Chapter three verses seven through eleven: One of the most enduring fallacies put forth by Satan to convince the church into rejecting Bible Truth is the notion that strict, demanding, My-way-only God the Father was the Dictator over Old Testament Israel while His sweet, gentle, any-way-you-want-it Son is the Persuader of New Testament Gentiles. Watch The God of the Old Testament on YouTube at proveallthingsofgod and read The God of the Old Testament series on this website for a more detailed study of this very important subject.

The Satanic ruse under consideration is debunked in Hebrews 3 and First Corinthians 10. In Hebrews 3: 7 the Lord, through the Apostle Paul, refers to His “voice.” In Exodus 19:5 we find God telling the House of Israel that if they would obey His “voice” and keep His “covenant” they would be “… a peculiar treasure unto Me, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” In verse 10 He refers to His voice as “My ways.” In Exodus 20 He voiced His ways to Israel when He spoke His Ten Commandments to them audibly then wrote them on stone and placed them in an ark for safe-keeping. Incredibly, many of the Israelites rejected His voice/ways/commandments (Law). Equally incredible is the fact that, after seeing what He did to ancient Israel, their New Testament descendants have followed in their Truth-rejecting footsteps. Which brings us to what God said to them through the Apostle Paul who destroys the God of the Old Testament vs God of the New Testament argument put forth as “Bible Truth” by today’s apostate church using his letters to the Hebrews and the Corinthians.

In Hebrews 3:7-11 we find the Old Testament God, speaking through Paul, saying that the ancient ancestors of the New Testament Hebrews “… tempted ME, proved ME and saw MY works for forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, ‘They do always err in their heart, and they have not known MY ways.’ So I swore in MY wrath that they would not enter into MY rest.” To determine which God (Father or Son) was the God referred to in verses 7-11, we need to go to First Corinthians 10:4. Here Paul tells us that when the Israelites came out of Egypt the God Who freed them remained with them throughout the next 40 years. Paul refers to that God as “the Rock that followed them, and that Rock was CHRIST.” This was the same Rock–the Word (Jn. 1:1-4,14/ Rev. 19:13)–Who later came to earth as Jesus of Nazareth. THE “I,” “ME,” “MY” OF HEBREWS THREE IS THE “ROCK” OF FIRST CORINTHIANS TEN. The moral of this passage is that Jesus Christ–the One who is “the same yesterday, today and forever,” in Whom “there is no shadow of turning”–is the One with whom mankind has dealt since the creation of man. In the website and YouTube references mentioned above I prove Scripturally that not only was the Old and New Testament God one in the same, but that His message–the gospel–is the same for both eras. One must believe the gospel put forth by the Author/God of both Testaments in order to enter into the coming Kingdom of God on earth. L.J.