Old Testament Review

Old Testament Review

1. 1. Creation

   • God created the heavens and the world through his word (And it was so).
     • He created the world in six days and on the last day He rested. Everything he created was in correlation with each other.
       • 1. Light/Darkness 2. Sky/Water 3. Land
         • 4. Sun/Moon/Stars 5. Marine Life 6. Animals and Man
   • Every God created he saw that it was good. However, God said that the creation of man was very good.
     • God said the first thing that was not good was loneliness.
       • God created woman out of the limb of man.

2. 2. The Fall

   • Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden peacefully without a care in the world.
     • God tells Adam and Eve that they can eat from the tree of Life, however; they cannot eat from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
       • The devil tempts Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve persuades Adam to eat from the tree. They do and God is angry with them so he banishes them from the garden.
         • They are not allowed to enter the garden. God puts an angel in front of the garden so that they can never enter the garden and eat from the Tree of Life.
   • Sin and death enter the world and we become separate from God.

3. 3. The Flood

   • God was unhappy with the people because they were wicked.
     • Noah was a rightful man in a world filled with evil.
       • God asked him to build an ark. In that ark there would be his wife, his sons, and his son's wives.
         • God said that a male and a female of every type of animal was to be on the boat.
   • It rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
     • Noah sent out a raven and it came back.
       • He then sent out a dove and it had an olive branch in its mouth and came back. Then 7 days later he sent out the dove again but it didn't return.

4. 4. Blessing of Abraham

   • Abraham and Sarah are from Ur.
     • They are childless and want to have a child.
       • God creates a covenant with Abrahams
         • His 3 promises are the nation promise, the land promise, and and seed promise. He promises that Abraham will have defendants as numerous as the sand and the stars
       • Has a child with Hagar called Ishmael
       • God blesses him with a child named Isaac.

5. 5. Jacob and his family

   • Isaac has two sons Jacob and Easu.
     • Jacob takes the blessing and birthright away from Esau and runs away.
       • Jacob marries Leah and Rachel and has 12 sons along with Leah and Rachel's servants.
         • Jacob later gets called Israel and his 12 sons are the founders of the tribes of Israel.
         • 12 sons are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin.

6. 6. The Exodus

   • The nation of Israel is in Egypt because of Joseph and the famine.
     • The Pharaoh (who forgot who Joseph was) was afraid of the growing numbers of the Israelites and placed them into slavery.
       • The Pharaoh then wanted all of the baby boys to be killed.
         • Moses's mother hid him in the nile and Moses was raised up in the Egyptian kingdom.
           • Moses killed an Egyptian and ran away. He was then called by God from a burning bush to bring the Israelites out of captivity.
             • Pharaoh didn't want to release the Israelites so God plagued Egypt and the Israelites were allowed to leave. After that is the wandering of the desert for 40 years.
               • The plagues were water into blood, frogs, lice, flies, death of livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of firstborn.

7. 7. The Judges

   • When the Israelites get their own land they don't have a physical king.
     • God selects a judge to defeat specific enemies when most needed.
       • This is a period when the Israelites stray away from God.
         • (Ruth was taken place at this time)
         • Some judges are Samson, Deborah, and Gideon
       • Specifically military opponents.

8. 8. The Kings

   • God tells Samuel to appoint a king. Samuel chooses Saul of the Benjamin tribe.
     • The next King is David.
       • The next king is Solomon. (son of David and Bathsheba)
         • The next kings are Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
           • Israel is split into two. The northern Kingdom (Israel( is ruled by Jeroboam. The Southern kingdom (Judah) is ruled by Rehoboam son of Solomon.
         • Builds the temple. Is very wise and rich. Has many wives and is the stayed away from God.
       • His dependents will rule forever (Jesus). He is a good king yet is remorseful when he sinned with Bathsheba.
     • He is a good king at the beginning but is later plagued with disease and becomes a bad king.

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