The Abrahamic Covenant and the Sinai Covenant
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What is the primary purpose of the Sinai covenant in the context of Israel's election?

  • To establish a universal promise to the created order
  • To reveal the mission of God in the world
  • To establish a national community
  • To provide a framework for the nation's life (correct)
  • What is one of the foundational points of the Noahic covenant relevant to the biblical mission concept?

  • God's promise to the patriarchs
  • God's commitment to all life on earth (correct)
  • God's commitment to the nation of Israel
  • God's revelation to the prophets
  • What is the significance of the creation mandate in the context of the Noahic covenant?

  • It is a call to mission in the world
  • It is a call to evangelism
  • It is a call to social justice
  • It is a renewal of God's commitment to the created order (correct)
  • How does the framework of the Abrahamic covenant impact Israel's mission?

    <p>It provides security and scope for their mission</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the derivative mission of God's people in the world?

    <p>The mission that arises from God's mission in the world</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the biblical covenant tradition in the context of mission?

    <p>It reveals the mission of God in the derivative mission of God's people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary mission of humanity on the planet according to the biblical perspective?

    <p>To care for creation with respect for life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the covenant with Abraham in the biblical narrative?

    <p>It is the origin of God's election of Israel as the means to bless the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ultimate goal of God's mission according to the biblical narrative?

    <p>To bless all families of the earth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of Israel in relation to the rest of humanity according to the biblical perspective?

    <p>To be a priestly nation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the Sinai covenant in the biblical narrative?

    <p>To establish Israel as a priestly nation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the twofold task of the priests in the biblical narrative?

    <p>To teach the law and perform sacrifices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the condition of God's presence in the biblical narrative?

    <p>Israel's obedience to the covenant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of Eden being restored in the biblical narrative?

    <p>It represents the fulfillment of God's mission to bless the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between Israel's mission and their obedience to the covenant?

    <p>Obedience to the covenant is a condition of their mission</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the distinctive feature of God's people according to the biblical narrative?

    <p>God's presence among them</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the purpose of the Tabernacle in relation to Israel?

    <p>To mark Israel out as distinctive from the rest of the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why was God's presence significant for Israel?

    <p>It was necessary for their redemption and distinctiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the motivation behind the ethical demands of the Sinai covenant?

    <p>To challenge Israel to be visibly different from the surrounding nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the connection between God's presence and the observation of the nations?

    <p>The nations would observe Israel's ethical obedience and be drawn to God</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the consequence of sin and pollution in the Old Testament worldview?

    <p>The holy became profane and the clean became unclean</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the purpose of the sacrificial system and the laws of cleanness in Leviticus?

    <p>To ensure the holiness and cleanliness of the people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the Gentiles join up to in coming to Christ?

    <p>The temple of God</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Deuteronomy anticipate about Israel's future history?

    <p>That they would fail to live in loyalty to the covenant Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did the nations respond to Israel's failure and judgment?

    <p>They were shocked by it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Paul recognize about God's purpose for Israel?

    <p>That it could never be complete without the ingathering of the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the consequence of the failure of many contemporary Jews to respond to the message of Messiah Jesus?

    <p>An extension of the good news to the Gentiles</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the Sinai covenant in the context of the law and the prophets?

    <p>It has extensive mythological significance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of the covenant that the House of David recorded in 2 Samuel 7?

    <p>The role of David and his successors in earthing the rule of Yahweh</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the language of praise in the Davidic covenant?

    <p>It links the Davidic kingship to the kingship of Yahweh over all the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the expectation of the universal reign of the son of David in Psalm 72:8-11,17?

    <p>That he will fulfill God's promise to bless the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of Jesus being the son of David and the son of Abraham in Matthew's Gospel?

    <p>That he will embody the universal blessing of the Abraham covenant and the universal kingship of the Davidic covenant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the motivation offered to God in Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple in 1 Kings 8:41-43?

    <p>So that all the peoples of the earth may know God's name and fear him</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of Isaiah 56:1-7 regarding the House of prayer?

    <p>It will be a House of prayer for all nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the prophetic hopes in Jeremiah 31:31-37, Ezekiel 34-37, and Isaiah?

    <p>They recognize Yahweh as the sovereign God of all the earth and all the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the common theme among all the covenants surveyed?

    <p>They have dimensions and expectations that look beyond the boundaries of Israel</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the theme of future hope in the book of Isaiah?

    <p>Explicit universalization of the covenant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of the covenant trajectory in the Old Testament story?

    <p>It expands to include the nations within the ultimate scope of God's saving covenantal mission</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the covenant in the New Testament?

    <p>It is as crucial as the certainty that Israel's God is the only living and true God</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the status of the nations outside Israel prior to the gospel according to Ephesians 2:11-22?

    <p>They are foreigners to the covenants of promise</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20?

    <p>It is a universalized covenant proclamation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the task of the mission as articulated in the Great Commission?

    <p>To produce self-replicating communities of covenantal obedience to Christ among the nations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the Book of Revelation in the context of the covenants?

    <p>It is a covenantal declaration of 'mission accomplished'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of the covenants in the Christian reading of the Old Testament scriptures?

    <p>They must be both Messianic and missiological</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of the covenant in the overarching grand narrative of the whole Bible?

    <p>It is as integral to the sequence of the covenants as it is to the overarching grand narrative of the whole Bible</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between the mission and the covenant?

    <p>The mission is an unavoidable imperative founded on the covenantal worship of Christ</p> Signup and view all the answers

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