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The featured studies
The studies in Covenants & the Appointed Times, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
Covenants & the Appointed Times holds 24 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 2 of the ten kinds.
- 23 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 1 study asks why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
23 studies, 8 as cards, 15 in the register
PassoverThe night a lamb's blood turned judgment aside — and the Lamb it was always drawing toward.
The Abrahamic CovenantGod binds Himself by oath to Abraham, land, seed, and blessing to all nations, sealed in a faith counted for righteousness.
The Davidic Covenant — 2 Samuel 7David wants to build God a house; God promises to build David one instead, a throne established for ever, quoted directly of Jesus in Luke, Acts, and Hebrews.
The Golden Calf: Covenant Made, Broken, RemadeApostasy at the foot of the mountain, the tablets shattered, Moses' four appeals in the breach, and the Name proclaimed in 34:6–7.
The Hebrew FeastsSeven appointed times on one Hebrew year — a spring cluster the site reads as fulfilled, a fall cluster it reads as awaited.
The New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–34Jeremiah’s four promises over a burning Jerusalem, quoted at length in Hebrews.
The CovenantsSix covenants in succession, cumulative rather than replacing. Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, New. Each narrowing the line of promise while widening the scope of fulfillment.
PentecostThe fiftieth day, read twice — the Law given in fire at Sinai, the Spirit given in fire in Jerusalem.
The register: 15 more studies of this kind
- Gerizim and Ebal: the blessing and the curse
- Israel and the Olive Tree: Romans 9–11One tree, one root, branches broken off and grafted in, Paul's answer in Romans 9–11 to whether God's word to Israel has failed.
- Purim, the Feast of EstherPurim is the feast Esther's own closing chapter founds, not Moses: Haman's lot decides a massacre date, the month turns from sorrow to gladness, and Mordecai's letter commands the two days kept ever since.
- The Covenant of Phinehas
- The Edenic Covenant
- The Fall FeastsThree appointed times in a single autumn month — a trumpet-blast, a day of atonement, a week in booths — read as the shape of the year's close.
- The Feast of Tabernacles
- The Feast of Trumpets
- The Feast of Unleavened Bread
- The Land Covenant
- The Mosaic Covenant
- The Noahic Covenant
- The Remnant — she'erithElijah's seven thousand, Isaiah's sign-son, Zephaniah's refuge-takers, Ezra's escaped, to Paul's remnant according to the election of grace.
- The Treaty Form of Deuteronomy
- Why God Is Not Finished With IsraelPaul asks it straight out (has God thrown away His own people?) answers it in two words, and then spends three chapters showing why the answer had to be no.
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