ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
"WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS" 3:21
God had this redemption in mind from the beginning. Moses represented the law, and he depicted this righteousness in direct prophecy and in shadow and type. He wrote of the coats of skins which God provided for Adam and Eve. He recorded God's first promise of the Redeemer, "the seed of woman" (Gen. 3: 15). It was Moses who first wrote, saying that Christ should come through the nation of Israel and through the tribe of Judah. (See Gen. 12:3; 49:10.) It was Moses who told us all the symbolism of the Jewish tabernacle which was so wonderfully typical of the Person and work of Christ. We can not begin to name all the ways in which the righteousness of God was "witnessed by the law"; but we do want to remember, in this connection, that our Lord Himself bore testimony to this truth when He said to the Jews: "Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me" (John 5:46). The righteousness of God in Christ was also "witnessed by ... the prophets," all of whom had one testimony concern~ ing the coming Messiah, just as Peter said in the house of Cornelius: "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins" (Acts 10:43). Stephen also said, before he was stoned, that "the prophets ... shewed before of the coming of the Just One" (Acts 7: 52). David, conscious of the blackness of his sin, wrote, say~ ing, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow" ( Psa. 51: 7). Isaiah, Jere~ miah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the minor prophets taught this fundamental truth, that sinful man needs a Saviour. All of the prophets pointed on to the coming Messiah. Peter, James, and John, on the Mount of Transfiguration had this truth presented to them as they saw the Lord Jesus [.Page 49
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