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"The New is in the Old concealed --- the Old
is in the New revealed"
There
are at least six categories of passages from the Old Testament that, while not
explicitly teaching the Trinity, do indicate that in the being of the One God
there is more than one person.
- Passages in which
God speaks of Himself in the plural: "Let us make man in our
own image" (Ge 1:26; and passages like it, Ge 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8)
- Passages where God
is differentiated from God as in Ps. 45:6-7 (Heb 1:8); Ps 110:1 (Matt
22:41-45);
- The "angel of
the LORD" passages (the Angel is both identified as God and yet
differentiated from God) Ge
16:7-13; 22:1-2 with 22:11-18; 24:7, 40; 28:10-17 & 31:11-13;
32:9-12, 24-30; 48:15-16; Ex 3:2-6; 13:21 & 14:19; 23:20-23 &
33:14; 32:34; Josh 5:13-15; Judges 6:11-24; 13:3-22; 2 Sam 24:16; Hos
12:4; Zech 12:8; Mal 3:1.
- Passages in which
the Messiah (a divine speaker, to be shown at a later date) speaks of
having been sent by the Lord and/or the Spirit. Isa 48:16; 61:1; Zech 2:10-11
- Passages that
indicate distinctions within the divine being. Ge 19:24; Ps 45:7; 110:1; Hos 1:7.
- Passages in which
mention is made of more than one divine person. Ps 33:6; Isa 61:1;
63:9-12; Hag 2:5-6.
B.
B. Warfield, a great man of God from the 19th century, noted that
the Trinity in the Old Testament is like the furniture in a darkened
room. He wrote: “When you turn on a
light in a dark room after you have been stumbling around, and you see the
furniture for the first time, it does not mean that the furniture was not
there before, but now when the lights are on, you can make sense of what you
have been bumping into in the dark.”
So now, with the light of history and the NT, we can see what was
there all along.
-Chuck-
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