Alot of what is taught in the
New Testament is really instructions
that are taken from the Old Testament,
this applies with New Testament prophesy
as well.
In the Old Testament its word
instructs the reader to watch
out for "prophets" taking words
from one another.
In this web page, a look at
the New Testament, and how
the book of the New Testament
has re-educated with the same information from the
Old Testament, and older prophets.
What will happen to the prophets
that take from the other prophets?
It looks as if Jeremiah 23:30 can answer that
question.
Old Testament
Jeremiah 23:30
30 Assuredly, I am going to
deal with the prophets --
declares the LORD --
who steal My words from
one another.
The follow script is one of the example of words in the New Testament which had already been spoken by a prophet of the Old Testament, Micah 7:4-7.
New Testament
Luke 12:52
52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three.
53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
What was said by Jesus had already been said by another prophet Micah.
What the Prophet Micah said in the Old Testament.
Old Testament
Micah 7:4-7
4 The best of them is like a prickly shrub; The[ most] upright, worse than a barrier of thorns. On the day you waited for, your doom has come Now their confusion shall come to pass.
5 Trust no friend, Rely on no intimate; Be guarded in speech With her who lies in your bosom.
6 For son spurns father, Daughter rises up against mother, Daughter- in- law against mother- in- law -- A man's own household Are his enemies. 7 Yet I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God who saves me, My God will hear me.
Jesus hadn't said anything new, and has spoken something another prophet stated to the people many years before him. The Gospel, or good news, has many passages in it that have derived from Old Testament instruction, and prophecy, just spoken in a different manner, but in most cases the same way.
Turn the other cheek
Old Testament
Lamentations 3:27-30
27 It is good for a man, when young, To bear a yoke;
28 Let him sit alone and be patient, When He has laid it upon him.
29 Let him put his mouth to the dust -- There may yet be hope.
30 Let him offer his cheek to the smiter; Let him be surfeited with mockery.
smite: affect suddenly with deep feeling.
What was said in Lamenations was also been repeated by the writers of the New Testamemt, but adds in giving the other ckeek. In the New Testament, the impression of physical force is used, rather than pertaining smiter to be a person affecting someone suddenly with deep feeling through mockery.
New Testament
Luke 6:29
To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.
The New Testament changes the word smiter, and replaces it with strike. The word smiter is significant in the verse of Lamenations, and allows the reader to understand that physical force is not being applied by the smiter, but affect someone suddenly with deep feeling through mockery is.
Defining Lamentations
Lamentations 3:27-30
27 It is good for a man, when young, To bear a yoke;
(When young its best to get a job.)
28 Let him sit alone and be patient, When He has laid it upon him.
(Labour and just do the work cause it's a time appointed for labour while young and strong.)
29 Let him put his mouth to the dust -- There may yet be hope.
(Start at the bottom at the debased or despised condition, and you may reach a higher position.)
30 Let him offer his cheek to the smiter; Let him be surfeited with mockery.
(When discourage dont be discourage take it all as mockery.)
Prophesy from the Old Testament that are used in the New Testament
There are also prophecy from the gospel which are very similar, or if not the same as the prophecy spoken about in the Old Testament.
A New Testament prophecy in Mark 13:24 is nothing new, and was addressed in the Old Testament, by Isaiah 13:10.
Mark 13
24 "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
26 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
Here is the same prophecy spoken about in the New Testament, that only repeats the words spoken by the prophet Isaiah.
Isaiah 13:10
10 The stars and constellations of heaven Shall not give off their light; The sun shall be dark when it rises, And the moon shall diffuse no glow.
The gospel has taken many words of prophecy from many of the prophets of the Old Testament, like the words from the book of Joel 3:4-5, which is also restated in Acts 2:20.
Old Testament
Joel 3:4-5
4 The sun shall turn into darkness And the moon into blood.
5 But everyone who invokes the name of the LORD shall escape; for there shall be a remnant on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the LORD promised. Anyone who invokes the LORD will be among the survivors.
Word borrowing seems to continue as the New Testament takes yet another word from a prophet of the past, Joel 3:4-5.
Acts 2:20
20 the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
21 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
The Diety of our reality, or the God of old, who is said to be the Lord, and King, told the prophets that there would be prophets who take from one another. As this study progresses, more New Testament script will be added to this page, with the Old Testament script references, of the same words spoken by the olde prophets.