Is God really the Villain of the Old Testament or has He been wrongly accused? If He has been wrongly accused, who is Responsible for the False Accusation? Part 12
Part 12
Luke 4:18-19, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Isaiah 61:1-2, reads. The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.
The Luke passage is a quote by Jesus from the Old Testament, but he left something out. He didn’t mentioned anything about “the day of vengeance”. Was this an intentional exclusion or did He just forget it? Jesus never said or did anything He didn’t see the Father doing. Believer, are we to ignore this, Jesus knew exactly what He was leaving out, and He did it on purpose….
I have heard people attempt to explain this disparity by insinuating that Jesus had only began to quote the scriptures. But in reality, Jesus had already closed the book, handed it to the minister and sat down. He had finished quoting scripture. What He began to say was; “This day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears”.
Jesus said our man-made traditions make God’s word of no effect. These traditions become strongholds that make it hard for us to see truth especially if it is different than what we have been religiously and traditionally taught. Even though Jesus corrected, changed, contradicted and even completely ignored many Old Testament Scriptures, we don’t, because of the belief that every word, every jot and every tittle is inspired by God. Don’t you think it strange that Jesus didn’t think this way? We have allowed whatever was written in the Old Testament to have a strong-hold on our way of thinking in interpreting its contents in context and it has gives us a distorted view of God. Even though Jesus brings us revelatory illumination, we continue to search for its truth the in darkness of tradition.
In the account of the women caught in the act of adultery according, to Moses she was to be stoned to death. But did Jesus condemn her, His words to her were; “Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more”. Here, Jesus the revealer of the God of the Old Testament, completely ignores a specific Old Testament scripture that according to religious belief was inspired by God...did Jesus go against His Father?
Jesus tells us He didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. If stoning was truly the punishment God wanted for adultery, did Jesus fulfill the law in this situation? There are only two possibilities. Either Jesus didn’t truly fulfill Gods law or there was some type of misunderstanding, something they did not see clearly understand because of the carry-over thinking from the post-cross side.
Jesus is our best example. We must let go of man-made tradition and the Law mentality of gaining God’s favor and come out of the pre-cross shadows to post-cross reality. In the past God spoke to us through a veil, Christ rent that veil from top to bottom, yet we have allowed a lie created by the “great con-artist” sew that veil back up in our thinking and many people are deceived by the “con-artist” into believing his lie about God. Until God could get His Jesus into this world, He spoke to us through prophets. But, now He speaks to us by His Son, the express image of God, the perfect reflection of God, the Word (Jesus) made flesh.
Let’s believe what Jesus reveals as to who God is!
Part 13 to follow
Luke 4:18-19, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Isaiah 61:1-2, reads. The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.
The Luke passage is a quote by Jesus from the Old Testament, but he left something out. He didn’t mentioned anything about “the day of vengeance”. Was this an intentional exclusion or did He just forget it? Jesus never said or did anything He didn’t see the Father doing. Believer, are we to ignore this, Jesus knew exactly what He was leaving out, and He did it on purpose….
I have heard people attempt to explain this disparity by insinuating that Jesus had only began to quote the scriptures. But in reality, Jesus had already closed the book, handed it to the minister and sat down. He had finished quoting scripture. What He began to say was; “This day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears”.
Jesus said our man-made traditions make God’s word of no effect. These traditions become strongholds that make it hard for us to see truth especially if it is different than what we have been religiously and traditionally taught. Even though Jesus corrected, changed, contradicted and even completely ignored many Old Testament Scriptures, we don’t, because of the belief that every word, every jot and every tittle is inspired by God. Don’t you think it strange that Jesus didn’t think this way? We have allowed whatever was written in the Old Testament to have a strong-hold on our way of thinking in interpreting its contents in context and it has gives us a distorted view of God. Even though Jesus brings us revelatory illumination, we continue to search for its truth the in darkness of tradition.
In the account of the women caught in the act of adultery according, to Moses she was to be stoned to death. But did Jesus condemn her, His words to her were; “Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more”. Here, Jesus the revealer of the God of the Old Testament, completely ignores a specific Old Testament scripture that according to religious belief was inspired by God...did Jesus go against His Father?
Jesus tells us He didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. If stoning was truly the punishment God wanted for adultery, did Jesus fulfill the law in this situation? There are only two possibilities. Either Jesus didn’t truly fulfill Gods law or there was some type of misunderstanding, something they did not see clearly understand because of the carry-over thinking from the post-cross side.
Jesus is our best example. We must let go of man-made tradition and the Law mentality of gaining God’s favor and come out of the pre-cross shadows to post-cross reality. In the past God spoke to us through a veil, Christ rent that veil from top to bottom, yet we have allowed a lie created by the “great con-artist” sew that veil back up in our thinking and many people are deceived by the “con-artist” into believing his lie about God. Until God could get His Jesus into this world, He spoke to us through prophets. But, now He speaks to us by His Son, the express image of God, the perfect reflection of God, the Word (Jesus) made flesh.
Let’s believe what Jesus reveals as to who God is!
Part 13 to follow
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