Preparing for the Messiah

The Promise of Redemption Key Questions

Does God create Original Sin? Does God take away Original Holiness and

Original Justice? Does God give Original Sin to the

descendants of Adam & Eve? Does God punish Adam & Eve for their sin?

THINK: Does the teacher give you your grade?

The Promise of Redemption God is not vengeful or wrathful

These are human characteristics We say that God gets angry

But those are our words to describe the indescribable

God “gets angry”—but only because He is so disappointed, or so offended

The Promise of Redemption God’s desire, even when “angry,” is to

bring us back to Himself (repentence) God “desires all men to be saved and to

come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2.4)

The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3.9)

The Promise of Redemption When is the Promise of Redemption first

shown? When is the Promise of Redemption first

spoken? Why is it called the Protoevangelium?

Where else, in the beginning, is the Promise of Redemption shown? The tree of Life The blood of Abel The birth of Seth

The Promise of Redemption A New Adam & a New Eve

In what way is Jesus the New Adam? Besides obedience, what did Jesus retain

that Adam lost? What is the difference between the “gifts”

of Adam and Jesus? In what way is Mary the New Eve?

How are both women the “Mother of all the Living”?

The Promise of Redemption

In [Mary] was cancelled that word concerning the woe of Eve: In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; for in gladness she brought forth her Lord. Eve mourned: she exulted. Eve carried tears in her womb; Mary, joy. Eve brought forth a sinner: Mary the sinless One. The mother of our race brought punishment to the world: the Mother of our Lord brought salvation to the world. Eve was the source of sin: Mary of merit. Eve by bringing death was our undoing: Mary by bringing life was our profit. Eve wounded us: Mary healed us. Obedience is given in exchange for disobedience, faith atones for infidelity. (St Augustine)

The Proliferation of Sin What does “proliferation” mean?

OED: rapid increase in the number or amount of something: a continuing threat of nuclear proliferation we attempted to measure cell proliferation stress levels are high, forcing upon them a

proliferation of ailments It means that sin both spread and

increased in “severity” (A. Nagy)

The Proliferation of Sin Examples of the Proliferation of Sin

Cain & Abel Genealogy Sin before the flood

Polygamy Intermarriage between faithful and

unfaithful

The Proliferation of Sin IMPORTANT: Even as sin proliferates,

God does not abandon His people God is so loving and powerful that He is

able to turn Sin to His advantage Death to life Curse to blessing

Felix Culpa What is Felix culpa

Happy Fault “When Adam and Eve sinned, and God

turned into a good thing” (C. Topolski) God now revises His Son’s mission

First: to redeem and restore us Second: to effect a closer relationship with

Him (communion; the original design)

Covenants What is the covenant with Adam?

Fill the earth Have dominion Protoevangelium (event, not definition)

The Flood & Baptism What is a type?

Hint; looking ahead; past pointing to future

Drawing the curtain back slowly “Something in the Old Testament that

foreshadows something in the New Testament” (J. Kling)

The Flood & Baptism How is the Flood a type of Baptism?

Baptism = a means of redemption Water Ark 40 days 8 people Clean animals

Covenants What is the covenant with Noah?

Repeats … Relationship to animals

Humans may now eat meat Rainbow The inheritance of Shem

Through one man, one line

After the Flood Sons of Noah

Significance of Ham Importance of Shem Revised “divine economy”

“Divine Economy” = Plan of salvation Which son will God focus on as the seed of

salvation for all mankind?

After the Flood Tower of Babel

What is the basic story? Why does God confuse their language? What anti-type does the Tower of Babel

story point to?

Covenants Who is Abram?

Where is he from? Who is his nephew?

What does God ask Abram to do? Trace his route? Who is Sarai?

Covenants What is God’s covenant with Abram?

Read Genesis 12.1-3 Read Genesis 17.1-8 Read Genesis 22.16-18

What are the three points of the covenant? Land Descendants Kings / Great Nation

Covenants The Covenant is then

Ratified: Genesis 15 Marked: Genesis 17.9-14

Sign of the covenant Why is this done?

Tested: Genesis 22 What does Abraham show in all these

things? Read Genesis 15.5-6

Abraham’s Faith 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was

called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Heb 11)

Abraham’s Faith 11 By faith Sarah herself received power

to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. (Heb 11)

God’s Revelation How would God reveal himself from this

point onward? God would reveal himself through the

descendants of Abraham: the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of the Chosen People, and finally through Jesus Christ.

After Abraham Who are the sons of Abraham?

What two great nations come from these sons?

Which son gets the blessing? Who are the sons of Isaac?

Which son gets the blessing? Who are the sons of Jacob?

Which son gets the blessing?

After Abraham How did the children of Israel end up in

Egypt? Basic story

What happens to them in Egypt? How long are they in Egypt?

Baby Moses Who is Moses? What is the story?

Have you heard this story before? KEY: Moses is a type of Christ

Burning Bush Where does this story take place?

How did Moses get there from Egypt? What is the basic story of the bush?

What promise does God make? What is God’s name?

What does this name mean? Is God a name? What are other titles for God (p. 52; web

assignment)?

Who is the antitype for the burning bush?

Names of God

Passover How does God force the Pharaoh to

release the Egyptians? Does the Pharaoh have a choice? What was the worst plague?

Who killed the first born? TYPE / ANTITYPE

Where does the word “Passover” come from?

Passover How did the children of Israel end up at

the Red Sea? What does crossing the Red Sea

represent? TYPE / ANTITYPE

Where is the Blessed Trinity in the Red Sea story?

After they cross the Red Sea, how do the children of Israel survive?

TYPE / ANTITYPE

Ten Commandments Why must the children of Israel go to Mt

Sinai? What do they receive there? What are the two basic parts to the

Decalogue? What is natural law? What is the relationship between the

Decalogue and natural law?

Promised Land Finally, after ______, the children of Israel

entered the Promised Land. Who led them into the Promised Land? Who were the leaders of the Israelites

when they lived in the Promised Land? What was the greatest temptation for the

Children of Israel in the Promised Land? What sort of person did the Children of

Israel believe would truly help and protect them?

Covenants Who is David?

Who was the first king of Israel? How is David a type of Christ?

Where is he from? What does he do before being king? How does he defeat Goliath? What does God call David?

Who is God ultimately referring to?

Covenants What does it mean that David led the

Children of Israel during a golden age? What two political events are significant

for this golden age? Nation of Israel Jerusalem

What is the covenant that God makes with David? 2 Samuel 7.8-16

After King David Does God keep His promise to David?

Who is the next king? What happens after Solomon dies?

What are the two names for the northern kingdom?

What is the name for the southern kingdom?

From which group will the Messiah come?

Prophets Who called both nations to repentance? What is the difference between

prophecy and prediction? What is the difference between prophecy

and prophesy? What did the prophets in general

prophesy about the messiah? He would restore Israel, bringing her to an

even greater splendor than that which existed under King David.

Prophets Famous prophets

Elijah Elisha Isaiah

What prophecy does Isaiah make about Christ in Is 7.14?

Identify 3 references to Christ’s Passion in Isaiah 53 (p. 57)