After a whole year, we finally finished the Old Testament. Now we come to the New Testament! It’s kind of like hearing a complicated riddle and then finally finding the answer to the riddle. Think of all the hints we’ve gotten. The Savior will be a Snake Crusher. He will be the true temple. He will be the sacrifice for our sins. He will be the prophet greater than Elijah, the priest in the order of Melchizedek, and the king greater than David!

And all these Old Testament shadows and symbols point forward to the Jesus we meet in the New Testament. Another way to think about the two big sections in the Bible—Old Testament and New Testament—is with the word covenant. And if you remember, covenants were a special kind of promise. The Old Testament tells what God promised to do for his people and the New Testament tells how Jesus fulfills those promises.

The New Testament starts with four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They tell us the good news (or “gospel”) of Jesus’s birth, life, death, and resurrection. These four Gospels are like four cameras that are filming the same scenes. They give us four different angles on the big stories of the Biggest Story. We turn now to the opening scene. Lights. Cameras. Action!