Online Missions Forum #5

What is the difference between a promise and a covenant?

• What are the requirements?
• Can you lose or opt out of one?
  
• Use scriptural references

Mid-Term Review Sheet

Terms

Covenant

Promise

Circumcision

Missionary

Sacrifice

Places

Babylon

Canaan

Egypt

Haran

Hebron

Joppa

Mediterranean Sea

Mt. Ararat

Nineveh

Sodom

Ur

People

Abram/Abraham and Sari/Sarah

Adam and Eve

Cain and Abel

Cyrus

Daniel

Esther

Isaiah

Joseph

Nebuchadnezzar

Moses

Job

Noah

Quotes: Who said these thing and to whom where they said?

"Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you."

"As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come."

"I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation."

'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation."

"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life."

"I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

"As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

"Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."

"No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries."

"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"

"When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish."

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure."

"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?"

"Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind?"

"Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

"Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."

"I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity."

"When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple."

"For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth."

"They trusted in him and defied the king's command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God."

Online Missions Forum #4

Being a Light and Blessing to the Nations

Which individuals in the Old Testament were a light to the other nations? Be sure to include their names, their calling and the people that they reached out to.

Online Missions Forum #3

To whom does the Covenant of Abraham apply to today?

• Is it to Christians, Jews, Muslims, all people, and/or no people.
• Does this include some or all of the promises?
• Does this mean literally or figuratively?
  
• Use scripture verses to back up your choice.

Online Missions Forum #2

Natural Disasters: Wrath of God?

Are the hurricanes and earthquakes that we see today just unfortunate weather patterns or a direct judgment of God on a sinful world? Use scripture to back up your arguments.