THE STRUCTURE OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT

“Everything must be fulfilled

that is written about Me

in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
Luke 24.44

This is simple enough: Law, Prophets, Psalms.

We are to read the Law: to teach us how to know and live for God.

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you...

to teach you that man (must) live...
on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Deuteronomy 8.1-3

We are to read the Prophets: to teach us Who God is and What He Does.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and His understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40.28-29

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord.

They will be My people , and I will be their God,
for they will return to Me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 24.7

We are to read the Psalms (Job through Ecclesiastes, but especially Psalms):

to experience the goal of the Law for the holiness of our heart and soul as we experience the power of the Glory of God in the Prophets.

The simplicity of the revelation of the will and way of God is experienced by the principle of the Sabbath, which comes to us from Jesus as Abiding.

Abiding is simply time with Jesus, for which the Sabbath was appointed.

The Sacrifices of the Law were to be the means of understanding sin and the redemption provided by Jesus.

Our sacrifice today is “self,” “selfishness,” as “crucifixion Of the 'old man.'”

I am crucified with Christ,

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body,
I live by faith in the Son of God
Who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 2.20

(And now gives Himself to me!)

The light of the Glory of God through faith in Christ Jesus is produced by the Holy Spirit from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

As I abide in “sabbatic time” for meditation in God's Testaments ,

I am
(re)created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4.24