[Just mythoughts]

This is what you have been taught and what you believe.

"Required", no, nobody is going to force you to study them in this life, but knowing what they foretell will certainly give one understanding of what is to be.

We are told "I have foretold you all things".

Moses wrote the song described in Revelation that the overcomers would be singing.

Before a word of the New Testment was ever Written
Christ continually asked the question "Have you not read"?

Not even Christ took a break from the Old Testment, nor did any of the other Writers of the New Testment.

[Destro]

Oh really? No break from the old testament? How about Peter saying not to keep kosher? Duh!