How were people saved in the Old Testament? It’s one of the biggest questions in Scripture, and the answer shapes how we understand the seal Paul describes in Ephesians 1:13. Believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit after hearing the gospel and believing, but if the Spirit ever allowed a seal to be broken in the past, what does yours mean today?
Let’s work through hearing, believing, and being sealed, then see why the same Holy Spirit and the same plan of salvation run from Genesis 1:2 to Pentecost. We follow Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus (“Are you the teacher of Israel?”), Ezekiel 36, and the road to Emmaus to see how Moses, David, and Ruth were saved, and we take on the verses that seem to say the Spirit comes and goes, from the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the special anointing.