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Father God Of The Old Testament Had Been Revealed In The New Testament (Isaiah 45:15)

“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

No one has seen God at any time.

The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” John1:17.

In the Old Testament God was concealed, no one can see Him We read in the book of Isaiah, chapter forty-five, “you are a God who has been hiding yourself.

You are the God of Israel.

You save us” (Isaiah 45:15).

And in the book of Exodus, chapter thirty- five, Moses asked the Lord, “Now show me your glory”; the Lord answered, “ No one can see me and stay alive” ( Exodus 35:18-20).

And in the Gospel of John, chapter five, Jesus Himself said, “The Father who sent me is himself a witness about me.

You have never heard his voice.

You have never seen what he really looks like.”(John 5:37).

So the prophets of the Old Testament were having inspirations by the Holy Spirit but not an actual revelation of God.

Those who defined God who was obscured in the Old Testament were the prophets who did not see God and who had not yet received the dwelling of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus was not yet glorified.

The image reflected by the Old Testament’s prophets about God came in line with the limited possibilities of revelation in the Old Testament and their limited human ability to receive revelation, to express it, and to formulate it for the people.

Thus we can understand why God's image was absurd in the Old Testament.

We read in the Gospel of John chapter seven, “Jesus stood up and spoke in a loud voice.

He said, “let anyone thirsty come to me and drink.

Does anyone believe in me?

Then, just as scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from inside them.

When he said this, he meant the Holy Spirit.

Those who believed in Jesus would receive the spirit later.

Up to that time, the spirit had not been given.

This was because Jesus had not yet received glory” (John 7:37-39).

Here St. John’s point is clear; that the God of the Old Testament had been revealed in the New Testament.

Jesus Christ, the Word and the Wisdom of God, was incarnated to reveal for us the true image of Father God.

So the Revelation in the New Testament is not inspiration given to God’s prophets to tell people about God, but it is Jesus Himself the incarnated Word, and the Son of God.

Jesus said  “But I know Him, I am from Him, and He sent me” (John 7:29). He is God revealed in flesh.

Amen

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