Hebrews 1:1

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets."


Now what's he referring to? The Old Testament! And before we go back for a moment to the Old Testament I want you to stop in Romans chapter 15, where I'm going to use a verse for the basis of teaching the Old Testament. Because like I've already said with regard to Hebrews, there's no plan of Salvation as such in the Old Testament. There's also no Church doctrine found in the Old Testament. It was a secret that God had not yet revealed. But that doesn't mean we throw the Old Testament away or ignore it. No, we study it and rest on it for this reason.


Romans 15:4

"For whatsoever things were written aforetime (back in the Old Testament) were written for our learning,..."


Remember in our last program, I said, "How in the world could you take a kid that had never had grade school arithmetic, nor high school math, and then all of a sudden have him attend a university level calculus class? Why he'd be lost immediately." Well it's not that much different with the Word of God. If you haven't got an understanding of how all of this came about, it's pretty hard to just step in and say, "Yeah, I can believe that." But I don't think God expects that, so we use the Old Testament over and over as a background for our New Testament teachings. Now we're going to look at how the prophets spoke of these things.