O' What an Amazing World We Live In

 

O' what an amazing world we live in. O' the places we could go.  All because God made them for us. Look around and you will see them. God has made them just for us, if you look around you will see God's amazing works. In the amazing world we live in. Just stop and listen you can hear them all around us like the river running and the birds singing in the wonderful word we live in. You can hear them all around us and smell the wonders in the amazing word; like the smells of the flowers budding out, the bees buzzing around, and the butterflies flying from flower to flower, in the amazing word we live in that our God made for us. 

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Overview of the Book of Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 17:18-19(NKJV)

Also, it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for

himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levies. Shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,

Author

• Moses (120 years old)

Date

• About 1400 B.C.
• Just before the death of Moses and Joshua's leading the people into Canaan

Theme

• Remembrance of the Law
• Obedience & Blessings
• Disobedience & Cursing

Purpose

• The title of the book of Deuteronomy comes from the Greek meaning "second law." The Israelites spend forty years wandering in the wilderness. During this time all those who were twenty and above died according to the Word of the Lord in Numbers 14:29 (except for Joshua and Caleb). 
• Moses reminds this new generation of Israelites of their history, what God had done for them, and God's laws. The book of Deuteronomy is a reminder of God's faithfulness and a challenge to possess the promise land.

Content

• Moses Reviews Israel's History: Deuteronomy 1:1-4:43
• Deuteronomy 1:1(NKJV) These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, ..
• Moses Reviews the Law: Deuteronomy 4:44-11:32
• Deuteronomy 4:44(NKJV) Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel
• Guidelines for Daily Living: Deuteronomy 12:1-26:19
• Burnt Offerings
• Clean and Unclean Meat
• Cancellation of Debt and Bondservants
• Review of the Feasts
• Priesthood
• Cities of Refuge
• Offerings and Tithes
• Obedience and Disobedience: Deuteronomy 27:1-28:68
• Deuteronomy 28:1(NKJV) "Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 28:15(NKJV) "But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
• Renewal of Covenant: Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20
• Deuteronomy 29:1(NKJV) These are the words of the covenant which the LORD Commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
• Deuteronomy 30:19(NKJV) "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
• Moses' Blessings and Death: Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12
• Joshua the new Leader: Deuteronomy 31:17
• Deuteronomy 33:1(NKJV) Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
• Deuteronomy 34:5(NKJV) So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the Word of the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 34:6(NKJV)And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab., opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day.
• Deuteronomy 34:10(NKJV) But since then there has not arisen in lsrael a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
• Christ in the book of Deuteronomy
• Christ Jesus the Prophet
• Deuteronomy 18:15(NKJV) The LORD Your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
• Christ's emphasis on the Word and Obedience
• Jesus' Quotes from the book of Deuteronomy
• Deuteronomy 6:5: Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30
• Deuteronomy 6:13, 10:20: Matthew 4:10
• Deuteronomy 6:16: Matthew 4:7, Luke 4:12
• Deuteronomy 8:3: Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4

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Overview of the book of Numbers

Numbers

Numbers 1:2-3 (NKJV)

Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their familles, by

their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,

From twenty years old and above-all who aro able to go to war in lsrael. You and

Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Author

• Moses

Date

• About 1400 B.C. (shortly before his death)

Theme

• God's guiding presence from Sinai to Trans-Jordan

Purpose

• The book of Numbers tells of the preparation and journey to the promise land.
•  It describes the murmuring, complaining and disobedience of the Israelites that led to forty years of wandering in the wilderness. 
• The Hebrew title for this book is "ln the Wilderness."

Content 

• Instructions for Camping and Marching: Numbers 1:1-10:10
• Numbers 2:2(NKJV) "Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems (flag or banner) of his father's house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.
• 1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
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North Camp	East Camp	South Camp	West Camp
Dan	Judah	Reuben	Ephraim
Asher	Issachar	Simeon	Manasseh
Naphtali	Zebulun	Gad	Benjamin
Total: 157,600	Total: 186,400	Total: 151,450	Total: 108,100

• Sinai to Moab: Numbers 10:11-21:35
• Numbers 10:11-12 (NKJV) Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony. And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys, then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
• Spies sent out: Numbers 13:1-14:45
• Balaam and Balak: Numbers 22:1-25:18
• Balak hires Balaam to come and curse the Israelites
• Instructions for Conquering and Possessing the Promise Land: Numbers 26:1-36:13
• The appointing of a new leader: Joshua- Numbers 27:12-23
• Christ in the book of Numbers
• Christ the Rock and Provider
• Numbers 20:8(NKJV) Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals."
• 1 Corinthians 10:4(NKJV) and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
• King Jesus
• Numbers 24:17(NKJV) I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.
• Balaam's prophecy concerning the future rule and reign of Jesus

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Overview of the Book of Leviticus

Leviticus

Leviticus 11:44(NKJV)

For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you

Shal be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing at

creeps on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45(NKJV)

For I am the LORD Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You

shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

• Author
• Moses
• Date written
• About 1400 B.C. (1445 B.C.)
• Theme
• Holiness (A form of the word holy is found 78 times within the book of Leviticus)
• Priesthood
• Purpose
• The book of Leviticus is a handbook for the priests and Levites outlining their duties in worship, and a guidebook of holy living for the Hebrews. The Hebrew meaning of Leviticus is "And He Called." The Greek meaning is "Matters Pertaining to the Levites."
• Content
• Offerings: Leviticus 1:1-7:38
• Leviticus 1:2(NKJV) "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the livestock-of the herd and of the flock.
• Priesthood: Leviticus 8:1-10:20
• Leviticus 8:2(NKJV) Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
• Guidelines for Holy Living: Leviticus 11:1-15:33
• Leviticus 11:2(NKJV) "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, "These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth:
• Foods, Childbirth, Leprosy, and Bodily Discharges
• The Day of Atonement: Leviticus 16:1-34
• Leviticus 16:2(NKJV) and the LORD said to Moses: "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat, which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
• Leviticus 16:3(NKJV) Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
• Practical Holiness: Leviticus 17:1-22:33
• Eating (do not eat blood)
• Unlawful Sexual Relations
• Punishments for Sin
• The Sabbath, Feasts, and Seasons: Leviticus 23:1-25:55
• Leviticus 23:44(NKJV) So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

	The Three Major Feasts
Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover)	Celebration of God’s deliverance	March – April
Feasts of Harvest/ Weeks (Pentecost)	50 days after the feast of Unleavened bread, celebrating the early harvest	May – June
Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) Feast of Ingathering	Celebration of the completed harvest, and a remembrance of their dwelling in temporary shelters in the wilderness	September- October

• The Year of Jubilee: Leviticus 25:8-17
• Blessings and Retribution: Leviticus 26:1-27:34
• Leviticus 26:3-4 (NKJV) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season. the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 
• Christ in Leviticus
• Jesus as the Spotless Sacrifice
• 1 Peter 1:19(NKJV) but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
• Jesus as our High Priest
• Jesus as our Jubilee

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Overview of the Book of Exodus

Exodus = to exit

Exodus 3:9(NKJV)

"Now therefore. beholod. the crV of the children of Israel has come to Me, and | have

also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 3:10(NKJV)

"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people,

the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

• Author
• Moses
•  Date
• About 1400 B.C.
• Moses wrote Exodus during the forty years in the wilderness
• Theme
• Redemption
• Deliverance
• Purpose
• God delivering His people from bondage and developing them as a prosperous possessors of His promises
• Exodus isa continuation of Genesis dealing with the development of a small family of 70 people who migrated to the land of Egypt under Joseph's leadership. The Israelites grew into a large nation of millions. The Hebrews lived in Egypt for 430 years most of them in bondage. Exodus means "to exit" or "out of."
• Content
• Moses God's Called Leader: Exodus 1:1-4:31
• Exodus 3:10 (NKJV) Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
• God calls with a purpose!
• If God calls you to do something, then with His help you can do it!
• The Contest with Pharaoh Exodus 5:1-13:19
• Exodus 5:1(NKJV) Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: 'Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness."
• From Egypt to Mount Sinai: Exodus 13:20-19:2
• Covenant and Law Exodus 19:3-24:8
• Ten commandments Exodus 20:1-17
• Exodus 19:5(NKJV) "Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
• Exodus 19:6(NKJV) And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel. "
• Tabernacle Exodus 24:9-40:38
• Exodus 25:8(NKJV) And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
• Christ in Exodus
• Moses is a type of Christ as "The Deliverer"
• Aaron is a type of Christ as "The High Priest"
• The Passover Lamb
• I AM WHO I AM 
• The Tabernacle as Christ Dwelling with His people

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Genesis

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

• Author
• Moses
• How did Moses know the information to write this book?
• God gave him revelation during the time he spent on Mount Sinai 
• Date
• About 1400 B.C.
• Moses wrote Genesis during the forty years in the wilderness
• Theme 
• Beginnings
• Key Words Create, Covenant, and Genealogy
• Purpose 
• To record God's creation of the world and His desire to have a family
  God's desire to have a people set apart to worship Him
  God's desire for relationship
• Content
• Creation: Genesis 1:1-2:25
• Genesis begins with God creating the entire solar system, the preparation of Earth for habitation, and the creation of life on the Earth (Vegetation, Animal Kingdom, Man)
• Genesis 1:31(NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
• Fall of Man: Genesis 3:1-24
• The devil deceives Eve into eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
• Genesis 3:24(NKJV) So He drove out the man: and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
• Pre-Flood World Genesis 4:1-5:32
• The life and family of Adam
• Genesis 4:1(NKJV) Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the LORD."
• Noah and the Flood Genesis 6:1-9:29
• Genesis 6:5-8(NKJV) Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
• The Nations Genesis 10:1-32
• Genesis 10:1(NKJV) Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
• The Confusion of the Languages Genesis 11:1-9
• Genesis 11:6, 7(NKJV) And the LORD said, Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
• Genealogy Genesis 11:10-32
• Genealogies of Abram
• Abram (Abraham) Genesis 12:1-23:20
• Genesis 12:1-3(NKJV) Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, even from your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. 1 will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will Curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
• Isaac Genesis 24:1-26:35
• Abraham waited 25 years after the promise of Isaac
• Jacob 
• Genesis 27:1-35:39
• Esau 
• Genesis 36:1-43
• Joseph 
• Genesis 37:1-50:26
• Christ in Genesis
• The Seed of Woman
• Genesis 3:15(NKJV) And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.
• Melchizedek
• Genesis 14:18 (NKJV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
• Hebrews 7:1-3 (NKJV) For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning rom the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "king of righteousness," and then also king of Salem, meaning "king of peace," without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

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What is an Old Testament Survey?

• An Old Testament Survey is an examination of each book of the Old Testament to determine its central theme and how it fits within the overall theme of the Bible.
• Understanding the big picture of each book, not a chapter by chapter or verse by verse study of the books of the Bible

The Old Testament

• The Old Testament is made up of 39 books
• The Old Testament covers a period of time of over 4000 years
• The Old Testament covers the Old Covenants and is a foundation to the understanding and fulfillment of the New Testament/New Covenant
• The Old Testament is a history book of the Hebrew nation and people

The central theme of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ revealed through types and shadows and prophecy

1. Genesis - He is the Seed of Woman
2. Exodus - He is the Passover Lamb
3. Leviticus - He is the Atoning Sacrifice
4. Numbers - He is the Smitten Rock
5. Deuteronomy - He is the Prophet
6. Joshua -He is the Captain of Lord's Host
7. Judges - He is the Deliverer
8. Ruth - He is the Heavenly Kinsman
9. Kings - He is the Promised King
10. Nehemiah - He is the Restorer
11. Esther - He is the Advocate
12. Job - He is our All and All
13. Proverbs - He is our Pattern
14. Ecclesiastes - He is our goal
15. In the books written by the prophets- He is the coming Prince of Peace
16. In the Gospels- Christ coming to seek and save
17. Acts –Christ risen
18. In the books of the Epistles - Christ the Father's right hand
19. Revelations - Christ returning and reigning

Sections of the Old Testament

• The Law (Pentateuch, Torah)
• Genesis – Deuteronomy
• The Historical Books
• Joshua - Esther
• The Poetic Books
• Job – Song of Solomon
• The Prophetic Books
• Isaiah - Malachi
• Major Prophets
• Isaiah -Daniel
• Minor Prophets
• Hosea - Malachi

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