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What is The Fall?
Jacob's favorite among his twelve sons who was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt.
Who is Joseph?
Hebrew word meaning the "anointed"?
What is the Messiah?
As an infant he was adopted by Pharoah's daughter. God's chosen agent to liberate the Hebrews from Egypt.
Who is Moses?
The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
Who is Sarah?
The great deluge that destroyed the world by water.
What is The Flood?
The son of Abraham and Sarah born when they were very old.
Who is Isaac?
A solemn agreement between people or between God and man.
What is a covenant?
Adam and Eve's first son and murderer of his brother, Abel.
Who is Cain?
An event or person in Scripture that points to another event or person. Ofter a foreshadowing in the Old Testament of a person or event in the New Testament.
What is a type or prototype?
The Jews; the people chosen by God to be his own and inherit the promises of Abraham.
Who are the Chosen People?
The second King of Israel.
Who is David?
A tall building proposed by the Hamites in order to "make a name for themselves".
What is the Tower of Babel?
An ornate box that held the tablets of the Law (Ten Commandments). The visible signs of God's invisible presence on earth.
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
The first "good news" or gospel found in Genesis 3:15.
What is the protoevangelium?
Image of the prophecies of Isaiah depicting the one sent by God to suffer and die for the sins of humanity.
What is the Suffering Servant?
Hebrew for "Father of a Multitude", descendant of Shem and founder of the Hebrew nation.
Who is Abraham?
From the Greek for "ten words"; the Ten Commandments given by God through Moses.
What is the Decalogue?
The Greek word for "going out:; the liberation of the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt.
What is Exodus?
The Jewish feast commemorating the deliverance of the Israelites first born males from the Angel of Death.
What is Passover?
To worship an image made by human hands.
What is idolatry?
The tetragrammaton or the four letters of the divine name in Hebrew.
What is YHWH?
Temporary leaders appointed by God before the time of the Kings.
Who were the Judges?
The great prophet whose prophecies refer to the coming of the Messiah.
Who is Isaiah?
The mountain where Abraham prepared to offer Isaac in sacrifice.
What is Mount Moriah?