The relationship betwen the Old Testament and the New Testment

Mathias Bavay

2006-10-29

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Contents

1  The Old Testament

2  The New Testament

3  One voice, two characters

4  Purpose of this multi-layer revelation

5  Watch out! look for the context!

6  Conclusion

Knowing the verses is not enough: understanding the real intent (ie: from the heart of God and not as a legalistic, narrow point of view) must be sought. This can be done only by looking at the details (how the original words have been translated), at the historical context (when, in which kind of society) and within the globality of the Scriptures. If two verses seem to contradict each other, this is a sure sign that we are missing something and that our understanding is wrong! When Christ tells us to love our neighbour, if we tend to reply "yes, but I have the right to do so and so to him", we are acting like the pharisees and not according God's heart!

We are the foreigners invited into the covenant (by faith, we are made Abraham children). This is then our responsibility to learn the language, the customs, etc of the nation that is receiving us!

A  Biblical references

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scriptures are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

A.1  The Old Testament

A.2  The New Testament

A.3  One voice two characters

Num 21:6–8
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
Rom 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
Rom 9:30
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:10
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Ph 2:9
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
Rom 9:30
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:10
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
1Cor 11:25
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
Num 21:6–8
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
Gen 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Ex 25:17–22
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
Ex 33:17
And the Lord said to Moses, This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.
Pr 3:34
Toward the scorners he is scornful,but to the humble he gives favor.
Ez 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
De 7:7–8
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Ex 33:19
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name The Lord. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Ex 34:6–7
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.
Ps 32:1–5
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted awaythrough my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you,and I did not cover my iniquity;I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Mt 27:41
So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,
Mt 5:17–18
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Rom 3:22
the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Mt 5:18
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Mt 5:17
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

A.4  Purpose of this multi-layer revelation

Mt 7:12
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
1Cor 13:12
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Heb 10:1
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Col 2:16–17
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Mt 22:29
But Jesus answered them, You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Lk 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Lk 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Rom 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

A.5  Watch out! look for the context!

De 21:10–15
When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her. If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,
Mt 19:8
He said to them, Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mt 5:39
But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA.