And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Luke 24:27

Then after Jesus departed…

And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?" Luke 24:32

No doubt the greatest Bible study ever given was by Jesus to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. (v.27) Jesus taught them how Moses and the Prophets (another way of saying the entire Old Testament) predicted incredible details about the coming Messiah, who is Christ Jesus.

But Jesus taught another important lesson to them and to all students of the Bible throughout Church history. He taught us that virtually the entire Old Testament is about Himself. Jesus said as much in John 5:39-40, “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.”

Clearly the Old Testament is about Jesus. If only we all had eyes to see this more clearly.

Granted, we do not want to force Jesus into verses that are not truly about Him. For instance a random verse from the genealogies in 1 Chronicles are not explicitly about Jesus—except that they are part of the big story, which is about Jesus. We do not want to allegorize, or hyper-spiritualize the Bible to say what it is not saying. But neither do we want to miss what Jesus taught about the Old Testament: it is about Him!

Let us read the Bible to see Christ!
Errol

“Jesus on Every Page” by David Murray, published by Thomas Nelson is a wonderful book on this subject. I give it my highest recommendation!