Mises, a proud Zionist, said in response to JD Hall: “You’re wrong again. You’re wrong about so much it’s scary.” Mish on X
JD Hall responds:
Ah, you’re gonna make me do it.
Okay. First, let me say it breaks my heart that professing Christians don’t know the Old Testament is all about Jesus and the Old Testament Saints all worshipped and believed in Him, and teary-eyed angry and Dispies stealing your inheritance. Unless you’re a Jew, at which point, grab a stiff drink, sit down, and learn about the Bible.
Hebrews 11 exists to explain in one concise chapter what the rest of the Scripture explains in hundreds of places: the Old Testament saints were justified by faith in Christ and believed in Him.
For example, in verses 24-26 it explains that Moses, “when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.”
This is true for all of them: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
Jesus is our Passover Lamb (Exodus 12:13, 1 Corinthians 5:7, John 1:29, John 19:36), because by His death, we escape from slavery to sin into the Promised Land of Zion, and death will Passover us.
The Festival of Tents is about Jesus, Emmanuel “God with us” tenting among men in the flesh in his incarnation (John 1:14).
Unleavened Bread is about the sinless body of Christ, the true bread with no leaven of corruption in it (1 Corinthians 5:8, John 6:35).
Firstfruits is the resurrection itself, timed to the very day the priest waved the sheaf before the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:20, 1 Corinthians 15:23,).
The Feast of Trumpets is about the resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15:52, 1 Thessalonians 4:16).
The Day of Atonement is Christ, the sacrifice whose blood is brought within the veil and the scapegoat who carries the sin away into the wilderness never to be seen again (Hebrews 9:11-12).
The Sabbath is the rest that remains for the people of God, the rest Christ offers to every soul who labors under the Law (Hebrews 4:9-10).
The Ark and mercy seat are the throne where blood answers wrath, and Christ is set forth as that very mercy seat, that very propitiation (Romans 3:25).
The whole priesthood, robed and anointed and dying one after another, points to a priest who never dies and needs no successor, after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:23-25).
All of that – and much more – was one giant sermon preached to the Church of the Old Testament, also known as Israel, for them to believe in what these things pointed to.
That’s why the Bible says Abraham longed to see Jesus (John 8:56).
And why it says Moses wrote about Jesus (John 5:46).
And that Isaiah saw and wrote about Jesus (John 12:41).
And why Noah believed in Jesus (Hebrews 11:7).
Abel, Enoch, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel – all justified by faith in Jesus, according to Hebrews 11.
This is how “David speaketh concerning Him (Acts 2:25) when he recorded the crucifixion in technicolor HD (Psalm 22) or Isaiah explained the doctrine of propitiation (Isaiah 53).
They knew of Christ. Some of them, like Abraham, even met Christ (Genesis 14:18-20). They all worshipped Christ.
That’s why the Christian Old Testament is the inheritance of Christians. It’s Christian history. Unbelieving Jews don’t even believe in Moses (John 5:46-47). We do.
Christianity, as a label, started in Antioch. Christianity, as a concept, existed in the Garden the moment He was prophesied. There is only ONE chosen people, one COVENANT people: those who believe in Jesus. The Christian Church (Jew and Gentile alike) are the SAME people as the Old Testament Covenant-bound Saints.
That’s us. The Church.