind series.

It was Arizona. It was summertime. I was in I was at a pool. And I was outside of the pool. I'm not reading left-behind series. I remember I finished the left-behind series and I closed the book and I put it down.

I was like, yes. Yes. Yes. Rapture rapture and I remember I was laying on that thing. I was like No, no, no. No, no. No, you see where the focus goes it's entirely on escaping and Every time I when I believe that view of history, which I did not get from the Bible I got it from these books and my professors that taught it to me and Every time things would get bad in the world.

I can distinctly remember thinking Maranatha come quickly Lord Couldn't wait to get raptured away things get bad around me and my view wasn't be salt be light have victory over this Fight bring the good news into this situation lay your life down for this situation.

Bring transformation and light to this situation. My thought was at any moment. We're getting out of here. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. And then when God corrected me in his word about the good news of the kingdom and his victory in history I began to fight.

That's how it changed me. Listen. It's not about just having people on your on your your theological team. It is not simply about having a particular view. You're like, what are you all mill post mill pre mill?

I'm pan mill. It'll all pin out in the end kind of a you know, all those guys. It's not about a team. It's not about a title over you. It's not about that. Yes, there happens to be a title post millennialism.

So what? So what it's a story of God's kingdom and history and his reign and rule in his victory. Let's get to that. Let's next slide. We are post millennial. Let me read it to you. Just a quick definition.

I gave Jesus the Messiah brought the expected kingdom on time and as planned He is seated and reigning now. His kingdom will grow in history through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The world will experience the transformational blessings the peace with God brings. Jesus will return for the resurrection of the just and the unjust after after all his enemies are Put under his feet in victory.

The last enemy is death. Now notice something every Christian we all agree on the non us on the non essentials. I'm sorry on the essentials on the non essentials. We have disagreements, but every Christian believes that ultimately at the end of history into eternity.

Jesus is victorious. Amen. Everyone does so even if you're pre male on male. There's no question every Christian believes that on each in eternity. Jesus is victorious over sin. Amen. Amen. Amen. But but but but but there is a distinct view known as post millennialism.

That says that Jesus's kingdom and his reign and victory is something that actually happens within earth's History before he returns for the resurrection that Jesus is actually victorious at the end of history before the resurrection.

People will be able to look back and say look what God did. He is victorious and then the resurrection. That's what history because I look like and I want to basically I have so much to say I will keep you here for six hours.

I would love to but I can't so I'm gonna do my best To give you a brief overview. I cannot Give you everything you need to know in one sermon. But I want to at least touch some important subjects from my heart that I want you to hear and the first point I want You to get is that we cannot forget next line here that God is the king.

God as King Over His People and the World

Amen and Every Christian every Christian should affirm that every Christian should say well, yeah, God is the king, right? But there's a distinct part of this that is just majestic as part of the story.

You need to hear this. This is very powerful. It's something besides all the verses that strikes me as the most powerful moment. I think of the New Testament Teaching about who Jesus is is it's not just a story of salvation and Jesus redeeming and rescuing a loss.

But it's the story of God Taking his rightful place as king over his people and over the world. It's when God became king over his people as a man ruling and reigning. It's a powerful story. And so you remember the story 1st Samuel chapter 8 chapter 11 the people of Israel like we want a king.

We want a king like the other nations. We want a king to rule over us. We want a king and what's the amazing thing is Samuel like was like that's sinful. I Use I perceive that as sinful. That's a very light way of saying that.

That's that's a sinful thing for you to desire a king like the other nations have that's how unbelievers think. They want a physical guy in a physical throne to rule over them and to tell them what to do.

But Israel had God as their king. They didn't need an earthly king and some guy Dictating to them what was law and what wasn't and ruling and reigning they had God as king. And so when they said we want a king like the other nations.

It's an amazing thing. Samuel's like oh, that's sinful and God says right Give him their king, but let them know that these consequences are gonna follow. He's gonna tax you. He's gonna take your kids to war.

He's gonna do this and it sounds kind of like today in America. The consequences of a human king over you taking God's position of authority in your lives as God's people has major Consequences and God basically tells Samuel listen, they're not resisting you.

They're resisting me because I'm their king. But go ahead give them their king know this when Israel got a king it was a curse on them all right, I'll give you what you want and the glory of this story is that Despite their sin despite that God worked in history to bring about his story of redemption and entered Jesus the son of David the promised descendant of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.

Jesus comes in God takes on flesh to represent his people to save them to fulfill all that was said About him and the amazing thing is is that he is the king of kings. The Lord of Lords and this is powerful.

Did you do you think this? Do you when you hear the story first of all, that's amazing. When you say king of kings Lord of Lords Christians go you just get like whoo. Yeah, right king of kings Christians go.

Yes, because it just sounds so powerful because it is but I used to think when you would say king of kings Lord of Lords. It's like Jesus amongst the other kings. He's like he's king kind of king like amongst like Kings.

He's the king of the Kings like, you know over them. He's kind of like the best one of them, right? There's kings and there's Lords and Jesus is like the best. Right, and the truth is it's so much more transcendent and deeper than that Jesus as king of kings means he is king over them.

They are kings who answered to him when he's he's a Lord of Lords. He is Lord over the earthly Lords. He's not like them in the same category as them sort of like them, but better he is owner king authority over all.

That's the story when we say Jesus is king of kings and we've lost that part of the story. We need to turn that part of the orchestra up. So we can actually have that story impacting our culture and so We cannot forget that God is king a couple points.

I want you to get as an overview I'm not gonna touch all these so don't freak out when you see the next slide victory theme in Moses a couple things about victory I'm gonna tell you about one is the victory theme in the Old Testament in Moses.

Second is in the Psalms. The third is in the prophets. Okay. Now you can go ahead and write these verses down. I am NOT gonna go through all of them today. We're gonna be here till tomorrow, which I'm fine with but you may sleep.

Victory in Moses: The Protoevangelium, Covenant, and Promise of the Lamb

So Victory theme in Moses couple points. Number one Moses talked about Jesus. Jesus said that by the way He tells the Jews of his day if you believe Moses you would believe me because he wrote about me now.

That's an audacious claim Moses. Moses wrote about Jesus. Jesus if you believed him you'd believe me because he wrote about me. That is crazy. And for those of you guys that come in like naturally skeptical and you're questioning.

That's a good thing. You should be questioning. You should ask those deep questions. It should blow your mind that the story of Jesus is not something we say. Hey, we really like Jesus. We think you should come up kind of come along with us.

Jesus is saying this whole story is about me all this everything around you is about me bringing me glory and Moses that hero Moses. The lawgiver that Moses he wrote about me when you read him you're reading about me my story.

That's powerful. Moses recorded the proto-evangelium. That's the Genesis 315. It's a story where what the fall enters Adam Eve fall and God amazingly talks to Satan. That's powerful. Not first to the sin breaker the the covenant breakers and the sinners.

He promises immediately Genesis chapter 3. He says the serpent's head will be crushed and The woman's seed he's gonna bruise his heel. It's a powerful thing that God is right away telling us a story of Jesus if you didn't get it.

You need to hear it the fall enters in a garden. They're with God in a garden image bearers of God and they're naked and they're good with it and They sin against God. Death enters. God says to them the woman's seed will come and crush the head of the serpent deliver the death blow if You get your head stepped on.

That's a death blow and notice that this it's a simultaneous action in history. God says that the woman's seed is going to crush the serpent's head simultaneous action. But be bruised in the process be wounded in the process.

Notice, it's the woman's seed not the man's seed. What do you have there? It's a picture right away of the virgin birth and that day you referred to Offspring as the man's seed not the woman's seed. So the woman's seed is pointing to Jesus of the virgin birth but it's a simultaneous action in history that's going to crush the serpents head and Going to wound the seed that is going to bring life.

Adam and Eve are naked and they deserve to be ashamed and naked and exposed in that garden and Amazingly God has that first innocent for guilty sacrifice that day. I have to confess I missed it for many years in my walk with Christ.

The first animals die innocent for guilty and God covers Adam and Eve's nakedness and they're cast out of the garden and Amazingly, the story is so beautiful. So majestic here comes Jesus the perfect Representative of his people the second Adam he represents his people and where does Jesus die in a garden?

Where was he buried in a garden tomb? Where did he conquer death in a garden? Jesus was righteous and blameless and what he died naked and shamed. God says to Adam and Eve the ground itself is gonna bring forth thorns.

To display the curse over all the earth even. And here comes Jesus the second Adam dying taking death. Where Adam and Eve should have took that final death and he was naked and shamed not covered and he wore on his head.

The thorns the display the very symbol of the fall of humanity. Jesus Conquers death in a garden and it's amazing. Adam died in a garden was cast out. Jesus conquered death in a garden and I got to say this to you.

This is a picture thing here. Very beautiful about God's victory in history. Adam and Eve died in a garden. They had fellowship with God there. They were told to take dominion over the earth and subdue it.

They sinned. They were cast out. Jesus comes in. He comes in. He conquers death in a garden and it's amazing. The women come. It's never trippy out. The women come and they're like, you know, he's gone.

He's gone. He's gone. Where's Jesus at? And they see someone and it's amazing. That she mistook Jesus. For whom? The gardener. It's not an accident that John records that she had mistaken Jesus for a gardener.

And this is a big part of the story that John knew the early Christians knew or missing today. Jesus Told death take that came out of that tomb in a garden and he for some odd reason is mistaken for a gardener.

Listen why. Cuz he was standing there. She's like he's standing. Oh, you're a gardener. No, why would she think he's a gardener? Because he was working the grounds and She thought he was a gardener. What the first thing the Son of Man is doing after he defeats death in a garden.

Where is where it came in? Is he starts to work on the grounds? And She thinks he's a gardener. Because when Jesus defeated death in the resurrection, he begins the process of making all things new. That's where history is going.

Next point. Moses recorded the first sacrifice. Third. Moses recorded the Dominion mandate. Adam and Eve were told to take Dominion over the earth and That is not by the way stricken from the record. That's a command.

Moses recorded the covenant with Noah. That he wouldn't destroy the whole earth again with a flood. Moses recorded the covenant with Abraham. Genesis chapter 12 15. And what did he tell Abraham that through your seed?

He's gonna bless all the earth. And God tells Abraham look up. Look, look, so shall your descendants be. Look at the stars can't even count them. Your seat you like the descent like the sand of the sea.

That's a lot of stars. That's a lot of sand. He gets the whole point driven there is you can't even count this. You can't even understand how much I'm gonna bless. That was the promise is. Listen. Covenant.

Covenant is the foundation of what we believe about history. God made a covenant with Abraham that his descendants would be numerous more numerous than the stars. Next point. We cannot forget the covenant with David the Davidic covenants.

That David would have an offspring a king. Next Moses recorded the promise of the Lamb. Genesis 22. Amazing parts of the story. Amazing part of the story. Abraham. This is your son your only son the son of your love.

Take the son of your love the one that he was gonna bless. The whole world through. Take the son of your love. Go to the place of the sacrifice and Abraham goes. It's a three-day journey. Three days to get to the place of the sacrifice.

All these things pointing to the Messiah and redemption with Abraham. Here's Isaac the son of his love his only son the son of the promise and he takes a three-day journey and Isaac. His son the promised one the son of his love is carrying the wood to the place of the sacrifice.

It's a three-day journey. It wasn't down the street. It's not like Abraham God said Abraham take your son right there right there kill him right there right there. Three days to get to the specific spot.

His son his only son the son of his love carries the wood to the place of the sacrifice and Isaac gets there with his dad his father. He like here's the the sacrifice of the fire. Where's where's the lamb.

Listen to the question? Where's the lamb. And Abraham says to his son God will provide for himself the lamb my son. Listen to it. It's like 1 ,500 years before Christ this is up. It's amazing. And so he has a son the son of a prize the promise the son of his love.

Lays him down goes to slam the angel. Lord says no. No, no, no. Don't do it. And then they see a ram. Not a lamb caught in a thicket and a sacrifice and Abraham names a place. This is the place the Lord will provide it and it was about 1 ,500 years later that God gave his son his only son the son of his love.

The wood to carry to the place of the offering and it was at that place that Abraham had gone to offer son Isaac. That Jesus died for the sins of his people and God did not withhold his hand from his son that day and it was at the place that God promised to provide it and God did provide the Lamb of God who takes away the Sin of the world.

Moses pointed to Jesus and told the whole story of victory in this Messiah. Moses recorded the foreshadowing of the temple priests and sacrifice can't go into it all today. But the Bible tells you the entire picture of Jesus before he comes.

Everything necessary to know Jesus is written in the Bible before he comes. Listen. I was talking to a Jewish girl years ago and her parents were immigrants from Israel and She she came to me and she said listen Jeff.

I'm Jewish. I'm not a Christian Jewish. I don't believe in Jesus. I said cool. She goes, but I want to talk to you. I said, okay I said I'll tell you what I'm gonna tell you about Jesus and I'm gonna use only that's not gonna Torah to do it.

Only the books that you see a scripture the ones that you kiss at synagogue and she was like I dare you try it. So we spent two weeks talking together about Jesus from just using the Old Testament scriptures the Tanakh and the Torah.

It's where I stayed and after two weeks she calls her mom. And she says mom. I think I'm starting to believe in Jesus and Her mom says no, no, no. No, we're Jews. We don't believe in Jesus. We don't do that.

And she said mom this guy I'm talking to is only talking to me from our books. That's enough the Torah the old that he's only using that I think I'm. Is there any good reason? To believe that Jesus is not Messiah any reason.