Week 34 Matthew
In my print bible the OT ends on page 1334, a left-hand page, which only has three verses of Malachi on it so it’s about 80% white space.
There’s white space on the next page too. It only says two things. In a big bold font: The NEW TESTAMENT. Then a bit below that a more discrete heads-up: Words of Christ in RED LETTER. That’s all. It doesn’t say anything like START READING THE BIBLE HERE! or, SKIP THE FIRST 1334 PAGES. I’d have to fill those in myself.
I’m pretty sure it can be shown statistically that quite a few people prefer the NT to the OT. I do. Let’s say I lived in Russia in 1949 and Joseph Stalin condemned me to Siberia and I could only take along a copy of the OT or the NT I would take the NT. No question. On the other hand, if I could take the OT and the NT or just the NT I’d take both.
If I figured that the OT said anything enlightening at all, anything that helped me understand what was going on then I figure I’d be crazy not to read it even if the enlightening parts were mixed in with a bunch of hard-to-understand things. Which is why it’s taken me thirty-three weeks to get to page one of the NT.