Old Testament

Old Testament

1. Creation-1

   • -In the Creation Era there were seven days of creation. -God said after each creation that it was good but once he created humanity he said it was very good.
   • -Greater and lesser light were made. -God created man in his image.
   • -Darkness=night & Light=Day before sun and moon were made. -God rested on the 7th day.
   • -God blessed man to be fruitful and fill the earth. -The light that causes night and day are in the vault.
   • *^This represents being fruitful

2. The Fall-2

   • -Once Adam & Eve sinned God clothed them. -The serpent is more crafty than any other animal God made
   • -The temptation of the fruit showed our human desire to be in control. -Adam & Eve sewed fig leaves together for clothing
   • -Adam blamed Eve for their sin of eating the fruit. -The serpent is cursed above all livestock, will crawl on its belly, and eat dust for all its life.
   • -God cursed women with child bearing pains and men with having to work hard growing food from the ground. - God vanished Adam & Eve from The Garden of Eden and placed cherubim with a flaming sword on the East side.
   • *< This represents the shame Adam and Eve felt once God caught them

3. The Flood-3

   • -Noah doesn't speak about the flood coming. -7 pairs of every kind of clean animal and one pair of every kind of unclean animal.
   • -Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters came. -Only creatures on dry land and in the air had died.
   • -The floodgates of heaven opened and the springs of the deep contributed to the flood waters. -The 8 peopole on the ark included Noah, his wife, his 3 son's wives, and his 3 sons.
   • -The Fist day of the first month of Noah's 601 year was the day the waters dried up. -Once Noah got off the Ark he got drunk possibly because of the guilt he felt watching everything die.
   • *<This represents the drowning of every living creature of dry land and the air.

4. Jacob and His Family-4

   • -Jacob basically had four wives named Leah who gave four sons, Zilpah who gave 2 sons, Bilhah who gave 4 sons, and Rachel who gave 2 sons. -Jacob served Laban for 14 year, 7 for Rachel but got Leah and another 7 to marry Rachel.
   • -Jacob's name is later changed to Israel. -Jacob is Abraham's grandson
   • -Jacob lived in Cannan.-Jacob had 12 sons with the names of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin
   • -Jacob took his brothers birthright and blessing of the older sibling. - Jacob's name means liar, deceiver, holder of the heel.

5. Judges-6

   • -Judges were military rulers after Joshua. -Deborah was the only woman judge.
   • -Samuel was the last judge but was also a priest and profit. -In judges there was no king over the Hebrews so everyone did what was right in their own eyes but when someone conquered them they begged God to save them and God sent them judges
   • -There were 17 judges, only 13 mentioned in Judges. -The Israelites failed during this time because of their lack of faith and obedience to God.
   • -There was a pattern in the book of Judges where the Hebrews would rebel, receive a judge, repent, and rest from sinning but then it would start all again. -Like the Pharaoh who ignored who Joseph was and what he did for Egypt, the new generations ofIsraelites didn't think of what God did for the earlier generations.
   • *^^Like the boy who cried wolf, the Israelites cried out to God but once corrected they once again sinned crying out for God again, but unlike the boy who cried wolf, God came to their side every time. ^^

6. The Exodus-5

   • -Exodus is structured like Genesis. -The Israelites were fruitful and Israel is the new Adam.
   • -The new Pharoah ignored what Joseph has done for Egypt and was scared of the multiphying numbers of the Israelites. -The pharoah wanted to kill every baby boy of the Hebrews
   • -The Hebrews became slaves of Egypt and were slaves for 430 years. -Moses was a baby at the time Pharoah wanted baby boys killed so his mother sent him down the Nile.
   • -The midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, sent to kill the baby Hebrew boys feared God and lied about not being able to kill them. -Because these midwives feared God, God gave them families of their own

7. Post Exile-8

   • -Jews finally able to go home to Jerusalem.- The rebuilding of the Temples was in place
   • -Samuel, the last prophet, dies. - Ezra encouraged the people to go back to the original Jewish traditions.
   • -Following the Law of Moses was big in the process to get right with God. -The Law of Moses forced the men to give up their forign wives.
   • -Cyrus the King of Persia let the Jews go and was appointed by God to rebuild their temple. -There were 5,400 articles of gold and silver in the temple.

8. The Exile-7

   • -Once the Persians came into power they let the Israelites go. -It seems as the Israelites finally understood that when they had no king, God was their kind and had been watching over them suring the bad events happening.
   • -After King Solomon the Israelites suffered defeat from the Assyrians. -200 years later the Babylonians defeated them.
   • -The true exile happened when the temple was burned down and their independence was pulled from under the jews and the Babylonians took them. - The Jews connection to Israel never ended.
   • -Nebuchadnezzer only let the poorest Jews remain in Jerusalem. -The divisions of the tribes were lost.
   • *> This represents the Israelites independence being ripped from under them.

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