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Originally Posted by Sabby
This is why in my view that NT prophecies revolve around the fulfilled promises and prophesies of Jesus Christ hidden in the OT. It "works" because the sole reason God provided fallen man with the Bible was to discover Jesus Christ.
There's another thread along the lines of what if we didn't have the OT and some posters said we'd be better off. I understand what they are saying in all the legalisms borrowed from the OT that some are prone to apply to the New. In that regard, the OT becomes a weight "too grievous to be borne".
That is not the Old Testament understanding (I believe) that God desired for His church in the first century or today.
It is understood the first century prophets preached with inspiration. What did they preach? It was NOT 1 Thessalonians and the future coming of the Lord, since THAT author said he preached nothing but "Christ and him crucified". The Old Testament provided "proof texts" if you will, testimony, veracity and in some cases witness (martyrdom) of the Lord Jesus. We can't fully understand who He is without it. It takes more than flesh and blood to reveal it: it takes the inspiration of God.
Mt..16:16
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.Mt..16:17
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And anyone that preaches (with inspiration) Christ and Him crucified/the gospel-is according to the definition, a NT prophet.
Anyone willing to expand on this?
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If I am unerstanding what you are saying we are not far from the way we each are thinking. As there was a time when I hardly use the OT I find that today I am in it ever more. As I do not view in the same light I did in the early years of my ministry.
I no longer see in the OT God as a God of supreime judgment sitting in heaven wating for man to fall so he can come judge us. I instead think of he years God would allow man to his own ways before bringing judgment down. Of the time between Noah and the flood to Abraham. As God looked till he found jst the right man that would become a "friend of God".
As his word says "he is the same yesterday today and forever" if the mind of God was for relationship with him, and he would let mankind go his way for several hundred years before he found in Abraham some one he could call friend. What does that say for those living today? That God is sitting waiting to judge us and send us to hell? Or just the opposite, that God came to earth to redeme us by his own blood, and having made the perfect way, we can come boldly to the throne and in him find true friendship.
The question is will you be his friend?