Last week I read
The Hidden Christ: Beneath the Surface of the Old Testament and I really have to say that if you haven’t read this book, you should go out and get it. NOW. I really don’t like to use this blog for book reviews, but in this case I felt compelled (and justified). I really think it revolutionized my view of the Old Testament. (Yes, I just used the word “really” three times in three sentences. That should show you just how much I mean it.) It showed me how so many of the prophets were types of Christ, but it also explained
why the Lord went to the trouble to make those lives into types.
Some things I learned:
- How the creation is a parallel of spiritual progression
- How the discussion of Kolob and stars in the Book of Abraham is relevant to us and teaches about Christ
- How the Abrahamic covenant promises of Christ
- How the stories of Ishmael and Isaac are linked to the Fall and the Atonement.
- What the plagues of Egypt were teaching about God’s power and the meaning behind those plagues
- How the loss and return of the ark in 1 Samuel was prefiguring the gospel going from the Jews to the gentiles and back to the Jews in the latter days
There were some things that I already knew, yet the book expanded on and made these points more significant. Overall, I was very impressed and deeply edified by this book. It has fresh insights that are extremely solid. I highly recommend it. Put it on your Christmas list. Or your Thankgiving list. Or maybe your Halloween list. Heck, why not your Columbus Day list. Buy it yesterday, for goodness sake!
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