Key People In the Old Testament Pointing To Jesus – Part 1

Adam (Genesis 1-3; Hosea 6:7)
- Adam is the first human being.
- Adam was in covenant with God in the Garden and was the covenant head for all humanity and ruler over creation. As covenant head his actions affected all humanity and creation. His obedience would bring blessing and the fulfillment of God’s purposes, but His disobedience would bring curse, exile, and death.
- Adam’s disobedience led to the first exile (from the Garden) and plunged all of humanity and creation into curse, death, and separation from God.
- However, in His mercy, God promised that a Seed would come through the woman (Eve) to undo the effects of Adam’s rebellion.
- In the New Testament, Jesus is the Second Adam.
  - He is the Head of a New Humanity and a New Creation.
  - He is the covenant head for the New Humanity and Creation, and His actions affect His people and all creation.
  - As the Second Adam, Jesus undoes the disobedience of Adam. Furthermore, He positively fulfills the covenant obligations that Adam broke, and His obedience is given to the New Humanity.
  - Through Jesus God fulfills His call for humanity and gives it to His people the Church.

Abraham (Genesis 12:1-7; Genesis 15; Genesis 17)
- Abraham is the recipient of God’s covenant of promise. This covenant was the fountainhead from which the rest of redemptive history would flow.
- The people of God are the children of Abraham. It is through the covenant with Abraham that they receive righteousness and blessing.
- In His covenant with Abraham God promised that it would be through Abraham that the Seed would come and that the Seed would bring blessing to all humanity.
- In the New Testament Jesus is the Seed of Abraham and the fulfillment of God’s covenant of promise with Abraham.
  - He draws His human lineage from Abraham.
  - Jesus is THE Seed to Whom God’s covenant promise to Abraham applied.
  - Through Jesus God’s covenant, promises, and blessings are opened to all nations.
  - Through Jesus God fulfills His covenant with Abraham and gives it to His people the Church.

In Christ,

Bret