Love This Book - Part 3Sample

Week 27: Our readings in the New Testament provide a twist on the Old Testament stories of the Israelites’ exodus. While the first return from the Babylonian exile was incomplete, all four Gospels will confirm the true return of the people from exile, with Jesus’ baptism being a fulfillment of Isaiah 40. John the Baptist offers a new and symbolic way for the people of God to enter the Promised Land, with Jesus at the center of that hope. Not only will we see Jesus’ baptism but also His forty days in the wilderness, reminding us of the forty years of wandering. This time, however, Jesus himself is the new Israel.