"It is written"

The apostle Paul quoted the Hebrew scriptures . And he would say "It is written" Now that we understand that the phrase “is written” refers to all of the prophecies and promises of Yahweh in the “old testament” scriptures, it is time to look at the word “all.” How many prophecies and promises had God made in the “old testament” that would be fulfilled by the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD?

When the apostle Paul was before the governor, he said …

“Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: 20. But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. 21. For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. 22. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: 23. That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles” [Acts 26:19-23].

Did Paul preach “Moses and the prophets” or did he preach the fulfillment in his day of those things that Moses and the prophets did “say should come?” Had they come? If not, how could Paul preach them as having come? Can we erroneously conclude that Paul left out some of those things that were being fulfilled in his day? The base root word in Greek is “pas,” which is defined by the scholars as “all, any, every, the whole.” How many of the prophecies and promises of Yahweh could not be at the point of fulfillment with that very plain definition?

Now, let us examine the word “fulfilled.”

The Greek word “pleroo” is a very interesting word. I do not think that we must go much further than to show the reader how it is translated in the “new testament” in the KJV.

“Accomplish, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.”

If we “fully” accept those definitions of the Greek word, knowing how the scholars of the KJV translated the word throughout the “new testament,” then we know that all of the promises and prophecies of God that were written in the “old testament” were “being accomplished” when Luke and Paul wrote. We know for certain that all of them were being “completed.” And, we know, without a doubt, that all of those prophecies and promises were coming to an “end,” i.e. they were “expiring,” they were being “filled up.” When a thing is full, how much “fuller” can it get? They were being “fully perfected or completed.”

That means that there is not a single prophecy or promise that God made in the “old testament” that has not been fulfilled – not a single one.

Whether we want to accept it or not, Yahshua said very plainly here to the honest hearts of mankind that all, none excepted, of the promises and prophecies of the “old testament” have “expired,” “ended,” by being “fully – perfected.”

And the time of that happening is just as plain. Yahshua said ...

“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled” [Luke 21:22].

What is left? The only real choice is whether we want to accept Yahshua as being truthful or a liar. All things were fulfilled in the days when the “armies encompassed Jerusalem ” in 66 AD to 70 AD, while some of them had “not tasted of death,” or Yahshua is a liar and we might as well scrap the entire Bible.

Personally, I accept with He said, without reservation. It did come to pass in the first century exactly as the Son of God said that it would. It is not for our generation or any future generation. God help us to open our minds, hearts and the Bible and understand and accept what He has spoken.