This article discusses Edmund Clowney’s diagram for preaching from the Old Testament and the common pitfalls made while doing so. The diagram is in his book Preaching Christ in All of Scripture. Correct logical progression draws the symbolic meaning of an Old Testament text and shows its fulfillment in Christ through the redemption story. Then the significance of all of this to the church is shown. There are different errors jumps in this progression that can be made, all of which lead to some mistake.