How is Christ portrayed in Genesis and/or Exodus of the Old Testament?

Answer 1

Symbolicly

Here is a powerful example. John 3:14 Jesus said that just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness He (Jesus) would also be lifted up. When the Israelites were in the wilderness they encountered poisonous serpents. People were being killed from snake bite so Moses asked God for help. God told Moses to put a bronze serpent on a staff and raise it up for the person to look at when they were bitten and trust in God to heal them. This is symbolic of Jesus Christ dieing on the cross. He would have never referenced back to it if it was not so.

Answer 2

Genesis 3:15, Genesis 12:1-4, Genesis 49:8-12: There have been described in the Old Testament 300 prophecies of the first coming of the Messiah and 500 of the second coming, all of then made hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus and fulfilled to the letter in Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
George Heron, a French mathematician, calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling only 40 of those prophecies are 1 in 10 to the power of 157. That is a 1 followed by 157 zeros. Compare it to this; your odds on winning the state lottery are 14 followed by 6 zeros.
I don’t have the time to list them all.

Answer 3

It is interesting that people "know" there is some metaphorical connection between the OT - that Jesus read too - and what he attempted to communicate with his teachings and ultimate symbol of death and resurrection. They just don't have a clue what it is.

Genesis and Exodus are "exit/banishment" stories, Jesus (NT) presents the "way" to return to the garden/promised land. The Kingdom is within. It's primarily a psychological journey of giving up your ego fear of death. Yes it's difficult but there is no other way to return to being the Christ or the "annointed" True Self. Reality adjusts to that new understanding or enlightened state of mind and you're in heaven. All religions "originally" presented a way to achieve this - he reenacted it physically as a powerful demonstration of the interior process required.

Answer 4

Ge 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth."
God was talking to Jesus.
........John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created.
4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
5 That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it.
14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

God is likened to a flower, it has a stem, pollen and pedals.
God is the Father, Holy Spirit and Son.

Does that help you to understand a little better?

Answer 5

--He is portrayed as God's helper as Genesis 1 & 2 states "Let us make man in our image"--qualities of love, power, justice, wisdom!

--In Proverbs he is referenced as the "master worker" along side Jehovah God:

(Proverbs 8:22-31) “22 “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.”

--THERE are other references as he being Michael the archangel , and the "twig of Jesse", Shiloh etc.

Answer 6

Jesus is portrayed in the Old Testament frequently as the Angel of the LORD (caps, included in the KJV).
When the phrase is used with "Lord" in caps, look for evidence of Deity in the passage.

Jesus appears in "typology" throughout the Old Testament.
The story of Joseph in Genesis particularly reflects Jesus' life.
Rejected by his brethren; sold for a few pieces of silver; held captive based on lies and conspiracy; and ultimately raised to the highest position in the kingdom.

Jesus appears in typology in at least 35 different scenarios in the Old Testament. In Genesis alone we see Him in Adam, Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Melchizadek, Noah, Jacob's ladder, and more.

Answer 7

First, in creation, Gen 1:26 - 'Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;"'

Then Gen 3:15 - 'And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.'

Gen.17:19 'Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him."

Gen. 18:18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. (Gen. 12:3)

Gen.49:10 'The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.'

The references to the Messiah are many. The symbolism is rich as well, and is contained here for a reason - to point the way to answer to the problem of sin and death.

The life of Joseph is itself the base for Messiah ben Joseph, the 'suffering servant', as well as 'Ephraim'.

The parting waters of the Dead Sea, and then drowning of Pharaoh also symbolize the death and Resurrection of Christ.

Answer 8

Gen 14:18¶And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.

Gen 14:19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Gen 14:20And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

And in the book of Hebrews:
Hbr 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

Hbr 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

Hbr 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

Hbr 7:4 Now consider how great this man [was], unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

In Psalms

Psa 110:4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Answer 9

In Genesis, Christ is the manna from heaven. Also the cloud to follow in the day and the fire pillar at night. He is also the rock that brought forth water He is actually more than this. Jesus is the Word of God (Elohim). God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Word (Logos) of God.

Answer 10

Off the top of my head:

In Genesis He is "The Word".

In Exodus He is the sacrificial lamb slaughtered to pay for our sins.