Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - How do you find Jesus in the Old Testament? : follow HIM Favorites

Episode Date: April 15, 2022

Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from the Come, Follow Me study on Easter.Show Notes (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese): https://followhim.co/old-testament/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannelThanks to the followHIM team:Steve & Shannon Sorensen: Executive Producers/SponsorsDavid & Verla Sorensen: SponsorsDr. Hank Smith: Co-hostJohn Bytheway: Co-hostDavid Perry: ProducerKyle Nelson: MarketingLisa Spice: Client Relations, Show Notes/TranscriptsJamie Neilson: Social Media, Graphic DesignWill Stoughton: Rough Video EditorKrystal Roberts: Transcripts/Language Team/French TranscriptsAriel Cuadra: Spanish TranscriptsIgor Willians: Portuguese Transcripts"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-pianoPlease rate and review the podcast.

Happy Easter, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the host of a podcast called Follow Him, and I'm here with my spring co-host, John, by the way. You're so springy, John. It's Easter, and we are celebrating Easter. What's interesting this year, John, is Easter is all about Jesus, but our study this year is all about the Old Testament. And someone might say, well, there is no Jesus in the Old Testament. So how do you connect those two? How do you find Jesus in the Old Testament? Because he's not specifically kind of listed as Jesus said this or Jesus did that. But yet we see him all over the place.

Where do you see him in the Old Testament? That's what's so fun about this. People might think, well, how come we're interrupting the Old Testament with Easter? No, the Old Testament is all about Christ and foreshadowing him and how Moses was such a strong type of Christ and all of the sacrifices of the love Moses and the Passover and Unblemish Lamb, all of these sacrifices of the love Moses and the Passover and

Unblemish Lamb, all of these things of male firstborn, Unblemish Lamb are all pointing us to Christ and ultimately his sacrifice. I love that how we're all looking forward in time and the House of Israel was forward in time to the great and last sacrifice. The Book of Mormon might call it. And now it's kind of like every time we go to sacrament meeting, we're looking backward in time to that the events of the Atonement get semening in the cross and the resurrection. And we're looking backward to that meridian of time. And so no matter where we are in the scriptures, we're talking about Christ.

And we're trying to point those out this year as we go, but I'm sure we've missed some along the way. We talked about Abraham and Isaac, this idea of a father offering a son as a sacrifice, right? And that points us to Christ. We've talked about Joseph in Egypt, who was sold, and then ends up saving the very people who hurt him. So for the price of a slave, like Jesus was, and also went into Egypt, like Jesus did briefly, you know?

Right, and then we looked at Moses and how it's this miracle, basically a miracle baby who is born and the Pharaoh tries to kill him, just like Herod, tried to kill the children of Bethlehem and then he flees away and returns back one day to deliver to save Israel. So there again is the story of Jesus. And we still have more to come.

The Messianic chapter of Isaiah is Isaiah 53, and Abinadi quotes it to King Noah and the wicked priest, because they said we teach the law of Moses and Abinadi is like, well, if you teach it, keep it, but salvation comes in Christ and then he reads Isaiah 53. He was bruised for our nicodemys, the chastisement of our peace was upon him with his stripes we are healed. And how do you miss that? He's kind of saying to them, this is all about the Savior. The Savior is all over

here in the Old Testament if we're looking for him. Yeah, I think it's Job who's going to ask, if a man die, will he live again? That is the question that Jesus answers, this Old Testament question that Jesus puts a profound absolutely, he will live again. I notice that when we speak of Easter, we could talk about Jonah.

Jonah goes into the whale for three days, somewhere he never should have come out of, right? No one goes into a whale and comes back out. he never should have come out of, right? No one goes into a whale and comes back out. Nobody I know has come out of it, but yeah. But yet Jonah did, and that's the tomb for Jesus, right? That Jesus goes into the tomb, a place where nobody should come back out of,

three days later, he comes out of the tomb. And Jesus uses that. There won't be a sign except for the sign of Jonah, so he says, they have to think, wait, what happened to him and how is that sign going to be similar? And we're going to be discussing kings here during the Old Testament and we're going to talk about the Savior coming again as the king. So there's still so much to come where this incredible Old Testament book, this Hebrew Bible can point us to the Savior. One of my favorites that I hope we get to talk about is Abigail.

How Abigail offers herself up to David. She says, let the sins of my husband be upon me. Let them be upon me. A wonderful type of Christ taking on our sins. So I think we've just scratched the surface so far and there's still more to come on finding Jesus in the Old Testament. That just makes it kind of fun and exciting. It's like taking a part a parable or something. So when we start looking for Him, we'll start seeing Him everywhere

and the Old Testament will be a blessing for us. So there's just a lot to come. We hope that you'll join us on our podcast because we're going to take a part the Old Testament here for the rest of the year. But for this week, we want you to have a wonderful happy Easter. And John, I think I could speak for you here where we testify that anyone who you have lost, anyone that you long to see again, John, both your parents have passed away. My father has passed away. My father has passed away. My brother has passed away. And we long to see them again. And we know that because of Christ,

we will see them again. So Easter changes a little bit, doesn't it, John, for when you have someone on the other side, waiting for you? That empty tomb is such a message of really victory. And it's so interesting to read the New Testament and see that they were so excited. Jesus came because a lot of really victory. And it's so interesting to read the New Testament and see that they were so excited. Jesus came because a lot of them misunderstood.

He's gonna deliver us from the Romans. And Jesus was like, no, we got tougher enemies, like sin and death. And I'm not only gonna deliver you, I'm gonna deliver the whole world from death and from sin. And that is a victory. That, and that is a victory. And that's a beautiful victory.

That we get to experience as well, you know, as we spoke of finding Christ in the Old Testament, but we can find Christ in our lives today. Our wonderful friend, Jamie, who works with us on the podcast, she said, oh, remember, it's not just Christ lived, it's He lives. And we can find Him today in our lives. And in our future, right, as we look forward to future reunions with loved ones who have

passed away. Like Jamie said, he's not just the great I was, he is the great I am. I say for him to call himself that is a present tense forever. I am. What a great name for him to choose to tell Moses. I am. What a great name for him to choose to tell Moses. I am. You will be with your family and friends who have passed away and it will be a glorious, glorious day. It's no wonder that Jacob in 2nd Nephi 9 says, Oh, how great the goodness of our God. When I think John of seeing my brother and my father again and loved ones who have passed away, my good friend Steve Sonson, who is a huge part of our team

on this podcast. When I think of those future moments, I kind of feel the same way Jacob did. Oh, the greatness of our God, his plan, his goodness. I want to sing his praises. Those reunions will be so sweet. Can't even imagine it now, but it's gonna be so wonderful. Yeah.

All because of the Savior. All because of him. So happy Easter from all of us at Follow Him to you and your family. And we hope you'll join us for our podcast for the rest of this year as we dive into the Old Testament. But if not, you can always find us exactly right here next week for follow him favorite.

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