I am a believer in Messiah/Christ who grew up Jewish. In my journey towards faith I read both testaments.  I know I’m not the first to point out the many similarities between the events, language, and imagery of the Old Testament and New.  For me, like many others, these similarities have long held meaning and fascination.

However, I began to notice a pattern: and the more I looked at it, the clearer the pattern became:

The series of corresponding events in the Old Testament and the New Testament don’t simply match — they match in reverse order!

Events occurring towards the beginning of the NT Gospels occur towards Moses in the Old Testament.  Events that occur at the end of the Gospels occur in Genesis the beginning of the OT.

The similarities are so complete that I  see the depiction of Jesus’s life in the Gospels as a mirror image reflection (writing is reversed in a mirror) of key events in the Old Testament .  That’s why I call this observation “the Backward Walk of Jesus”.

I present this idea by showing these mirror image similarities in chronological order from about the time Israel was given the law until the beginning of Genesis/ from Moses to Adam.  (Romans 5:14 “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, “… )

The rough outline is this:  In Genesis we have the scene in Eden, the flood & then Israel going into Egypt, in that order, carrying over to the next book, Exodus where Israel’s descendants leave Egypt and receive the law from Moses.

In the gospel we have Joseph and Mary keeping the laws of Moses with Jesus, then we have Jesus’s baptism relating to the flood and finally the passover supper relating to the scene in Eden.

Some meaningful similarities- such as the the temptation at the end of Jesus’s 40 day fast and a quote in Deuteronomy referring to the tree of life- fall outside of this strict chronology but the focus is the Backwards Walk of Jesus.

Whether you believe it a literary device or a divine watermark it is clearly there.  The question is why has this been in plain view almost 2,000 years in the most researched book in the world and no one has written about it?

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Kings & Priests 

From Proverbs 25:2  -It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Revelations 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth