Jesus Verifies the Old Testament
--from notes taken from Bob Waldron
Introduction
A. An understanding of the Old Testament is very important to our appreciation of what Jesus and the apostles taught in the New Testament.
1. The quoted extensively for the Old Testament.
2. A secondary of effect of this is that is you believe in Jesus and His resurrection, you must believe in the Old Testament as the inspired Word of God.
B. The 20th Century produced a major shift among the Protestant and Catholic Seminaries in Europe and the US toward denial of the wonders and prophecies of the Old Testament.
1. Many believe that they can be neutral on the truths of Genesis and Jonah, Daniel, and Isaiah, so long as they believe in Jesus.
2. Fact is that you cannot.
C. With a cursory check of Wikipedia, you can learn about Wellhausen Theory that places the books of Moses and all of the Old Testament books somewhere in the period between the Testaments.
1. They essentially denied the existence of an historical Moses, David, Jonah, Daniel, and Isaiah
2. The two testaments are so interconnected that when you destroy or discredit one, you also destroy the other.
D. We are going to consider several of these texts.
I. Sodom, Genesis 18-19. Was the fire and brimstone a myth?
1. Matthew 10:15
2. Matthew 11:23-24
II. David, 1 Samuel 21. Was David (who killed Goliath) a myth?
1. Matthew 12:3-4 matter of the shewbread
2. Matthew 22:45 (Psalm 110)
3. Acts 2:29, 34 (Psalm 16) Peter
4. Acts 13:22, 26 Paul
III. Jonah,
1. Matthew 12:39-40 resurrection of Jesus prophesied, historical?
IV. Moses
1. Mark 12:26 Exodus is the Book of Moses
2. Exodus 3:14
V. Daniel
1. Matthew 24:15 Abomination of desolation, Daniel 9:22; 11:31
VI. Isaiah --"Deutero-Isaiah" (chapters 40-66)
1. Luke 4:16-24 (Isaiah 61)
VII. Elijah
1. "Days of Elijah" Luke 4:25
2. I Kings 17:18 three years without rain
3. James 5:16-17
VIII. Elisha
1. 2 Kings 5, "the Prophet" and Naaman the leper
IX. Queen of Sheba
A. Luke 11:31 in the reign of Solomon
X. Noah
A. Luke 17:26-27
XII. Manna
A. Matthew 4:4 (from Deuteronomy 8:3)
B. Context of Deuteronomy, manna was unknown, not bread... part of God's test.
1. Deuteronomy6:16 context of Massah, Meribah
2. Exodus 17 strike the rock, water came from the rock
XIII. David and Melchizedek
A. Matthew 22:41 (Psalm 110:1, 4)
B. Thus also validates Genesis 14:18