{"id":1928,"date":"2011-08-05T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2011-08-05T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:35:53","slug":"testator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1928\/testator\/","title":{"rendered":"Testator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about Hebrews 9:16-17, where it says \u201cFor where a testament is, it is necessary to establish the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead; it has no force at all while the testator is alive\u201d. But then in v. 18, \u201cHence, the first testament was not inaugurated without blood.\u201d Who was the testator for the Old Testament? Was the blood of the animals that Moses sprinkled on the people just a figure of the testator that was to come? Moses wouldn\u2019t be the testator would he, since he didn\u2019t die (until later)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Vince<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Vince.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>If Moses had been the testator, he would have had to die. No, under the law, animals were used for that purpose. Of course, those sacrificial animals represented Christ, but nobody understood that at the time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi pastor John, I have a question about Hebrews 9:16-17, where it says \u201cFor where a testament is, it is necessary to establish the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead; it has no force at all while the testator is alive\u201d. But then in v. 18, \u201cHence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}