Old Testament

In the Old Testament, only Assyria conquered Israel. This occurred in 722 BCE and resulted in many of the Israelites being deported and Israel henceforth ceased to exist.

A century and a half later, Babylon conquered the smaller, southern kingdom of Judah, which is sometimes confused with Israel.

Proverbs 23:17,18 KJV

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long, for surely there is an end (a hereafter) and thine expectation (hope) shall not be cut off.

A son is being warned to not mistakenly envy what might appear appealing in what those who disobey God are doing, but instead he is to fear the consequences that necessarily will come from Yahweh for evil behavior. Such fear of consequences should guide your behavior all day long. Then that which you should attain by right behavior will not be taken away from you. You will not lose the good things that you hoped for.

For Christians, yes, the New Testament is the fulfilment of the Old Testament. They point to many Old Testament passages that they believe prophesy or prefigure events in the New Testament.

Objectively, some of the references used by Christians are not really from the Old Testament in the original Hebrew but from the Septuagint, a flawed, early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, and as such do no more than demonstrate that parts of the New Testament were written by men to fulfil the wrong scriptures.

In other cases, the gospel authors seem to have misunderstood the Hebrew texts. Matthew says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem to fulfil a prophecy in the Old Testament. He quotes Micah 5:2 as: "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel," whereas the actual text of Micah 5:2 is "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah[Bethlehem], though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from days of yore." Micah expected that another king of Israel would be born in little Bethlehem. He did not mention Jesus, and Jesus was never the king of Israel nor were all the Jews to become his followers, as another sense would imply. The link between Micah 5:2 and Matthew is so tenuous that some Christian Bibles have improved Micah 5:2 to make it a more apparent prophecy of a divine king, translating the verse into English with 'everlasting' rather than 'days of yore', but I have provided the original.

The Book of Isaiah contains the name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14, Hebrew Bible): "Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman is with child, and she shall bear a son, and she shall call his name Immanuel."

The association of the name Immanuel with Jesus comes via the Septuagint, a flawed early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. This resulted in the important but erroneous replacement of "the young woman" by "a virgin", as in the KJV: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

The author of Matthew's Gospel, a Greek-speaker, noticed the reference to a virgin in the Septuagint and thought it could be used as a prophecy of Jesus. Whether he realised that the correct wording was 'the young woman' may never be known. His usage of Isaiah 7:14 required that the name Immanuel remain in the Old Testament, while the gospels talk of Jesus.

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When one reads the Bible in its entirety, one understands that the only member of the God Family mankind has had a direct relationship with is the Word of God. The God Family uses many names/titles to describe His awesome authorithy/power/character. The Word or Logos as John 1:1-3 uses for Jesus Christ was the creator off all things. Paul tells us it was He who was the column of fire leading the Israelites and Mechizedek who received tithes from Abraham.

The Old Testament or Covenant points to the new role/title the Word would take on - that of a man becoming the Son of God/Man now known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah. The Psalms speak of and point to this role. All the Prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Daniel, Zechariah, etals note His role and character. Genesis notes His coming sacrifice to re-establish mankind to God after the fall in the Garden. The New Testament or Covenant is just a fulfillment of the Old - a seemless flow of the story of mankind and God's Plan of Salvation via His Son, Jesus for us all.

The title or name Jesus was not given at that time as He did not divest His power allowing His Father's Holy Spirit to beget Him as a man named Jesus (John 3:16). This began the Father and Son relationship - the first of the firstborn of the Father.

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The physical House of Israel - all 12 tribes in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, God opened up His Holy Spirit to all who would obey Him by following His Son, Jesus Christ and become a member of God's Church. They are called Spiritual Israelites or true Christians and are of all races. So today, it is God's Church which is central, yet the physical descendants of Israel all, still exist and God does not forget their special relationship with Him even if they did.

I believe that Adam and Eve were created in the perfect image of God. Since everything that was created was perfect. Once sin had entered the universe everything in it was affected by it. God told Adam and Eve that they would die. They had no idea what death was. They obviously did not die right there on the spot, but even the cells in there bodies had started to deplete and deteriorate the moment they disobeyed God. I believe that the five senses of man, sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste were at one time one hundred percent, and now have deteriorated quite a bit since the beginning. Our minds capabilities were being used at 100 percent of its capacities. At the present scientists say we probably use only 2 percent. Our bodies were perfect and were designed never to die. One day they will be made new again, and being a child of God , I certainly cannot wait for that moment.

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Unlike the idea of our evolving over vast amounts of time, the Scripture clearly shows man created fully grown in God's image unlike the animal or plant kinds, with a complete language, the ability to think and chose for themselves, and dominance over everything on the Earth:

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[a] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Here Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son Isaac , and not Isaiah.

The offering of Isaac was a foreshadowing of the death of Jesus. A Father offering His only Son. This took place on Mount Moriah, the very same place where 2000 years later God's own Son was offered. Thus it was a foreshadowing, here at the birth of the Hebrew nation, of the grand event the nation was born to bring about.

Benjamin was Jacob's youngest son. (See Genesis 29:31-30:24, 35:16-18). Only Benjamin was born in the land of Canaan.

The order of their Jacob's sons from oldest to youngest is the following:

1. Reuben
2. Simeon
3. Levi
4. Judah
5. Dan
6. Naphtali
7. Gad
8. Asher
9. Issachar
10. Zebulun
11. Joseph
12. Benjamin

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The book of Proverbs was written in several layers, with the first layer being a story of Lady Wisdom, a spirit or goddess who was with God at the creation. Later layers added the introduction that attributed the book to Solomon (verse 1:1), as well as material about philosophical wisdom, that has tended to obscure the older verses about (Lady) Wisdom. By the last century BCE, some parts of Judaism were becoming uncomfortable with Wisdom, and she ceased to be part of the Judaic belief system by the end of the first century CE. However, the Book of Proverbs was too important to omit from the Hebrew canon. English translations also sometimes show 'wisdom' in lower case, where the original meaning suggests the person of Wisdom.

We are told to know Wisdom and perceive her words of understanding, then we see Wisdom taking to us. At first, these words could indeed be attributed to Solomon, but then Proverbs 1:20 makes it clear who the speaker really was(KJV): "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets ..."

For those Christians who believe in the trinity concept of the God beings, the Word became flesh and was called the Son of God, Jesus the Christ. He was always with God and all things are made through Him:

The Eternal Word

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.

Ageless or Eternal. Paul makes an analogy to Melchizedek being Jesus as the King of Righteousness - and there is only one:

The King of Righteousness

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "king of righteousness," and then also king of Salem, meaning "king of peace," 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.