Biblical Foundations

The Scarlet Thread

Isaiah 1 - 24

Christopher W Martin © 2018

John 12:32,41 and 17:5

Hebrews 9:26; 1 John 2:2; Mark 9:3

1 Peter 1: 14-19

Matthew 1: 22-23

If he is my _______, where is His ____________?

The Life of Joseph A Type of Jesus

(Genesis 37:1-50:26)

PSALM 105: 16-19

HE [GOD] CALLED DOWN FAMINE ON THE LAND

AND DESTROYED ALL THEIR SUPPLIES OF FOOD;

AND HE SENT A MAN BEFORE THEM— JOSEPH,

SOLD AS A SLAVE. THEY BRUISED HIS FEET WITH

SHACKLES, HIS NECK WAS PUT IN IRONS, TILL

WHAT HE FORETOLD CAME TO PASS, TILL THE

WORD OF THE LORD PROVED HIM TRUE.

Genesis 39-40

Joseph in prison

Joseph: A PIcture of Salvation

Joseph & God's Sovereignty

But Joseph said to them

"Don't be afraid.  AmI in the place of God?

You intended to harm me, but God intended it

for good to accomplish what is now being done,

the saving of many lives.

Genesis 50:19-20

The Scarlet Thread Jacob and Christ

Genesis 28-35

Christopher W. Martin © 2020

This is lesson 8 from Christopher W. Martin's Lesson series entitled The Scarlet Thread.

Lesson content is from Genesis 16-22

The Scarlet Thread Abraham and Christ (Part 1)

April 8, 2017

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The Scarlet Thread Abraham and Christ (Part 1)

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Genre: The Scarlet Thread

Season 3 Episode 7

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 Christ in Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6 & 7)

Christopher W. Martin © 2017

  I. Introduction to Typologies 

· Scope

1. The Old Testament is the revelation of truth from God. 

2. A sovereign God governs all human history.

3. God’s Genesis 3:15 promise to stop Satan through a future deliverer created a forward-looking momentum to all subsequent revelation.

4. God revealed Himself and His future salvation to Old Testament believers through Old Testament characters, events, objects, etc.

5. Escalation: the later event, person, or thing that can be said to be the fulfillment of the type is much better and greater than that which foreshadows it.

6. Biblical Warrant: For something to be considered a type, there must be exegetical evidence in the original text that indicates that what the text is dealing with is intended to be a model or pattern for something to follow in history.

7. Covenants. the progression of the covenants throughout the narrative structure of the Bible creates, controls, and develops the typological structures across Scripture.

  · Definition: A person, place, object, or event that God ordained to act as a predictive pattern or resemblance of Jesus’ person and work.

· Questions for Typology Assessment: 

1. Is the thing real?

Unlike an allegory which may be fictional, a type is always a real someone or something. 

2. Is the type explicit or implied?

I. New Testament References

· Jesus: Matthew 24:37-42 / Luke 17: 26-27

o The Picture:

o The Truth:

· Peter: 1 Peter 3:20-22 & II Peter 3:3-7

o The Picture:

o The Truth:

  I. Typologies in Genesis 6 and 7

· The ark has "rooms" for the animals (Genesis 6:14); Jesus says that his father's house has "many rooms" (John 14:2).

· The ark had only one door (Genesis 6:16); Jesus said he is "the door" to salvation (John 10:9).

· God invited Noah to come into the ark (Genesis 7:1); Jesus said, "Come to me, all you that are weary" (Matthew 11:28).

· The instrument of salvation – the ark -- was made of wood (Genesis 6:14) just as the cross was.

· Because God saved him, Noah "remained alive" (Genesis 7:23); Jesus gives us eternal life (John 10:28).

II. Truths of Noah and Applications in Christ

  I. Conclusions

· Truths About Noah

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Christ in the Garden of Eden; Part II (Genesis 3)

Christopher W. Martin © 2017

I. Perspectives on Eden

· Temptation

· Sin

· Christ

II. Christ and Sin

· A Theophany (3:8)

· Us and Sin

· God and Sin: the First act of ____________.

· What God Wants: (3:9-13):  1) _________________

2) _________________

3) _________________

· God’s Judgment on the Serpent (3:14-15a)

o Humiliation 

o Conflict

· God’s Good News (3:15b) (The “protoevangelium”)

o A “Seed” of Good News

 A Victor

Who Will be Injured

o Huge Question: Why Not Then & There…?

· Life After the Fall (3:16-19)

· First Act of Faith (3:20)

· Finding Favor with God (3:21-24)

o Our Ways vs. God’s Way(v.21)

 Our Efforts

God’s Provision

The Role of Blood

 A Picture

A Prophecy

God’s Requirement (Hebrews 9:22)

 God’s Lamb (Exodus 12: 5-13;John 1:29 & 36; 1 Peter 1: 18-19)

o Lessons from an Act of Mercy (v.22)

o Lessons from the Cherubim (v.24)

III. Conclusion

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Introduction

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I. Why Study Christology

A. The Modern View of the Old Testament “Problem”

B. The View of Old Testament in Church History

C. Jesus View of the Old Testament

Luke 4:18-21

John 5:39

Luke 24:25-27

 Luke 24: 44-45

D. The Scarlet Thread?

II. The HUGE, HUGE, HUGE Question: Why Didn’t Jesus’ Incarnation Occur

Thousands of Years Earlier?

The False Premise of the Question:

The Key to Interpreting Scripture

Incomplete Answers:

 #1: God’s View of Time?

#2: A Lesson for Us?

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#3: A Lesson for the Angels?

 #4: Global Conditions

he Complete (But Unsatisfying) Answer: (Galatians 4:4-5)

What We can Learn through God’s “Delays”

A Demonstrated Will for Waiting (Genesis 15:16)

That We May Better Understand God (Romans 9:22-23 & 2 Peter 3:7-9)

ecause He Loves You That Much! (Ephesians 2:4-7)

III. Conclusions

Understanding the Bible’s Primary Theme

The Old Testament: A Deliberately Incomplete Book

Our Unchanging God

All Scripture is God-Breathed

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Christ in Creation (Genesis 1)

Christopher W. Martin © 2017

I. Introduction

· The New Testament Perspective on Christ in Genesis 1-2

o Colossians 1:15-18

o Hebrews 1: 2, 10-12

o John 1:1-3

o Revelation 4:11

· Our Scope

II. Christ in Creation

· Evidence of the Trinity in the first two sentences of the Bible

o 1:1: “In the beginning God created…”

o 1:2 “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

o The untranslatable “et” – the aleph & tav

Isaiah 48:12-13 (See, also, Revelation 1:8)

The Hebrew letter picture 

· 1:26 “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…”

See also: 

Genesis 3:22; 

 Genesis 11:7 

 Isaiah 6:8

o In God’s “image”:

Christ in the image of God (Colossians 1:15)

 Us in the image of Christ (Colossians 3:8-10; Romans 8:28-30; 1 Cor. 15:49)

· 1:3 “Let there be light

 What it wasn’t (1:14-19)

 What it was 

John 8:12

Acts 26:13

 Isaiah 45:7 

 Psalm 104:2

1 Timothy 6:15-16 

1 John 1:5

 Scientific Observation

· The Subject Noun Change in Chapter 2: “Yahweh Elohim”

III. Conclusion 

· Christ’s Continuing Creation in the New Testament

o His Power

o His Method

· Hebrews 11:3

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Christ Before Time

Christopher W. Martin © 2017

I. Intro

 Our Study

 Two Views of Matter, Space and Time

 The Biblical Perspective: Psalm 90:2

II. Before the Creation of Matter, Space and Time

 The Love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

o Eternal Love (John 17: 24)

o Eternal Service to the Father

 John 1: 1-3

 Phil 2: 5-8

 John 15: 26

 The Divine Glory Shared

o Understanding God’s Glory

o Glimpses of God’s Glory

 John 17: 5

 Hebrews 8: 5

 The Eternal Purpose of God

 2 Timothy 1: 8-9

 Ephesians 1: 4-10

 Ephesians 3: 8-11

 God: Existing Both In and Outside of Time

o The Truth

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 Revelation1: 4 & 8

 John 8: 24 & 28

o The Implication

 The Eternal Cross

 Colossians 1: 19-20

 Revelation 13: 8

 Romans 16: 25-27

 The Preexistent Logos

o The Greek Concept

o The Biblical Reality (John 1)

III. Conclusions