The Crimson Thread

While the spectrum of subjects and events presented in the Old Testament Scriptures is very broad indeed, there is a recurring theme that appears from the first chapter of Genesis to the fourth chapter of Malachi; that theme is God’s redemptive plan for lost mankind.  That plan has at its very center the person of God’s anointed one, His Beloved Son, the Messiah.

And so it is no surprise that a careful reading of this Biblical literature provides repeated glimpses of the One whose very name means “salvation,” and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Book of Psalms where the person and work of the Messiah are foretold centuries and centuries before His birth in Bethlehem.

In this episode of the series, “Songs of Jesus in the Tanach,” we consider two of these Messianic Psalms, Psalm 16 and Psalm 34, together providing an amazingly accurate description of a detail of Christ’s death on the cross and of His glorious resurrection on the third day thereafter, amazing to be sure when we realize that these “songs” were written a thousand years before the events to which they point.

Through it all can be seen the image of the One who willingly shed His blood in payment of the penalty of sin, not His sins, for He had none, but for the sins of those who would trust in His atoning work on the cross.  Truly it can be said that there is a crimson thread woven into the very fabric of the Old Testament Scriptures, something we will clearly see in this episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message, one we call “The Crimson Thread.”

“Holy Week” which culminates in Easter, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

What a perfect time to begin a study of six of the numerous Psalms which look into the future and point to Jesus and His redemptive work for mankind through His death, burial, and resurrection and which anticipate His ultimate reign upon the earth and through all eternity.

The first of these six Psalms to be considered is God’s declaration to the mightiest of earthly potentates that when His Son, His anointed One, the Messiah, arrives in glory, they will only have two choices—either bow the knee to Him in acknowledgment of His right to reign, or be vanquished.  The first choice will surely result in brokenness, while the second will surely result in blessedness.

So. . .let’s turn to Psalm two as we begin the series, “Songs of Jesus in the Tanach,” with this first episode entitled, “Bow or Be Broken!”

 

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