Looking through the glass darkly
This is my feeble attempt to show that some super-intellect inspired the scriptures.
The Old Testament and the New Testament are like hands that fold together in prayer. They intertwine and knit together in an intricate tapestry.
Thousands of years from early stories in the Old Testament to a wonderful dossier of beauty that is completed in full vibrancy within the New Testament.
It’s like a magnificent painter, who is engrossed in his work leaning over his canvas. He takes great care in every stroke of his brush and every color he mixes. When he has completed his work he walks away, then turns to take in the whole scene.
Standing there he gazes at his finished work, he is transfixed at his handiwork that comes into a full panoramic view. He is astonished at the masterpiece, he so painstakingly created. A tear wells up in his eye as he stares confounded at what has transpired on his canvas. He is awestruck, for what he had conceived in his mind’s eye and what has transpired in this work of art, pushes him over the edge and causes the very pinnacle of bewilderment. The beauty upon the canvas takes his breath away, moving him to floodgates and depths unknown to his soul.
He weeps.
Somehow something mysterious to him has guided his hand, seized upon his idea, and made it His own. Something unknown has confiscated his work. The painter falls to his knees and drops his head, tears flow like a damn bursting forth as his perception overwhelms him.
In a twinkling of an eye, profound holiness that took possession of his art has taken possession of the artist.
This is the story of the Bible. The painters are those who painstakingly recorded the stories and the histories in fine detail. It’s a work of beauty beyond description and just like the painter, an influence ever so gentle, like a wisp of a soft breeze has guided the hands, seized upon the ideas, and made it His very own. Just like the painter, they fell to their knees and dropped their heads and in a twinkling of an eye, profound holiness took possession of their work and took possession of them.
TYPES AND SHADOWS
The Old Testament is filled with types and shadows. A shadow is an imperfect mirrored image, like a reflection of something far greater. Shadows paint a vivid picture when the work has been completed. The stories in the Old Testament have just recorded history at the times they occurred, but these stories took on a depth far exceeding the imagination as the history continued into the New Testament.
How could stories recorded in the New Testament affect the stories that were written thousands of years ago in the Old Testament?
A good analogy is like a pop-up book when it is opened, the Old Testament takes on a whole new depth, in vivid detail that stands out in 3D imagery. This is an impossibility, thousands of years divide the manuscripts.
Impossible, unless some brilliant transcendent mind has guided the history all along and with every recorded word has guided the writer’s hand and seized upon the ideas, because they were always His ideas from the very beginning. Some extraordinary preeminent mind confiscated the Old Testament, while the stories of the New Testament unfolded.
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