We looked at a couple of different relationships between Old Testament text (a prophecy) and New Testament "fulfillment." The idea is to explain what is the connection is between the two texts. A key takeaway of the message is that fulfillment in the NT is not simply an OT prediction that comes to pass. It may be something else. Listen in to learn more that will be helpful in your reading of Scripture.

Type #1: a predictive prophecy that comes to pass (Micah 5:2).

Type #2: a historical situation that is like a later situation, or a "rhyme" in history (Hosea 11).

Type #3: a predictive prophecy that is used as a close, perhaps partial, likeness to a later situation (Joel 2) but that will be fulfilled later in history.

After we read 1 Samuel 29, we addressed a couple of questions about the pre-incarnate Christ, we spent some time examining the doctrine of the Trinity. We basically defined what Christians mean when they use the word "Trinity."

We learn in this message how Daniel was impacted by the vision of a certain man at the Tigris River, and how he learned that something was happening behind the scenes which caused a delay in the answer to his prayers. There is great significance here for the modern believer in Christ as to the matter of prayer, and concerning how the world truly works. There is an unseen, but nonetheless very real, world behind the visible realm.

This morning's Scripture reading is found in Leviticus 12 and Luke 2:15-24.

Our teacher focuses our attention on the culture of Ephesus and how our American culture is not unlike it. This heightens the applicability of what Paul writes. We visited a number of Scriptural cross references to correlate with the teaching in Ephesians 5. We learned here that we are to be imitators of God, and walk in love, with Christ Himself being our pattern.