Today I was again reading 2 Corinthians. It is a New Testament letter Paul wrote in the 1st century A.D. (probably 55/56), an early letter written while people who would have known Jesus the Messiah were still living and verified the letter’s contents.

But what I wanted to focus upon here is something I long for the Christian church to understand. And it’s found in verse 20 of 2 Corinthians 1. It reads, “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him [Jesus].”

How many of God’s promises? All.

In whom are they proven? Jesus.

Again, how many and in whom? All. And in Jesus.

Jesus, the Christ/Messiah/Anointed One, is the central figure in the Bible because He is God incarnate. All of the promises of God find their Yes in Him.

So when you read of the ram caught in the thicket when Abraham ascended Mount Moriah, the ram foreshadowed Jesus.

And when you read of the water from the rock at Meribah, the water foreshadowed Jesus.

And when you read of the manna/bread from heaven that fell miraculously to feed Israel for 40 years, it foreshadowed Jesus.

All of the promises of God find their Yes in Jesus.

This is why when actors curse in your Hollyweird films, it’s Jesus’ name they blaspheme.

This is why the one religion the pagan governments cannot abide is Christianity.

This is why the New Atheists and the secular pundits pick on one religion above all others–Christianity.

It’s because it’s the one they cannot keep down because its Hero walked out of a guarded tomb and was seen by hundreds, ate with them, spoke with them, and His followers laid down their lives for Him.

This explains so much. The world system hates it, just as predicted.

But He’ll not be conquered, because it’s all His anyway.

And even the stones will cry out the truth, on earth, under the earth, and in the firmament–that Jesus Christ is Lord.