A question I still have questions on.
By Faith in God they were accounted to as righteous from God. The Spirit di not live in those of the Old, visited upon the Prophets that spoke of the coming savior. So we have an old and a new, but the same promise that was made to Abraham remained intact, and we had an Abraham's bosom before the cross ever took place and afterwards all that beleive as Abraham did are now in the presence oif the Lord forever more
Old Testament Saints waited in trust on the coming Savior Christ
Job
Job 19:25For I know
that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
King david
Psalm 100:4Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving,
and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him,
and bless his name.
These are just two of the Old Testament Saints that beleived God before the cross came and were looking forward to it.
Then we have this before the cross as Jesus walked tihs earth
[h=3]Luke 16:19-31[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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19 [/SUP]There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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20 [/SUP]And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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21 [/SUP]And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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22 [/SUP]And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
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23 [/SUP]And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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24 [/SUP]And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
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25 [/SUP]But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
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26 [/SUP]And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
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27 [/SUP]Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
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28 [/SUP]For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
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29 [/SUP]Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
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30 [/SUP]And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
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31 [/SUP]And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Now after the cross all is changed no more Abraham's bosom, For since he is risen as last verse states, for the christ is what all scripture has spoken of
No one was born again until the day of Pentecost, saved yes for all those that beleived God, put the Holy Ghost Babtism had not been put in place yet
Matthew 3:11
I indeed
baptize you
with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall
baptize you
with the Holy Ghost, and
with fire:
the Babtism John spoke of is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and this happened at Pentecost
[h=3]Acts 1:5[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)
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5 [/SUP]for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Anyway jkust my twocents of what I see from Scripture