God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
The conviction that Jesus inaugurated the messianic age enables the New Testament writers to preach Christ from the Old Testament, for this presupposition means that God's redemptive history reaches its climax in Jesus. In Him all the Old Testament promises come to fulfillment.
