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==Physical manifestations of God in the Old Testament== ==Physical manifestations of God in the New Testament==

==An Old Testament prophet?==

In the New Testament, a great light appeared to Paul the Apostle, and a voice said: "I am Jesus ...Hebrew word '''יהוה''' (the "Tetragammaton") occurs 5,527 times in the Old Testament.

...e power over an object that was formerly the power of another. In the Old Testament, certain things could only be redeemed by a Kinsman, and were redeemed as a In the New Testament, Jesus Christ became a kinsman by being made under the law in the form of a

...ames in the Old Testament are similar to the names of God found in the New Testament book of Revelation.

In the Old Testament there were prophetesses, like Miriam, Deborah and Hulda. In the New Testament there were prophetesses in the Church, such as Philip the evangelists’ fo

..., the Christian dispensation was what bridged or keystoned the New and Old Testament together.<ref>William Branham, 56-0527 - At Kadesh-Barnea, para. 34</ref>

...t word "Adon" (Hebrew: a ruler, one with power and authority). In the Old Testament, Adon is used in reference to earthly kings, rulers, and masters, as well a [[Category:Old Testament]]

...ot of ourselves, it is the gift of God. Does that make me want to live any old way? God forbid. Now, it is the Love of God (or my love for God) that const The Old Testament saints did not have access to the life of Christ to help them live a Godly

...ing:1px; margin:1px;"><font color='#800000' size='+1'>'''Errors in the New Testament? (Part 1)'''</font> </div> ...nt came from? Is the New Testament that we have today the same as the New Testament that the early church had?

'''Rock''' is used as a descriptive word for God. In the Old Testament, it marks him as eternal, steadfast, a refuge, and immovable. He is the fo In the New Testament, the rock continues to describe the Lord, and its value is increased as it

...nt to do something new but we are eating off something that is fifty years old? ...governs any true move of God. As Jesus put it, he won´t put new wine into old wineskins (see Mark 2:22).

...Levitical priesthood out of the Old Testament and applying them to the New Testament church. However, this is not Biblical teaching. ...is the Old Testament mosaic law, is not required to be followed in the New Testament church. In fact, Paul refers to the law as the "ministry of death":

...mes. Does this mean that the differences between the new covenant and the old covenant are not important? What does the Bible say about this? =Is the "Old Covenant" still relevant?=

With the exception of this verse, nakedness in the Old Testament is always connected with some form of humiliation. The three major uses of ...ook of Genesis, Chapters 1–17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 181.</ref>

...y seeking to [[Mixing Law and Grace|bring Old Testament laws in to the New Testament church]]. As part of this teaching, he believed that a child born in sin c ==Old Testament==

==William Branham brought Old Testament law into the New Testament== ...says is in effect. Yes, sir. Only thing it does from the new Bible to the old Bible, it just magnified.<ref>William Branham, 64-0823E - Questions And An

...r. Not only is the LORD Holy, but he is the Holy One. Throughout the Old Testament, God is called Holy, and the Holy One. The [[Messiah]] is shown to be none In the New Testament, [[Portal:History (Jesus)|Jesus]] is called the holy child, [[Portal:God|Go

...born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?'''”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: ...“Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible S

...are many prophecies in the Bible,''' both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Listed below are a sample of Biblical prophecies: ==Old Testament Prophecies==

But is this true in the New Testament? Has this held true for the last 2,000 years? Amos 3:7 is under the old covenant. We understand from Hebrews 8:13 that the old covenant is obsolete:

In the Old Testament, the '''Spirit''' of the Lord came in varying manifestations. The Spirit d =="Spirit" in the Old Testament==

This primary test of a prophet in Old Testament times that his predictions could be precisely validated at a later time as Paul lays a test down for New Testament prophets:

This message concept comes from a fairly innocuous phrase in the Old Testament. Referring to Abraham, the Bible states that when he died "he was gathered :''Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and '''he was gathered to his people...'''”<ref>Ge

...France, The Gospel of Matthew, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publication Co., 2007), 414.</ref>, or

...times. The compound name "Lord Jesus Christ" appears 81 times in the New Testament, beginning in the book of Acts. Christ and Messiah both mean "anointed". |For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God in

==King in the Old Testament== ==King in the New Testament==

...eath the deeds of the flesh. Ephesians 4:22–24 instructs us to put off the old self and put on the new. Colossians 3:5 commands us to put to death what is '''Let’s not make the mistake of the old Keswick theology (so named because it was first promoted at conferences hel

...one who”) and dai (“is sufficient”). Some later Greek versions of the Old Testament have adopted this meaning. This view is not as well accepted as the view ab The Emphatic Diaglott is a Greek Interlinear version of the New Testament published by the Watchtower Society<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empha

==Old Testament== There are many examples of jewelry being acceptable in the Old Testament. For example, Rebekah was given gold and silver jewelry by Abraham's serva

The New Testament does not allow a person to bring Old Testament law into the new covenant. The New Testament clearly holds women to a standard of modesty (1 Tim. 2:9). But it is not a

In the Old Testament, false prophecy was considered criminal in nature, punishable by death: ...igie, The Book of Deuteronomy, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1976), 262–263.</ref>

The Old Testament contains many examples of people’s names being changed to better fit thei ...to Paul at the time of his conversion has absolutely no support in the New Testament.<ref>C. E. B. Cranfield, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistl

[[Category:Old Testament]]

...mber 23, 2109, and informed the bank that he intended to redeem all of the old paper $100 notes in his possession which amounted to TTD$28,046,500 (Trinid ...n for the source of $28 million he tried to exchange for new $100 bills on Old Year's Day, has declared the devil is trying to “make him famous”, and

...hat there is no “original” English Bible. All English versions of the New Testament have been translated from the Greek manuscripts, or in some cases, from a p ...nuscripts, they used an archaic English translation that is over 500 years old. How does that even make sense?

===The Old Testament=== This is the basic understanding of God in the Old Testament:

1. There are no valid reasons that the New Testament should not be accepted as a reliable historical document. This would incl :a. The accounts in the New Testament were written by eyewitnesses within forty years of the events that are desc

|And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty =="El" in the New Testament==

...life right there, it's going to be just that way.''' I'm forty-five years old, seen visions since I was a baby, and have never seen one time or '''challe ==The obsolete old covenant==

==What Old Testament Prophecy tells of the Messiah revealing the hearts?== There are no prophecies in the Old Testament that claim that the Messiah would have the gift of discernment. Instead, t

|'''God in the Old Testament'''

...he brother of Moses, of the tribe of Levi, was the first priest in the Old Testament. All subsequent priests were from the tribe of Levi. As ordained by Moses While Jesus is called "mediator" a number of times in the New Testament, he is only called a priest in the book of Hebrews. However, his office as

In the Old Testament, prophets prophesied within two time frames: their own time, and for the di =Prophecy in the New Testament=

...echariah and Malachi: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 28, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1972), 132.</ref> #The cumulative adaptation of diverse Old Testament prophetic references, such as fire coming from the witnesses’ mouths rath

=The Names of Elohim in the Old Testament= ...h God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

...said that it's wrong. And get out on a afternoon and put them little bitty old short clothes on to mow the yard. It's wrong. '''It's a sin in the sight of ==What does the New Testament say?==

...ncept of the magnification of the law, among other things, '''to bring Old Testament law into the church'''. But the question is - '''Does the Bible support th ==The Old Covenant is Obsolete!!==

...ranham's theology is that he did not understand the difference between the old covenant and the new. In fact, he rarely used the term "new covenant." ...ome old, to wear out or become obsolete and therefore no longer valid. The old covenant is [00:14:00] out of date.

...his own righteousness when God took his posessions and weath. In the New Testament, a rich young ruler told [[Jesus]] that he had kept all of the commandments

...closure of Himself was a progression from the Old Testament era to the New Testament, nowhere in scripture does God correct Himself or change His mind. Even Wi

There is really only one reference to jewelry in the New Testament: ...e A. Grudem, 1 Peter: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 17, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 148.</ref>

In the New Testament, we learn that sin is: Iniquity in the KJV New Testament is translated from the following Greek Words:

But I do not think that the New Testament also one to bring Old Testament law into the new covenant. I do believe that the New Testament holds women to a standard of modesty (1 Tim. 2:9). But it is not an issue

...is the Septuagint version (the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament which Jesus and the disciples often quoted) which reads: ...other?<ref>Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament: English Translation (London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1870), Am 3:3–4.</

...s P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, vol. 1, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains, electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., 590 (New Yo =The Son in the Old Testament=

|Before they had paper, all the old ancient writings was either on rock or on skin.” *“Joseph's bones were in a little old lead casket when the children of Israel left Egypt…[then it went to] be i

#The tithe in the New Testament is ten percent; and But what does the New Testament say?

Similarly, most of the New Testament epistles are written not to church leaders but to entire congregations. Pau The New Testament writers frequently state that the ability to understand Scripture rightly i

...ays represents the church.''' Christ is coming for an espoused virgin. The old prostitute of the Bible was called "the church setting on the seven hills," ...woman and particularly a harlot is, therefore, imagery taken from the Old Testament, something that is common throughout the Book of Revelation.

=Scriptures referring to how baptism was conducted in the New Testament= ...s Pentecostals believe that "Jesus" is the name of God revealed in the New Testament and that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three manifestations or titles of

...three persons.<ref>Linda L. Belleville, 2 Corinthians, vol. 8, The IVP New Testament Commentary Series (Westmont, IL: IVP Academic, 1996), 2 Co 8:16–24.</ref> ...were also part of the tribe of Levi). Therefore, if the pastor is the New Testament equivalent of the Levitical priest, they should receive only got a small po

...their city. But Paul does this in part by using language from two key Old Testament texts: ...Letters to the Thessalonians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009), 110, 176.</ref>

...postles stated (Acts 4:25; 28:25; Heb. 3:7; 2 Pet. 1:21), and also the New Testament, as Jesus indirectly promised in John 16. ...argue for ongoing revelation that adds to the doctrinal content of the New Testament. Nor can we tolerate the suggestion theological liberals often make that s

How can we compare him with other reformers (who had partial truth) or old testament prophets?

...lls his followers "Kings and Priests" (Revelation 1:6). Looking at the Old Testament, it is very clear how God intended Kings and Priests to act around alcohol: ...point of contact with God), and the promise of a new kingdom. In the Old Testament, wine was also symbolized with the sacrifice lamb and restoration (Numbers

Followers of William Branham point to Acts 3:21 as a New Testament passage that proves that a Gentile prophet will come prior to the second co ...d sense in the present context, in reference to the fulfillment of all Old Testament prophecy, culminating in the establishment of God’s order on earth.

...s to some of my previous questions, you indicated that prophets in the Old Testament had lied or were guilty of behavior that would not normally be associated w ===Does the Old Testament prohibit lying?===

Did people in the Old Testament have square heads?

...concept of the magnification of the law, among other things, to bring Old Testament law into the church, thereby going directly against Paul's teaching in the ...hese groups throughout history does not have a solid foundation in the New Testament and neither does William Branham's teaching on the subject.<ref>Wayne A. Gr

...>Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 199.</ ...ng to do with ''kenosis''. Other places where the word appears in the New Testament would include 1 Cor. 9:15 and 2 Cor 9:3.

...ble of Jesus and the apostles. Most New Testament quotations from the Old Testament are taken from it directly, even when it differs from the Masoretic (Hebrew ...The Gospel according to John, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995), 119.</ref>

:''There was a passage in the Old Testament book of Isaiah 14:12 which prophesied the overthrow of Babylon's king, stat ...e where... Some of you old-timers in here remembers; it's wrote down on an old paper at home. It's already in print and went out around the world. See? Th

First of all, these beliefs disagree with the New Testament: You might live to be 100 years old, but if your hope of salvation is in William Branham, and not in Jesus Chri

...A.D.40-60).<ref name=Robinson1976>John A. T. Robinson, ''Redating the New Testament'' (SCM Press 1976)</ref> ...d 150 A.D. and some even date it as contemporary with the books of the New Testament - between 40 and 60 A.D.

==The Word in the Old Testament== In the Old Testament, the Word of the Lord was the promise of God received either directly from

In the New Testament, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Joseph, Mary's espoused husband, in a ...angel that appears to the Prophet Daniel (Daniel 8:16, 9:21). In the New Testament, Gabriel is the name of the angel that appears to Zacharias, the father of

...others that John meant the “Day of the Lord.”''' Both the Old and the New Testament speak of the “Day of the Lord.” Isa. 2:12, Joel 1:15, 2:1, 3:14, Ezek. ...s did not benefit from an understanding of the original language of the Nw Testament.

...oo, The Epistle to the Romans, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996), 732.</ref> ...the only other use place where this term is used in either the Old or New Testament: “repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret.” The meanin

...France, The Gospel of Matthew, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publication Co., 2007), 274-275.</ref> ...s, The Gospel of John, The New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2

...uage for their understanding of the Bible, the plain truth is that the New Testament was originally written in Greek and, therefore, those that rely on an Engli ...The Gospel According to John, The New International Commentary on the New Testament, 65-66 (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995).</ref>

...painted into the minds of William Branham's followers is that of a frail, old man who was destined to a crippled life in a wheelchair. William Branham of ...nding there, and they was fixing to line up, and I looked out. I'd seen an old man, and they'd been a many a wheelchair, oh, there was just wheelchairs al

Both the New Testament and the Old Testament agree that God is our Father. As the Son of God, Jesus fulfilled the will ==Father in the Old Testament==

...ook of Genesis, Chapters 1–17, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 175–176.</ref> ==The view of the New Testament==

==The Holy Spirit in the New Testament== |Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the

Of course in the Old Testament, such an excuse would not be acceptable and the false prophet would have be ...tural conclusion is that William Branham spoke presumptuously. In the Old Testament, he would have been stoned.

11: Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the mann ...herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

...ates that, since men could practice polygamy, this translates into the New Testament allowing men to remarry but not women. ...He even ties it back to the fact that polygamy was OK for men in the Old Testament but was not allowed for women. He is clearly allowing men to remarry in ce

..., Ohio, or not Cleveland, but I believe it was Minneapolis, taking the Old Testament, a subject to read. And I was reading of Joseph. And he just outstands to m :''My little boy which is with us now, soon be sixteen years old, he was... He seemed to be a good boy. He minded me, and was very lovely li

That would also nullify the setting in order.... of the TRUE New Testament church.....making the advocates of those thinking/teaching John being the l I will skip over Abraham and many other Old Testament Prophets and their Scriptural identification as Prophets and start with Dav

...t the Sermon on the Mount - ''“You have heard that it was said to those of old... "''- and then he quotes one of the ten commandments. He is not trying t There are 2 references in the Old Testament to the Book of Jasher:

...uth. Christ did not come to create new teaching, but rather to fulfill the old.

=He said he was an Old Testament Prophet in the New Testament= ...knew that the Word of the Lord was with this seer that He had, '''the Old Testament seers.''' <ref> THE.SIGN.OF.THIS.TIME_ NY.NY V-18 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-111

#When the New Testament refers to elders it is really referring to pastors ...efinite patterns and discernable guidelines on how the churches in the New Testament functioned. Here are a few things we can understand from scripture:

...ed themselves Christians (called Paulicians by others), accepted both the old and new testaments, denied the Trinity, and baptised in the Name of Jesus C ...ngs of their enemies. In fact, they may have been the descendants of the "Old Believers" of Syrian/Armenian origin.

...o have to answer for it. Prophecy was very specific in the Old and the New Testament. They would foretell God's revelation to the people and if one looks back a It is clear that William Branham considered himself to be an Old Testament prophet and that as a result he was not subject to the judgment of the chur

...st of religious chaos and confusion. You even convinced us you were an Old Testament prophet and the very 'voice of God' to the world.

...he was an Old Testament Prophet in the New Testament|a prophet in the Old Testament sense]]. The scriptural test of a prophet in the Old Testament is detailed in Deuteronomy 18:

''...see young ladies that wasn't over seventeen, eighteen years old, up there with men my age now, drunk. And they'd have to sober them up and ...g back to dig this up, then bring you right down to the modern day, in the Testament.

...bout him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through de ...fers to the Church as Israel and Israel means overcomer. Church in the Old Testament was also called by different names such as sons of Israel and Abraham’s s