OLD TESTAMENT- COOPER HANFT

OLD TESTAMENT- COOPER HANFT

1. 1. CREATION

   • Adam and Eve are first people
     • God breathes into Adam to create him
       • God makes Eve to give Adam company
         • First thing God says is bad is loneliness
           • First thing God says is very good is women
             • Women's curse was pain in childbirth and desire for man to have control over her;
               • Man's curse was that he had to work
                 • God didn't want it to be like this...

2. 2. THE FLOOD

   • 40 days and 40 nights of rain
     • Ark floats around for 120 days
   • Ark touched land and rain stopped on 17th of Nisan, SAME DAY AS JESUS ROSE FROM THE CROSS!!!
     • When the ark hit land there was a rainbow
   • God tells Noah to build an ark
     • 1 male and 1 female of every animal on the ark as well as Noah and his fam

3. 3. BLESSING OF ABRAHAM

   • Name was originally Abram but God changed it to Abraham
     • Wife's name was Sarai but god changed it to Sarah
   • God promises Abraham 3 things
     • 1. great nation
     • 2. posses the land
       • owning land=respect
     • 3.descendants will be a blessing to the world
       • descendants will be as numerous as the stars
     • has chosen son, Isaac, with Sarah
     • has non chosen son, Ishmael, with Hagar

4. 4. JACOB AND HIS FAMILY

   • Son of Isaac and Rebecca
     • Brother is Esau
   • Has 12 sons with 4 women
     • one of his sons is Judah, which starts the lineage of Jesus Christ
       • Jesus Christ= "Lion of Judah"
     • favorite was joseph, who he gave a special rainbow coat to
       • Joseph's jealous brothers kick him out of the family and fake his death
       • ends up becoming prime minister of egypt
   • has a child with his dead son's widow, tamar

5. 5. THE EXODUS

   • main character: moses
     • referred to as God as "beautiful does this mean he was handsome?
     • mentors Joshua to take his place
     • gets 10 commandments from God
     • grew up as Egyptian royalty but was actually Israelite
   • frees Israelites of slavery after 430 years
     • God inflicts 10 plagues on Egyptians to make Pharaoh let his people (Israelites) be free
     • Post-slavery, Israelites wander in wilderness for 40 years

6. 7. KINGDOM

   • land divided:
     • Israel
       • northern kingdom
       • capital: samaria
       • first king: Jeraboam
     • Judah
       • southern kingdom
       • capital: jerusalem
       • first king: rehoboam

7. 8. EXILE

   • Assyrians
     • extremely cruel country
       • if you don't immediately surrender, they entire the country and maim anyone they see
     • take over the northern kingdom, Israel
     • have kids with remaining people, kids called Samaritans
       • Jews don't like Samaritans out of racism because they were mixed races and had Assyrian blood
   • Babylon
     • take over southern kingdom, Judah
     • instead of wiping you out, they keep you alive but continuosly tax you instead
   • after living in exile for 70 years, the jews finally escape
     • old testament ends with jews waiting for a new king
     • relocate through mediterranean (diaspora)

8. 6. JUDGES

   • first years of Israel's freedom
   • rather than kings, ruled by judges
     • judges appointed by God
     • had a woman judge: Deborah
       • significant because of lack of main women in bible
       • "mother of israel"
   • lead by Joshua into Canaan to set up this time period

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