Covenants
What is a covenant?
A Promise
Through whom does God declare he will “bless the nations of the earth?”
Abraham
Figures whose stories mirror and anticipate Christ are called what?
Types of Christ
The Scriptures are “breathed out by God.” To say this another way, we would call them what?
Inspired
Paul calls Jesus what in 1 Corinthians 15, linking him with an OT character?
Second or Last Adam
What type of covenant is given with conditions or stipulations?
A Conditional Covenant
Through what does God graciously allow Israel to commune with him?
The Tabernacle or Temple
John 1:14 tells us that the Son became flesh and “dwelt” among us. How else might “dwelt” be translated?
"Tabernacled"
The Scriptures have dual authorship, meaning that they are co-written by who and who?
God and Humans
Through what do we realign our hearts toward God
Worship
What type of covenant is given without condition or stipulation?
A Grant Covenant
What chapter of Genesis contains the “eucatastrophe” of God’s intervention and blessing of Abraham?
Genesis 12
What tribal lineage does the hopes of Israel rest on?
The line of Judah
The Bible uses a lot of what to link characters, places, themes, and ideas?
Repetition or Hyperlinks
What are the “Three Hooks” of Christian worship?
Christian Story, Christian Belief, Christian Formation
The Babylonian Exile is a consequence of what?
Israelites breaking covenant with God.
Through which OT king does “foreign worship” enter Israel, ultimately resulting in the Babylonian Captivity?
King Solomon
What repeated phrase hyperlinks David and Jesus?
“You are my son.”
We read the Bible with __________-__________ interpretation, focusing on the context of the Scritpures and on the literary form.
Historical-grammatical
Humans are described with royal language in Genesis, meaning that God has given what over the earth to humans?
Dominion or Rulership
What thing (not person) do the stories of the Israelites breaking OT Covenants anticipate?
A New Covenant that won’t be broken.
Who (besides God) freed the Israelites from the Babylonian Captivity?
Persia
Leviticus 25 tells about what, which points towards the ultimate bounty and joy brought by Jesus in Luke 4?
The Year of Jubilee
God gives the Scriptures their content, and humans give the Scriptures their what?
Form or Literary Form
The Bible doesn’t end with the destruction of a creation ruined by sin, but rather with a _________ free from sin.
New Creation