Christ in all the scriptures

 When we speak of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, most think of the book of the Revelation at the end of the Bible.  However the revelation of Jesus Christ is from Genesis to Revelation, and through all the 66 books which make up the library called the Bible.  We begin this ongoing and lengthy study by noting that Jesus Christ is Himself the Revelation of the Godhead, who, without Him, remain unknown.  Matthew notes in chapter 11v27 "No man knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him".  Christ is the exclusive revelation of the Father, and if we would know God it must be through Him.   He is revealed in two ways: by the Holy Spirit who dwells in each believer, and who convicts every unbeliever.  To avoid any one claiming private revelation, the Spirit has given us the written word which is the Revelation of God we can all share.  The Bible therefore is the Revelation of God, of whom Christ is the major theme.

On the road to Emmaus, walking with two disheartened disciples, Jesus "opened to them the scriptures".  This involved the whole of Old Testament revelation, as Luke records in chapter 24.

"And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself"-Luke 24v27.   Again....

"These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.  Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures"-Luke 24v44-45.

There is no doubt that the scriptures are a revelation of Christ and that the Holy Spirit would have us understand He is the major topic.  He had occasion to challenge the Pharisees, a very powerful religious group in Israel..."Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.  And ye will not come to me that ye might have life"-John 5v39-40.   This "holier than thou" body of men had missed the whole point of scripture, that the scriptures are a testimony to Christ, who alone gives eternal life.  Likewise when any read the Bible today and miss the major topic which is the person of Christ, the anointed of God, the Saviour of the world, they have read it with blinded eyes and lose the blessing of the life He gives.  The Bible is read to greatest profit, when the person of Christ as the revelation of God illuminates every portion.  This we will commence as a study, the Bible as a testimony of Christ,  This will take us from Genesis to revelation, and time will probably run out before the grand subject itself.