"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah [fruitfulness], though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
Just one example of WHY evangelists need to study the OT.
BFML,
I LOVE the OT! :-)
Obadiah 1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Jacob-Joseph-Esau. These are all their original names. Their "first" birth names, as it were. Joseph, too, was given a new name, based on *his* character (who he was, the one God gave the insight, instructions):
Tzaphnat Paneach
Decipherer of ciphers, more loosely translated as the "revealer of mysteries". It gets even more interesting when you consider the identities of the name-givers.
And coming down through the ages we have these titles:
Esav haRasha
Yosef haTzaddik
Esau "the Wicked"
Joseph "the Righteous"
And then that Wicked shall be revealed...
...whose coming is after the working of Satan
Samael (the satan), the malack of Esav...
Gee you don't think these two opposing forces of good and evil could be inhabiting the same land, do you? Talk about a battleground. This particular election: where the parable is the literal meaning. "Trump." What's in a name?
And to think the prophecy experts perpetually scratch their heads because they can't find America in Bible prophecy. Stubble = "chaff". Good name for their books, which are their works.
Empty heads held high.