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pre-Old Testament: Genesis, Job, and the first part of
Exodus.

14. Does the New Testament start at the book of Matthew?

The New Testament did not begin at the birth of the
Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, the New
Testament could not have begun until after the death of the
mediator of the new testament, the Lord Jesus Christ.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity
be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator
liveth. (Hebrews 9:14-17)

Since Christ did not die until the end of each of the four
gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), these four books
contain Old Testament information. While the four gospels
are in a group of books that is commonly called the New
Testament, it would be accurate to say that the four gospels
are Old Testament doctrinally. To say the same thing in a
different way, God operated the universe according to Old
Testament principles during the time period recorded in the
gospels.

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