TABLE ONE:
GOD’S UNFOLDING REVELATION - Biblical theology
[The process by which God’s achieves his purposes from creation to re-creation in Jesus Christ - The history of redemption.]
GOD – THE GREAT KING
God’s kingdom re-created or re-established
God’s people (Those ‘in Jesus’)
In God’s place (United with Jesus - church)
Under God’s rule (Jesus’ word & Holy Spirit)
God’s kingdom created or established
God’s people (In God’s image)
In God’s place (The Garden)
Under God’s rule (God’s word)
God’s kingdom rejected
The whole world in focus
Creation
The fall into sin/rebellion against God
Universal consequences - judgment
The focus narrows to Israel
God working out his purpose through the Jews
The whole world in focus again
God’s remedy for sin appears – Jesus
God’s rule re-established in his people
Universal consequences - blessing
Genesis 11 > The majority of the Old Testament >The New Testament
The need for and God’s preparation for Jesus > Responding to Jesus
TABLE TWO:
THAT WHICH WAS “FORMLESS AND EMPTY” IS FORMED AND FILLED
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Day |
GOD GIVES FORM TO THE FORMLESS |
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Day |
GOD FILLS THE VOID WITHCONTENT |
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One |
Light & darkness |
Heaven
earth |
Four |
Sun, moon & stars |
Heaven
earth |
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Two |
Water & sky |
Five |
Birds & fish |
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Three |
Sea, earth & vegetation |
Six |
Animals & people. |
TABLE THREE:
THE MANY ‘BEGINNINGS’ IN GENESIS 1-11
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1:1-19 The universe
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1:20-25 Life |
1:26 Humanity |
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2:15 (1:26;28b) Work |
2:23 & 4:1ff Family life |
3:1-13 Sin/rebellion/autonomous living
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3:14-24 Judgment |
3:21 Grace
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4:16 Human culture
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8:1 &15-18 Second beginning of the world |
8:21 & 9:1-9 God’s covenant to work to undo effects of sin. |
10:1ff The nations
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TABLE FOUR:
THE KEY THEMES OF GENESIS 1-11
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THE FOCUS IS THE WORLD AND MANKIND AS A WHOLE |
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GEN 1 |
GEN 2 |
GEN 3 |
GEN 4 - 11 |
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CREATION
All about God |
AT REST
Enjoyment of relationship with God – blessing
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REBELLION
Spoils relationship with God and every other relationship as well |
SIN SPREADS & GRACE SPREADS
God is committed to working in His world with sinful people
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God is the only constant, the ultimate reality
God made the universe supernaturally.
God made people the focus of creation - in God's image.
God made everything exactly as he wanted it to be.
God's goal in creation was REST - the enjoyment of perfect relationship with his world
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God ‘ties’ himself to man with a ‘breath’ and gives him ‘the good life’
God spells out the terms for enjoyment of ‘the good life’ - relationships
Man & God
Man & Creation
Man & Fellow man
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Man cuts free from God, despising him.
God’s order inverted & ‘the good life’ lost
Man & Creation
Man & Fellow Man
Man & God
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Sin
Family 4:8
Everybody 6:5
Organised opposition; Babel, 11:1-9 |
Grace 3:21
4:25
6:18
8:20
9:1ff
ê Abram 12:1-3 |
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GOD’S KINGDOM EXPERIENCED God's people in God's place under God’s rule |
GOD’S KINGDOM FORFEITED God's enemies, excluded from God's place under self rule to be restored by ‘The Bruiser’ – Gen 3:15b
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