[[A Survey of The Life and Teachings of Jesus]]

© L.D. Underwood 2010and R.C. Jones 2020

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="Blue">B: There Additionally, looking at the Bible from another perspective, there appear to be six divisions of the Bible which correlate with the six days of creation as a kind of table of contents. The Gospels correlate to the fifth day of creation, and the letters to the sixth.Without getting too specific here, the basic outline for these divisions is:

::Day 1: Light (a symbol of Holiness) correlates to the pericope beginning with Genesis 2 through Chapter 5.::Day 2 Waters correlates to the Story of Noah through Chapter 11.::Day 3 Dry ground correlates to Abram and his sons who were like the dust of the earth, through the story of Israel in the wilderness.::Day 4 Lights in the firmament correlates with Israel in the promised land which has a sensus plenior story of how Christ makes his bride to be like him. ::Day 5 Life from water/word correlates to the life of Christ.::Day 6 The man and his bride correlates to the man and his bride being fruitful and multiplying.

Day 2:Days 5 and 6 are Waters correlates to the subject Story of the New TestamentNoah through Chapter 11.

<Day 3: Dry ground correlates to Abram and his sons who were like the dust of the earth, through the story of Israel in the wilderness. Day 4: Lights in the firmament correlates with Israel in the promised land which has a sensus plenior story (i.e. a deeper meaning) of how Christ makes his bride to be like him. Day 5: Life from water/font>word correlates to the life of Christ. Day 6: The man and his bride correlates to the man and his bride being fruitful and multiplying. Days 5 and 6 are the subject of the New Testament. (Jones)  In summary, the arrangement of books of the Bible are not in chronological order (although Bibles with chronological arrangement do exist); but rather they are ordered by sections of emphasis. In order to deal with a particular time-frame, we need to bring all those books that cover that same time period into balance. There is a definite pattern--a definite structure to the books as we have in both the Old and New Testament. So when studying the Gospels, we are essentially looking at four of the historical books of the New Testament. =Fulfillment=

ThusIf the dominant idea of the New Testament could be put in to one word, it would be the books are not word ‘fulfillment’. Each Gospel account illustrates this characteristic concept. For example, Matthew has the phrase, “That it might be fulfilled.” He repeats that word about twelve times in chronological orderhis gospel. Additionally, but rather they are ordered by sections his first recorded public discourse of emphasis. In order our Lord, Matthew reports, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to deal with a particular time-framedestroy, we need but to bring all those books that cover that same time period into balancefulfil" (Mt 5:17, KJV). There is a definite pattern--a definite structure to the books as we have Or in both the Old and New Testamentan earlier verse: “And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so when studying now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness (Mt 3:15). Matthew uses that word ‘fulfillment’ quite frequently from the GospelsGreek πληρόω (plēroō) meaning “to fill; make full.” <ref>Wesley J. Perschbacher, we are essentially looking at four of the historical books of the ''The New TestamentAnalytical Greek Lexicon'' (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1990), 332.</ref>

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color= ="blue">B: I think I probably take a more extreme view of this, and would say that everything in the New Testament is there because it is in the Old. It's not just a cute story that Jesus was teaching in the temple as a boy, but a fulfillment of the sensus plenior pericope of Ge 14.

Secondly:When Mark wrote Mr 14:65, if the dominant idea of the New Testament could be put in to one wordhe had not yet remembered, or did not know, it would be the word ‘fulfillment’that those who tormented Jesus also mocked him because he was blindfolded and Jesus didn't know their identities. Each Gospel account illustrates this characteristic conceptThey knew he could perform miracles and were likely afraid that he may strike them with a curse. For example, When Matthew has wrote Mt 26:68 he had been reminded of the phrase, “That it might be fulfilleddetails by Isaiah.” <ref>[[Isa 53:3]] He repeats that word about twelve times in his gospel. Additionally, his first recorded public discourse is despised and left alone of men; a man of our Lordsorrows, Matthew reportsand acquainted with grief, “I came to fulfil” Again, “thus it becometh us to fulfill.” Matthew uses that word ‘fulfillment’ quite frequently and like one from the Greek πληρόω (plēroō) meaning “to fillwhom [men] hide their faces; make full — despised, and we esteemed him not.”1</ref>

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: I think I probably take Matthew need not have been there as a more extreme view witness to the beating, not does he require omniscience to know of this, it. Ten or fifteen years had passed and would say it is likely that everything in the New Testament is some who were there because it is in got saved and came forward to tell the Old. It's not just a cute story that Jesus was teaching in the temple as a boy, but a fulfillment of the sensus plenior pericope of Ge 14.

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).

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: When Pater declared Jesus to be the Messiah, Jesus said that all the scriptures spoke Father told Peter that; yet Peter had no recollection of him, so we will look for him everywhere, not just where a divine intervention. The Father works quietly behind the NT authors say "look here!"scenes; neither seen nor heard. They speak in examplesWith the help of God, not in exhaustive listsPeter correlated what he knew of teh OT with what he saw Jesus doing. </font>

And that 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. One 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. And yet 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.

Examining :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="green">David: This is interesting. Which Rabbis in particular posit that scriptures are full of riddles and subsequently cannot provide answers to the historical books Joshua through Ester, riddles?</font> :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B:The most well-known allusion to it is quite clear that God has prepared a chosen people. God is developing in ''Fidler on the Jewish people into a nationRoof''. Essentially a theocracy—meaning ruled by God. As this covenant people invades and occupies Tevye wonders about the land riddle of Canaan one can picture the future of this fledgling nation as just full of possibilitieslife an though he is a 'rev' finds no answers in his book. That Here is Joshua. By an article which assumes the time we read book of Judges, we find a sorry, sorted deterioration into servitudescripture is just teh question: https://www. We have seven cycles of apostasy, where the people begin to serve God, then they fall away from God and then God brings in some foreign power to oppress them and then they cry out for mercy from God, and God raises up a Judge and delivers themchabad. They serve God for a while and then the whole cycle repeats itself seven times in org/library/article_cdo/aid/3225640/jewish/Why-Cant-the book of Judges-Rabbis-Agree-on-Anything.htm</font> =Historical books=

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: Each Examining the historical books Joshua through Ester, it is quite clear that God has prepared a chosen people. God is developing the Jewish people into a nation. Essentially a theocracy—meaning ruled by God. As this covenant people invades and occupies the land of Canaan one can picture the future of this fledgling nation as just full of possibilities. That is Joshua. By the time we read book of Judges, we find a sorry, sorted deterioration into servitude. We have seven cycles of apostasy, where the people begin to serve God, then they fall away from God and then God brings in some foreign power to oppress them and then they cry out for mercy from God, and God raises up a Judge and delivers them. They serve God for a while and then the whole cycle repeats itself seven times in the book of Judges. And upon closer examination of these cycles of apostasy, we find that each cycle is a picture of redemption through Christ. Each cycle is a pericope of the cross. </font>

This theocracy, this beautiful experiment where God is the invisible ruler, deteriorates and later becomes a monarchy as described in the books book of Samuel, where we have human kings introduced because the people wanted someone they could see. And then :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: Parallel to the triumphal entry of Jesus; the people wanted a king like them, not the Savior </font> Then that kingdom is disrupted into two kingdoms. There is split, there is secession from the union described in the books of Kings. Each of those kingdoms Israel in the North, Judah in the South both are swept into exile. There is record of the Babylonian captivity, and record of the Assyrian captivity--as it seems God has abandoned Israel to her demise.

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: The book of Hosea, in fact, serves in part as extended metaphor—an allegory—illustrating Israel is described as a whoring wife, with God divorcing her . It is dinner theater—the “play within the play” in the endbiblical record. YetSuccinctly, through all the heartbreak caused by herstory is that the Prophet Hosea is commanded to marry a prostitute name Gomer: “And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD” (Hosea 1:2, KJV). Gomer is subsequently, but not surprisingly, unfaithful: “For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink” (Hosea 1:2, KJV). We see the language of divorce used, metaphorically, when God declared his love commands one of Gomer's children to be called “Loammi: for herye are not my people, and I will not be your God” (Hosea 1:9). In Hebrew, the verse registers more emphatically, as this child’s name, לֹא עַמִּי (Lo' `Ammiy), literally means “not my people" (see Davidson 400) <ref>Benjamin Davidson, ''The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon''. (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), 400. </fontref> .

Finally, the story is reviewed in the book of Chronicles and in the last few historical books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Ester Esther there is just a handful, a little remnant that returns back to Judea. The walls of Jerusalem are rebuilt; but the Davidic throne, no longer exists. All we have in Judea by in the end of that historical section are a few Jews—they Jews who are merely a minor dependency, ; they don’t even have their own form of government. And outside Outside Judea , they are just scattered to the four winds. On One might ask, “What’s happened. Why this change? Here this beautiful beginning and now this sorry declension and decline into other failures. Why?” If one reads we read through the rest of the Old Testament, it ends on a note of sadness because there are unachieved purposes.

=Poetical books= Examine the poetical books of Job through Song of Solomon—philosophical books that deal with the aching problems of the human heart surely one we will find some solution to those problems. But is a solution found? Clearly, there are all kinds of illuminations and penetrating practical reassuring councils and lessons and promises but there are no clear final solutions to the problem of sin or pain or death or the life beyond death. And we We are left groaning with Job, “Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!” (Job 23:3, KJV). This leaves the reader without answers in his spiritual quest, for there are these unappeased longings.  :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: Job as a shadow of the suffering servant, is the mirror image conversation of Peter declaring that Christ need not die if he is God, where God declares to the Christ-type that all flesh must die. Ecclesiastes speaks of the wisdom of the world as the first book of the son of David, while Matthew speaks of the wisdom of the Kingdom of Heaven, as the second book of the son of David. </font>

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: Job as a shadow of the suffering servant, is the mirror image conversation of Peter declaring that Christ need not die if he is God, where God declares to the Christ-type that all flesh must die. Ecclesiastes speaks of the wisdom of the world as the first book of the son of David, while Matthew speaks of the wisdom of the Kingdom of Heaven, as the second book of the son of David. </font> Prophetical books=

Then if one reads we read the prophetical books of Isaiah through Malachi, he reads we read about these future predictions that guarantee an ultimate consummation and restitution. All focusing upon the idea that someone is coming, someone who will be God’s answer to the cry of the ages and this whole stream of Messianic prophecy which begins back in Genesis reaches floodtide flood-tide proportions as one reads we read through the prophets. When reading through the book of Malachi, one notices we notice the Promised One still has not come. And Malachi closes with the words, “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts” (Malachi 3:1, KJV). Thus, the curtain closes on the Old Testament with unfulfilled prophecies.

This is why the Old Testament is like an unfinished symphony—with all of these aspects of unexplained ceremonies, unachieved purposes unappeased longings and unfulfilled prophecies. And that That is why the New Testament completes the sacred masterpiece. That is why the historical books of the New Testament give us an explanation of those unexplained ceremonies and unachieved purposes. They find their fulfillment in Jesus. All of those offerings all those tabernacle ordinances all those unfulfilled histories of the Old Testament are taken up again and they all point to Him where they are recorded historically in the Gospels.

=Epistles=The same thing with the epistles—the didactical books of the New Testament. All those unappeased longings, all those unanswered questions in the Old covenant books of poetry, now find their completion in Christ who is pictured for us in the Epistles. And the same thing with all the prophecies in the Old Testament that were unfulfilled they find their consummation and their completion and their fulfillment in the book of the Revelation. And soSo, Job’s cry, “Oh that I knew where I might find Him” (Job 23:3) is answered. The apostle, John through the lips of Andrew cries out, “We have found the Messiah,” which is being interpreted “the Christ”. Both testaments are vitally important to each other. We cannot have one without the other.

A story is told of a Hindu convert who was studying the New Testament and one day he came to his missionary and said, “I’ve come to ask you for the other part of the Bible.” The book I am reading seems to be so incomplete. Almost every page is telling me, “It 'It was done in order that it might be fulfilled…fulfilled.” ' And now I want to know just what it is that has been fulfilled." Everything in the New Testament is there because it is in the OT. One does not truly understand the New until the OT source is known.

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: Bingo! Everything If we were to omit any chapter in the New testament is there because it is in Testament, that had a reference to the Old Testament or an allusion back to the Old Testament, we would have to eliminate 240 of the OT250 chapters. One does There are only twenty chapters that do not truly understand the New until have some kind of mention of the OT source is knownOld Testament either by direct quotation or by indirect allusion. </font>

If one were to omit any chapter in the New Testament, that had :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B:Sounds like a reference to the Old Testament or an allusion back to the Old Testament, he would have to eliminate 240 of the 250 chapterschallenge. There Which are only twenty chapters that do not have some kind of mention of the Old Testament either by direct quotation or by indirect allusion. In the New Testament is a revelation of divine supply. In the Old Testament we have the unveilings of the human heart. In the New Testament we have the unveiling of the heart of God—and the way in which he has answered humanities need in Jesus Christ. they?</font>

:<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: In the New Testament is a revelation of divine supply. In the Old Testament we have the unveilings of the human heart. In the New Testament we have the unveiling of the heart of God—and the way in which he has answered humanities need in Jesus Christ. To put it succinctly, in the Old Testament you we have a record of God dealing with his people AND hidden within, the story of Christ and the cross recapitulated in mystery to be revealed through the cross. </font> =THE man=

=Old and New together=Both testaments are vitally important to each other. Some might suggest the Old Testament is not for today, it is the New Testament that is all important. (Of course, we won’t hear that from Old Testament scholars.) The Old Testament is vitally important for understanding the New Testament just as the New Testament is vitally important in understanding the Old Testament.  :<font face-"TimesNewRoman" color="blue">B: The Understanding the basic structure allows us grasp the keys to the kingdom (that is to say teaching) are and is key to understanding the symbols of the cross throughout the OT. These are made known in the NT. They define the hidden pericopes, which, like transparencies, are laid upon one another in the final movement of the symphony, where all the voices play together revealing the hidden melody.</font>

=References=   1 Wesley J. Perschbacher, The New Analytical Greek Lexicon (Hendrickson Publishers: 1990), 332.<references/>