1gr8bldr
Senior Member
The OT is very wordy. One can get lost here. However, if you know what you are looking for, it can be most revealing. As a Christian, knowing Abraham is the father of our faith, we should know the story of Abraham. So much coming from the OT we should know because it is the basis or foundation from which our NT writers wrote. For example, the flood is where the idea of a rapture comes from. The text says "they were caught up above the waters", delivered from the coming wrath. Then we have the tower of Babel. It is a picture of religion, all the denominations. Then we have Abraham called out on a journey of faith, not knowing where God was taking him but just going, likened to our spiritual journey. We see the promises that God gave him that I will be with you, and that ALL nations will be blessed through you. Then we see his failings of faith and God's patience, and ultimately his strengthening of his faith. And God promise of "I will provide" [the sacrifice].
Then we see his people fall into slavery because of a new Pharoah. Then the calling of Moses to lead the people out of slavery. Then we see their failings as they grumbled "is God among us our not". From here, the wordy begins, getting lost is easy, the law, the things, etc. Really hard for me to get any application here and I don't see the NT writers use it either. I assume that those of the Jewish background see it in a way I will never be able to. But what I do see in this "block" of the OT is the callings of those who were supposed to serve the people. In all cases, those called by God to serve the people used their calling as a means of power to have the people serve themselves rather than them serve the people. They all set themselves up as "Gods" no different than the Pharoahs had. David was the better of them however he did the same. It's that nature we inherited from Eve, whom did not want to be under God but be equal to God. Whom can not seem to win against our nature of "selfish ambition, vain conceit" . However, Jesus as opposed to Eve thinking equality with God as something to be grasped, made himself nothing, taking the role of a true servant, he humbled himself and became our ultimate servant of our ultimate need, and became obedient to the scriptures, those of death, even the cruelty of death on a cross....... Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him a name above all names, today you have became my son, to whom every knee shall bow and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. This is my OT point I wanted to make. How Jesus could have used his following, his calling, his position to build himself up, to create for himself his own worldly dynasty, to own and possess more than Solomon, yet he did not. He willing became our unrecognized servant whom not only suffered brutality, but suffered the anticipation of knowing it was coming.... but never abandoned his calling.
Then we see his people fall into slavery because of a new Pharoah. Then the calling of Moses to lead the people out of slavery. Then we see their failings as they grumbled "is God among us our not". From here, the wordy begins, getting lost is easy, the law, the things, etc. Really hard for me to get any application here and I don't see the NT writers use it either. I assume that those of the Jewish background see it in a way I will never be able to. But what I do see in this "block" of the OT is the callings of those who were supposed to serve the people. In all cases, those called by God to serve the people used their calling as a means of power to have the people serve themselves rather than them serve the people. They all set themselves up as "Gods" no different than the Pharoahs had. David was the better of them however he did the same. It's that nature we inherited from Eve, whom did not want to be under God but be equal to God. Whom can not seem to win against our nature of "selfish ambition, vain conceit" . However, Jesus as opposed to Eve thinking equality with God as something to be grasped, made himself nothing, taking the role of a true servant, he humbled himself and became our ultimate servant of our ultimate need, and became obedient to the scriptures, those of death, even the cruelty of death on a cross....... Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him a name above all names, today you have became my son, to whom every knee shall bow and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. This is my OT point I wanted to make. How Jesus could have used his following, his calling, his position to build himself up, to create for himself his own worldly dynasty, to own and possess more than Solomon, yet he did not. He willing became our unrecognized servant whom not only suffered brutality, but suffered the anticipation of knowing it was coming.... but never abandoned his calling.
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