-That's amazing! That's amazing! Samuel exclaimed, "I think one must be mad to resist the Divine truth, which is so amazingly clear in the prophetic books. Tell me, Rabbi Isaac, are there any other testimonies of the Old Testament that foreshadow events in the life of Jesus Christ?

-Absolutely. I'll give you a few examples:

1) Thus, Abraham's sacrifice of his son Isaac is a prototype of the Messiah's sacrifice on the Cross. Abraham with the deepest humility submitted to the Divine command: "God said, Take thy son, thy only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac; and go to the land of Moriah, and there offer him for a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you... And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. But an angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham! The angel said, "Do not lift up your hand against the child, and do nothing to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and that thou shalt not have pity on thy son, thy only son, for my sake" (Genesis, 22:2-12).

In the same way, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the words of the Apostle Paul, "was delivered up for our sins" (Rom. 4:25) and in another place of the same epistle: "He who did not spare His Son, but delivered Him up for us all..." (Rom., ch.8, p.32).

2) In the same way, the sojourn of the prophet Jonah in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights foreshadows the three-day burial of Jesus Christ: "And the Lord commanded the great whale to swallow Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of this whale three days and three nights" (Book of Jonah, ch.2).

In the New Testament we read: "... some of the scribes and Pharisees said, "Teacher! we would like to see a sign from You. But he answered and said to them, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign is given to him, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights" (Matthew, chapter 12, verses 38-40).

3) The Passover Lamb of the Jews also prefigures the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. In Exodus chapter 12 we read: "And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be the beginning of months for you; The first one shall be with you between the months of the year. Say to all the congregation of Israel, On the tenth day of this month, let each one take for himself one lamb according to families, a lamb per family... You must have a lamb without blemish; male, one-year-old; Take it from the sheep or from the goats. And it shall be kept with you until the fourteenth day of this month: then all the congregation of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of its blood, and anoint it on the two doorposts and lintels of the doors of the houses where they shall eat it. Let them eat its flesh this very night, baked in the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, let them eat it. You shall not eat of it unbaked, or boiled in water, but you shall eat what is baked in the fire, the head with the legs and the entrails. Do not leave it until morning; but what remains of it you shall burn in the fire until morning. Eat it thus: let your loins be girded up, your shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and eat it with haste; this is the Pascha of the Lord. But I will go through the land of Egypt this very night, and I will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man to beast, and I will execute judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord" (Exodus, chapter 12, verses 1-12).

And now listen, Rabbi Samuel, to what John the Baptist and the Apostle Paul say about the Messiah-Christ:

"On the morrow John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world; This is the man of whom I said, A man is coming after me, who has gone before me, because he was before me; I did not know Him; but for this reason He came to baptize in water, that He might be manifested to Israel. And John testified, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and abiding upon Him; I did not know Him; but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "On whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding upon Him, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit." And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God" (John, chapter 1, verses 29-34).

In his Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul says: "Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole dough? Cleanse therefore the old leaven, that it may be a new dough unto you, for ye are unleavened, for our Passover, Christ, was slain for us" (1 Corinthians, 5:6-7).

So, as you can see. The Lamb, which our fathers ate in Egypt at the time of the Exodus, prefigures the Messiah-Christ. And just as the blood of the Passover lamb saved the firstborn of Israel, because, according to the Scriptures, "the doors of the houses in which the Passover was eaten were anointed with blood": "And you will have blood as a sign in the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass by you, and there will be no destructive plague among you, when I smite the land of Egypt" (Exodus, chapter 12, verse 13). In the same way, "the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cleanses us from all sin" (1 Epistle to John, chapter 1, verse 7).

The following interesting detail is also worthy of attention. In the words of the Scriptures, "The bones of the Passover lamb shall not be broken" (Exodus, chapter 12, verse 46). This was exactly fulfilled in Christ. Thus testifies John, the beloved disciple of the Messiah, who witnessed the crucifixion: "But as it was Friday then, the Jews, in order not to leave the bodies on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a great day, asked Pilate to break their legs and take them off. So the soldiers came, and they broke the legs of the first, and the other who was crucified with him; but when they came to Jesus, when they saw Him already dead, they did not break His legs, but one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; He knows that he speaks the truth so that you will believe. For this has come to pass, that the Scripture may be fulfilled: "Let not His bone be broken" (John, chapter 19, verses 31-36).

There is another interesting parallel: the Apostle Paul writes in his Epistle to the Hebrews: "We have an altar, from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat. Since the bodies of animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for the cleansing of sin, are burned outside the camp, so Jesus, in order to sanctify people with His blood, suffered outside the gate... (gate)" (Heb. 8:10-12; Leviticus 4:12).

Also, the image of a copper serpent nailed to a tree foreshadowed the death of the Messiah on the cross. Open the 21st chapter of the book of Numbers, Rabbi Samuel.