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Essay / Missio Dei: The Mission of God - 1643
As mentioned before, Genesis 3:21 depicts the future of what was to come because Jesus Christ is the redemptive incarnation of the Missio Dei; John 5:39-41 says, “You study the Scriptures diligently, because you believe that in them you have eternal life. These are the same Scriptures that testify of me, and yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. » The entire Old Testament described Jesus: “The Bible speaks of God who loves the world so much. This Bible is about Jesus, God’s gift to the world” (Hanes, 197). John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” » In the Scriptures it is said: “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” John 1:17. In the Old Testament, God manifests his grace in Noah's flood, in the exodus, and even God uses Joseph to save his family in Egypt. God's grace is also flooded throughout the Old Testament. However, Wright says, "the exodus figures in the Hebrew Scriptures as the great and defining demonstration of YHWH's power, love, faithfulness, and liberating intervention on behalf of his people" (75). Wright also says, “Jesus Christ is typical of what we have already seen: the identification of Jesus with the great defining functions of the God of Israel” (118). Additionally, since Jesus is God incarnate, Jesus also brings salvation. “The name Joshua, Joshua,