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8. Describe the implications of the promise-fulfillment motif for OT study, especially the way in which it suggests that a clear picture of Messiah can be seen in the history of the patriarchs, the nation of Israel, the Messianic prophecies, and the moral standards of the Law. 9. List the ways in which the promise and fulfillment motif affirms the unity of the Old and New Testaments, in terms of God’s intention to reveal himself, to redeem his people, and to do this through the promise made to Abraham and his descendants fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. 10. Define and explain the concept of the protoevangelium , the first telling of the Gospel in Genesis 3.15, laying out the spe- cifics of the promise including hostility between the serpent and the woman and their respective “seeds,” the bruising of the heel of the woman’s seed, and the crushing of the serpent’s head by the seed. 11. Recite the theological implications of the protoevangelium , namely that God would provide humanity with a Savior through the woman’s lineage who would destroy the serpent, albeit having his heel bruised; Jesus of Nazareth is this divine seed commissioned to destroy the devil’s work. 12. Trace the covenant promise of Yahweh with Abraham as the continuation of this divine promise, including the fact that Abraham and his “seed” would be the means whereby redemption and restoration would come to God’s people as well as to the nations of the earth in him; Jesus of Nazareth is declared to be the seed of Abraham in the NT apostolic witness. 1. Give a clear and simple definition of type , as an object, event, happening, image, or reality that prefigures in the OT a reality in the NT, usually focused on Jesus Christ (as its antitype ). 2. Outline the major justifications for a typological approach of the study of the Scriptures, including Jesus’ and the apostles’ use of the method, and the implicit connection in many of the same representations and images mentioned throughout Scripture. 3. List the major aspects of biblical types: that they are historically real, they illumine the person and work of

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module

After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 2 The Promise Clarified