Both Testaments Have the Same Divine Author

The reason these two Testaments are so intimately related is that they have the same Author. It is true the messages came through men, men whom God had chosen through the centuries, but they were channels and only channels through whom the Divine Oracles came. The divine and the human were beautifully blended, so much so that the messages bore the marks of human personality. The background, the education, the culture, and the surroundings of the individual all left their impress upon the testimonies of warning and counsel that the messengers of the Most High gave to the children of men.BSPC 34.3

In the Spirit of prophecy we read:BSPC 34.4

“It is the voice of Christ that speaks through Patriarchs and Prophets, from the days of Adam even to the closing scenes of time.”—The Desire of Ages, 799.BSPC 34.5

“The Savior had spoken through all the prophets. ‘The Spirit of Christ which was in them’ ‘testified beforehand the suffering of Christ, and the glory that should follow.’”—The Desire of Ages, 234.BSPC 34.6

“It was Christ that spoke to His people through the prophets.... It is the voice of Christ that speaks to us through the Old Testament. ‘The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.’”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 366, 367.BSPC 34.7

“He [Christ] spoke the word of God as He had spoken it to all the Old Testament writers. The whole Bible is a manifestation of Christ.”—Gospel Workers, 250.BSPC 34.8

The same message of salvation, the same unfolding of the purpose of God, the same grand objective to restore all that was lost at the fall of man is discernible all through the pages of Holy Writ. It could hardly be otherwise, for all the books have the same Author and we behold the same divine Person, we recognize the same voice, in them all. On this Dean Farrar has remarked:BSPC 34.9

“God spoke alike from Sinai and from heaven. The difference of the places whence they spoke involves the whole difference of their tone and revelations. Perhaps the writer regarded Christ as the speaker alike from Sinai as from Heaven, for even the Jews represented the Voice of Sinai as being the Voice of Michael, who was sometimes identified with the ‘Shechinah,’ or the Angel of the Presence.”—F. W. Farrar, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, p. 161, in Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges.BSPC 35.1