Christ Is All:Judges, Kings, and Prophets

It was Christ 

• of Whom all the judges were types. 
• Joshua and David and Gideon and Jephthah and Samson, and all the rest whom God raised up to deliver Israel from captivity—
• all were emblems of Christ. 
• Weak and unstable and faulty as some of them were, 
• they were set for examples of better things in the distant future. 
• All were meant to remind the tribes of that far higher Deliverer who was yet to come.

It was Christ

• of whom David the king was a type.
• Anointed and chosen when few gave him honor,
• despised and rejected by Saul and all the tribes of Israel,
• persecuted and obliged to flee for his life,
• a man of sorrow all his life,
• and yet a conqueror - in all these things David represented Christ.

It was Christ

• of whom all the prophets from Isaiah to Malachi spoke.
• They saw through a glass darkly.
• They sometimes dwelt on His sufferings, and sometimes on His glory that should follow (1 Peter 1:11).
• They did not always mark out for us the distinction between Christ's first coming and Christ's second coming.
• Like two candles in a straight line, one behind the other, they sometimes saw both the advents at the same time, and spoke of them in one breath.
• They were sometimes moved by the Holy Spirit to write of the times of Christ crucified, and sometimes of Christ's kingdom in the latter days.
• But Jesus dying, or Jesus reigning, was the thought you will find uppermost in their minds.

Adapted Excerpt From

Christ is All

J.C. Ryle