“Two tablets of stone, a few vessels of oil, simple markings, a small army, a remote field, a solemn oath—these are some of the strangest people, places, and things through which God revealed himself to his people in the Old Testament.  And it is out of our study these stories from Scripture involving humble means that we see God foreshadowing the coming of his Christ, his Son, in flesh and blood to fulfill the promise he made to save his people from sin and death forever.”