---
title: "The Gospel in the Old Testament"
category: "theology"
description: "Five weeks on the pictures of the gospel God drew in Israel's history: the Passover lamb, the bronze serpent, the Day of Atonement, the kinsman redeemer and the priest in the order of Melchizedek."
tags: ["gospel", "method/typology", "atonement", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Luke 24:25-27"
series:
  cut: topic
  sessions:
    - study: feasts/passover.md
      why: "A lamb's blood on the door and judgment passing over: the substitute."
    - study: jesus/as-the-snake-was-lifted.md
      why: "Look to the One lifted up and live: faith in the crucified."
    - study: feasts/day-of-atonement.md
      why: "Blood carried behind the veil once a year, and Christ's once-for-all sacrifice: propitiation."
    - study: jesus/kinsman-redeemer.md
      why: "Boaz's right to buy back what was lost: redemption, by the Kinsman who pays with His own blood."
    - study: jesus/melchizedek-priesthood.md
      why: "The priest who holds His priesthood forever and always lives to intercede for those who come to God through Him (Hebrews 7:25)."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# The Gospel in the Old Testament

**In one sentence:** God drew the gospel into Israel's history before He sent it, in a lamb's blood
on the door, a serpent lifted on a pole, blood behind the veil, a kinsman who buys back and a priest
who lives forever, so you can see in His Son Jesus what He had been promising all along.

On the road to Emmaus Jesus began with Moses and all the Prophets and interpreted to the two
disciples the things concerning Himself (Luke 24:27). Each week takes one of those pictures, and
each study sorts what the New Testament states about it from what later readers have added.

## The weeks

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