Common Themes In The Old Testament And The New Testament

There are many themes throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament. These themes comes in couples. One theme that I am going to talk about is God of Israel vs. God of the world. They are the same God but God does things for Israel that he does not do for the world. A recurring theme in the Bible are conditional and unconditional covenants. A covenant is a promise that is made with God. A conditional covenant is a promise with a condition to man or to the people. While an unconditional covenant is a promise that will never be broken by God because it has no conditions for man to break it. The last theme that I am going to talk about is chosen line of people that goes down generation to generation till it gets to Jesus Christ. The
One of the conditional covenants that is in the Bible are the covenants that God sends a judge for in the Book of Judges. A judge is a person that God has sent to tell the people to stay with God. God sends many Judges and with these judges there are covenants. Each conditional covenant that God sends with one these judges it gets broken. The people start sinning against God and start to forget him. So God has to punish the people for breaking their side of the promise. Most of the time the conditional covenant is God will bring the people of Israel out of slavery if they will be serve God and nobody else. After some time the people forget about God so God has to punish them. A unconditional covenant is when God makes a promise with no conditions for man to break. One unconditional covenant that sticks out to me is one that I learned in Sunday school about the rainbow. The rainbow is a sign that God has not forgot his promise to never flood the earth again. The unconditional and conditional covenants were very easy for me to understand. The reason they are easy for me to understand are that God makes a promise and if man breaks his part of the promise then God will punish him. So I know that it would be a conditional
Throughout the Bible there are important people that follow God. These people are righteousness, they walk beside God. Almost all of the people that follows God are related. In Matthew 1:1 it says“ … Jesus the Messiah, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” King David was a man of God that chosen by God. There is this line of holy people in the Bible and it starts with Seth and does down through Noah, then going down to Abraham then to King David to Jesus. In Matthew chapter one show us the genealogy of Jesus. Another chosen man was the man named Jeremiah. He was chosen by God,it says that “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” ( Jeremiah 1:5). Jeremiah was chosen by God to help the nation's find God. I understood the chosen line right off the bat. I made a lot more sense than other themes in the Bible. The genealogies throughout the Old Testament helps a lot to see who were the chosen people were and to see how each person was related. I heard a message on the chosen line and how God chose people. That why I included Jeremiah because he had to be a man of God because it was God’s plan for him to be a man of God. God said that he knew him before he was in the womb. He told Isaiah the same thing that he knew him before he were