Each Gospel illustrates this one major theme, the dominant idea of fulfillment. And what we’re saying is that the Christ of the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. He is the subject of its pages in a unique way. Remember that Job in the Old Testament made a great discovery of God on one occasion and he wrote “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee” (Job 42:5, KJV). As one examines Jesus Christ in the Gospels one will be able to say, “We have heard about Jesus, a great deal by the hearing of the ears but now our eyes actually behold him in the pages of these Gospel accounts.” In fact, Jesus himself emphatically declares that all scripture speaks of him declaring, "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me" (Lk 24:44, KJV); and "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" (Jn 5:39).

This notion makes the New Testament the most vitally important book or series of books in the world—because they depict the most important person in the world, Jesus Christ. We could put it this way: taking the Old Testament all by itself, it would read very much like an unfinished symphony. Take for example the Pentateuch, the Torah, the Law as one reads through those first five books, studying that section for the very first time, one is struck with the prevalence of animal sacrifices. They appear on almost every page beginning back in the fourth chapter of Genesis and seen more clearly in Exodus, and Leviticus presents the organization of the offerings and rites and the ceremonies and the sacrifices and as one looks at all of these sacrifices of animals he might ask the question, “What are they for?” What is their purpose? Undoubtedly, they somehow point to realities outside of themselves. Yet nowhere in the Pentateuch are those animal sacrifices explained. Reading all the way through the rest of the Old Testament, the reader might become increasingly disappointed because in the Old Testament there are these unexplained ceremonies.