Lesson 13: Israel, the Tabernacle and the Blood - Discipleship Training

Review: Write the three memorization texts of lesson 11 from memory:

1. Write John 14:6 from memory.

2. Write Colossians 1:15-17 from memory.

3. Write Matthew 6:33 from memory.

⏱ Estimated study time: 1 - 3 hours

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A. Israel — God's people

Question 1: What did God promise Abraham about his descendants and about all the families of the earth? (Genesis 12:1-3)

Question 2: What would Israel be to God if it obeyed His voice? (Exodus 19:5-6)

Question 3: Why did God choose Israel? Was it because they were the greatest nation? (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

Question 4: What privileges has Israel received according to Paul? (Romans 9:4-5)

Question 5: Has God rejected His people? (Romans 11:1-2)

Question 6: What is the olive tree, and who are the wild branches that have been grafted in? (Romans 11:17-18)

Question 7: What will ultimately happen to all Israel? (Romans 11:25-26)

Question 8: How does Paul describe God's calling and gifts of grace for Israel? (Romans 11:29)

Question 9: What blessing does the one receive who blesses Israel? (Genesis 12:3)

Question 10: Why did Israel have to make a sanctuary for God? (Exodus 25:8)

Question 11: Of what is the tabernacle a copy and shadow? (Hebrews 8:5)

Question 12: What stood behind the second veil (the Holy of Holies)? (Hebrews 9:3-4)

Question 13: How often a year did the high priest enter the Holy of Holies, and what did he bring? (Hebrews 9:7)

Question 14: Through which sanctuary did Christ enter as High Priest? (Hebrews 9:11)

Question 15: With whose blood did Christ enter the sanctuary? (Hebrews 9:12)

Question 16: What does it mean that the Word became flesh and ‘dwelt (tabernacled) among us’? (John 1:14)

Question 17: Where is the life of the flesh, and what does the blood do on the altar? (Leviticus 17:11)

Question 18: What is not possible without the shedding of blood? (Hebrews 9:22)

Question 19: With what are we not redeemed (perishable things), and with what indeed? (1 Peter 1:18-19)

Question 20: What boldness do we have through the blood of Jesus? (Hebrews 10:19)

Question 21: How should we draw near to God according to Hebrews 10:22? (Hebrews 10:22)

Question 22: By what did the believers in Revelation overcome Satan? (Revelation 12:11)

Question 23: What does the blood of Jesus Christ do with our sins? (1 John 1:7)

Question 24: What did Christ obtain by His own blood? (Hebrews 9:12b)

Learn these three texts by heart:

Hebrews 9:22 — According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
1 Peter 1:18-19 — knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ.
Exodus 25:8 — Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.