Between Testaments Does The Lord Change?

[Christ4Ever]

For the law was given through Moses, but God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17 NLT

Many Christian men have read Genesis, Exodus, part of Leviticus, Psalms and Proverbs, the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), and a few other New Testament books. They’re not Bible teachers or scholars, to be sure. But they’ve started to notice some of the differences between the two testaments.

Some wonder, Does the Lord change? I feel some disconnect. If only they had kept reading their Bibles!

Most teaching sections in the New Testament allude back to, indirectly quote, or directly quote the Old Testament (Hebrew scriptures). Take today’s key verse.

First, “For the law was given through Moses” and similar statements appear dozens of times from Exodus 20 to Malachi 4:4 and more dozens of times from Matthew 5 to Hebrews 10:28.

Second, “God’s unfailing love and faithfulness” and similar descriptions appear two dozen times from Genesis 24 to Micah 7:20 and then in John 1:17 (quoted above) and John 1:14 (“He [Jesus] was full of unfailing love and faithfulness” [NLT]).

Bottom line: Does the Lord change between testaments? No, instead the Lord came!

Prayer: Unchanging God, how good to know that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore, I never need be shaken as I read Your Word, the Bible. You wrote it all.

 

[B-A-C]

Heb 13:8; Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Mal 3:6; "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Jas 1:17; Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

 

[GodB4Us]

Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 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 not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The Lord does not change but because mankind, even God's chosen people, had their chance to save themselves & to make themselves good & to obtain eternal life, but failed under the Old Covenant, now it was God's turn to save them and enable them to follow Him as His people under the New Covenant and all He asks from us is to believe Him that by believing in Him, we are saved & by believing in Him as our Good Shepherd & Friend to help us to follow Him as His disciple.