“Five Favorite Bible Commentaries” by Zachary Garris
This article over at TruthScript.com provides five resources for studying Scripture, including links for free resources such as the NET Bible notes and Calvin’s commentaries.
The key takeaway here is that the Bible is a unified whole. The entire OT points to Christ and His kingdom.
We must now consider how to interpret these books. This is known as the study of hermeneutics, the science of interpretation.
The Bible is a hard book. It was written thousands of years ago in other languages and in different cultures. Christians therefore need resources to help them study the Bible.
God is always the hero in the story of the Bible. He created man from the dust to bring Him glory, yet man has continually rebelled against Him. But God in His grace and goodness has been redeeming man ever since, restoring man in his relationship with Him and promising to fully redeem His people at the final resurrection.
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Through millennia of history, God in Christ is bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10), and clearly, we can see both biblically and experientially that this is a long process, often subtle, often hardly even visible, often frustrating, and always slow.