Evil vs. Righteousness
Selfish heart
Who is Cain?
Receives the covenantal blessing
Who is Shem?
Cutting animals in two and walking between the pieces.
What is the ancient covenant making ritual between families?
Laban gives Leah to be Jacob's wife
How Jacob is jacobed?
Chaste and pure (example of this in his life)
Rebuffs Potiphar's wife's advances
A heart for God.
Who is Abel?
The Church
What the ark is a type of?
Sign of this covenant :(
What is circumcision?
He will reap what he has sown
How God shows us what Jacob did was wrong in tricking his brother and dad?
"The whole world comes to Joseph"
The world comes to buy grain because of Joseph's foresight in storing grain.
The 1st Biblical bigamist
Who is Lamech?
Resembles the inside of an "upside-down" ship's hull
What is the architecture of a gothic church (nave, navis)?
Smoking fire pot and flaming torch
Fire represents God ("walks" between the pieces)
"Israel"
What Jacob's name is changed to?
Joseph is this age when he entered the service of Pharaoh
What is 30 years old?
"Make a name for ourselves"-glorify oneself
Who are the descendants of Cain (the evil line)?
Evil had reached its culmination.
Why God flooded the earth?
Abram and Abraham ("what did and what does my name mean")
"Exalted Father" and
"Father of a vast multitude" (or "of many nations")
Esau being short sighted
What is we should not put immediate gratification above a long term goal/benefit?
"Robe dipped in goat's blood"
What is what points to Jesus' tunic soaked in His own blood?
Who are the Semites (the righteous line of Seth)?
"Rest, relief," #7 repeated, divine commission...
What is how the flood is a re-creation?
What is the Calvary of the O.T.? Explain. (3 parallels)
Put on to deceive my dad and then my sons deceived me by dipping Joseph's robe in goat's blood.
"You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good...that many people should be kept alive as they are today"
What is God's providence over the life of Joseph of his family?