Reading the Old Testament

G. K. Beale, in his book "A New Testament Biblical Theology" quotes William Mason:

"When we turn to the New Testament, we pass from the climate of prediction to that of fulfillment. The things which God had foreshadowed by the lips of His holy prophets He has now, in part at least, brought to accomplishment… The supreme sign of the Eschaton is the Resurrection of Jesus and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church. The Resurrection of Jesus is not simply a sign which God has granted in favor of his son, but is the inauguration, the entrance into history, of the times of the End. Christians, therefore, have entered through the Christ into the new age… What had been predicted in Holy Scripture as to happen to Israel or to man in the Eschaton, has happened to and in Jesus. The foundation-stone of the New Creation has come into position."  William Mason, Eschatology in the New Testament 1953

What a great summary of how to read the Old Testament in the light of the New Testament!