New Apostolic Church: Theology

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The New Testament autors used the Septuagint as basis for their texts. The Septuagint was compiled during the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus who wanted a Greek translation of the Old Testament. “The New Testament authors quoted from the LXX and not from the Hebrew text” (Ancient Israelite Literature in Context - Boshoff et al) This was viewed as the standard version of the Old Testament.

It seems this leaves a problem for the New Testament. All New Testament text can in some way be connected to the Old Testament. The Gospels tells the life of Jesus from the view point of the four Evangelist, but confirms the Prophecies according to the Prophets. The Epistles and Apocalypse even can be connected to the Old Testament. There is nothing new in the New Testament. The New Testament is just a confirmation of the promises in the Old Testament.

In the New Testament the promises of the Old Testament is fulfilled.

There can be no new revelations!
Good day Abelard -
Most of what you say above is accurate. However, I take issue with just one sentence:
There is nothing new in the New Testament.
The Trinitarian God is revealed in the New Testament. While there are illusions to it in the Old Testament, there is no prophecy of it.

The Holy Spirit is not exposed as an individual person until Christ tells us of the Advocate to come in the Gospel of John. Until that event the Spirit is known only as the Spirit of God the Father.

Mary the virgin mother is without question prophesied in the Old Testament, but she is not revealed as Queen of Heaven until the book of Revelation.

The second coming of Christ is nowhere to be found in the Old Testament.

These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I am sure I can find more if I start looking.

Subrosa
 
The Holy Spirit is a common feature in the Old Testament. Even in the first chapter of the Bible the Holy Spirit is mentioned:

(Gen 1:2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The following two verses describes that the task of the Holy Spirit is the same as in the New Testament:

(Exo 31:3) And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

(Exo 35:31) And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

Look at the following two verses. One from the Old Testament, and on from the New Testament. Both describe the Holy Spirit as coming upon a person, and the person prophesying or speaking in tongues.

(1Sa 10:10) And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.

Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The Son of God is also mentioned in the Old Testament:

Dan 3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Dan 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Paul writes to the Corinthians the following:

1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Paul here is talking about when Moses drew water from a rock in two instances in the desert. The rock was of course Christ, the Son of God:

Exo 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Num 20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Num 20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Num 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Num 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

This can be reffered back to the New Testament:

Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

There is no mention of A Queen of Heaven in the New Testament. In the Old Testament there is two references to the religion of Caananites, and not the children of God. see Isa 7 and 44. The Queen of Heaven is unknown in the Old Apostolic Church.

According to Protestant scholars the Queen of Heaven is Astarte the goddes of the Assyreans. (Eastons Bible Dictionary, Fausset’s Bible Dictionary, International Standard Bible Dictionary)

The Second Coming also is an unknown concept in the Bible. There is no Second Coming!

Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, **I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. **
 
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