Christ at the Center of History

I'd pretty well comfortably worked through the thought that the Bible is about Christ, who is the real One. He's so real in fact that the first Adam is overshadowed by the second Adam.  But I didn't realize how massive it is to have Christ at the center of all of it, including those obscure passages.

Consider Jesus and the holy family fleeing from Herod into Egypt. Hosea 11:1 is a strange verse, because it seems not to fit at all.
Kevin DeYoung posits the correct interpretation on this thought: that Christ is the new Israel. That in the same way the man Adam, or Moses, or Jonah foreshadowed Christ, the entire nation together foreshadows Christ. Israel came from Egypt, was baptized in the Sea and cloud under Moses, faced the trials in the wilderness, preached the law from Sinai, and came into the promised land.

Jesus came out of Egypt, was baptized, faced trials in the wilderness, preached the law, and entered the promised land of rest.  Therefore Israel the nation is the foreshadowing of Christ. It's the analogy, the weak mist, the ghost compared to Jesus, who is more than the fulfillment of scripture and history, He is the source of it's strength. It is what it is by mirroring and copying Him. 

That is a truly remarkable thought. Christ positively bends all of human history about Himself. All nations, peoples, languages, relationships, and world events are taken after Him and find Him their source. Not only is He at the center of all the Bible texts, stories, commands, songs, He is at the center of the created History. He is more than the consummation of the Old Testament, He is it's substance, it's reality. It in itself is the dimly lit history or analogy pointing to the truth found in Christ. He is the foundation for existence, the highest end. He is the one in which all things hold together, all the narratives and events.  
And not merely at the center of Scripture, but at the very core of the universe which orbits around Him, created after Him, in His likeness.

Paul would say it like this in Colossians 1:16-17 "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together."

But I confess I because of the size I had failed to apprehend the colossal statement that is, and it was not until I saw that the enormous history of the huge nation itself was foreshadowing Christ did I realize in some small part the magnitude of His anchoring presence in this world. 

It's one thing to bend all of scriptures about you, it's another again to bend all human history to you, and to have living nations existing for the sole purpose of reflecting your story.