40 Minutes In The Old Testament

40 Minutes In The Old Testament: Episode 11

Mar 31, 2015
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INSIGHT

Expectation Of The Promised Seed

  • Early believers expected a coming promised seed and misidentified babies like Cain and Noah as that seed.
  • These misidentifications show persistent faith in Genesis 3:15 even when understanding was imperfect.
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Repeated Patterns In Scripture

  • Genesis regularly uses type and anti-type so earlier events foreshadow later ones within the Old Testament itself.
  • Noah functions as a 'second Adam' prefiguring renewed humanity after the flood.
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Beginning Mirrors The End

  • Genesis packs eschatology into its opening so the beginning reveals the end and vice versa.
  • Revelation borrows Genesis imagery because God reveals the end already in the beginning.
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