Isaiah is called the Messianic prophet because his prophetic references that speak of the life of Christ far outnumber any of the other Old Testament prophets. There are twenty-two direct references to the prophet Isaiah that are quoted in the New Testament and many other quotes, perhaps at least one hundred that also speak of the life and ministry of Jesus, the Christ. This next series will delve into the New Testament verses that are directly linked to Isaiah.
A common metaphor of a vineyard or garden recurs often throughout the Bible. In fact, the word vineyard occurs 104 times in all: 84 times in the Old Testament and 22 times in the New Testament. The closely related word, garden, occurs 63 times bringing the total of these two words to 145 uses in both the Old and New Testaments.
Recently, I released a book entitled Somebody Call 9:11, The Power of Covenant in Times of Crisis which I co-authored with my friend Scott Stripling. I wrote this book after my devotional time on September 11, 2015 when I got the idea to look up each of the ninth chapter and eleventh verse scriptures in the Bible and see what they would reveal, if anything.
From that devotional, this book was born, and from the verses and principles studied while writing the book, this blog continues diving into themes of covenantal blessings linked from the Old Testament to the New Testament and ringing true for us today.
