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the only written word from God that man needed up to the time of Jesus was the Old Testament. When Jesus and the New Testament writers referred to the “Scriptures” or “Scripture”, they were speaking of the Old Testament. It had been translated from Hebrew to Greek in about 250 B.C. It is the identical Old Testament that is in the present day Protestant Bible. Jesus and the New Testament writers acknowledged it as the inspired Word of God. Jesus said that it all pointed to Him.
When I finally wanted Him more than anything else, the Bible came alive.
you have refused to believe Moses. He wrote about me, but you refuse to believe him, so you refuse to believe in me. And since you don’t believe what he wrote, no wonder you don’t believe me either” (John 5:45-46 TLB).
people today seek to discredit Moses’ authorship of the first five books of the Bible. They also disclaim the literalness of these writings. This attack of the Bible goes under the name of the “higher criticism.”
Jesus said that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible and that Moses was writing about Him. Therefore, if a person doesn’t clearly perceive with “the eyes of their spirit” what God said about Himself through Moses, neither will he or she believe Jesus as He presents Himself as the Messiah and only Savior of the world.
By the time Jesus came along, the Jewish sages had divided the Old Testament into three divisions. These were the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
Jesus was again claiming that the writers of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, were writing about Him.
Jesus opened their minds by telling them the key for understanding the Scriptures. He told His disciples that the Old Testament writers wrote of His crucifixion and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins. This is how the two testaments are linked together. They both tell this one story. The Old Testament tells that it is going to happen. The New Testament tells that it did happen.
God entering into a blood covenant with Himself
The covenant in the blood of Jesus is the “scarlet thread” that runs through both testaments. This is what Jesus wanted us to know when He said, “Don’t misunderstand why I have come—it isn’t to cancel the laws of Moses and the warnings of the prophets. No, I cam...
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