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Originally Posted by mfblume
Everything in Revelation is from a picture in the Old Testament that grants insight into what the rest of the New Testament already stated in plain terms. I think. For example, JESUS is the lamb whose blood redeems. That is from Passover. It intensifies the purpose of his sacrifice..
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I taught Sunday School this morning and brought out that the book of Revelation has 404 verses, of which, 278 of them make a direct reference to the Old Testament and there are over 800 allusions or indirect references to the Old Testament as well!
And that there are 7958 verses in the New Testament and there are upwards of 4105 quotations and references to the Old Testament.
By us not incorporating the Old Testament into our conclusions, we will not totally understand what is being conveyed.
I then presented the "living waters" scriptures from the Old Testament,
Zech. 14:8, into the New Testament by what Jesus said in
John 4:7-14 and 7:37-39, tied it into the day of Pentecost and capped it with the same reference found in
Revelation 21:6.
I had many people come up to me afterwards and said they never realized that before and thanked me for showing them, in my example, how to use the Bible to confirm the Bible.
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