Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Old Testament
- 5. The Exodus
- Moses
- Name means "drawn from water"
- Was half Egyptian and Hebrew
- Led God's nation from slavery
- Egypt
- Where it all takes place
- The Egyptians had forgotten about Joseph and enslaved the Hebrews
- Pharaoh
- Was raised with Moses
- As close to Moses as a brother
- First-Born dies
- Slaves
- Hebrews had been slaves for many generations
- Hebrews held this name no more after the exodus
- Plagues
- There were 10
- Each one got worse until the last one where the first-borns of every family died
- Ten Commandments
- Moses receives them from God
- Given to Moses at Mt. Sinai
- God's Power
- God's Power was shown to the Israelites and they learned to fear him
- 7. Judges
- Faith
- Shows God's faith in us, even when we sin and turn against him constantly
- Deborah
- Only Female Judge
- Stuck a stake into a man's head
- Hannah
- Gives a lot of insight on Hannah and her story before that of Sampson's
- Aka Warlords
- Judges were leaders th
- Samson
- Long hair which gave him strength
- Got it cut off by Delilah
- Became blind
- No Kings
- Judges 21:25
- “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.”
- 2. The Fall
- East
- Adam and Eve head East away from the Garden
- Whenever someone is seen fleeing or moving away from God, it is to the east
- Tree of Knowledge
- Was never to be eaten from
- Fruit was eaten by Adam and Eve
- Sin
- The first sin ever created by humanity
- Fruit
- The Fruit was never to be eaten
- Adam and Eve ate this when Satan tempted them to
- Adam
- His name means humanity, so the fall may hint to the fact that it wasn't just Adam, but all humanity
- Satan
- Tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge
- Disguised himself as a serpent
- Eve
- First to eat from Tree of Knowledge of good and evil
- 6. Mt. Sinai
- God spoke to Moses
- The Law
- Moses received the law from God
- 10 Commandments
- Golden Calf
- Israelites made an idol
- Moses melted it and made the Israelites drink it
- 40 days
- He spent 40 days on the mountain receiving the law
- Burning Bush
- His visit to receive the 10 commandments wasn't his first
- He visited it where he was told to lead the Israelites to freedom
- "Closing the loop"
- Voice as Thunder
- When God said that he would come down to the people as a thick cloud for all the people to hear
- This stuck fear, the good kind, into the minds of the Israelites yet again.
- 4. Jacob & His Family
- Going to Egypt eventually led Israelites to slavery
- 12 Sons
- 12 Sons become the 12 tribes of Israel.
- 12 tribes become foundation and cornerstone of the Nation
- Famine
- Famine brought them to Egypt where they discovered Joseph
- Israel
- Jacob's name was changed to Israel meaning, "Wrestles with God"
- Joseph
- Sold into slavery by his brothers
- Becomes prime minister of Egypt
- Judah
- The tribe which Jesus is from
- One of the only tribes left lasting
- 8. Exile
- Jewish Culture
- Scripture
- A lot of the Torah was written during this period
- Empires
- Babylon
- Where a lot of modern culture and scripture was focused on
- Assyrian
- Persian
- Faith Tested
- Jewish Culture
- After Israel split
- Abraham's Blessings Reversed
- They weren't a great nation because they had been conquered
- They weren't blessed to bless others
- No land because they were conquered
- 1. Creation
- Tree of Knowledge
- Knowledge of Good and Evil
- Adam and Eve were to never eat from this tree
- Good
- Everything God made he saw as good
- The only thing "not good" was being alone
- Poetry
- A lot of Genesis has the number 7 written in patterns
- The story of creation was a poem, not a history lesson
- Eve
- Name means "Mother"
- First Woman
- Adam
- Name means "humanity"
- First Man
- 7 Days
- 3. The Flood
- Ark
- Built from gopher wood
- Held 2 of every animal and Noah's family
- Animals
- God commanded Noah to house 2 of each on the ark
- Rain
- It rained for 40 days and nights
- Noah
- Though well known, he was a scumbag
- Built the ark for 2 of every animal and his family
- Didn't tell anyone that God was going to flood the world
- Rainbow
- God's symbol/promise that he would not flood the world again
- Sin
- The world was so full of it, God potentially gave up and flooded it