Understanding the Whole Bible: The King, The Kingdom and the New Covenant

Every one of the land promises and other promises associated with the nation of Israel was fulfilled in the lifetime of the generation that entered the Promised Land.

We get to give Him our shame, sickness, sorrow, and so forth, and in exchange, we receive from Him the benefits of the covenant.58

Bethel is the house of God (in contrast to Babel, the gate of God).

The implication of this authority is that God has actually given His people a measure of control, which means He cannot be in control of everything.

They were so gripped by the majesty of God before them that they shut down and pushed away the possibility of relationship with God. They said, “We are afraid we will die in His presence,” even though He had just demonstrated to them that no one would die in His presence.

dispensationalism is in part a fatalistic system, because it paints a filter over Scripture that always ends in utter failure.

The truth is, we are already in an eternal new covenant (see Heb. 13:20).

throughout the New Testament, Paul and the other apostles fleshed out what the command of Christ looked like by adding more specific commands that give practical legs to the law of love.

Abraham and Noah did not understand what God was doing. Because of our perspective, we are able to see certain things they could not. We know how history after them would unfold, but they did not know that. So, we can see more than they could, but we cannot inject what we know into their thinking.