Malachi

And I heard the word of God.

He actually quoted one of my prophets, one of the Jewish prophets, Malachi.

Word for word.

I didn't know this.

He said, but now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

So the law, meaning like the first five books of the Bible and the prophets, you know, all the way from Isaiah through Malachi, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

In other words, these things were written in the Old Testament about the grace of Jesus Christ, the righteousness that will come from the Messiah, Jesus, through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe.

How do you get this righteousness? You receive it by believing.

And so on.

Or even Malachi.

Yes.

So...

And that is the law and the prophets.

When you are reading Moses and Genesis to Malachi, you are looking at words that will never pass away.

Everything that they have said will be accomplished.

They will never die.

Entonces, en total se salvaron ocho.

Justo, justo que salvó a su familia.

Mientras que Lot fue un justo, la Biblia dice que era justo, pero que perdió a su familia, la perdió a toda.

Entonces, ya la cosa se nos pone más complicada, porque uno salvó a su familia.

Second, there was an intermission also when the people lived in Egypt, for from the death of the sons of Jacob even to the departure out of Egypt, Ezekiel testifieth, chapter 20 verse 8, that all the people were fallen from God to the idols of the Egyptians.

Lastly, there was an intermission from Malachi, the last of the prophets, until John Baptist, in all which time no prophet was raised up, notwithstanding the word of God was continued amongst the people of the Jews by high priests and the ordinary ministry, but not without corruptions, so that at the coming of Christ for the more part the doctrine of truth was now corrupted.

Question.

Ought not the lively voice of God, which is not subject to error, be continued in the church until the coming of Christ, because you said that this lively voice did continue in the church till the coming of the apostles only? Answer.

Question, how long did the word written continue in the church? Answer, the scripture or the act of writing continued from Moses even to the apostles all which time there was almost no age wherein extraordinarily someone was not stirred up who in delivering the doctrine of truth by writing could not err.

Question, you think otherwise of the scripture itself than of the act of writing? Answer, I do so for the scripture itself or that which is now written by Moses, the prophets and apostles yet continues in the church and shall continue unto the second coming of Christ.

Question, was there any intermission of writing the word from Moses unto the apostles? Answer, there was for it appeareth in all that time which was from Malachi to John the Baptist none was stirred up either prophet or writer inspired by God for the books of the Maccabees be not given by inspiration as we shall show hereafter.

Question, you said that writing continued in the church until the time of the apostles, ought it not then to continue unto the end? Answer, like as since the apostles' time there is no lively voice heard in the church which can be said to be so governed by the Holy Ghost that it cannot err at all.

Moses and the prophets, or they would say Moses, the law, the prophets, and the writings, or the law, the prophets, and the Psalms, or Moses and the prophets, okay? That's how they referred to their Bibles.

And everybody knew that meant from Genesis to Malachi.

They have the same Old Testament then that we have today.

Okay, that's what he's talking about.

Listen to what he said.

Then Jesus said, these are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things, how many things? All things must be fulfilled, which were written in, here we go, the law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms concerning me.

So he just said was is everything in the Old Testament, as we know it in my day, which is Genesis to Malachi is the same Old Testament we have today.

He said, that's the word of God.