Faithful Redeemer

There is an entire backstory that we are missing. The New Testament provides us with great teachings on how to be all that we can be. In it we find out who God is, and what we must do to be saved. But many Christians spend too much of their time focusing on the New testament, often ignoring the Old Testament.

Simply reading the Old Testament is a lot like reading the climax of a book. The climax of a book is supposed to be the most exciting part. It answers all the questions the book has posed, and it is the final confrontation between the protagonist and the antagonist. The ending may be exciting, but the reader will never understand the importance of thew hole story by only reading the ending.

The Old Testament is still important today because it provides us with the full story. Books such as Exodus paint brighter pictures on the importance of Jesus as the redemptive figure. Mike Wilkerson writes, "How is it that we can hear the words that define hope and yet not hear the hope they offer? I think it's partially due to a lack of context. You can hear the climax of God's story -"Jesus is your redemption" -but a climax without context just doesn't pop."

Exodus picks up with Israel enslaved in Egypt. Then God walks in and redeems them. Israel found itself in the bondage of slavery again after the reign of the Kings of Israel and Judah, but God again came back to redeem His people. When we start putting the New Testament in the context of the Old Testament, we being to understand the great news of how faithful our Redeemer really is.

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