“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction” (Malachi 4:4-6).
The Old Testament closes...with a word of promise ringing in the minds of its readers concerning the two greatest prophets of old: Moses (Mal. 4:4) and Elijah (4:5). When God determined to show the significance of Jesus’ earthly ministry, he had these two men appear on a mountain with our Savior in the transfiguration (Mark 9:4). Moses represented the Law and Elijah represented the Prophets. Their appearance in Christ’s time indicated that he was the apex of their messages, fulfilling and transcending them both, as demonstrated by his resplendent radiance (Mark 9:3). He is the One whom the Law and the Prophets ultimately anticipated—as he said to his disciples, “everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled” (Luke 24:44).
In Jesus the entire Bible clicks into place. The whole Bible is, at its heart, the word of God’s grace that culminates in his Son (Rom. 1:1–2; 2 Tim. 3:15).
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