Wrapping things up

A friend made this interesting tid-bit known to me and I felt it is really interesting. How the book wraps up loose ends nicely.

In the beginning of Matthew:

Matt 1:23

23 "Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means 'God is with us.'"

Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

And at the end of that book:

Matt 28:20

20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

Just looking at those two verses in retrospect of reading the whole book, it gives us a different dimension to what Matthew was trying to achieve when writing that book. He starts by Israel longing for a messiah, then tells of Jesus’ walk on this earth mingling with men, and when He rose to heaven, it isn’t the end. His spirit lives on in every believer. It starts with a longing, then the fulfillment of that longing, but ends off best with a security that you will never lose it. Matt is a great writer.