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- God is ... What do we learn about God in this passage?
- We are ... What do we learn about people in this passage?
- I will ... What has the Holy Spirit revealed to us in this passage? How can I apply it to my life this week?
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In both the Old and New Testaments, time is conceived primarily as a context for specific events rather than as an abstract dimension. It is inseparably linked to God’s acts and humankind’s response in the story of creation, from its beginning to its consummation. In other words, the flow of redemptive history is central to Scripture, beginning with creation and the fall (Gen 1–3) moving through Israelite history (Gen 12:1–3) and Christ (Eph 1:9–10), and finally toward consummation at the eschaton (Rev 21:1–7).
The Hebrews viewed historical time as a “sequence of God’s saving acts” (Smith and Hung, “Bible and Time,” 87). For the New Testament writers, the final stage of history began with the advent of Christ, who is the ultimate fulfillment of the Old Testament hope of salvation (Joel 2:28–32; compare Acts 2:16–36).
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