As mentioned before, Genesis 3:21 describes the future of what was to come because Jesus Christ is the redemptive embodiment of the Missio Dei; John 5:39-41 says, “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the same Scriptures that testify of me, yet you refuse to come to me for life.” The entire Old Testament depicted Jesus: “The Bible talks about God loving the world so much. This Bible is about Jesus, God's gift to the world” (Hanes, 197). John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” In the Scriptures it says, "grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" John 1:17. In the Old Testament God shows His grace during Noah's flood, the exodus, and even God using Joseph to save his family in Egypt. God's grace also pours throughout the Old Testament. However, Wright states, “the exodus is found in the Hebrew Scriptures as the great demonstration of YHWH's power, love, faithfulness, and liberating intervention on behalf of His people” (75). Wright also says, “Jesus Christ is typical of what we have already seen: the identification of Jesus with the great defining functions of the God of Israel” (118). Furthermore, since Jesus is God in flesh, Jesus also brings salvation. “The name Jehoshua, Yeshua,
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