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To: lurk
and I would suggest you read Malachi 4:5 5 Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.

Jesus told His disciples that John the Baptist was the greatest of the Old Testament prophets and in Matthew 11:11-14 told them that

Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John: 14 And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Furthermore, the annulment of the Old Covenant is not only clear in Zechariah, but also in Malachi 2:10
Breaking Covenant Through Divorce

11 Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god. 12 As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord remove him from the tents of Jacob[c]—even though he brings an offering to the Lord Almighty.

3:1
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty

16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

17 “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him

In opposition to the clear prophecies of Malachi and Zechariah, dispensationalists believe that God will reinstate the Old COvenant, along with its ceremonial blood sacrifices

but that does not take into account what Zechariah taught that the Good Shepherd would annul the Old Covenant during His first advent - this annulling is intimately associated iwth the death of the SHepherd, sold for thirty pieces of silver

Zechariah 11
The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them 9 and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

10 Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. 11 It was revoked on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the Lord.

12 I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.

How much proof against dispensationalism do you require?
47 posted on 04/22/2024 10:42:23 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

More than some picked-out proof texts.

You left out the rest of Zechariah. Why?


83 posted on 04/24/2024 3:39:37 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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