Old Testament

Old Testament

1. 3. Noah and The Flood

   • The Lord was planning to destroy all life on the planet and everything that he created because he saw that the humans were evil. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
   • God then said that he would never destroy the earth again. He also blessed his sons and Noah
   • Noah sent a raven out first, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then Noah sent a dove out and it didn't come back with anything. He waited 7 days and sent it out again, it came back with an olive branch! He then sent it out again and it didn't return. Noah then let everything out of the ark.
   • God told Noah that he would need to build an ark 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high to save his family and the animals of the world. Noah did exactly that.
   • God said that floods and rain would fall on the earth for forty days and forty nights. But the waters were still flooding the earth after 150 days. After the end of the 150 days, the rain had gone down. On the seventh day of the seventh month, the ark rested on top of the mountains of Ararat. On the first day of the tenth month, the mountain tops were visible.
   • When the flood was coming near, Noah loaded 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of unclean animals onto the ark with his family. When the flood came, Noah and everything on the ark was alright.

2. 5. Joseph

   • Joseph ended up in Egypt as a slave. Potiphar bought Joseph as a slave. Potiphar respected Joseph very much and him 2nd in command of his house. However because Joseph wouldn't sleep with Potiphar's wife, she accused Joseph of rape and then Potiphar threw him in prison.
   • Joseph was his father's favorite. His brothers were very jealous of him. So they hatched a plan to get rid of him. When Joseph came to get them from the fields one day, they throw him into a cistern and stole his coat. They made their father believe he was dead. They later sold him to foreigners for money.
   • When Joseph was in prison, he meet a baker and a cupbearer from Pharaoh. The cupbearer had a dream that night and told it to Joseph the next day. Joseph told the cupbearer that he would get out of jail very soon. The cupbearer was released soon after that, Joseph told the cupbearer to tell Pharaoh to get him out of jail.
   • The cupbearer did tell Pharaoh about Joseph and what Joseph could do. Joseph was brought in immediately because Pharaoh was having odd dreams. Pharaoh told Joseph his dreams and Joseph then told Pharaoh that there would be 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine. Joseph was made in 2nd in command of all of Egypt.
   • Joseph one day saw his brothers getting food. Joseph threw them in prison for "being spies". Joseph made them go get the rest of the family
   • When all the family was brought back, Joseph told everyone who he was. There was a big family reunion. Since Joseph was 2nd in command, his whole family moved to Egypt

3. 7. Mount Sinai and The Giving of the Law

   • God explained that he himself had spoken to them and that he expected no other gods to be alongside him. He gave many other lifestyle directions as well.
   • The people were afraid of God and ask that Moses tell them the law rather than God himself.
   • God came in loud thunder and smoke. He gave Moses the tablets with the Ten Commandments.
   • Moses and Aaron were called up to the holy mountain alone telling the people to stay and wait.
   • God told Moses for the people to wash and abstain from sexual relations to be ready on the third day when Moses would be called to the mountain with God.
   • God promised the Isrealites they would be his prized people if they would obey him. They promised Moses that they would.

4. 4. Abraham

   • God said to flee the city and not look back, but Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
   • Lot's daughters didn't have a man around to get them pregnant. So they got their father drunk and slept with him. They both became pregnant.
   • After a heated argument, Abraham got the amount of righteous people in Sodom form 50 to 10. Abraham went to the city and got his nephew, Lot, and his family out of the city before it was destroyed. They fled to a town called Zoar which was spared.
   • One day, Abraham received 3 visitors and the visitors told him that Sarah would give birth to a child. Sarah laughed and said that she was too old to have a child. After the visitors left, Abraham walked them to the top of the hill and then God told Abraham what he was going to do to Sodom.
   • Abram took his wife Sarai with him to Egypt. He told his wife that she was his sister in fear that he might get killed if he told anyone that she was his wife. The Pharaoh found Sarai very beautiful, so God inflected disease in Pharaohs household and Pharaoh told them to leave Egypt
   • Abrams wife had borne him no child, so Sarai got Abram to sleep with an Egyptian slave named Hagar who got pregnant and gave birth to Ishmael. God then made a covenant with Abram that made him Abraham and Sarai, Sarah. God also said that Sarah would give birth to a child named Isaac and that he and his children would be circumcised.

5. 6. Moses and The Exodus

   • Moses was sent down the Nile by his mother his mother so he could be found by the princess.
   • Moses sister told the princess that she would find the princess a nurse to nurse the baby. She got his mother
   • Moses was a baby boy when the Pharaoh ordered that all Israelite boys must be killed
   • Moses grow up in Pharaohs house. At adult hood, he and the Pharaohs son became enemies and he had to flee
   • He returned after a while with Aaron because God told Moses that he must lead his people out of Egypt. Moses then struck 10 plagues upon Egypt ending with the death of the Egyptians. Pharaoh told Moses to take his people and leave.
   • Pharaoh changed his mind and wanted to kill everyone. He chased them to the Red Sea where God parted the waters to allow the Israelites to cross. When the Egyptians followed, God closed the waters and every Egyptian drowned.

6. 8. King Saul

   • When the Philistines went to war with Israel, Saul choose David to face Goliath because all his soldiers were afraid. Saul tried to dress David in his armor, but it was too bulky. David then choose 5 smooth stones from the river. David went out to battle Goliath and killed him with one stone.
   • David became best friends with Saul's son Jonathan. Saul however to killed David multiply times because he was jealous of David. When Saul was truly going to kill David, Jonathan heard Saul and got David out of the kingdom just in time.
   • Saul hunted down David for years. David had many opportunities to kill Saul. But he didn't. Saul stopped chasing after David when David cut off a piece of Saul's rob and threw it at the feet of Saul so Saul knew that he wanted Saul to stop chasing him. Saul later died in battle against the Philistines by taking his life
   • Saul made a improper offering to God and Samuel told him that he had done and foolish thing. God rejected him as the King of Israel. Saul then anointed David
   • Samuel told Saul that he needed to rescue a town called Jabesh Gilead. He took his men there and slaughtered everyone. After that Saul tried to take on the Philistines, but his men were afraid
   • When Samuel grew old, Israel was asking for a new king. Samuel anointed Saul the new King of Israel.

7. 1. Creation

   • Day 4: God created the sun, stars, and moon
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 1: 14-19
   • Day 6: God created animals and man
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 1: 24-31
   • Day 7: God rested from all his work
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 2: 1-3
   • Day 5: God created marine life and birds
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 1: 20-23
   • Day 1: God created light! Day 2: God separated the waters!
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 1: 3-8
   • Day 3: God created dry land and vegetation.
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 1: 9-13

8. 2. The Fall

   • Eve took the fruit because it was good for food and pleasing to the eye. She also desired wisdom
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 6
   • She ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband and he ate the fruit as well. They then realized that they were naked and they covered themselves with leaves.
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 7
   • God asked Adam if he had eaten from the forbidden tree. Adam said that Eve gave him the fruit and he ate it. God asked Eve "What have you done?" Eve told God that the serpent deceived her.
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 11-13
   • God then gave punishments to all of them. God told the serpent that he would crawl on his belly and eat dust for the rest of his days. God told Eve that child bearing would be very painful for Eve. God told Adam that he would farm the land to grow food until he dies. God then sealed off the Garden of Life.
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 14-24
   • The serpent told Eve that if she ate the fruit off the tree of life, she would be like God
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 1-4
   • They heard the Lord walking in the Garden and hid from him. The Lord said to Adam "Where are you?". Adam responded and said that he heard him. He was also scared because he was naked
     • Bible Verse: Genesis 3: 8-10