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'''Question''': Why, in the Old Testament is the existence of a Son not even mentioned in the same context as is in the New Testament? | '''Question''': Why, in the Old Testament is the existence of a Son not even mentioned in the same context as is in the New Testament? | ||
The Old Testament is filled with types and shadows of the New Testament. | |||
Israel was God’s son in the Old Testament dispensation (“Israel is My son, My firstborn” Ex. 4:22), and the experience of Israel’s testing in the wilderness there anticipates and foreshadows the testing of Jesus as the Son of God in the wilderness in the New Testament dispensation.<ref>Phil Roberts, "The Temptation of Jesus", in Jesus for a New Millennium: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew, ed. Ferrell Jenkins, Florida College Annual Lectures, 85 (Temple Terrace, FL: Florida College Bookstore, 2001).</ref> | |||
'''A CHILD BORN/A SON GIVEN''' | '''A CHILD BORN/A SON GIVEN''' | ||