Old Testament mind map

Old Testament mind map

1. 1. Creation

   • 7 days of creation
     • 1st day: Darkness and light
     • 2nd Day:Sky and Sea
     • 3rd Day: Land and vegetation
     • 4th Day: Stars, Sun, and Moon
     • 5th day: Fish and Birds
     • 6th Day: Animals and Mankind
   • Adam
     • Care taker of the Garden
     • No suitable helper
   • Eve
     • Called a women
       • Made out of Adams rib
         • United to Adam
   • Tree of Knowledge
   • Everything/everyone was sinless
   • God rested on the last day

2. 2. The Fall

   • Serpent
     • Was craftier than all other animals
       • Tricked Eve into eating the Apple and was really the reason this Era began
   • Eve Ate the apple
     • Desired will be for huband
     • Pain in child Birth
   • Adam
     • Didn't stop Eve from eating the Apple
     • Would have work for food
   • Tree of knowledge
     • Opened Adam and Eves Eyes
   • Cain and Abel
     • Jelousy
       • Cain killed Abel
         • First Murder

3. 3. The Flood

   • Humans
     • They had become very wicked
   • Noah was a righteous man
     • God spared Noah and his family
     • 600 years old when the flood came
   • God
     • God created mankind in the likeness of God
       • He Regrets ever making humans and Plans to destroy all of the human race
   • Ark
     • Was built to safe 2 of each animals and Noah family
     • Made out of cypress wood
   • Rainbow
     • Was a sign that God wasn't going to flood the earth ever again
   • Shem, Ham, and Japheth
     • They scattered over the whole Earth

4. 4. Blessing of Abraham

   • Tower of Babel
     • The whole world had one language
       • God came down and scattered all the people and their languages.
   • Abraham
     • The Father of all the Nations
       • God said he would have " descendant as numerous as the stars."
   • Lot is Abraham's nephew
     • Lot chooses the land that was best for him
   • Sarai
     • Hagar tried to help out the Lord and told Abraham to sleep with Hagar
     • She then becomes jealous of Hagar and send her and the son away
   • Covenant
     • Has to circumcise all males
   • Sodom had become so wicked that God wants to destroy them
     • Abraham couldn't find 10 righteous people in the town of Sodom

5. 5. Jacob and his family

   • Jacob
     • Deceives Esau and takes his birthright and his blessing
       • Essau later in the chapter decides to forgive him instead of holding a grudge and decides love is stronger than hate
   • Rebekahh
     • God told her their were two nations in here womb
     • Jacob was her favorite Son
   • Esau is the oldest out of the two
     • He wants to kill him for taking his Blessing
   • Laban
     • Tricks Jacob in to working for him for 7 extra years.
     • Father of Leah and Rachel
   • Bethel
     • This is where Jacob got his named changed to Israel
   • Rachel
     • Falls in love with Jacob and becomes his wife

6. 7. The Kings

   • David
     • Killed Goliath
     • Slept with Bathsheba
       • Killed her husband
   • Solomon
     • Asks God for wisdom
       • Is granted wisdom and deals with situations accorddingly
   • Nadab
     • Did evil in the eyes of the Lord
     • Kills Jeroboam and his whole family
   • Elijah
     • Maybe one of Gods greatest prophets
   • Saul
   • Nation split into Israel and Juda

7. 6. Mt. Sinai

   • Ten commandments
     • Was given to Moses on the top of the Mountain
       • Was the bases of laws back then and is even applied in some of are laws today.
   • Alter and Idols
     • They made a golden calf out of all their jewelry
   • Aaron
     • Was the one who built an altar for the people than lied about it.
   • Moses
     • Went up to the mountain to talk to the Lord
   • The covenant is confirmed
   • The Israelites made an offering to God

8. 8. The Exile

   • Faith tested
   • Scripture
     • A lot of the Torah was written during this period
   • Jewish Culture
   • Abraham's blessing reversed
     • No land because they were conquered
     • They weren't blessed to bless others
     • They weren't a great nation because they had been conquered
   • After Israel split
   • Empires
     • Babylon
       • Where a lot of modern culture and scripture was focused
     • Persian
     • Assyrian

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