Creation
On the sixth day of creation, God made these creatures in His own image.
What are human beings?
This creature approached Eve in the garden and questioned God's command.
What is the serpent?
God made a covenant with this man and promised that through his offspring all the families of the earth would be blessed.
Who is Abraham?
Jesus is called by this title in Scripture because He was sent to do what Adam and Eve should have done: obey God perfectly.
Who is the Second Adam?
Revelation describes this coming city as the place where God will dwell with His people.
What is the New Jerusalem?
In Genesis 1, God gives humanity this responsibility toward the earth and its creatures.
What is to rule over/subdue and have dominion?
The serpent tempted Eve to doubt this as he questioned her.
What is God's Word?
God set a pattern for redemption through this pivotal event delivering Abraham's descendants from Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
This title of Jesus reminds us that the second Person of the Trinity lived a life of perfect obedience, willingly placed Himself on the altar, and His sacrifice was acceptable and pleasing to the Father to accomplish salvation for all who believe.
Who is the Lamb of God?
In the final chapters of Revelation, this curse is no longer present because God makes "all things new."
What is death?
God is the Almighty, the High King of heaven and earth, and the sovereign, omnipotent Creator of all things. As such, He is worthy of this response to His authority.
What is obedience?
According to Genesis 3, Adam and Eve ate this fruit after disobeying God's command.
What is the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
God gave Israel individuals in this office to act as in intermediary between God and man; He also called them to be a kingdom of these and a holy nation to the world.
What is a priest?
To live as this sort of person is to live knowing that both the penalty and the power of sin have been broken.
Who is a redeemed person?
In Romans 8, Paul likens the redemption of creation to this, helping us to understand that all of creation will experience this same glorious redemption.
What is the redemption of our bodies?
God created us in this way so that we could represent Him by resembling Him and be icons of His presence in all the world.
What is "in the image of God"?
After Adam and Eve sinned, this entered the human experience and became the consequence of their rebellion against God.
What is death?
God promised this king that his throne and kingdom would be established, pointing forward to an everlasting King.
Who is King David?
These two events in the timeline of Jesus' physical time on earth assure us that:
1. Believers will also be resurrected.
2. Jesus is seated on His throne as the conquering King.
What are Christ's resurrection and ascension?
Revelation 22 contains imagery that deliberately echoes Genesis, including this plant that appears on both ends of the Biblical story.
What is the tree of life?
Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden, where they enjoyed these three P's of God's presence.
What are Provision, Protection, and Parameters?
Genesis 3 contains both devastating judgment and an early promise that the serpent's defeat would ultimately come through this.
What is the promised offspring/seed of the woman?
The Old Testament reveals that Israel's greatest problem wasn't simply their circumstance but that they repeatedly turned from God; therefore, God prophesied that He would give them this remedy in Ezekiel 36.
What is a new heart?
This Person of the Trinity indwells believers with His presence as God's new temple, conforming them to the image of Christ so they can bear His image to all the earth.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Biblical story begins in a garden and ends in a renewed creation, showing that God's ultimate purpose is to accomplish this.
What is: to redeem and restore His creation?