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 15
Part 15
We see this clearly spelled out in 1 Chronicles 21:1, and in 2 Samuel 24:1. It’s the same story in both passages: David is incited to take a census of Israel and Judah, and then later says that by doing this he had sinned against Go
d. The interesting
thing, however, is that in 2 Samuel 24:1 it says that God incited David
to commit this sin, whereas in 1 Chronicles 21:1 it says that Satan
incited David to commit this sin.
God is not the one who tries to get us to sin, therefore Satan was the one that incites us to sin and the one who incited David to take the census. Still, the Old Testament writer of 1 Chronicles attributes this work of Satan to be the work of God.
Jesus came to correct this gross misunderstanding of God.
He told us about a very real enemy known as Satan, and showed us a very real God known as Father. Jesus the express image of God showed us that death and destruction were not the works of God, but rather the works of the enemy as the result of a fallen world! He described Satan as the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy! He explained Satan as the author of death, and God as the author of Life!
He said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
God does not work with Satan nor does Satan work for God. Satan is death, God is life. God is not the cause of death, otherwise He would be a house divided against Himself, and a house divided cannot stand. The Apostle Paul also went on to explain that death was an enemy of God, not a friend (1 Cor. 15:26).
When we view God through Jesus, we understand that God never initiated any killing, stealing, or destroying in the Old Testament. No, it wasn’t God’s will for those horrific things to happen! Jesus attributed those works not to His Father, but to His enemy Satan!
That is not to say that God never allowed death or destruction in the Old Testament. There are many instances where God did allow bad things to happen, in fact all the evil that happens in this world today God allows, but He is never causative of the evil.
The early followers of Christ said that the message that they heard from Jesus, this new revelation that they received from Him, was that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5)!
This is the Good News of the gospel of grace.
It is time we moved from our misunderstood understanding of God as revealed through clouded vision because of the lie of Satan initiated in the garden and see God as He is, through the clarity of the expressed image of the One Who is one with Him...Jesus Christ!
The God of the Old Testament is not only identical to the Jesus of the New Testament, but they are, according to the Bible, One and the Same. "The Word (Jesus) WAS WITH God and the Word WAS God...and the Word became flesh (Jesus) and dwelt among us." John 1:1,14.
We need to trade in our prophet shaded spectacles with the religious bi-focal lens and view the God of the Old Testament through the Jesus 20/20 vision lens, then it will be confirmed that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are ONE and the SAME, compassionate, forgiving, kind, life giving and LOVING!!
If you know the truth about Jesus, you know the truth about God!
GOD IS GOOD!
God is not the one who tries to get us to sin, therefore Satan was the one that incites us to sin and the one who incited David to take the census. Still, the Old Testament writer of 1 Chronicles attributes this work of Satan to be the work of God.
Jesus came to correct this gross misunderstanding of God.
He told us about a very real enemy known as Satan, and showed us a very real God known as Father. Jesus the express image of God showed us that death and destruction were not the works of God, but rather the works of the enemy as the result of a fallen world! He described Satan as the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy! He explained Satan as the author of death, and God as the author of Life!
He said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
God does not work with Satan nor does Satan work for God. Satan is death, God is life. God is not the cause of death, otherwise He would be a house divided against Himself, and a house divided cannot stand. The Apostle Paul also went on to explain that death was an enemy of God, not a friend (1 Cor. 15:26).
When we view God through Jesus, we understand that God never initiated any killing, stealing, or destroying in the Old Testament. No, it wasn’t God’s will for those horrific things to happen! Jesus attributed those works not to His Father, but to His enemy Satan!
That is not to say that God never allowed death or destruction in the Old Testament. There are many instances where God did allow bad things to happen, in fact all the evil that happens in this world today God allows, but He is never causative of the evil.
The early followers of Christ said that the message that they heard from Jesus, this new revelation that they received from Him, was that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5)!
This is the Good News of the gospel of grace.
It is time we moved from our misunderstood understanding of God as revealed through clouded vision because of the lie of Satan initiated in the garden and see God as He is, through the clarity of the expressed image of the One Who is one with Him...Jesus Christ!
The God of the Old Testament is not only identical to the Jesus of the New Testament, but they are, according to the Bible, One and the Same. "The Word (Jesus) WAS WITH God and the Word WAS God...and the Word became flesh (Jesus) and dwelt among us." John 1:1,14.
We need to trade in our prophet shaded spectacles with the religious bi-focal lens and view the God of the Old Testament through the Jesus 20/20 vision lens, then it will be confirmed that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are ONE and the SAME, compassionate, forgiving, kind, life giving and LOVING!!
If you know the truth about Jesus, you know the truth about God!
GOD IS GOOD!
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