Finding Jesus in the Old Testament

Sometimes we forget to say thank you. 

When I was a student at Crandall University (Atlantic Baptist University) one of the classes I was enrolled in was Old Testament Survey with Dr. Stephen Dempster. Dr. Dempster later became the person who introduced me to the study of the biblical canon and then became my honors thesis supervisor on that topic. It was through Dr. Dempster that I was first introduced to the study of Biblical Theology as a means of understanding the Bible.

In those fall 1995 classes as I began at Crandall, I can distinctly remember learning about God's promise to send Jesus in Genesis 3:15. I remember being amazed that God revealed hundreds of years in advance how he would redeem the humanity and defeat Satan and Sin. 

Many years later, my absolute love of studying the OT to find Jesus has grown exponentially. As I read our NMBC Advent Bible reading today, I thought back to those classes and the investment Dr. Dempster made in my life and the lives of many others. Today, as I taught nearly 100 children about the promise of God to send Jesus in Genesis 3, I was thankful for the understanding of scripture being One Big Story that I began to have back in 1995 under the teaching of Dr. Dempster.

Praise God for his incredible promise and for the calling to pass the biblical story from generation to generation.