Weekly Recaps
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Between the peak of Solomon’s temple dedication and the stoning of Stephen lies a thousand years of descent. This session traces its shape — a king’s heart turned, a kingdom torn, idolatry enthroned, and the glory of God leaving, stage by stage, for a mountain east of the city.
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Peter takes Israel’s most distinctly covenantal vocabulary — chosen race, royal priesthood, holy nation, treasured possession — and hands it to a multi-ethnic diaspora church without qualification. This session closes the New Testament survey at what may be its single most concentrated verse: 1 Peter 2:9–10.
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The kingdom of God is not an idea waiting to arrive. It arrived in a person. This session traces the nature, present reality, and future trajectory of the kingdom across the breadth of the New Testament — and asks why we keep expecting the wrong thing.
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Before time began, before there was a problem to solve, there was a plan. The Reformed tradition calls it the pactum salutis — the covenant of redemption. John 17 pulls back the curtain on that eternal transaction, and everything in the story of Israel, the tabernacle, and the kingdom makes different sense once you see…
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Many view the Church as a temporary parenthesis while God’s plan for ethnic Israel pauses, awaiting a future restart of shadows. Scripture instead reveals Christ as the Branch, Priest-King, and Temple-builder who fulfills all. The olive tree thrives by faith, not ethnicity; shadows end when the Substance arrives.
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In Week 8, we explored the wisdom literature—Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Far from offering self-help fixes, these books honestly reveal the limits of Israel’s covenant machinery. They diagnose humanity’s autonomy problem, exhaust every earthly alternative, and awaken longing for the true Wisdom only Christ supplies. The old system points forward—but cannot get…
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Three overlapping maps—redemptive history, the Tabernacle, and Israel’s seven feasts—reveal one territory. Spring feasts (Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits) embody “oughtness”; Pentecost sits at the center in “not-ness”; fall feasts (Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles) point to “will-be-ness.” We live in the growing season between Firstfruits and final harvest, with the Spirit.
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God gave Israel not just laws but a sacred calendar. The seven feasts of Leviticus 23 form a fractal of redemptive history—Creation in spring, the Spirit at Pentecost, and coming Restoration in fall—all fulfilled or awaiting fulfillment in Christ with perfect precision.
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This week we entered the Tabernacle station by station: east gate, altar, basin, lampstand, showbread, incense, and the Ark. A shadow and copy of heavenly reality, it pointed forward to Christ—the true sacrifice, light, bread, priest, and mercy seat. The copy served its purpose; the Real Thing has come.
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The Addendum outlines three eras following the fractal pattern of Creation → Fracture → Judgment/Recreation. Era 1: Garden to Flood (universal humanity). Era 2: Abraham to Exile (embryonic people of God). Era 3: New Creation in Christ toward New Jerusalem (global, faith-based). These mirrored stories center on Christ, confirming that new-creation believers are the Israel…
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This week’s lesson explored “The Israel of God” in Galatians. Paul teaches that faith in Christ unites believers—Jew and Gentile—as Abraham’s true descendants and heirs of the promise. Referencing 1 Corinthians 10, the Exodus story belongs to all in Christ as “our fathers.” The session highlighted the repeating biblical pattern of Creation → Fracture →…
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The first three weeks lay the foundation: Scripture tells one story centered on Christ. The Israel of God is the new-creation people — Jew and Gentile united by faith. The kingdom has come in the King, not postponed. Old Testament signs find their reality in Jesus, correcting ethnic-only views of God’s people.
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The first three weeks lay the foundation: Scripture tells one story centered on Christ. The Israel of God is the new-creation people — Jew and Gentile united by faith. The kingdom has come in the King, not postponed. Old Testament signs find their reality in Jesus, correcting ethnic-only views of God’s people.
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Week 3 traced God’s covenants from Genesis 12 (Abrahamic) through Jeremiah 31 (New Covenant) to the Great Commission in Matthew 28. We saw continuity and discontinuity in redemptive history, with every promise pointing forward to Christ and the multi-ethnic new creation people He is forming.
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Week 2 examined Galatians 6:16 and Romans 9:6-8. Paul declares that those who walk by the “rule” of new creation in Christ are the true Israel of God — one unified people, not two. Ethnic markers no longer define God’s family; belonging comes through faith, election, and the promise fulfilled in Jesus.
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In the opening session of The Israel of God, we explored what “the Israel of God” means. Moving beyond dispensational views, we saw Scripture as one continuous story centered on Christ. Using John 3 and Nicodemus, we learned the kingdom is about new creation and restored fellowship with God for all nations, not ethnic privilege.