Advisory RAPTA Details
As the structured development framework and workflow that guides work from raw information to finished design. RAPTS begins with Research, gathering the facts, evidence, and context needed to understand the landscape. Analysis interprets that information, identifying patterns, meaning, and what truly matters. Presentation turns insight into clear communication so others can see and understand the findings. Technical defines the terms, rules, and operational boundaries that make the work precise and repeatable. Finally, Architecture integrates everything into a complete, functional structure—whether a model, system, plan, or design. Together, these five phases ensure development is thoughtful, disciplined, and consistently aligned from beginning to end.
Research (R)
Methodology
There multiple aspects of looking at researching information from sources.
Research Source
Scripture – Book References
Greg Hood Ministries
Referring to Dr, Greg Hood, here is a process he includes in his book – The Gospel of the Kingdom. This is a foundational methodology process essential in any studies into the Word of God.
- Who said it?
- Who was it said to?
- What did it mean to them?
- How do we bring it into our lives?
Definitions
- Empirical data – is information gathered through direct observation, measurement, or experience, rather than through theory or assumption. It is evidence that can be seen, recorded, tested, and independently verified. Because empirical data is rooted in what actually occurs, it forms the factual basis for analysis, evaluation, and decision‑making in any disciplined development process.
Analysis (A)
Analysis of the Word
Analyzing the Word not an academic accessory but an essential perspective to belief when there is a statement faith — it is one of the central covenantal acts that shapes identity, discernment, and formation. Analyzing the Word is not merely “studying text”; within the pattern of the Word is how God established for abilities to receive, interpret, and embody our role within the Kingdom of God and our Father’s continuous voice in our lives.
1. Analysis supports clarity in covenant
The Word, as it is the Holy Bible illustrates a complete covenant document. Covenants require precision. Analysis protects against drift, distortion, and inherited assumptions. It keeps the community anchored in what God actually said, not what we assume He said. This is why Israel preserved scribal traditions, why prophets called people back to the written word, and why Jesus repeatedly asked, “Have you not read…?”
Covenant
Revelation (AMPC)
1:2 Who has testified to and vouched for all that he saw [in his visions], the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Linguistic Application of the word Testament
- The Old Testament uses the Hebrew word berith, which means covenant — a binding agreement initiated by God.
- When Jewish translators produced the Greek Septuagint (LXX), they consistently translated berith with the Greek word diathēkē.
- Greek diathēkē can mean covenant or testament/will, but in biblical usage it overwhelmingly means covenant.
- When Jerome translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), he rendered diathēkē as testamentum, which in Latin had begun to lean toward the meaning will/testament.
- This is where the English words Old Testament and New Testament come from.
New Testament Addition
diathēkē to mean covenant, not “last will”:
- Jesus: “This is my blood of the new diathēkē” — clearly covenantal, not a legal will.
- Hebrews uses diathēkē repeatedly to contrast the old covenant and the new covenant.
- Strong’s Greek lexicon explicitly defines diathēkē as covenant first, and only secondarily as “testament/will.”
Translation continues boundaries of the English Bible (Old and New Testament)
Consideration – Old and New does not infer there are two separate wills and in an answer to those who follow one or the other in lieu of a complete structure from Genesis to Revelation, both are required to know what is a complete agreement with between man and God.
- Latin testamentum became the standard ecclesial term.
- Early English Bibles inherited the Latin terminology.
- The theological meaning remained covenantal, even if the English word shifted toward Latin interpretation.
Aspects of Covenant
The level of understanding the word, we have to acknowledge the term as it applies an agreement. In current times, humans make contracts and even in formal bridge between requester and providers a contract is essential
- Noah Covenant- Often neglected in theological searches as a covenant perspective even though this is part of Genesis 6;18 (6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.), it still an agreement. Unfolding in the event of the flood and Noah’s ark as there are instructions, agreements, blessings (Genesis 9), and what is specifically addressed in the covenant. Research should consider this foundational.
- Abrahamic Covenant: Jesus is the promised seed through whom all nations are blessed.
- Mosaic Covenant: Jesus fulfills the Law and inaugurates a new covenant through His sacrificial death.
- Davidic Covenant: Jesus is the eternal Son of David whose kingdom will never end.
- New Covenant: Jesus explicitly identifies His blood as the blood of the new covenant.
Covenant and the Messiah
- Jesus is the mediator (Hebrews 8:6, 9;15)
- Jesus ‘ blood establishes the covenant (New Covenant) (Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25).
- His resurrection is tied to the eternal covenant (Hebrews 13:20).
- The Old Testament anticipates the covenant‑fulfilling Messiah.
- The Gospels announce Him as the covenant‑bringing King.
- The Epistles explain Him as the mediator of the better covenant.
- Revelation consummates the covenant relationship in the new creation.
2. Analysis reveals the architecture of foundational attributes
You’ve been mapping this for months: Scripture is not a flat collection of verses. It has structure, patterns, semantic fields, and narrative arcs. Analyzing the Word exposes:
- how Hebrew and Greek terms carry layered meaning
- how covenant, kingdom, and identity themes interlock
- how narrative, law, prophecy, wisdom, and gospel form a unified architecture
This is not intellectualism; it is learning the grammar of God’s world so you can build faithfully within it.
3. Analysis forms into discernment
Every movement, tradition, and theology stands or falls on how it handles Scripture. Analysis trains the believer to:
- distinguish revelation from opinion
- test teaching
- identify theological drift
- recognize when language is being used faithfully or manipulatively
This is why your RAPTA framework works: it forces clarity, evidence, pattern recognition, and theological integrity.
4. Analysis transforms
Biblical analysis is not detached observation. It is participatory. When you analyze Scripture:
- imagination is reshaped
- categories are purified
- identity is clarified
The Word reads you as you read it. Analysis becomes formation.
5. Analysis equips building, training, and stewarding
For someone in your role — architecting ecosystems, forming language, building frameworks, and stewarding clarity — analysis is not optional. It is the foundation of:
- trustworthy teaching
- covenantal leadership
- organizational theology
- narrative coherence
- spiritual responsibility
You cannot build a permanent ecosystem without a permanent Word.
6. Conclusion
To analyze Scripture is to honor the God who spoke. It is an act of love, attention, and obedience. It is saying: Your words matter enough for me to handle them with precision, reverence, and joy.