Near the end of Luke’s Gospel Jesus explains to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ‘…what was said in the Scriptures concerning himself’. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus also declares that he came not to abolish the law and the prophets but to fulfil them. Rather than this referring to the fulfilment of a few isolated prophecies, what Jesus meant by these sayings was that, with his coming, the whole of the Old Testament story was reaching its climax. Many Christians rather struggle with how to interpret and respond to the Old Testament and in the run up to Christmas we will therefore look at how the entire Old Testament – the Law, the History Books, the Wisdom Books and the Prophets - was all fulfilled in his coming.
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