Dear Fellow Believers,
Some people think that the "God of the Old Testament" is a different God than the God of the New Testament, simply because the GOTOT (God of the Old Testament) comes across as grouchy, capricious, and downright mean. Whereas the GOTNT (God of the New Testament) speaks to us through Christ, and we all know that Christ is a Lamb.
Here is the deal. The GOTOT and GOTNT is the same God. There is only one God. You. must understand that, through the eonian times, God has revealed Himself gradually. If He had come across right off the bat as the Lamb that He really is (yes, God is a Lamb), no one would have respected Him. No one would have known how mighty and righteous and perfect He is. And so He had to lay that
foundation.
He laid that foundation through the system of the Law, and the tabernacle system that accompanied it. He positioned Himself as barely accessible, to the point that only one man (the high priest) could approach Him one day a year (the Day of Atonement)—and that man better do everything right to avoid being struck dead.
Shaking in your sandals yet? You better be. But once this backdrop of might and majesty had been established, God could then reveal His TRUE heart. That's right. The God of Sinai purposely kept some key cards close to His vest. For did not He, Himself, say that He did not delight in the blood of goats and lambs? (Isaiah 1:11). He reveals His true heart—Who He truly is—through His Son Jesus Christ.
I recorded this wonderful audio in 1998 in Almont, Michigan. Every weekend, when I watch these productions put together by our fellow-believer Rodney Paris of Texas, I am awed anew at the truth. Mind you, I have not heard these audios, in most cases, in twenty-something years. Additionally, I have NEVER seen the video and text frames that Rodney puts to it, so it's a triple wonderment to
me. I am so removed from the audio, time-wise, that I watch this in the third-person, thinking to myself, "This guy is pretty good."
When I watched this for the first time on Saturday night (yesterday, as I write this), fellow believer Darron Haworth was visiting here from Rosedale, California. We watched it together. And boy, was it something.
The entire video is great, but when we got to the part where Rodney tags onto the end a piece of video teaching from more recent days, we both sat in awe, our eyes welling with tears. Man, it's powerful. I recorded it in Rochester, NY, in August of 2012. That's all I'll say. Strap in.
Thank you, God and Father, for providing this presentation to the saints. And thank You for everyone You used to produce it.
Remaining yours from the Floridian peninsula,
——Martin Zender
