How Nancy Guthrie Began to See Jesus in More Than Just Prophecies

How the Whole Bible Points to Christ For most of my life, if you had asked me if Christ was in the Old Testament, I probably would have pointed only to prophecies in the Old Testament that pointed to Christ. Perhaps the prophecy that he was going to be born in Bethlehem or ride into Jerusalem on a donkey. And, of course, maybe Isaiah 53, this picture where we see this suffering servant, and we can see so much of Jesus’s very real experience of his death in that. But it wasn’t until my mid-40s that I began to hear teaching and preaching that no matter where they were in the Bible, it always connected to Christ—to his person and work. And honestly, when I heard that, I thought, I think I need to go back to kindergarten in understanding how to read the Old Testament—because I didn’t see how people got there. Beholding Christ Nancy Guthrie Daily Bible reading introductions by Nancy Guthrie provide background, context, and perspective to guide readers into greater understanding of each day’s text as well as insight on how the passage uniquely reveals the person and work of Christ. Then I think my next step was to begin to see Jesus in types, in particular people, for example. We can see...