Can detailed statements regarding the First Advent be found throughout the entire Old Testament?

Answer 1

AnswerRead literally and in context, the Old Testament makes no mention of Jesus nor of the Advent of his birth. Nevertheless, Burton L. Mack describes a trick that can be used to make any Old Testament book say what you want it to say. By this means, books such as Genesis and Isaiah have been made to refer to Jesus. Mack says in Who Wrote the New Testament that at first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in The Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right. This trick seems to come naturally when studying the Bible, and Mack sees it happen all the time in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont.

By following these simple rules, you can have as many supposedly detailed statements about the First Advent as you wish.