On occasional Fridays, we talk with Dr. Don Carson about the themes that we see in biblical theology,

essentially the major themes that we see develop through our Bibles from Genesis to Revelation.

We covered the theme of Covenants last time, which is really important.

And in total, there's about 20 major themes that really make sense of the Bible for us.

And we have covered about half of them on the podcast,

half of them to go. On occasional Fridays, I call Dr. Carson as part of our relationship with our

friends at the Gospel Coalition. Carson is the co-founder and president of the Gospel Coalition

and also served as editor of the NIV's Under and Study Bible, which is a study Bible version of

what we're doing in these occasional Friday podcasts. Closely related to the theme of Covenants

is the theme of promise. So how do the promises of Scripture unfold and how does Christ

fulfill the biblical promises in the Passover? I asked Dr. Carson to explain.

The Bible makes many, many promises. There was an old chorus I learned when I was a child

in Sunday school. Every promise in the book is mine. Every chapter, every verse, every line.

And of course, that's not true. There's some promises made to people other than me.

So one must read promises in their context. But there are many promises that God gives to

human beings, generically, all human beings. And other promises that He gives only to His

own bloodbought covenant people. And some promises that He gives to Israel. And some promises that

He gives to individuals, to a Davidic dynasty, for example. But one of the things that's

pretty obvious whenever you start tracking out the theme of promise is that it is tied to a lot

of things. Now, earlier on in this series, I said that one of the things that's remarkable about

biblical theology is that although one way of doing biblical theology is to track out particular

themes across Scripture, temple and creation and sin and priesthood and promise and sacrifice and

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