Round the Sphere Again: Christ
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 10:09AM 
In the Old Testament
Some guidelines to finding him there. (Dan Phillips at Pyromaniacs) Excerpting the last two points from a list of imperatives:
6. There is some way in which the plain sense of Old Testament Scripture points to Jesus, from all of its parts.
7. Yet this must be uncovered and expounded in such a way that still allows a city-name to be a city-name (Matthew 2:5-6), a kingdom-name to be a kingdom-name (Matthew 2:13-14), and a donkey to be a donkey (Matthew 21:1-5).
You will want to read the whole piece, where you’ll find the whole list and more.
In the Garden
Which is, you know, in the Old Testament, so I could have just dittoed the category above.
[F]rom the very beginning, man has tried to produce his own righteousness, and that from the beginning, God has rejected it, and has instead provided, by his grace and with his own hand, the covering we need.
Yes, Christ is there in Genesis 3. (The Thirsty Theologian)
And the Bellpocalpyse 2011
From Jared Wilson:
The idea that rejecting Christ while doing all sorts of charity — which the Bible calls self-righteousness, which is idolatry, which God forbids and for which he promises wrath — is still in keeping with the righteousness of Christ is ludicrous.
At the heart, says Jared, the issue is justification by faith.
In His Names
At The Octavius Winslow Archive:
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