TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE LAW

1. The Challenge of the Law of Moses
• Basic principles for interpreting the Old Testament
2. The Tabernacle of Moses,
• Prefiguring God's Presence through Christ
• The tabernacle as a symbol of the Messiah
• The tabernacle as a symbol of God's dwelling with Israel
• The tabernacle as a symbol of heaven
• The furniture of the tabernacle
• The multifaceted character of tabernacle symbolism
• Practical lessons from the tabernacle
• Guidelines for interpreting the revelation of the tabernacle
3. The Sacrifices, Prefiguring the Final Sacrifice of Christ
• The necessity of holiness
• Redemption from sin
• The sequence of events in sacrifice
• The types of sacrifices
4. The Priests and the People,
• Prefiguring Christ's Relation to His People
• The mediatorial role of priests
• Similarities of priests to the tabernacle
• Later replications of the tabernacle
• Pagan counterfeit worship
• The people of Israel
5. General Principles for God's Dwelling with Human Beings Prefiguring Union with Christ
• The interaction of tabernacle, sacrifices and priests
• Covenant
6. The Land of Palestine, the Promised Land
• God's promise of the land
• The holiness of the land and its symbolic associations
7. The Law and Its Order
• Prefiguring the Righteousness of Christ
• The law as the sovereign treaty of the great King
• The law articulating God's order
• The law expressing the way of life
• New Testament application of laws of cleanliness
• Order in personal relationships: the ten commandments
8. The Purposes of the Tabernacle the Law, and the Promised Land:Pointing Forward to Christ
• The connections of tabernacle symbolism
• The connections of the law
• Moral and ceremonial aspects of the law
• The tabernacle, the law, and the land as elementary and deep
• The righteousness set forth in the law
• Blessing and curse from the law
• The interpretation of Mosaic law in Hebrews
9. The Punishments and Penalties of the Law Prefiguring the Destruction of Sin and Guilt through Christ
• The righteousness of God's punishments
• Penal authority given to human beings
• Simple examples of just recompense on earth: murder and theft
• The significance of the injured party: God and human beings

Part II: UNDERSTANDING SPECIFIC PENALTIES OF THE LAW

10. The Principle of Penal Substitution
• The operation of recompense in Deuteronomy 13
• The significance of holy war: justice and purity
• New Testament Applications
• Applying Deut. 13:1-18 today
• Punishment
• Restoration
11. Principles of Justice for the Modern State
• The nature of responsibilities of the state
• Principles for just state punishments
12. Just Penalties for Many Crimes
• Penalties for theft and accident
• Repentant offenders
• Penalties for murder, attempted murder, and manslaughter
• Penalties for bodily injury
• Penalties for verbal crimes
• Penalties for profanation of the holy community
• Penalties for violent usurpation of authority
• Penalties for crimes against servants
13. Penalties for Sexual Crimes
• Principles involved in understanding Mosaic sexual law
• Penalties for fornication
• Penalties for adultery
• Penalties for sexual perversion
• Alternatives to my position on sexual crimes
14. Deterrence and Rehabilitation
• The use of the general principle of equivalence
• The role of deterrence and rehabilitation
• The deterrent value of my proposed punishments
• The rehabilitative value of my proposed punishments
15. A Critique of Prisons
• Does prison justly restore and punish?
• Does prison effectively deter and rehabilitate?
16. Our Responsibilities Toward Imperfect States
• Primary responsibilities
• Earthly political responsibilities
17. Fulfillment of the Law in the Gospel According to Matthew
• Matthew 1-4
• Matthew 5-7
• Matthew 5:17-20
• Pentecost in Matthew
• Obedience to the law in the Great Commission
• The broader role of the Old Testament in the Great Commission
• Christocentric interpretation

1. Appendix A: FALSE WORSHIP IN THE MODERN STATE
• The point at issue: the God-given authority of civil government
• State responsibilities concern offenses against human beings, not offenses against God
• Is false worship an attack against other human beings?
• Is false worship an attack against the state?
• Practical reasoning
• Objection 1: the possibility of renewal of holy war
• Objection 2: false worship incites God's anger against the whole society
2. Appendix B: Evaluating Theonomy
• Major Concerns of Theonomists
• Interpreting Old Testament Law
• Old Testament penalties
• The relation of this book to theonomy
• Modifying the theses of theonomy
• Possible objections
• Some possible one-sidedness in theonomy
• Theonomic stridency
3. Appendix C: Does the Greek Word Πληρόω Sometimes Mean "Confirm"?
• The nature of the dispute
• Analysis of possible examples of the sense "confirm"
• Conclusion
4. BIBLIOGRAPHY