First I want to apologize for any composition or spelling errors I assure you I will have as I write this blog. I did very well in math and arts but could never get above a C in writing. I’m not a scholar by any means and have never gone to Bible school. My purpose for this blog is not to try to persuade you into thinking a certain way, but simply a give myself a way to document what I believe God is showing me through my study of the written Word.  I hope you enjoy reading my journey into finding God and one thing I hope to do is pass along is a hunger to find the truth for yourself and do not leave your life in the hands of other men to find out for you. Men teach truth and error, but you are fully accountable to grasp the Lord yourself.  Anyway, enough introduction, here are some beginning thoughts…

One can really twist things up if they take the New and the Old Testaments and mash them together in one bowl. It is better if we separate them nice and neat and see the Old as picture of what is to come, that being the New. We can see from the New Testament that Paul refers to the Old many times to help paint a better picture of what now has come. He refers to those pictures as shadows several times and even allegories. It’s almost as if the Lord was acting out in history what was going repeat itself in the future. The Old, if it is a shadow or an allegory, it is a pointer to something of substance. That substance is found in the New Testament, namely Jesus and his kingdom.  Here are some example versus on shadows and allegories that I just mentioned:

²⁴These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. ²⁵Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. ²⁶But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Galatians 4:21-31

¹⁶Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: ¹⁷Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Colossians. 2:16, 17

¹For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, Hebrews 10:1

There are many O’sermons in these versus by themselves but I’m trying to show that the Old Testament is a picture of a future substance. Once I realized this it began to unlock so many things I never saw before in the Old.  I will go into many of these findings in the future. This simple key unwraps the whole lot. You start to see Jesus everywhere and how the Old is a rising song building and building until Boom! Jesus appears and fulfills 4000 years of history in one moment! No wonder the entire earth recognizes that switch from B.C to A.D.

Anyway, not too much meat yet, but at least you can tell that I’m excited about this. This is all for now.  Peace!