Recommendation! 'The Emmaus Code'

There's something happening here … spiritually, that is.

Christians are rediscovering their spiritual roots in the Hebrew Scriptures and the promises God made to the seed of Abraham.

And it's a good thing.

The latest book on this subject is by someone largely known as a political writer – David Limbaugh, a distinguished attorney and the brother of Rush. It's called "The Emmaus Code," and I highly recommend it to believers who love Jesus but just don't know how to get on track in their study of the Old Testament.

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David Limbaugh has made it easy. What he has actually accomplished in "The Emmaus Code," is to create an Old Testament 101 course that makes it easy to see Jesus throughout the Bible, making even difficult, seemingly dense books and passages of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanach, relevant and timely to those whose eyes too often glaze over in Numbers, Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

I suspect the advantage Limbaugh had in approaching this daunting task is that he had the same difficulty so many Christians have with the Old Testament: What is the relevance of all these hard-to-pronounce names, cities and the ancient history?

After many years of laborious study, the Bible started to come to life for Limbaugh, as it has for so many others who have rediscovered the vitality and miracles and application of the Old Testament.

When he saw that passage in Luke 24 about the two followers of Jesus on the road to Emmaus wringing their hands in bewilderment about Jesus' death on the cross and His empty tomb when they encounter a stranger who turns out to be the risen Messiah, it all started to come together for him. Jesus took those two believers on a verbal tour of all the existing Scriptures of that time – the Old Testament – and showed them how it all pointed to Him.

Limbaugh's concept was to survey all the Old Testament books with that in mind. And that's "The Emmaus Code."

He’s done something quite extraordinary. It helps that Limbaugh doesn’t come at this task as a “scholar,” trying to impress others with his insights and vast knowledge. Instead, he built on the shoulders of others over 2,000 years, producing in one easy-to-read volume a thorough yet breezy book that can be relished in one sitting and then consulted again and again for the reader who wants to use it as a handy guide to Bible study.

It's an ideal tool to keep right next to your Bible to give you some direction in your reading – synopsizing every book of the Old Testament to provide a quick overview so you don't get lost in the weeds as you are reading, and calling out the centrality of Jesus in every single book.

My discovery of the Old Testament came through my interest in prophecy. But I often missed the pertinence of many books and passages that weren't necessarily prophetic. Also, I often found myself tiring of reading the historical books like Chronicles and Kings because they were hard to traverse.

But Limbaugh has provided an introductory course for all those with the heart to go deeper than Sunday sermons and a weekly Bible study allow. It's a triumph. It's the kind of book I wish existed for me 40 years ago when I was struggling like he was.

The Tanach, the Old Testament, is the foundation for the New Testament. You really can't fully appreciate the New Testament without it.

Why did Yeshua-Jesus die for our sins? How do we know He was the Messiah? How can we be sure He was who He said He was? How do we know He is God? The answers are all in the Old Testament – which gives the New Testament the validity and credibility so we can accept it on faith and with reason.

I suspect this book will help open up the Scriptures to many, many thousands of people in a fresh light, providing real direction and purpose to their Bible reading and study.

I love the way Limbaugh affirms the law and the centrality of Israel to our hope and that we former "gentiles" are "grafted in" to the promises of God, thus repudiating the ugly lie of replacement theology.

No matter how much you think you know about the Bible, get yourself a copy of David Limbaugh's "The Emmaus Code" to give your reading of the Scriptures a shot of adrenalin.

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