Exam over Genesis Flashcards
Abraham Cycle
- Abraham’s call from God
- Melchizedek blesses Abraham
- Ishmael is born
- The visitors come to visit Abraham and Sara
- Abraham goes to Sodom and Gomorrah and talks to God.
- Isaac is born
- The sacrifice of Isaac
- Isaac and Rebecca get married.
Jacob Cycle
- Selling of the birthright/ Jacob’s deception of his father.
- Jacob’s vision of the ladder.
- Jacob gets married to 4 wives
- Jacob wrestles with God
Joseph Cycle
- Josephs brothers sell him into slavery in Egypt.
- Joseph gets thrown into jail.
- interprets Pharaoh’s dream
- Raises to power in Egypt
- Brothers come to Egypt begging for food.
- Tests his brothers but they are reconciled.
Abrahams Family Tree
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Promises to Abraham Chart
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Literal Sense
people, places, things, or events in Old Testament
Spiritual Sense (Typology)
when people, places, things, or event in Old Testament foreshadow realities in the New Testament
Allegorical Sense
Christ and the Church
Moral Sense
Moral life of a Christian
Anagogical Sense
The Last Things, death, judgement, Heaven, and hell
The Promised Land Foreshadows?
Heaven- anagogical
Melchizedek Foreshadows?
Christ (offered bread and wine)- allegorical
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Foreshadows?
Final Judgment (God is merciful)-
anagogical
Abraham’s obedience of faith Foreshadows?
That we should have faith- moral
Isaac/ binding of Isaac Foreshadows?
represents Jesus’ Crucifixion- allegorical
