Christ Is All: Promises, Ceremonies, and Miracles

It was Christ 

• to Whom Abraham looked when he dwelt in tents in the land of promise. 
• He believed that in his seed, in one born of his family, all the nations of the earth should be blessed. 
• By faith he saw Christ’s day, and was glad (John 8:56).

It was Christ 

• of Whom Jacob spoke to his sons as he lay dying. 
• He marked out the tribe out of which He would be born, and foretold that “gathering together” unto Him which is yet to be accomplished. 
• “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be” (Genesis 49:10).

It was Christ 

• Who was the substance of the ceremonial Law which God gave to Israel by the hand of Moses. 
• The morning and evening sacrifice, 
• the continual shedding of blood, the altar, the mercy-seat, 
• the high priest, 
• the passover, 
• the day of atonement, 
• the scapegoat—all these were so many pictures, types, and emblems of Christ and His work. 
• God had compassion upon the weakness of His people. 
• He taught them Christ, line upon line, and, as we teach little children, by similarities. 
• It was in this sense especially that “the law was a schoolmaster to bring” the Jews “unto Christ” (Galatians 3:24)

It was Christ 

• to Whom God directed the attention of Israel by all the daily miracles which were done before their eyes in the wilderness. 
• The pillar of cloud and fire which guided them, 
• the manna from heaven which every morning fed them, 
• the water from the smitten rock which followed them—all and each were figures of Christ. 
• The brazen serpent, on that memorable occasion when the plague of fiery serpents was sent upon them, was an emblem of Christ (1Corinthians 10:4; John 3:14).

Adapted Excerpt From

Christ is All

J.C. Ryle