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O Lord God, I hope by your grace for the pardon of all my sins and after life here to gain eternal happiness because you have promised it who are infinitely powerful, faithful, kind, and merciful. In this hope I intend to live and die. Amen.

– Act of Hope

Opening Prayer

Unit 2 Quiz Answers

1. Whom should we trust to interpret Scripture??

D. The Church

�2. What does all Scripture have in common?�B. It is divinely inspired.

�3. What kind of truth does Scripture infallibly teach?

C. What is necessary for salvation 

�4. In which literary style is the Bible written?

D. All of the above

�5. Which is not a sense of Scripture?

B. Apocryphal

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Unit Quiz Answers

6. Which part of the Bible falls under the moral sense of Scripture?

A. The Commandments and Beatitudes

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7. Who is the Word of God?

B. Jesus

�8. What story does the Old Testament tell?

A. God revealing Himself and preparing humanity for Jesus

�9. What is the best guide to understanding the New Covenant?

C. The New Testament

�10. What did God promise in the covenant with Adam?

B. A savior

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Review

• Old and New Testaments are equally the inspired Word of God
• Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing
• Contract: A binding agreement between two or more parties.
• Exchange of goods and services
• Set up obligations, but they are not personal obligations
• Based on human words
• Conditional relationship/can be dissolved
• Covenant: A sacred permanent bond of family relationship.
• Exchange of persons
• Personal obligations
• Based on God’s Word
• Permanently binding relationship/cannot be dissolved
• A mediator is someone who acts as a bridge between God and man, someone God makes His promise to, who represents all of mankind

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Review

• Writing Styles: Detailed vs Poetic
• Senses of Scripture
• Literal sense: plain meaning of the words the author chose
• Spiritual sense: helps us to understand how the realities and events of Scripture are themselves signs of our Faith
• allegorical: teaches us to understand how some of the events of the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus Christ
• The moral: teaches us how to live morally, or how to act in a right way, choosing right from wrong
• Anagogical: teaches us about our final destiny, which is Heaven, and the things of the end (death, judgment, Heaven, [Purgatory], and Hell)

Turn to page 24 in your workbook

Review (last class)

• After the story of Cain and Abel, the human race split into two “families”: the descendants of Cain and the descendants of Seth, Adam and Eve’s third son
• Cain and his descendants selfishly sought only to make a “name” for themselves & to honor themselves - Line of Cain, referred to as the sons and daughters of men
• Descendants of Seth cared little for their own honor, and instead faithfully honored God and His name - Line of Seth, referred to as the sons and daughters of God
• Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
• The name Shem literally means “name.” The descendants of Shem, like the descendants of Seth before, “called upon the name of God,” honored and were faithful to Him – became known as the Shemites, or the Semites, who are the Hebrew, or Jewish, people.
• Ham sinned against his father, Noah, and against God. His descendants became the enemies of the descendants of Shem. They were the Canaanites, the Babylonians, the Assyrians.
• The descendants of Japheth mostly settled in what is today Europe.

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Review (last class)

• God chose Abraham to be the father of His Chosen People, those whom God would reveal Himself to throughout Salvation History and eventually come to and dwell among, as Jesus Christ
• The covenant with Adam promised salvation after the Fall
• Through the covenant with Noah, God gave humanity a fresh start
• All the future covenants really are promises being fulfilled to Abraham
• Every covenant reveals something new about God. In each covenant, God makes amazing promises to His people. God is a Father who keeps every promise that He makes because He loves us.
• A person’s name represented his or her essence —the very core of his or her being.
• God changes a person’s name so the name will better reflect who that person is and what he or she has done or will do

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Adam

Eve

Cain

Abel

Seth

Noah

Ham

Shem

Japheth

Abraham

Sarah

Esau

Jacob

Judah

Isaachar

Zebulan

Gad

Asher

Dan

Naphtali

Joseph

Benjamin

Reuben

Simeon

Levi

Isaac

Rebekah

Maidservant

Isaac

Ishmael

Leah

Rachel

Family tree (with covenants)

Holy Couple: promised a Savior

Holy Tribe: Father of host of nations

Holy Family: never wipe out human family again

Zilpah

Zilpah

Dinah

Session 16: Isaac

Isaac

• Isaac’s obedience to his father is a preview of Jesus’ obedience to His Father, God
• Just as Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only beloved son, God, our Father in Heaven, sacrificed His only beloved Son, Jesus, for us on the Cross.
• Through this story of Abraham and Isaac, we learn about God’s plan to save us from sin later in history.
• typology—the study of how persons, places, things, or ideas earlier in Salvation History foreshadow or point forward to persons, places, things, or ideas later in Salvation History
• Above is an example of this for as we later read in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life.”

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Gen 22:1-18 – Turn to page 111 in your workbook

Turn to page 113 in your workbook

Session 17: Jacob

Jacob

• In Genesis God reaffirms His promises to Abraham and renews His covenant with Jacob as the inheritor of the promises:
• He will give Jacob and his descendants this land (land/nation)
• his descendants will spread across the earth (kingship/name)
• his descendants will bless the earth (worldwide blessing)
• Isaac didn’t want son to marry a Canaanite woman that would worship false gods and likely persuade Jacob to do the same, and forfeit the promises of God in the covenant
• Sent Jacob to land of his mother Rebekah came from—that of Rebekah’s brother, Laban
• There Jacob found his wife, but it did not happen easily… just as Jacob had tricked his brother and his father to gain his family’s inheritance, Jacob was tricked by his uncle
• Homework: Read Jacob and Laban on page 121 then answer questions

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Turn to page 118 in your workbook

Jacob

• Isaac & Rebekah were unable to have children. In the ancient world, one of the most important things was to have children so they could have an heir and their memory continue on after death.
• Isaac prayed for his wife because she was sterile. God heard Isaac’s prayer and blessed Rebekah, and she became pregnant with twins!
• Even in her womb, the twins fought and jostled with each other. So she prayed to God, who answered her prayer with a prophecy.
• God always answers our prayer. Sometimes He says yes, sometimes no, sometimes He says “wait,” and other times He gives us something completely different than what we expected.
• By the end of Jacob’s story, he has twelve sons (by several different mothers) each of whom would go on to be the founder of a great tribe of people named after him. Together, they became known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel.”
• Homework: Read God Remembers Rachel on page 124 then answer questions

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Turn to page 118 in your workbook

Turn to page 127 in your workbook

Session 18: Joseph

Joseph

• Turn to page 130 in your workbook, Joseph Dreams of Greatness
• God granted Joseph the ability to interpret dreams that told of future events.
• God Blesses Joseph
• Even though Joseph endured rejection & suffering and was sold into slavery by his brothers, God blesses him because of his faithfulness
• Joseph was sold to Egyptian official, Potiphar, who put him in charge of entire household
• God blessed Joseph & his work which in turn blessed Potiphar & his household with success
• Potiphar’s wife desires Joseph & when he refuses her affection, she lies saying he attacked her & he is wrongly imprisoned
• Joseph is put in charge of other prisoners; he interprets dreams of two other prisoners and after two years is called to interpret the dream of Pharoah that magicians could interpret
• Dreams are prediction of 7 years of abundant crops followed by 7 years of famine
• Joseph did not take credit for himself, but gave credit for interpretation to God
• Pharoah made Joseph his second in command of all of Egypt
• When Predictions came true Egypt was saved because of Joseph & his faith in God

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Joseph

• Turn to page 136 in your workbook, Joseph and His Brothers
• Because of Joseph and his position of authority in Egypt, enough grain was stored during the 7 years of abundance so that Egypt could survive & live well
• Those in surrounding lands came to buy grain during difficult time, including Joseph’s brothers in Canaan
• Joseph’s brothers did not recognize him, but Joseph recognized them & decided to test them
• After determining they were no longer the same men that sold him into slavery many years before, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers
• Joseph held no hard feelings toward them – he had forgiven them and could see the events of his life, both good & bad, from God’s perspective
• Joseph understood God sent him to Egypt and allowed him to endure rejection, persecution, and suffering so that he could save the lives of many – all of Egypt as well as his own family
• God is able to bring good from evil, even evil actions we commit. However, this never justifies intentionally doing evil for an intended good purpose. The end does not justify the means

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Announcements

1. Passion Play rehearsal start Jan 30^th, 11-noon
2. Summer Mission Trip/Workcamp
3. Next class not till Jan 24^th

All glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be

Amen

Closing Prayer