Bible Test 1 Flashcards

Theme of Genesis

The Book of Beginnings.

Theme of Exodus

The formation of Israel as a holy nation.

Theme of Leviticus

How to use the tabernacle.

Theme of Numbers

God leads Israel in the wilderness.

Theme of Deuteronomy

God's covenant with Israel is reestablished.

Genesis 3

The Promise of Hope (Protoevangelium).

Genesis 12

The Abrahamic Covenant.

Exodus 19

The Mosaic Covenant—Israel called to be a kingdom of priests.

Numbers 14

Israel rejects the land at Kadesh.

Deuteronomy 28

Promise of blessing and cursing.

Three elements of God's Promise of Hope

God will destroy evil, God will restore creation, God will dwell with His people forever.

First promise of hope in Scripture

Genesis 3:15.

Meaning of "enmity" in Genesis 3:15

Hostility.

The "seed" in Genesis 3:15

Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah.

What the seed will do to the serpent in Genesis 3:15

Crush his head.

Covenant

An agreement between two parties (conditional or unconditional).

Covenant God made with Noah

To never again flood the entire earth.

Abrahamic Covenant

God's promise to Abraham of land, nation, and blessing.

Mosaic Covenant

God's covenant with Israel at Sinai, making them His kingdom of priests.

Difference between conditional and unconditional covenants

Conditional depends on obedience; unconditional depends only on God's promise.

Patriarchs

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jacob's sons

12 sons who became the tribal heads of Israel.

End of Genesis

With Jacob's family in Egypt, preserved by God through Joseph.

Passage recording God's covenant with Abraham

Genesis 12:1-3.

Passage recording God separating Israel as His kingdom of priests

Exodus 19:3-6.

Terms of the Abrahamic Covenant

Land, nation, blessing.

Reason God chose Israel as His covenant nation

To preserve the seed and bless the world.

Covenant sign given to Noah

The rainbow.

God's promise in the Noahic Covenant

Never again to destroy the whole earth with a flood.

Israel under the Mosaic Covenant

A peculiar treasure, kingdom of priests, and holy nation.

Blessed child of Noah

Shem.

Son of Abraham through whom the covenant continued

Isaac.

Son of Isaac through whom the covenant continued

Jacob.

City God called Abraham to leave

Ur.

Land promised to Abraham

Canaan.

Sin causing God to scatter the nations at Babel

Pride and rebellion against God.

Chapter introducing the beginning of nations

Genesis 10-11.

Judgment at the Tower of Babel

Confusion of languages.

Chapter recording Israel's rebellion at Kadesh

Numbers 14.

Judgment following Israel's refusal to enter the land

Wandering 40 years in the wilderness.

Chapter recording blessings and curses for obedience/disobedience

Deuteronomy 28.

Covenant reestablished in Deuteronomy

The Mosaic Covenant.

Plot Point #1 of Scripture's story

God establishes His promise of hope through the formation of Israel.

Passages supporting Plot Point #1

Genesis 12:1-3 and Exodus 19:3-6.

God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:2

To make him a great nation and bless him.

God's promise in Exodus 19:5

Israel would be His peculiar treasure if they obeyed His covenant.

Who preserved Jacob's family in Egypt

Joseph.

What Israel's 12 sons became

The 12 tribes of Israel.

Focus of Leviticus

Holiness and worship through the tabernacle.

Overall theme of the Pentateuch

God establishes a people through whom to fulfill His promise of hope.

Genesis 12:1-3

God makes a covenant with Abraham

Exodus 19:3-6

God separates Israel as a kingdom of priests

What is God's hope-filled promise fulfilled in scriptures story?

God will destroy all evil, God will restore creation, God will dwell with His people forever.