One Book, One People
The following is written in reply to someone who emailed me last night about my 1st post on Billings: The Word of God for the People of God. The writer wanted to correct Billings' position (and mine) about the fact that Christ is the primary focal point of the Old Testament. ---------------- Are there real, valid reasons for reading the whole of Scripture (Old and New Testaments) as one book, the book about Jesus Christ? Though some want to see a rock-solid barrier between the Old Testament and the New, and others even go so far as to pronounce a wall of separation between Paul’s writings and the writings of the other apostles, it appears that the Jesus truly has “broken down the middle wall of separation” (Eph. 2.14) in Himself. To begin with, Jesus Himself declares, after the resurrection, that all the Old Testament spoke of Him. “Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were writ