Let’s Chat: Pleased to Dwell 7

At least four thousand years in almost a thousand chapters of Hebrew Scripture. Then after four hundred years of heavenly silence marked only by a blank page, we come to the fulfilment of all that has gone before: Jesus, the Christ![1]

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Abraham, David, Exile. Human disaster after disaster, steadfast love and faithfulness again and again. The Old Testament was, in many ways, “Human failure, divine promise, our faithlessness, His loyalty, greater sin, greater promise….” The Old Testament is the story of how God never stayed quiet when everything was going to heck in a handbasket!

The Old Testament ends with a faithless wimper, but with God’s faithfulness still held out for the future. Four hundred years of silence and a blank page in our Bibles, but one thing is certain: the story was not finished.[2]

Jesus Christ was next! The same God who so relentlessly promised, condescending to undeserving people, would come, fully, Himself. Undiminished deity is a little human baby.

For four hundred years, God had said all He needed to say… until the Word Himself came.

Let’s Chat

How have you reacted when you’ve seen genealogies in the Bible – have they made you lose heart in the past? Have you gotten a new appreciation for them, or for why they are there? I have!

How do we normally see the Old Testament? How should we see it in light of God’s big plan?

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[1] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,

[2] Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell,