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and death and eternity. You are still left groaning with Job, “ Oh that I knew where I might find him.” In the ensuing writings of the prophets you find lofty ethics and most startling predictions, but they do not solve your spiritual quest. You end your third reading of the Old Testament equally aware that it is a book of unappeased longings. Yet even now you cannot finally forsake its pages, for in reading it you have yourself become an earn est seeker after reality. And besides, you have found in it a certain as tonishing phenomenon such as is found in no other religion or phi losophy under the sun. This unique feature has impressed you more each time you have gone through the book. It is the marvel of Old T e stam en t prophecy, especially prpphecy in the sense of prediction. There can be no surviving doubt as to genuineness. Boldly drawn, time-spanning, markedly detailed foretellings on Egypt, Assyria, Bab ylon and other mighty powers were hazarded and then fulfilled with such accuracy that any candid in vestigator must consent, “ This is the seal of the living God upon these Scriptures.” Moreover, the fulfilling of those prophecies guarantees the similar consummation of the many others which reach on into a more distant future. The main body of the Old Testament prophecy speaks as no other known literature about the future and garnishes it with the most compensating ultimate restitu tion. It all focuses in the idea that someone is coming who will be God’s answer to the cry of the ages. Away back in Genesis 3:15 the “ seed of the woman” is said to “ bruise the head” of the serpent. The promise of this “ seed” is re newed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in chapters 12, 22, 26 and 49. There are traces of it in all the succeeding Old Testament scrolls until, in Isa iah and his compeers, the stream of Messianic prophecy reaches flood- fulness. Yet when you reach Mal- achi again, although empires have perished and centuries have filed into antiquity and the seers lie in their graves, the promised One has not come. “ Behold, He shall come!” exclaims Malachi as he, too, the last
of the prophets, recedes behind the misty curtain of the past. But he must leave off there. And you close the Old Testament realizing that it is a book of unfulfilled prophecies. Yes, the Old Testament in its four successive compartments, i.e. the organizational, the historical, the philosophical, the prophetical is a hook of 1) unexplained ceremonies, 2) unachieved purposes, 3) unap peased longings and 4) unfulfilled prophecies. The Completed Masterpiece But now let us suppose that, hav ing thus read the Old Testament, you meet a Christian friend who persuades you to read the New Tes tament. What do you find? You read it once, twice, thrice and all the time you are discovering a book of c o r r e s p o n d in g fulfillments. The very first chapter of Matthew sings out the soon-familiar refrain, “ That it might be fulfilled . . . .” The Jesus who is to “ save His people from their sins” is lineally certificated right back to Boyal David and Pa triarch Abraham, through whom God’s two great “ covenants of prom ise” were made with Israel. His birth of the virgin immediately un locks the secret of Isaiah 7:14: “ Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord through the prophet, Be hold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Thereafter you read about the Jesus of the New Testament whose birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension are historically recorded in the Gospels, spiritually inter preted in the Acts and Epistles, and prospectively consummated in the Apocalypse. In His vicarious death and aton ing self-sacrifice, His resurrection and ascension, His present high- priestly ministry in heaven and His promised return, you see the un explained ceremonies of the Law suddenly flame into new meaning. They all point to Him — as for in stance the five different kinds of offerings in Leviticus, the tabernacle ordinances, the annual entering of the high priest into the Holy of Holies with covenant blood-sprin-
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