It's late so I just want to share a quick thought. I love how the more you look for Christ in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the more God allows you to see it. Great lesson from my Dear Husband on 2 Samuel 24 this evening. King David sins against God. King David repents and trusts wholly on the mercy of God to forgive and discipline. God leads David to a threshing floor in Jerusalem. David buys it and builds an altar to make sacrifices and in so doing brings a stop to the outpouring of wrath on Israel.
Good stuff but here is where it gets VERY interesting. The threshing floor? Mt. Moria...the same place that Abraham obeyed God and brought Isaac to offer up as a sacrifice and God graciously provided a substitute. Now David offers sacrifices on behalf of the people to stay God's wrath and the same place where the temple will be built. The temple, a continual picture of what will come, a constant arrow pointing to what will be: a man who is God who will die as a substitute sacrifice for the sinner who believes, to permanently settle the sinners debt and stop the wrath of God.
Amen! Praise God for the sacrifice of Jesus and the hope that comes from the resurrection of Jesus and His triumph over death and this world!
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