The GOSPEL - In the Old Testament - David Jon Hill - July 1963

David Jon Hill

What has the Old Testament to do with the Gospel? Why is it even included in the Bible? How did Jesus, Peter and Paul preach the Gospel? Jesus Christ never read the New Testament! Yet He preached the Gospel. He quoted from Scripture! John the Baptist preached the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. The Apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost in 31 A.D. preached a sermon of salvation that brought three thousand people to repentance - he quoted many scriptures, yet not one was from the New Testament. After his conversion, the Apostle Paul preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ - yet through most of his ministry he did not have access to any of what we recognize as the New Testament today - in fact, he himself was responsible for writing fourteen books of it! The only Bible that Jesus and Peter and Paul were conversant with and preached from was what we regard today as the Old Testament! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library