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Typology: Understanding the Bible’s Promise-Shaped Patterns; How Old Testament Expectations are Fulfilled in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Read the Bible with Fresh Eyes as You See Scripture’s Promise-Shaped Patterns When you read the Bible, have you ever noticed parallels between certain people, events, and institutions? Should we understand Noah as a kind of new Adam, and if so, does that somehow point us to the second Adam? How are we to interpret these similarities? In Typology-Understanding the Bibles Promise-Shaped Patterns,...

in 4:12 that when he “works” (עָבַד) the ground it will not yield its strength to him, and this reminds readers of the way that the words of judgment spoken to Adam included a curse on the ground (3:17), thorns and thistles (3:18), and banishment from the garden (3:23). The re-use of this “work” and “keep” terminology calls 2:15 to mind, reminding the audience of God’s purpose for Adam in the garden and highlighting how far Cain has fallen from it. The repetitions, again, instruct the audience to
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