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The Old Testament Is Pregnant with the Gospel of Jesus Christ

The entire Old Testament is pregnant with the message of the Bible. In other words, we could say that the Old Testament is pregnant with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is round with the gospel …. Granted, in the earlier stages of salvation history … the gospel is more difficult to detect, but as salvation history progresses the shape of and the promise of the gospel becomes more evident. So as we look throughout the Old Testament … we see it is increasingly easy to detect the specific contours and the specific content of the gospel …. The gospel is [in the Old Testament] in utero.

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