“The goal of understanding the Old Testament” by John H. Sailhamer

“The New Testament is not so much a guide to understanding the Old Testament as it is the goal of understanding the Old Testament.

Unless we understand the Old Testament picture of the Messiah, we will not understand the New Testament picture of Jesus.

The Old Testament, not the New Testament, is the messianic searchlight.”

–John H. Sailhamer, “The Messiah and the Hebrew Bible,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 44, no. 1 (2001): 11.