Biblical scholar and New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh on Monday released his latest eye-popping analysis of the Holy Book and concludes that the Old Testament is the introduction of Christ and that both the Old and New Testament focus on only one God, Jesus of Nazareth.
“The overarching theme of the Bible is crystal clear: from first to last, it is Jesus Christ,” pens Limbaugh in The “Emmaus Code,” his sequel to the popular “Jesus on Trial,” in which he found that the New Testament is 99.5 percent accurate.
Limbaugh, the brother of talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh, also concludes that the world is in such a mess that people should relearn the whole Bible for a “moral compass reset.”
He said: “Right now, Christians are being beheaded in the Middle East. A coach is being intimidated for voluntarily praying after football games right here in the United States. We’ve learned the abortion industry has been engaged in harvesting body parts from aborted babies. The U.S. and the entire world need a moral compass reset, and it should start with knowing and understanding the roots of morality as provided to us in the Bible, beginning with the Old Testament.”
Limbaugh’s two books on the Bible, both published by Regnery, are a layman’s approach to the mind-boggling book, and from a skeptic who spent years struggling with it through research and analysis.
The title, “The Emmaus Code: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament,” refers the road during which Jesus after his resurrection meets two men and explains how the Old Testament points to him, an awakening preached by Saint Paul, says Limbaugh.
While most Christians focus only on the New Testament, Limbaugh said, “There are so many ways the Old Testament prefigures, anticipates and predicts Christ and his redemptive plan.”
He writes that even the apostles didn’t understand Jesus until his resurrection. “They are deeply perplexed by his death on the cross and the sudden death of a promising ministry. The presumptive Messiah left this earth without making so much as a fizzle in redeeming Israel from its worldly tormentors,” writes Limbaugh in the book provided in advance to Secrets.
“In short order, Jesus sets them straight, telling them who he is, disabusing them of their errors, and showing them how every page of their Bible — the Old Testament — points to himself. We can only imagine their range of emotions as waves of understanding pour over them as them come to realize who Christ is, the significance of his ministry, and how scripture has pointed to him all along,” he adds.
Limbaugh finds several representations and predictions of Jesus in Old Testament figures including Moses and Noah. And as a result, he suggests that the whole Bible is about Jesus and that Christians shouldn’t “cherry pick” parts, but instead should absorb and embrace the both parts.
“The New Testament is anchored in the Old; without a firm grasp of the Old Testament one cannot fully comprehend its successor. Jesus Christ wasn’t born in a vacuum. There is essential history preceding Christ’s incarnation, which includes God’s interactions with mankind,” he writes.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
