In the scriptures, we find two different revelations of God. First, the "natural," which is when God is revealed through His work (i.e. Creation functions for us as a book). The second form, which is the one we will spend more time on today, is the "supernatural." This form is the free-willing self-disclosure of God as recorded in the Old and New Testaments. It is the will of God to reveal Himself – to have a dialogue with mankind. Carrying this forward, one may distinguish three phases of the divine revelation throughout the Old Testament period corresponding to the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible: Torah, Nebiim, and Kethubim. As such, we will take some time to review the ways of God's self-disclosure in the Old Testament and how these three phases were embodied in Christ's life and work. .
Beginning with the Torah, which means "instruction", God reveals Himself through natural phenomena such as: wind, fire, earthquake, cloud, smoke, etc. In the midst of all these powerful signs of divine presence, Moses receives the Torah, the instruction, which represents the most important section of God's revelation in the Old Testament. In Exodus 19:18-19 we witness a moment of this natural phenomena, "Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for Yahweh had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently. The sound of the shophar grew louder and louder. As Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder." Later in Exodus 34, when Moses was descending the mountain with the two tablets containing the commandments, the appearance of the color of his face was glorified, ".Since he had spoken with Him.". Therefore, we can conclude the source of Moses' transfiguration was God talking to him. .
The second phase of God's revelation to us is the Nebiim, the "prophets". Here God reveals Himself through a "whisper" discerned only by those called to discern such a whispering voice.
The truth, however, is that the essence of the two Gods are not alike. Every Muslim rejects the God of the New Testament or he blasphemes Allah. ... Christians believe that God is three gods merged into one God. ... It is believed that Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy of the Messiah. ... The heart of Islam is not a person but the revelations, called Qur"an. ...
Early believers did not have to fully comprehend this revelation. ... Their appreciation of who Jesus was took its point of departure from the conviction that, with His resurrection and exaltation, the New Age of Messianic triumph, described in the Old Testament and intertestamental writings, and the Old Testament scriptures had been fulfilled. ... The first was by asserting that Jesus" rejection was already foreseen in Old Testament scripture, notably Isaiah 53 and Psalm 118:22. ... Further mediation on Old Testament scripture evidently gave a clue to Jesus" use of the title "Son of Man." ...
In the Old testament God did in fact come within the boundaries of our human experience. ... The past experience of the Old Testament gives us a general idea of who God is , the general idea of his presence, and the action He chooses with His chosen people. ... We have to understand the Old Testament before we can get clear vision of the New Testament, for both show how God saves and delivers. ... David did win for Gods people. ... The resurrection was not a point to make us believe God was real, but a divine action extending, the promises of history, and we see complete fulfillment in the...
In the old English dialect the expression "helling potatoes" meant, not to roast them, but simply to place the potatoes in the ground or in a cellar. Collier's Encyclopedia (1986, Vol 12, p.28) says concerning "Hell": First it stands for the Hebrew Sheol of the Old Testament and the Greek Hades of the Septuagint and New Testament. Since Sheol in the Old Testament times refered simply to the abode of the dead and suggested no moral distinctions, the word 'hell,' as understood today, is not a happy translation." ... Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs depicted the...
The teachings of Judaism are based upon the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), which consists of three sections: Torah, Prophets and Writings. ... Traditionally it is believed to be the revelation of God to Moses. ... While Christians accepted the Old Testament portion of the Bible as divinely inspired, they believed that they were the new Israel and were bound to God by a new Covenant of love through Christ. ... Christianity now had a New Testament to continue and complete the Old. ... There are no limits to his power, for there are no other gods. ...
These are all the works put together by the prophets and other people who have experienced God's revelation. The Old Testament is about the times before Jesus came to earth. The New Testament is about Jesus" life and how he affected others. The Gospels are a part of the New Testament, and they talk about key, specific moments in Jesus" life. ... The first Commandment is I am the Lord your God, you shall not have any other gods besides me. ...
His revelations are completely reliable. ... (Holmes 8) The Old Testament term for truth is emeth. ... In Revelation 19:11, the Bible has an unmistakable emphasis on truth. ... They will often embrace different gods and allow individuals to accept whatever truth system they prefer. ... Our actions and reactions to situations should be a testament that we believe God is truth. ...
His revelations are completely reliable. ... (Holmes 8) The Old Testament term for truth is emeth. ... In Revelation 19:11, the Bible has an unmistakable emphasis on truth. ... They will often embrace different gods and allow individuals to accept whatever truth system they prefer. ... Our actions and reactions to situations should be a testament that we believe God is truth. ...
His revelations are completely reliable. ... (Holmes 8) The Old Testament term for truth is emeth. ... In Revelation 19:11, the Bible has an unmistakable emphasis on truth. ... They will often embrace different gods and allow individuals to accept whatever truth system they prefer. ... Our actions and reactions to situations should be a testament that we believe God is truth. ...
Furthermore, Genesis is part of The Old Testament that is believed by the Jewish faith to be adapted from The Torah3. ... In Gilgamesh, the gods send the flood because they cannot get any sleep due to the noisy humans. ... For instance, the reference to the number 7 in the Gilgamesh flood is seen in the Bible with the Seven Days of Genesis, the Seven Seals of Revelation, and quite a few more references throughout the scriptures. ... In Gilgamesh the gods Ea and Mami created 14 human beings to help repopulate the Earth. ... So a switch from polytheistic gods to the one God of Genesis would b...
