happy Easter everyone welcome to follow him favorites my name is Hank Smith on the host of a podcast called follow him and I'm here with my Spring by the way you're so springy John is Easter and what we are celebrating Easter what's interesting this year John is is Easter is all about Jesus but our study this year is all about the Old Testament and some one might say well there is no Jesus in the Old Testament so how do you connect those two how do you find Jesus in the Old Testament because he's not specifically I have listed as Jesus said this or Jesus did that but yet we see him all over the place where do you where do you see him in the Old Testament that's what's so fun about this people might think we'll how come we're interrupting the Old Testament with Easter know the Old Testament is all about Christ and enforced shadowing him and how Moses was such a strong type of Christ and all of the sacrifices of the law of Moses and
 Passover and unblemished lamb all of these things of mail firstborn unblemished lamb are all pointing us to Christ and ultimately his sacrifice I love that how we're all looking forward in time and the house of Israel was forward in time to the great and last sacrifice The Book of Mormon might call it and now it's kind of like every time we go to sacrifice any we're Looking Backward in time to that in the events of the atonement Gethsemane in the cross in the resurrection and we're Looking Backward to that Meridian of time and so no matter where we are in the scriptures were were talking about Christ and we're trying to point those out this year as we go but I'm sure we've missed something along the way we talked about Abraham and Isaac this idea of a father offering a son as a sacrifice right and that points us to Christ we've talked about Joseph in Egypt who was sold and then ends up saving the very people who hurt him right for the price of a
 play like Jesus was and also went into Egypt like Jesus did briefly you know right and then we looked at Moses and how it's this miracle basically a miracle baby who is born and the Pharaoh tries to kill him just like Herod tried to kill the children of Bethlehem and then he he flees away and returns back one day to deliver to save Israel there again is the story of Jesus and we still have more to come the Messianic chapter of Isaiah is Isaiah 53 and a benedight quotes it to King Nolan the wicked priest cuz they said we teach the law of Moses in a Bennett Isaac will if you teach it keep it but Salvation comes in Christ and then he reads Isaiah 53:3 was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him with his stripes we are healed and how do you miss that he's kind of saying to them this is all about saving the savior is all over here in the Old Testament if we're looking for him yeah I think it's
 hope he's going to ask if a man die will he live again that is the question that Jesus answers this Old Testament question that Jesus puts a profound absolutely he will live again I noticed that when we speak of Easter we can talk about Jonah Jonah goes into the whale for 3 Days somewhere he never should have come out of right no one goes into a whale and comes back out nobody I know has come out of it but we are but yet Jonah did and that's the tomb for Jesus write that Jesus goes into the tomb a place where nobody should come back out of three days later he comes out of the Tomb and Jesus uses that there won't be a sign except for the sign of Jonah see says they have to think wait what happened to him and and how is that sign going to be similar and we're going to be discussing Kinks here during the Old Testament and we're going to talk about the Savior coming again as the king so it's still so much to come where this incredible Old Testament book this Hebrew Bible can point us to the
 Xavier one of my favorites that I hope we get to talk about is Abigail Abigail offers herself up to David she says Let the sins of my husband be upon me let them be upon me a wonderful type of Christ taking on our sins so I think we've just scratched the surface so far and they're still more to come on finding Jesus in the Old Testament that just makes it kind of fun and exciting it's like taking apart a pair of or something so when we start looking for him will start seeing him everywhere and the Old Testament will be at a blessing for so there's just a lot to come we hope that you'll join us on our podcast cuz we're going to take apart the Old Testament here for the rest of the year but for this week we want you to have a wonderful happy Easter and John I think I can speak for you here where we testify that anyone who you have lost anyone that you long to see again John both your parents have passed away my
 my father passed away my brothers passed away and we long to see them again and we know that because of Christ we will see them again so Easter changes a little bit doesn't it John for when you have someone on the on the other side waiting for you that empty tomb is such a message of of really Victory and it's so interesting to read the New Testament and see that they were so excited Jesus came cuz a lot of misunderstood he's going to Deliver Us from the Romans and Jesus was like no we got tougher enemies like sin and death and I'm not only going to deliver you I'm going to deliver the whole damn death and from sin and that is that as a victory that and it's a beautiful victory that we get to experience as well you know what we spoke of finding Christ in the Old Testament that we can find Christ in our lives today are wonderful friend Jamie who works with us on the podcast she said oh remember it's not just price lived its he lives and yeah we can
 game today in our lives and in our future right as we look forward to Future reunions with loved ones who have passed away you like Jamie said he's not just the great I was he is The Great I Am nice for him to call himself that is a present tense forever I am what a great name for him to choose to tell Moses I am you will be with your family and friends who have passed away and it will be a glorious glorious day no wonder that Jacob in 2nd Nephi 9 says oh how great the goodness of our God when I think John of seeing my my brother and my father again and loved ones who've passed away my our good friend Steve Sorensen who is a huge part of our team on this podcast when I think of those future moments I kind of feel the same way Jacob 200 the greatness of our God his plan his goodness I want to sing his Praises those reunions will be so sweet can't even imagine it now but it's going to be
 so wonderful yeah all because of the Saviour all because of him so Happy Easter from all of us at follow him to you and your family and we hope you'll join us for our podcast for the rest of this year as we dive into the Old Testament but if not you can always find us exactly right here next week for follow him favor