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It is important to take truths discovered in the Old Testament and showing how they relate to the New Testament and our lives. The Old was written to provide light on the New and vice versa. It is critical that we, as growing Christians, have a deeper knowledge of the Old Testament.
- The OT was Jesus’s only Scripture and makes up three-fourths (75.55 percent) of our Bible. If space says anything, the OT matters to God, who gave us his Word in a book.
- The OT substantially influences our understanding of key biblical teachings. By the end of the Law (Genesis–Deuteronomy), the Bible has already described or alluded to all five of the major covenants that guide Scripture’s plot structure (Adamic-Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and new).
- We meet the same God in both Testaments. Note how the book of Hebrews begins: “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (Heb.
- The OT announces the very ‘good news/gospel’ we enjoy. The gospel is the good news that through Jesus––the divine, crucified, and resurrected Messiah––God reigns over all and saves and satisfies believing sinners.
The unifying purpose of the Old Testament is to show how God saves human beings from sin, for His glory and for His service. See also, Old Testament Survey, 2nd Edition, by Paul R. House and Eric Mitchell, pp. 1-14.
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AN OUTLINE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT Knowledge of the Old Testament is important to understanding the New Testament (and vice versa) and yet there is a widespread ignorance of the Old Testament amongst Christians today (part of a widespread ignorance of much of the whole Bible in many quarters). To many people, the Old Testament is a closed book.
Why read the Old Testament? Once you begin to read and study it, you will discover that it is filled with great riches: • The Old Testament provides the foundation for the whole Bible. Both the Old and New Testaments are equally part of the Bible Both tell us about God Both inform us about basic truths we need to know.
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This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God’s revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament.
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We affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
