Day 27: Opening the Scriptures
Luke 24:19–27
They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now
the third day since these things happened. Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”
He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have
spoken! Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?” Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
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In the internal sense of the Word the Lord’s entire life is described, as it was going to be when He was in the world, even as to His perceptions and thoughts. For these things had been foreseen
and provided, since they were from the Divine. A further reason for this provision of them in the internal sense was so that the things of the Lord’s life in the world might be manifested as present realities to the angels, who perceive the Word according to its internal sense. In this way the Lord was placed before them, and at the same time the manner in which He gradually cast off the human and put on the Divine.
Reflection
From Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, through Moses, David, and the prophets, every story in the Bible is about the life of Jesus Christ. What insights or questions do you have about seeing the Lord in every part of His Word?
