Biblical Theology

s Book review for Bobocal Theology: Covenants and the Kingdom of God in Redemption by Jeong Koo Jeon,  use whatever you can Jeong Koo Jeon’s Biblical Theology is a timely must-read for church leaders, seminarians, pastors, and missionaries in the Global Mission Field. It examines God’s redemptive history in creation, fall, redemption, and consummation as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. Jeon delves into the grand redemptive drama, progressively demonstrated through the divine covenants, as well as the manifestation of the eschatological Kingdom of God. This book provides not only a proper redemptive historical vision of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation but also key ideas for the formation of a solid biblical worldview. Jeon demonstrates the intersection and union between biblical and systematic theology while exploring redemptive history. Jeon also emphasizes that we currently live in the eschatological age, inaugurated after Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection as the Mediator of the New Covenant. This inaugurated eschatological Kingdom of God will be consummated after the Second Coming of Jesus. Meanwhile, the present age is occurring during the last days, in which we live in the era of Global Missions by God’s grace. The community of the New Covenant church should humbly respond by participating in evangelism and missions, demonstrating to the world that God’s final judgment is coming. Understanding the primary storyline of the Bible (God’s unfolding redemptive gospel through biblical history, finally revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ), is the challenge, and should be the desire and goal, of every Christian. True worship depends on it While every story in the Bible is fascinating and captivating, they lose their perfect place and ultimate significance apart from the big picture they share – and there is a big picture! This amazing task is helped by Jeong Koo Jeon in his book, Biblical Theology: Covenants and the Kingdom of God in Redemptive History. Jeon helps one navigate through the progressive storyline of Jesus, from the promise in the Old Testament to the fulfillment in the New Testament. Even though we live some 2,000 years since our Lord and Savior walked the earth and died upon a cross to secure our final and complete redemption, God’s ordained plan of saving sinners through Jesus Christ is the most important truth proclaimed and supported in all of biblical revelation. Jeon does an amazing job of detailing Christ’s importance in the New Testament covenants as well as His prominent place in the Old Testament covenants. Throughout the centuries, the Church has fought and defended this story of redemption via many battles and has slowly but surely grown in many essential doctrines regarding this teaching of redemption and its development in the Holy Scriptures. Today, it is books like Joen’s that help us to value and see how the past ages of the Church have documented the great reformation truths. He traces back to the reformers of the 16th century in part to lay the foundation of Christ alone, by faith alone, through grace alone in God’s redeeming work. He traces this redemptive history in creation, the fall of man and subsequent redemption, and its final consummation as revealed in the Old and New Testaments. It’s very important to the reader to see how it all plays out from beginning to end. Jeon’s book delivers.