Glossary Term Scripture, Language and Interpretation

Reading Scripture with attention to its audience, setting, and purpose—essential to fulfilled understanding.

Exegesis draws meaning from context; eisegesis forces personal meaning onto the text.

Understanding genre helps interpret the Bible accurately—poetry isn’t prophecy, and symbols aren’t literal.

Greek for “age” or “era”—not forever. Key to understanding biblical timelines and fulfillment.

A Hebraic form of exaggeration—used in prophecy to signal major spiritual or covenantal events.

Scripture often contains both levels—but in the fulfilled age, the spiritual meaning is what matters most.

A TGNN model showing how God revealed Himself—from voice and temple to Spirit within.

Symbolic patterns in Scripture that foreshadow spiritual truths—fulfilled in Christ and the Spirit.