What is your opinion of the Prophets of the Old Covenant?
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There is no "old Covenant," because there is no new one.\n\nBut if you mean the Prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures, then what they said is From Gd.\n\nFor example, Ezekiel. The whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about the idea that no one can die for someone else's sins. This chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us.\n\nI also like Hosea, for example Hosea 11:9, where he said, "For I am Gd and not a man."\n\nI also love Jonah. In Jonah, the People of Ninevah do three things in order to be forgiven by Gd. They fast, they pray for forgiveness, and they stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd forgave them!\n\nJonah 3:7-10 And he caused it to be proclaimed \nand published through Ninevah, by the decree \nof the King and his nobles, saying, Let \nneither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste \nanything; let them not feed nor drink water; \nbut let man and beast be covered with \nsackcloth, and cry mightily unto Gd; yea, let \nthem turn every one from his evil way, and \nfrom the violence that is in their hands. Who \ncan tell if Gd will turn and repent, and turn \naway from his fierce anger that we perish not? \nAnd Gd saw their works, that they turned from \ntheir evil way; and Gd repented of the evil, \nthat he had said that he would do unto them; \nand he did not do it.\n\nPlease notice that Jonah tells us that Gd saw their WORKS, their deeds, how they turned from their evil ways, and Gd forgave them. It does not say that Gd saw their blood sacrifice, they never offered one. It does not say that Gd forgave them because they had the right faith, but rather it says that Gd forgave them because of their deeds!\n\nSo, yes, the Prophets who spoke as Gd instructed are wonderful!
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Yahweh underwent an extreme makeover with the New Testament writers. \n\nThe Old Testament god was never a god of love. He was a god of war and vengeance and political authority who cursed unborn generations of those who angered him. He also sanctioned the slaughter of children, the rape of women, incest and numerous other crimes. He tormented those who believed in him, instructed them to murder their own children, and he even - inexplicably - considered killing Moses.\n\nA thinking person who believes in a higher power can believe either that the bible is all true and Yahweh functions as a manic-depressive, malicious entity who has limited powers and limited knowledge, OR he can consider the likelihood that the bible doesn't always accurately describe God as God really is.
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Moses was the "channel" that God used to give the code of Commandments to the Jews... These Commandments were the basis to be used for their daily life's actions.  Amos, Jeremiah and Ezekiel were chosen prophets that God used to be the "human voice" of God's reaction to the race's behavior... in times for a need for improvement and better blessings... or to improve a divergent way of life...
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I heard that too but it was just another dud! LOL.\n\nGoes to show that we don't have as many reliable prophets around these days, huh?\n\nNow for the last part of your question... only you can answer that. Hahaha!
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Here it goes Mr. Paradox, you inquiring mind, you. \nJesus was saying in this verse that John was part of the age of the old covenant. You know the LAW that God made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai? (Exodus 20:1-17)\nAs great as John was in the age of the old covenant, even the least person in the age of the new covenant is greater than John by being "in Christ". (Saved by grace, washed in the blood).\nThe New Testament church is the "bride of Christ". John the Baptist was only a "friend of the bridegroom". John 3:29\nWe as New Testament believers are participants of what John was only able to prophecy about. Praise the Lamb!
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God inspired the prophets to write the bible, it is the Word of God and what we have to go on. However I don't and am not spoon fed by religious leaders. I am glad that we are free in the US to own a bible and read for ourselves.
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Good Lord. \nThe Old Testament was under the Law of Moses. As a christian today you should know that Jesus' death and resurrection removed us from the curse of the 'Law'. In the Old testament Israel was a fledgling nation. They were trying to seperate themselves from the 'pagans' Plus they were a lot less civilized than we are today. \nGod does not want you to kill your child, come on. If you truly believe that then you need psychological help and all your children should be removed from you care.
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This is not a prophecy for one, matts got that right.  And God never told Joseph he would live to be 85, He said, if thou.  In v16, this leads me to believe that the Lord is telling Joseph not to be concerned with such things, that he will see Christ regardless of when the second coming is.\n\nI am wondering if these are even your own thoughts, because this stuff looks like it came from www.exmormon.org.  Do you know anything about these people who write this stuff?  For all you know they are apostates that have been excommunicated for being an adulterer and become imbittered over it, or something else, and instead of repenting and working to be reinstated into the church, they live their life trying to justify their actions by claiming the church isn't true.  It is all biased.  It is worse than mainstream news.  How can you actually read this stuff and feel fulfilled?  What happened with you Brandon, that you feel you have to destroy the faith of others?  Isn't the faith you have good enough; you have to try to discredit others faith for what?  To strengthen yours?  That is not how to develop faith.  If you were content with your beliefs that would be enough for you.  What is this enfatuation with the LDS church?  It sounds like you might read this anti-mormon trash more than you study to develop your personal beliefs, I hope I am wrong, but is that what God wants?
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That is more a question of translational bias on the part of the Christian translators of the Hebrew. And likewise to some degree on the part of the Jewish translators -- especially in regards to passages that might point someone to a particular Messiah.  Notice for example the elimination of "Shiloh" from the Jewish Publication Society translation of Gen 49:10 even though the Artscroll maintains it.\n\nOne of the many problems Christians have is in the fact that they call these books "the old testament", when they don't have a passage (even in their "new testament") that calls this collection by that name.  The "old covenant" which is being spoken of is the "covenant of sin and death" -- not a collection of books.  They have misappropriated the words and misapplied them.\n\nBeyond that, the Protestant "old testament" in Hebrew is exactly the same as the Tanakh.
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I'm in Matthew right now, just finished the old testament.  so zero times.  I'm a Biblical follower.  Any religion of Christianity that beleives they are right should be the same, but for some reason they divide themselves into infinite amounts of dissagreement and confusion.  They have ministers and interpereters, but there really only is the Bible to get the knowledge from.
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Regardless of how you might feel, none of the old feasts have any religious significance in these times of the new covenant.\n\nJesus eternally fulfilled the Passover at the Last Supper, and he fulfilled all that was written about him in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, when he died and rose again.\n\nIt is Jesus himself who is our new covenant sacrifice and celebration, and our Redeemer, High Priest, Prophet, and King.\n\nNow, we Christians celebrate Christ all day and every day, by living as faithful members of his new covenant church.\n\nAll the old things have passed away in him, as Jesus and the grace he obtained for us, infinitely exceeds and transcends everything which came before.
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EDITED:\n\nI am unsure of what is meant by "deuteronomic spiral" and the best I can come up with is to tell you which parts that I see which seem to have anything to do with the Deuteronomic View - which was in a nutshell the teaching that one must worship ONLY God, and worship ONLY in Jerusalem (not to build shrines in other places or to offer sacrifices anywhere else).\n\nOk, for convenience, \nCov = covenant\nDel = deliverance\nR = rebellion\nCons = Consequences\nDeut = Deuteronomic.\nP = Prophetic Understanding of History\n\nPsalm 105:\nVerse 6 - "his chosen ones" is a reference to Cov with Abraham's descendants regarding the land.\nVs 8 - "ever mindful of His covenant" (Cov).  God never forgets the covenant with Israel.\nThe reference to "for a thousand generations" is a metaphor meaning forever, and this is indicated by the fact that in vs. 10, it calls the covenant "eternal."\n11 - (Cov).  Giving of the land of Canaan (this is the specific nature of the Covenant).\n12 - 15:  (Del).  There were few, but God protected them.  This is sort of a reference to both deliverance and covenant.\nIt is because of the covenant that they "do not touch my anointed ones" or harm the prophets.  (This is a slight reference to prophetic view because obviously without prophets, there would be no prophecy).\nVs 16 - God calls down a famine in the land of Canaan, so that the people sojourn to Egypt.  This is (P) Prophetic view of history, because it is interpreting everything as part of the broad plan of God.  Today, we would just say, "there's a famine."  We do not usually interpret it as the fulfillment of prophecy or as the fulfillment of a particular plan of God.  But here, everything is seen as a part of the Master Plan.\n16-23:  The story of Israel in Egypt.  Again, this is all seen as Divinely-guided history.  All the events have a very specific purpose for the Covenant people.\n28:  (Cons)  - Egypt suffers the consequences of its treatment of Israel.\nBut the Covenant people are protected, and eventually Delivered.\n\n_________\nPsalm 106:\nVs 3:  Good consequences for those act justly and are righteous.\n5:  "prosperity of your chosen ones."  (Cov)\n6:  (R).  "we have sinned... we have gone astray."\n8:  (Del).  Yet God saves them.  He delivers them anyway, because of the Covenant.\n10:  (Del) and (Cons).  (consequences of sin was being given to the foe, and the theme of deliverance is shown in that God redeemed them from the foe).\n12:  (Cov).  Believed God's promise (or covenant).\n13:  (R).  They forgot God's deeds of goodness.\n15:  (Cons).  They were wasting away.\n17:  (Cons).  Earth swallowed up Dathan, etc.\n18, 19:  (Cons.)\n23:  (Cov) and (Del).\n24:  (R)\n26:  (Cons)\n29:  (R) and (Cons)\n33:  (R)\n34:  (Deut).  The people of Israel did not destroy the idolatrous nations, and instead mingled with them and were influenced by their ways.  This was against the covenant of Deuteronomy.  This is also (R)\n41:  (P)  This is a Prophetic view of nature because the consequences of rebelling against the covenant was that the people would be handed over to the nations and would be oppressed.  The Psalmist is seeing history as the work of the Divine fulfillment of prophecy.\n43:  (Del), (R)\n45:  (Cov)\n46:  (Del).\n\nThis whole Psalm repeats again and again how God was seen to work in Israelite history.  There was a Covenant that God always kept.  But the people did not always keep their end of it.  They Rebelled.  When they rebelled, they suffered Consequences that had been Prophesied.  Then they would cry out to the Lord, and the Lord would Deliver them.\n\nSo there is Covenant - Rebellion - Consequences - crying out - Deliverance.  This would repeat again and again.  (Maybe that is what is meant by "spiral" - in that it cycles again and again.  They are delivered, then they get comfortable in a way with the way thin
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don't know .they are Prophets also who can tell us when this world will end . well they think that they are .it just make me sick
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I believe this, but it's hard in a world where the jewish peoples don't believe in the new testament."But believe what you want to, that's what freedom is all about".They only believe the old where moses said basically an eye for an eye.The new testament, Jesus fulfilling the prophecies of the old is about love and forgiveness, and we need alot more of it.So much of our country reminds me of Rome just before it fell,the rich senators, our global reach (not to spread piece either) if our leader and lawmakers practiced this we wouldn't be hated so.We need to spend some of our money on peace,it would go alot further to help the world.THOU SHALT LOVE THY LORDTHY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART,AND WITH ALLTHEY SOUL AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.THERE IS NONE OTHER COMMANDMENT GREATER THAN THESE. Mark 12:30-31. Peace
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Old Testament, old laws... think New Testament
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I'm guessing here, but I think he may be referring to the Christian idea of the "old covenant" in the Tanakh, and the "new covenant" of the New Testament. Two laws.\nOn a side note I find his Q&A fascinating. When he's on, he comes up with some really clever stanzas. Seems a little out there quite often, but he truly has the soul of a poet.
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It's no mystery.  The old testament covers Jewish morality.  Start with the ten commandments, for example.  You know Jewish morality already, you just don't realize it.