The Old Testament is great Scripture. That Crimson thread of redemption flows through all of the major and minor Prophets.
Not only that it's essential in order to have a solid understanding of the New Testament. (as solid as we puny humans can get, even with the help of the Holy Spirit.) Trying to make any sense of the book of Revelation from Chapter 4 on without a solid grounding in the Old Testament is a complete waste of time.
Cvengr wrote:
The Old Testament is great Scripture. That Crimson thread of redemption flows through all of the major and minor Prophets.
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You’re so right. Today I was studying the Book of Ruth and how she approached Boaz on the threshingfloor and uncovered the feet of this potential kinsman-redeemer. Then correlated it to to the story in Luke of the harlot who the feet of Jesus, the ultimate kinsman-Redeemer, with perfume and tears while he broke bread with the judgmental and hypocritcal Pharisee Simon in that “worthy’s” house.
The first is a beautiful framework to understand the practical NT application in the second. And a lesson for all of us.
“The Old Testament is great Scripture. That Crimson thread of redemption flows through all of the major and minor Prophets.”
My wife had mentioned to the preacher that she was reading through the Bible and was almost to the end of the Old Testament. He asked her what her general thought on it was. She said “how much God loves us”. Most people (without reading the OT) would say the “God of the Old Testament is “vengeful, mean and nasty”.