04.0.1. Finding Christ in the Shadows

Author’s Introduction This is a very unique e-sword module. One thing that makes it unique is links to the MP3’s of the lectures by the Author, Dr. Edgar Pierce. Please check the link at the beginning of each chapter or click link below for a list of all MP3’s. In addition these are available at the Author’s website in PDF format as well. The links to the PDF’s are in the Index.

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If someone today asked you to go the airport to pick up a friend whom you had never met you might ask them how you would know them. If they said, it was man, that would narrow it to about ½. If they said, it was a man who was above 45 years of age that would narrow it further. You might say something like. Do you have picture? If they give you a picture you could find them in the crowded airport. The picture is not the real person it is only an image of the person. We use picture to identify criminals, lost persons and others. Artist since the beginning of civilization have used all kinds of medium to paint, sculpt and otherwise create images of men and animals. They have painted portraits in all different types of paint, made busts and heads of clay, granite, bronze and other things. These give the image of the person who was the model for the project. Rulers have set up statues of themselves all over the lands they rule. Remember when the statue of Sadaam fell in Baghdad. It was not Sadaam who fell but only his image. Images are used to identify in many ways. You may have heard of the man who robbed someone and then backed out and drove away. The only problem was he left his calling card behind to identify him. He backed into a snow bank and left the imprint of the cars tag in the snow. They read it and arrested him. I speak of these things to open up the subject of how we were to recognize the Messiah. Today we begin a journey into the Bible in a way that I have never ventured before. Colossians 2:16-17 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: ¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."

    Colossians 2:17 "These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts the shadow belongs to Christ." God’s Word

    This series will give us ways that we will know the Messiah better. The Old Testament is filled with things that spoke about what the Messiah would be and how He could be recognized.

Edgar Pierce www.exposingtheword.com