Names are were very important in the bible because it helps us understand more about a person. There are many names for God one of them is YHWH. This name means that God is a loving and caring God and He has a personal relationship with each one of the people on the earth. Another name for God is El this shows God as the creator of all things and a powerful king. For my visual I choose a name tag because it tells other people your name. I think its cool to be able to know the meaning of someones name because you can see how God has connected that meaning to their life.
God has made many covenants with people in the bible and now. There are two different types of covenants conditional and unconditional. Conditional covenants are when two people agree to do something. If one person does their part the other person must do their part also. but if they don’t do it then the other person doesn’t have to do it either For example when Abraham and God had a covenant. God promised to bless Abraham and Abraham would go where God tells him to. For my visual I choose a rainbow because it reminds me of covenants because it is the symbol God gave when He made a covenant with Noah and the world. This is an unconditional covenant because no matter what God will never send a flood to destroy the whole earth.
In the bible God calls many people to do many things. God called Abraham to leave all that he had and go to a new land and where God called him to go. He called Moses to many things like free the Israelites from Egypt with Gods help. He also was called to lead them through the desert to the promise land. God still calls people to do things now like many stories about teachers at Zeeland Christian School. Another story that I have heard about God calling people is in chapel when Grace told her story. She told us about how everyone was telling her that after high school she had to go to college because that was the only way she was going to get a job. But she said that God was calling her to go to beautiful gate. That is why for my visual a choose a gate to represent Grace being called to work at beautiful gate.
I think it is amazing what God can do and make out of things that are so useless and broken.He can make people out of dust. He made slavery into salvation in the life of so many Israelites. I chose a picture joseph for my visual because God let Joseph be sold into slavery and be thrown into jail because he had a plan. His plan, turned slavery into salvation. He saved of all of Egypt and the other people around them including his family.He was made second in command to pharaoh because God told Joseph what pharaoh’s dreams meant. Because of that he could save up food in the first years so that they would have food in the next years and feed his family and many others.
It was very important for Moses to trust God throughout his entire life. First his mom needed to trust that God would keep him safe in the basket in the river. God proved that He could be trusted through that because the princess found him. Then Moses needed to trust God that he would free the Israelites from slavery. At first Moses didn’t trust God and wouldn’t go so his brother aaron went with him. Then for my visual I used the sea parting because Moses was being chased by a huge army of Egyptians and he had to somehow get across the sea so he had to trust that God would make a way and He did by parting the sea.
In the bible time just like now we don’t always want what we need or what we really should be wanting. An example of this is when the Israelites wanted to saved. They wanted a military leader to come save them because they had been captured. God had promised them that He would send a King to save them. So they all thought that he would be a military leader, a melek, but God had a different plan. That is why my visual is a manger because no one expected Jesus, the king, to be born in a manger. They thought he would be born in a big palace where he would grow up to be a melek.
When David was king God promised that one of his descendants would always be king. So his son solomon became king and many after that but then then the Israelites got captured. It seemed impossible for Gods promise to continue. But then like it says in jeremiah 33:14-16 a sprout came up from David’s line. The sprout is Jesus that is why a descendant of David will always be king because Jesus will always be king. For my visual I chose a olive tree because it reminds me of this. After a long time an olive tree stop growing olives so they cut it down into a stump just like David’s line had been cut down. Then from the stump of an olive tree a new branch grows into a new tree like Jesus sprouted up from David’s line
For this theme’s visual I chose a picture of a cycle. The Israelites were in a cycle. First the Israelites and their kings would sin. Then God sent a prophet to warn them, but they don’t listen to the prophet, most of the time. Then God punishes them for their sin. The Israelites continued to sin and God continued to send prophets and punish them.
