“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56).

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees about “my day”—a day which Abraham had “seen” 2000 years before. This evidently referred to the time when Christ would be on earth, which God had enabled Abraham to see in prophecy.

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

“As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly” (I Corinthians 15:48).

“Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD” (Joshua 24:14).

“And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8).