The Subsequent Mention Principle

(Sometimes called "The Subsequent Narrative" principle) That principle by which, in later Scripture, adds details of prior events, or gives events never before recorded.

Acts 7:23, 30, 36-Is there a contradiction? No!

Genesis 31:7, 8-Nothing before this tells of Jacob's wages being changed ten times.

Revealed for the first time. I Samuel 12:12-An event (King Nahash) never before revealed.

Psalm 105:18-Not a word before in Genesis telling of Joseph being put in irons.

Amos 1:1-Never mentioned before in the Bible of earthquakes at this time.

Amos 2:1-Never before revealed of the burning of the bones.

Amos 5:25,26-Idolatry never before mentioned, nor were the idols that Israel worshipped in the wilderness (with the exception of the golden calf). Ezekiel 20 (especially the 7th and 8th verses)-Not mentioned in Exodus that the Children of Israel worshipped idols in Egypt. The children of Israel worshipped idols in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in the Land of Canaan. The only thing that kept the Children of Israel from being destroyed was the promise God had made unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Matthew 2:23-Called a Nazarene because he lived in the city of Nazareth. Spoken by the prophets; not a line in the prophets of the Old Testament speaks of this. Remember, it says "spoken"; some prophecy is spoken and some is written; some is spoken and written; some is spoken and never written.

Acts 9:22, 24-The conversion of Paul; something is added each time.

II Timothy 3:8-The magicians' names given.

Hebrews 9:19-The Sprinkling of blood is not found in Exodus.

Hebrews 12:21-Sayings of Moses are not recorded in Exodus.

James 5:17-Not told in I Kings of Elijah having prayed that it might not rain.

Jude 9-Not told in Deuteronomy (or anywhere else in the Old Testament or New Testament) of the dispute between Satan and Michael. The Archangel is Michael; we wouldn't know this if God had not revealed it in Jude. Michael is to blow the trumpet, not Gabriel. It was revealed for the first time in Jude that Enoch was a prophet.

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