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Bible: The Old Testament Read Through the New

Grade 8 · 142 pages · 36 lessons · PDF, print at home

Thirty-six weeks on how the New Testament reads the Old: promise and fulfillment, sacrifice and temple, exodus and exile as patterns, the Psalms in the mouth of Jesus, and Hebrews as a worked example of the whole method.

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Bible: The Old Testament Read Through the New

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Unit 1: Promise and Fulfillment9 lessons
  1. 1.How the first Christians read their Bible
  2. 2.The first promise, and how little it says
  3. 3.Blessing for everyone, promised to one man
  4. 4.Counted, not earned
  5. 5.A psalm about death, used as evidence
  6. 6.A throne that outlasts the man
  7. 7.Immanuel, and an argument about one word
  8. 8.A quotation that was never a prediction
  9. 9.Four quotations in one chapter
Unit 2: Sacrifice, Temple, Priest9 lessons
  1. 10.Why blood
  2. 11.Passover, and a lamb with no broken bones
  3. 12.God will provide himself a lamb
  4. 13.Two goats, one day
  5. 14.A tent, so that God could live in the camp
  6. 15.The temple, and the man who called himself one
  7. 16.A priest with no genealogy
  8. 17.A priest forever, sworn to
  9. 18.A kingdom of priests
Unit 3: Exodus and Exile as Patterns9 lessons
  1. 19.The name at the bush
  2. 20.The sea, and Paul reading it as a pattern
  3. 21.Bread that did not keep
  4. 22.The snake on the pole
  5. 23.Forty days, and three quotations
  6. 24.When the temple burned
  7. 25.Isaiah's servant: chosen and quiet
  8. 26.Isaiah's servant: wounded
  9. 27.A new covenant, promised in the ruins
Unit 4: Hebrews, a Worked Example9 lessons
  1. 28.A letter with no address
  2. 29.Seven quotations in nine verses
  3. 30.Psalm 8, Psalm 22, and a brother
  4. 31.Moses was faithful in the house
  5. 32.Rest, and a high priest who knows
  6. 33.The argument from silence, completed
  7. 34.Why the sacrifices had to keep happening
  8. 35.Faith, defined and then illustrated
  9. 36.What to do with the method now