Bible Questions Answered:
“...trinity only seen in new
testament, …”
Fahim/ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Makkah
Province)
Bible Answer:
Trinity In The Old Testament:
Genesis 1:26 KJV
And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 3:22 KJV
And The Lord God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and
now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, and live for ever:
Genesis 11:7 KJV
Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech.
Isaiah 6:8 KJV
Also I heard the voice of The Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I; send me.
Isaiah 41:21-24 KJV
21 Produce your cause, saith The Lord;
bring forth your strong reasons, saith The King Of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew
us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what
they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;
or declare us things for to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do
evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your
work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Isaiah 63:9-10 KJV
9 In all their affliction He
(God The Father) was afflicted, and The Angel Of
His Presence* (Angel
of The Lord, Jesus The Son.) saved
them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them,
and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed His
Holy Spirit: therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and
He fought against them.
(verse 11 NLT)
11 Then they remembered those days
of old when Moses led his people out of Egypt. They cried out, “Where
is the one who brought Israel through the sea, with Moses as their
shepherd? Where is the one who sent His Holy Spirit to be
among His people?
*The Angel Of His Presence: Theophany,
The Pr-incarnate Lord Jesus.
Some examples: (Genesis 18:1,2/
32:24-30/ Exodus 3:1-6/ 23:20,21)
In the Old Testament, the names for
God, such as Elohim-God, and Adonai-Lord, are Hebrew plural nouns.
Just a few examples:
The Father:
Deuteronomy 32:6 KJV
Do ye thus requite the Lord, O
foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath
bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Isaiah 63:16 KJV
Doubtless thou art our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not:
thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from
everlasting.
Isaiah 64:8 KJV
But now, O Lord, thou art our
father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the
work of thy hand.
Malachi 2:10 KJV
Have we not all one father?
hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man
against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
The Son:
Genesis 16:7-14
KJV
7 And The Angel Of The Lord found
her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur.
8 And He said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee
from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And The Angel Of The Lord said
unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And The Angel Of The Lord said
unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be
numbered for multitude.
11 And The Angel Of The Lord said
unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt
call his name Ishmael; because The Lord hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his
hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and
he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13 And she called the name of The
Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I
also here looked after Him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well was called
Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 21:17,18
KJV
17 And God heard the voice of the
lad; and The Angel Of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said
unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the
voice of the lad where he is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold
him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 22:9-18
KJV
9 And they came to the place which
God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the
wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar
upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his
hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And The Angel Of The Lord called
unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here
am I.
12 And He said, Lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only
son from Me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his
horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a
burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of
that place Jehovah jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of
The Lord it shall be seen.
15 And The Angel Of The Lord called
unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By Myself have I sworn,
saith The Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the
heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed
shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed My voice.
Genesis 28:10-22
KJV
10 And Jacob went out from
Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain
place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he
took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and
lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a
ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and
behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
13 And, behold, The Lord stood above
it, and said, I am The Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of
Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the
east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and
will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee
again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done
that which I have spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his
sleep, and he said, Surely The Lord is in this place; and I knew it
not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and
this is the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set
it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that
place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If
God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will
give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 So that I come again to my
father's house in peace; then shall The Lord be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set
for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give
me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Genesis 31:11-13
KJV
11 And The Angel Of God spake unto
me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
12 And He said, Lift up now thine
eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are
ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban
doeth unto thee.
13 I am The God Of Bethel, where
thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto Me: now
arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy
kindred.
See also:
Genesis 32:22-32 (cf. Hosea
12:3-4); Exodus 3, 13:21 (cf. 14:19), 23:20-22;
Numbers 22:21-41; Judges 2:1-5, 6:7-24, 13:3-22, 2 Samuel 24:16;
Psalm 2, 110:1, Isaiah 7:14, 9:6, 63:9; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Proverbs
30:4; Zechariah 1:10-11, 12:8; Malachi 3:1);
The Holy
Spirit:
Genesis 6:3 KJV
And The Lord said, My Spirit shall
not always strive with man..."
II Samuel 23:1,2
KJV
1 Now these be the last words of
David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on
high, the anointed of the God Of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of
Israel, said,
2 The Spirit Of The Lord spake by
me, and His word was in my tongue.
Nehemiah 9:20
KJV
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to
instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and
gavest them water for their thirst.
Job 26:13 KJV
By His Spirit He hath garnished the
heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job 33:4 KJV
The Spirit Of God hath made me, and
The Breath Of The Almighty hath given me life.
Psalm 51:11 KJV
Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 104:30 KJV
Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they
are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalm 106:32,33
KJV
32 They angered Him also at the
waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33 Because they provoked His Spirit,
so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalm 139:1-7
KJV
1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and
known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and
mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my
lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my
tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and
before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy
Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Psalm 143:10 KJV
Teach me to do thy will; for thou
art my God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Isaiah 11:1,2
KJV
1 And there shall come forth a Rod
out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And The Spirit Of The Lord shall
rest upon Him..."
Isaiah 40:13 KJV
Who hath directed The Spirit Of The
Lord, or being His counselor hath taught Him?
Ezekiel 11:5 KJV
And the Spirit Of The Lord fell upon
me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith The Lord; Thus have ye said,
O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind,
every one of them.
Micah 2:7 KJV
O thou that art named the house of
Jacob, is The Spirit Of The Lord straitened? are these His doings? do
not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
This is but a
“brief,” introduction to the study of the trinity in the Old
Testament.
Matthew 28:19
KJV (Jesus)
Go ye therefore...in the name of The
Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Ghost:
