Is the Old Testament God the same as the New Testament God? I believe so and thought of some parallels between both periods that reveals a loving God who is steadily revealing Himself on a deeper and more personal level as His redemption story toward us is unfurled:It was God who chose His people in Egypt because they were the weakest of nations and it was God's will to show His strength in their weakness; it was God who brought them out of the fiery furnace and into the promised land; it was God who gave them the law that they might worship Him in truth; it was God who lived with His people in a tent of meeting so that they would never be without His love and protection; it was God who wrote that law on His childrens' hearts of flesh after taking the stony heart out.
These truths are more personalized in the New Testament because we see that it is Jesus who chose us to be in Him before the foundation of the world was set; it is Jesus who rescues us from our slavery to sin, Satan and the world order and gives to us His inheritance; it is Jesus who breathed into us His Spirit of Truth to dwell in the "tent" of our bodies; it is Jesus who breaks our stony hearts and gives us life.
