Jensens survey of the old testament adam 318
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6. Man is saved by faith, not by works.
7. Israel was sovereignly chosen to be
God’s channel of the redemptive
message to the world.
8. All history will culminate at the
throne of the sovereign God.
Read this list again and observe,
your present acquaintance with the
Testament, how each truth is also a
doctrine of the New Testament. Also
how the following comparisons3
represented in the list:
OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY
foreshadow
fulfillment
promise
performance
problem
solution
commencement
consummation
B. POUR HUNDRED SILENT YEARS
from
New
vital
note
are
Around 400 B.C. God ceased speaking to
His people and the world through any new
portions of the written Word. For four
hundred years the prophets’ pens would be
dry, hence the designation “four hundred
silent years.” But prophets would still
preach, and God would still speak by His
Spirit to a continuing remnant of saints who
were studying the Bible that they had (Old
Testament) and watching for their Messiah’s
coming. And God would always remain the
sovereign mover of history on the local and
world-wide scene. God knew when He
would be sending His Son to the world, and
He used the four hundred silent years to
prepare the world for that coming.
Four hundred years made a vast
di erence in the setting of Judaism.
Compare, for example, the ending of the Old
Testament and the opening of the New
Testament. The last historical events of the
Old Testament are the returns, under Ezra
and Nehemiah, of the exiled Jews from
Babylon to Jerusalem.4 The rst pages of
the New Testament record the birth of Jesus
Christ. The accompanying chart lists some
other changes in that four hundred-year
picture.
Many factors — historical, political,
religious, cultural — brought on the changes
of those four centuries. In the following
pages the highlights of the changes will be
surveyed, for the purpose of visualizing and
feeling the setting of the New Testament.
Basically, there were three backgrounds in
whose shadows Christ moved, the church
was born, and the New Testament books
w e r e written. Those backgrounds are
Hebrew, Greek, and Roman. As you study
these, try to relate to them parts of the New
Testament with which you are already
familiar.
