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I need some answers , I've been reading the new testament and i am very confused. I am an christian ortodox, please add me





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Like : Why Egypt is mentioned so much in the New Testament?I need advice from a Christian?
Always remember... don't get all turned around trying to figure out what everything means in the bible. It all comes down to you and the decisions you make, and you know in your heart whats right and wrong. Anyways, as you get older things will make more sense.I need advice from a Christian?
Egypt is mentioned 22 times in the New Testament and each time it refers to the actual place of Egypt.





However, sin can metaphorically be considered Egypt because it has enslaved God's people the Christians just like Egypt did the Hebrews.
Egypt is mentioned in the first few chapters of Matthew. Matthew wanted to make a connection between Jesus and the nation of Israel going to Egypt, then returning. After that, it's mentioned in Acts and Hebrews as a historical reference. The Exodus was the primary event of Jewish history and the Jews were regarded as the spiritual ancestors of Christians. Egypt symbolized a former life, a place to have come from. It's not mentioned all that much.
Egypt is mentioned a lot in an old testament, I'm not sure I remember it being mentioned in the new. Try going to a Bible study at a protestand church, yahoo answers will not get you too far.
Hi,


Yipes, I read some of the answers you got so far; Egypt is referred to in the New Testament because it was mentioned so much in the Old - Egypt is one of the main


Nations that will be allied with Antichrist when he comes against the Children of God in the end times; Never listen to anyone who tells you to not bother with the old testament - it is absolutely essential that you read the Old, esspecially the writings of all the Prophets


(Ezekiel, Amos, Joel, Hosea, etc) and that you read them WITH UNDERSTANDING -that is, if you want to understand the New Testament. The entire Word of God is essential as a whole - people who split it up and only pay attention to the New Testament are cheating themselves and also not getting the full information needed.


One of your answerers said ';don't get all turned around wondering too much about places and stuff in the Bible';; wow, very bad advice, esspecially where the New Test. is concerned. why? Because every single thing said and done is a teaching, thats why. Names and places mean ALOT


in Scripture. In fact, you should get two study Books to help you (I insist every student have both of these as textbooks)





Companion Bible (published by Kregel) its


a King James that includes 190 appendix's with loads of necessary information including these Nations and how they will play out in these end times.


And also: Get a Strongs EXHAUSTIVE Concordance of the Bible: it works perfectly with the Companion Bible (or any KJ) and allows you to take any single word in Scripture and take it back to the original Greek, Hebrew or Chaldee so you get the full translation of it. There's loads of info contained in the names of people and names of Cities and other places.


When you get the Strongs, do not get the newest one - called ';Strongest Strongs'; -


get the regular Strongs (the new one we hear has been tampered with). But make absolutely sure it says ';exhaustive'; - this is most important, okay?


The Companion Bible has a right hand margin with incredible info from the manuscripts and the Massorah (the footnotes of the New Test. Writings) and its all right there at your fingertips.


These two books will be unbelievably great for your study.





Unfortunately, I have only found one single church in over 36 years that teach from the manuscripts, and have a teacher onboard who is fluent in all three Bible languages, and teaches verse by verse, line by line.


They will send you a free cd to get you started on your studies; its amazingly great, too. There is no charge, and they will never call you, because they are in NO need of students - they get over 500 new ones per week on a slow week. They do not do side-show circus acts, no talking in tongues, no healings, do not write books or do telethons, and they do not believe in asking for money - they believe if you teach the truth of Gods Word, then Christ will see to your church's survival. Its working, because they went from 15 members to teaching in over 92 million homes, and all they do is teach line by line, the Scripture of God.


Call them and get the free CD; it will help you on an amazing journey to real truth contained in the Scriptures - there are no costs whatsoever. They have a prophecy expert on staff and also a translator who assisted with the Dead Sea Scrolls and who translates for the U.S. Government on special assignment. They are very knowledgable.





Call them and get the free CD; you might find lots of your questions answered right on that cd itself:


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Good luck in your studies
In the New Testament the references to Egypt are symbolic of the World System as contrasted with the things of God. It is that simple. There is nothing hard or mysterious about it.
26 times in the new testament. Mainly in Acts because of Joseph. Most of the time it is talking about Egypt because of the Jews being slaves in Egypt. I don't really think there are 'hidden' meanings behind this.