“They knew that they were naked” (Genesis 3:7).

After man himself determines what is good for him, he suddenly realises that he stands naked and uncovered before God. Suddenly he sees all his need for redemption and how holy God is. Man wanted to be like God – now he realises weakness and dependence.

When we begin to look at our lives from God’s perspective, we see our need and the neediness of the world.

Through the Bible, we suddenly realise the lostness of which we had no idea before. When people have the opportunity, they take advantage of others. They look after themselves and often avoid God.

We long for the happiness of life, the great gift that is supposed to change everything. The only gift that really helps us, is the realisation that we need God.

Messiah images in the Torah

• God seeks us – Adam where are you?
• The possibility of a choice – Two trees in the Garden of Eden
• Neediness instead divinity – A new view
• God’s master plan  – Salvation through a human being
• A divine clothing – God acts
• A world upside down – Kai and Abel
• Living in the presence of God – Enoch
• God is calling – Noah
• A king-priest like Melchizedek
• God visits Abraham
• Life through a sacrifice – Isaac
• The ladder to heaven – Jacob
• New identity from Jacob to Israel
• Messiah Ben Joseph – Joseph the son of Jacob
• Shiloh, whom all nations will serve – Blessing on Judah
• Moses, the prototype of the Saviour
• References to Jesus in Moses
• The Passover Lamb
• The pillar of cloud and fire
• God wants to be with us – The tabernacle / The temple
• The snake on a pole – An image of a new beginning
• The rock in the desert – Faith is not a method
• A prophet greater than Moses
  
• A star from Jacob – Bileam