THUS SAITH THE LORD: Difference between revisions

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=The Biblical View=

==The obsolete old covenant==

In the King James Version of the Bible, the phrase '''"''Thus saith the Lord''"''' appears 415 times in the Old Testament '''but does not appear at all in the New Testament.''' The term "saith the Lord" does appear 13 times in the New Testament but generally in reference to a quotation from the Old Testament.

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While William Branham appears to have been fixated on this phrase, '''it appears to have no significant relevance in the New Testament'''.

Hebrews 1:1–2

===The Law and the Prophets===

The phrase "the law and the prophets" refers to the Tanakh, the Jewish scriptures, and what the Christian church refers to as the Old Testament. This is confirmed in Acts 13:15:

:''And after '''the reading of the law and the prophets''' the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ac 13:14–15.</ref>

Jesus said this of the Old Testament:

:'''''The law and the prophets''' were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Lk 16:16.</ref>

John the Baptist is the end of the old era. John announces the arrival of Jesus, who is the only one who preaches the kingdom. The period before Jesus was regulated through the law and the prophets. They operated in a context of promise as Luke 24:44–49 and Acts 3:11–26 show, where the law and the prophets proclaim the promise and program of Christ.

Since John, however, the kingdom is preached, the new era has come, and the law and the prophets, as the era of promise, now becomes obsolete.<ref>Darrell L. Bock, Luke: 9:51–24:53, vol. 2, Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1996), 1351.</ref>

This is confirmed in Hebrews 8:13:

:''By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one '''obsolete'''; and what is '''obsolete and outdated''' will soon disappear.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Heb 8:13.</ref>

Hebrews 1:1–2 helps us understand why we no longer need "Thus saith the Lord" in the new covenant:

:''God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son...

Deuteronomy 18:20–22