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ABRAHAM AND LOT 14: 17-24
melzt of ow Lord avd Savior Jesus Christ? That is to say,
when God finished the work of Creation and entered into
His rest (Gen, 2:2) , did not the Logos, the Son, take over
the direction of the divine Plan of Redemption? Is not
the Old Testanzeizt as truly His as the New Testament is?
Jf not, what does the Apostle mean, 1 Cor. 10:4,
when he tells us that ancient Israel in the Exodus “drank
of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was
Christ”? (Cf. Exo. 17:6, Num. 20:11, Psa. 78:15.)
Furthermore, who was the “Angel of Jehovah” of the Old
Testament record? Strong writes (ST, 319) : In the Old
Testament “the appearances of ‘the angel of Jehovah’ seem
to be preliminary manifestations of the divine Logos.”
(Cf. Gen. 18:2, 13; Dan. 3:25, 28; Gen. 22:11, 16; Gen.
31~11-13, 16~9-13, 48:15, 16; EXO. 3:2, 4, J; Judge 13:20-
22.) Strong (ibid) : “Though the phrase ‘angel of Jehovah’
is sometimes used in later Scriptures to denote a merely
human messenger or created angel, it seems in the Old
Testament, with hardly more than a single exception, to
designate the pre-incarnate Logos, whose manifestations in
angelic or human form foreshadowed his final coming in
the flesh.” (Cf. also Josh. 5:13-15 and Gen. 32:l-2.)
Who was this Prince of the Host of Yahweh? Was He
the angel Michael (Dan. 10:13, l2:l; Jude 9, Rev. 12:7),
or was He the Pre-incarnate Logos?) See also John 17:4,
24; John 8:J8, 19:30; Phil. 2:5-8: it should be noted that
the statements of Jesus referred to here were all spoken
under the Old Covenant, before the New Covnant was
ratified at Golgoltha and the Christian Dispensation was
ushered in, on Pentecost, A.D: 30 (Jer. 31:31-34; Heb.,
chs. 8, 9; John 1:17; 2 Cor., ch. 3; Matt. J:17-20, Acts
2. etc.). We might add here that those who reject the
Virgin Birth of Jesus should be prepared to “explain away”
the repeated Scripture affirmations of His eternal Pre-
existence (cf. John l7:fy 8:58, 1:l-J; Phil. 2:5-8; Col.
1:13-18; Gal. 4:4; Heb. 1:l-4) as the Logos, the Very
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