Jesus Making Cameos in the Old Testament

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In the Old Testament there are many instances of patriarchs seeing the Angel of the Lord, like Abraham’s encounter with the three men at Mamre or Joshua’s meeting with the commander of the Lord’s army. Some believe the Angel is none other than Christ Himself. I’m inclined to agree.
 
Eusebius said that when man was made in the Image of God, that it was the Image of Christ, and I kinda agree.

Many also think the man in the furnace with the others was Christ. It also makes sense if it was Christ that wrestled with Israel, though it could have been an angel, it makes sense if he wrestled with God literally.

Also, the Three People Abraham met…
 
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Eusebius also believed that the man who Jacob wrestled with was Jesus.
 
It was God that Abraham encountered…and perhaps God the Son, but not Jesus. While the Son has existed with the Father and the Holy Spirit for all of time, the incarnate Son, Jesus did not appear for centuries after Abraham’s encounter.
 
I like this youtube video. In this Eucharistic flash mob, the Capuchin monk says that Jesus appeared in every book of the bible and he goes through and lists where he appears.

Fast forward through the first minute where they are getting set-up if you are pressed for time.


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John Marie Philomena
 
When I was a little girl, I had a picture Bible. And there was the story of the three young men in the Old Testament who were put in the fiery furnace for not eating the forbidden food (some kind of meat?) --when the king looked into the furnace he saw four young men, and ordered the execution to be stopped.
The executioners brought out only three young men, the fourth had vanished, and the upshot was that the fourth young man was probably Jesus?
The same picture Bible said that one of Abraham’s visitors was Jesus…

Okay, yeah, a children’s Bible, but the idea has been around a long time.
 
Justin Martyr espoused that belief in his dialogue with Trypho the Jew.
 
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