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Showing posts with label Progressive Mention Principle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progressive Mention Principle. Show all posts

Friday, December 6, 2019

Progressive Mention Principle

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!
Progressive -Mention Principle
             This is where the revelation of any given truth is increasingly clear as the Word of God proceeds to the end.  The Word of God is a progression, and every progressive mention adds more details to a particular truth.  The progressive mentions of different truths can be lengthy so I will just give one example.
            The Coming Messiah:  Little by little from the very beginning we see clues given by God of a coming Messiah.
              Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
When Adam and Eve brought sin into the world, God immediately gave a promise that the Seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent.  At first a very small and vague clue. 
            Genesis 22: 18: “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
When Isaac is born to an aging Abraham, God gives another clue.  The promised Seed will be in Isaac's family linage.  At first it was a promise to Eve, the mother of all humanity.  Not it is narrowed down to a descendant of Isaac.
Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why hast thy forsaken me...they pierced my hands and my feet…They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture…”
Another clue was given to the king and prophet David in the psalm of the cross! This whole psalm is about the cross!  He will be forsaken, he will be crucified and they shall gamble for his garments!
Psalm 34:20: “He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.”
Another clue again was given to the king and prophet David that his bones would not be broken!
Isaiah 53:4-5: “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Another clue was given to the prophet Isaiah about the killing of the Messiah and why he died!
            Daniel 9:25:Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince…”
            Another clue was given to the prophet Daniel.  The Israelites would come out of Babylon and return to Jerusalem to build it up for the coming Messiah.
            Zechariah 9:9: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto the: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass.”
            Another clue was given to the prophet Zechariah about the Triumphant Entry of the Messiah into Jerusalem.
            Zechariah 11:12: “And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me thy price; and if not, forebear, So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.”
            Another clue was given again to the prophet Zechariah about the price on the Messiah’s head!  Thirty pieces of silver!
            Malachi 3:1: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare thy way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”

            Another clue was given to the prophet Malachi that a messenger would come just before the appearance of the Messiah.


William J. Roop, M.A.B.S.