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Messianic Prophecies

The promise of Christ as it was given, and as the New Testament reads it.

Scripture first

Luke 24:27 · Luke 24:44 · John 5:39

Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. This shelf exists because Jesus read His Bible this way.

What this shelf holds

  • The line of promise from Genesis 3 through Abraham, David, Isaiah and the prophets.
  • Each promise paired with the New Testament passage that takes it up, so the connection is the Bible's own.

How to use it

  • Read the prophecy in its own setting first. It meant something to its first hearers before it meant something to us.
  • Prefer connections the New Testament makes explicitly over ones we could make.

What this cannot settle

Not every Old Testament detail is a prediction. Where a link is typological rather than predictive, Audela says which it is instead of blurring them.

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11 entries on these shelves

Reference works

Each of these is named so you can open it and check us. Each carries what it is good for and what it cannot decide.

Every entry below is labelled with the kind of evidence it is, so a lexicon is never mistaken for the text and a commentary is never mistaken for a conclusion Scripture has drawn.

  • Messianic Prophecies in Historical Succession

    Theological interpretationOffered for weighing, not for receiving · Franz Delitzsch, 1880 · Public domain

    The promise of Christ traced through the Old Testament in the order it was given.

    Use forFollowing how the expectation grew from Genesis to the prophets.

    CautionWhere he presses a detail as messianic, weigh it against how the New Testament itself uses the passage.

  • Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

    Theological interpretationOffered for weighing, not for receiving · Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, 1866 to 1891 · Public domain

    Detailed Hebrew exposition of the Old Testament.

    Use forGrammatical and lexical questions in an Old Testament passage.

    CautionDemanding, and it argues with nineteenth century critics whose positions the reader may not know.

  • Commentaries on the Bible

    Theological interpretationOffered for weighing, not for receiving · John Calvin, 1540 to 1564 · Public domain

    Close exposition of most of the canon, alert to the flow of the author's argument.

    Use forFollowing the logic of a passage sentence by sentence.

    CautionReformed throughout and openly so. Where he settles a disputed doctrine, note it as one historic reading among others.

Entries on this shelf

Audela's own entries for this kind of study. Each one is taught from the passages that use it and links into the chapter studies, topics and questions that go furthest with it.

  • Day of the LORD

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    The appointed day when God acts openly in judgement and salvation

  • Lamb of God

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    The sacrifice God provides, who takes away sin

  • Messiah and Christ

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    The Anointed One, promised through the prophets

  • Son of God

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    The unique Son who shares the Father's nature

  • Son of Man

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    Daniel's heavenly figure, the name Jesus used most for himself

  • The Good Shepherd

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    The shepherd who knows his sheep and dies for them

  • The Word

    ScriptureFinal authority · Written and reviewed by Audela against the passages it cites · Nothing here rests on evidence outside the Bible

    God's self-expression, present before creation and personal

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