In summary: the story is all about Christ and, by extension, His kingdom.
How do I know? The Bible tells me so.
The NT says that the OT is about Christ (Luke 24:44-45; John 1:43-51; 1 Pet. 1:10-12).
The Gospels say that they are about Christ.
The Acts speak about the expansion of His kingdom.
The epistles are about the life of those in the Kingdom.
And, finally, Revelation is “the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 1:1).
So, the Bible is about Christ. The storyline of Scripture is about Christ. If you understand it apart from Christ, then you misunderstand it.
To take it a step further...
The story of all of history is about Christ. He is the center of all things. He is the reason that everything exists and He is the point of all history. All things find their meaning in Christ. I do not believe that there is anything in the world that can be rightly understood apart from how it is related to Christ. There is not anything, whether in Scripture or in the world, that does not either testify to Christ or testify to the need for Christ. Even our own individual end is to be conformed to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29).
It is all about Him. Apparently the plan has always been “to unite all things in Him” (Eph. 1:10). Everything is made through Him and made for Him (Col. 1:16-17).
And I’ll be daggum if it doesn’t excite me to be adopted as a son and made co-heir with the heir of all things...
Dr. Russell Moore made the statement that “Every text of Scripture – Old or New Testaments – is thus about Jesus, precisely because, at the end of the day, everything in reality is about Jesus. Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are human beings religious? Why do people want food and water and sex and community? Why are there galaxies and quasars and blue whales and local churches? God is creating all that is for His heir, for the glory of Jesus Christ. When you see through Jesus, you see the interpretive grid through which all of reality makes sense.”
I think that’s a good statement.
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