If someone were to ask you, so where does the Old Testament start?
This is not the answer in the book of Genesis.
Now in our Bibles, yeah it is the book of Genesis.
We would say that it is.
It's a good reference point.
There's not anything, a problem with that, but really the Old Testament started in the
book of Exodus, okay, when the Passover was sacrificed, alright, because in order for
it to be a force, there needs to be blood that is shed, right, just like in the New
Testament.
Well the sacrifice in the Old Testament, the book of Exodus, that's it, go to Exodus
chapter 12, that was accomplished and that started the Old Testament.
You say, well, hold on a second, what about those before that?
What about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
They were not under the Levitical priesthood.
What were they under?
They were under what the Bible calls the order of Melchizedek, okay, and Melchizedek
is an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ.
He was the high priest of the most high.
So they were doing these sacrifices under the order of Melchizedek, according to the
Bible.
So Abraham, he sacrificed, Isaac sacrificed, Jacob sacrificed, did animal sacrifices, but
that was before Moses, but it was under the order of Melchizedek.
Now we won't go too much into that, but just keep that in mind.
So look at Exodus chapter 12 and verse number 10.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of
it until the morning ye shall burn with fire, and thus shall ye eat it with your
loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye shall
eat it in haste, it is the Lord's Passover.
Now go to Exodus chapter 19.
Now therefore, if, you gotta remember something, what is if, that's a condition, right?
So in other words, you remain in this blessing, you remain in this position, if you do this.
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall
be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people, for all the earth is mine, and ye
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation, these are the words
which thou shall speak unto the children of Israel.
Go to Hebrews chapter number 8.
So keep in mind, the Bible says there, if you will obey my voice, if you will
keep my covenant.
Did he say, hey, no matter what you do, I got your back?
Did he say that?
No.
He said if.
But what do we have today?
We have people who think that even though because the Jews have rejected Christ, you
You know, they adhere to the Talmud that says that Christ is burning in hell in his
own excrement, that Christ is the son of Gehazi, and they blast him in the name
of Christ.
No, no, no, but hey, they still are part of that whole covenant, God still, no, it
says if.
They're not obeying his voice today.
They're not adhering to that covenant today.
Look at Hebrews 8, 8, it says, for finding fault with God, no, it says with them.
He saith, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, with the house of Judah.
So look, he's making a new covenant, he made a new covenant, and anybody, any saved
person who is a Zionist, they need to read Hebrews 8 out loud to themselves, write
it down, it's pretty clear.
He says it right there, I found fault with them.
It says, behold, the days come when I will make a new covenant.
Verse number nine, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they
continued on in my covenant, and I regarded them, not saith the Lord.
So it says right there that the covenant started when he led them out of the land
of Egypt.
When was that?
Exodus chapter 12, because it did the Passover and shortly thereafter, he led them out of
the land of Egypt.
Does that make sense?
Yes.