The Doctrine of Prophets defends Penal Substitution (Part four)

Christ referred to the law and the prophets concerning their witness to his death to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus: “And he said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:25-27). What did Jesus mean in Luke 24:27 that he expounded all the Scriptures concerning himself “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets”? In the follow-up statement in 24:44 Jesus explained that what he previously spoke from the Old Testament “the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms” was only what was “written about me.” Jesus probably preached the prophecies and the types from the Old Testament including Genesis 3:15, Psalm 22, and Isaiah 53 as well as the Passover Lamb in Exodus 12:5, the Rock that Moses struck in Exodus 17:6, and the Brazen serpent in Numbers 21:9. These anti-types are referred to in the New Testament in John 3:14-15, 1 Corinthians 5:7, and 1 Peter 1:19. Paul next in Romans three elaborated on the witness of the law and prophets to Christ’s death in Romans 3:21.

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