The Underlying Theme

A little while ago Bob Jennings mentioned in a sermon something on how the scripture seems to just tie into itself time and time again. There are hundreds of examples I'm sure, but he specifically pointed out a pattern found in the life of Christ that relates back to the Old Testament. He talked about how the fall of man took place in a garden (Genesis chapter 3), Jesus was often found praying in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives (Luke 22:39), Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1), and Jesus was both crucified and buried in a garden (John 19:41). All of this just served to remind me that over the whole course of scripture the Bible points to one thing. From all of the laws of the Old Testament, to the gospels, and onward into the amazing truths found in the book of Hebrews, the underlying theme points to the work that Christ accomplished on the cross. Glorious redemption for a race of sinful, undeserving men! I wonder how old Jesus was when he realized that his own life was pointing towards the same thing that all of scripture points to--the Cross.