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Old Testament Survey: Gen-Deut

CCEA School of Discipleship

Winter Trimester: 3:00-4:00pm

Before Class

Be sure to sign in.

Have each student wear a name tag

Instructor

Rich Cathers

A little about me –

I’ve been married for 45 years to Debby Cathers. I have three sons and four grandchildren.

I’m a musician – my degree at CSUF was in Music

My degree at Biola/Talbot was in Bible Exposition

I’ve known Pastor Bob since grad school. I used to sit behind him in Church History at Talbot.

I was a youth pastor at Fullerton First Baptist Church for six years

I was an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Anaheim for eight years

In 1994, I planted Calvary Chapel of Fullerton, which I pastored for twenty-five years. In 2020 I handed the church to one of my protégés, and in 2022 I stepped away from CC Fullerton to let my team run things without the old man looking over their shoulder.

I currently teach a Greek class to a small online group of young senior pastors. Two are in Oregon and one is in France.

I am very grateful for this opportunity to teach this class.

Purpose

This class is aimed at equipping you to read and study the Old Testament. We will look at major themes, messianic links, and the special nuggets found in each Old Testament book, as well as getting you acquainted with the tool known as Halley’s Bible Handbook.

My hope is that it will encourage you to read the entire Bible without fear or confusion. I want you to have a better grasp of how the entire Bible works, how it all fits together.

Textbooks:

Your Bible

Halley’s Bible Handbook (HBH)

Each week I will give you an assignment in Halley’s to help you get acquainted with this excellent tool.

I hope you’ve brought a notebook and something to write and take notes with.

Syllabus

Yes, there’s a syllabus for this course, and I’ll email it out to you all this week now that we’ve got our first week under our belt.

Don’t take it too literally because we’ve already blown the first week, so you all get free points for last week.

Don’t be afraid of my grading – I’m a pushover.

Attendance (this is in your syllabus)

Mandatory to receive credit for class.

It is your responsibility to make sure you sign in when you arrive to class.

(No signing in for other students)

No credit if student has 3 absences.

10 point per week of attendance

Quizzes

There will be a simple quiz at the end of each class (10 points each)

There will be a short paragraph/essay for the final exam (50 points)

The quizzes and final will be open book, open notes, drawn from the lectures.

The most important thing is that you come every week

Grades

A – 90-100% (180-200 points)

B – 80-89% (160-179 points)

C – 70-79% (140-159 points)

D – 60-69% (120-139 points)

F – 59% or less (119 points or less)

I’m obviously not going to take you verse by verse through each book, though I have taught through the whole Bible more than once.

I want to give you some introductory information on each book, pick out a few key verses and topics, and hopefully whet your appetite to read your Bible.

How many of you have read the entire Old Testament?

For each book of the Bible, I’d like you to take note of several things:

1. Author of the book.

2. When was it written.

3. Why was it written?

You might want to write each of these things into your Bibles at the beginning of each book.

4. Significant verse

It’s not always easy to come up with one verse, but I’ll try to give you at least one verse to think about from each book.

Before our semester is over, I’m going to ask you to try and memorize one of these verses. For your final I’ll ask you to write out the verse as best as you can, and share very briefly why that verse is special to you.

If I go too fast for you to take notes, over the years some folks take pictures of the powerpoint, but I will also as a special bonus, just for you, email you all my notes each week.

There will be a brief quiz at the end of each week, but don’t worry, I’ll tell you what the answers are during class.

These are the bare minimum of what you might want to jot down (as well as my quiz clues).

Genesis

Author

The book of Genesis, like all five of the first books of the Bible, were written by …Moses.

These first five books are also called “The Pentateuch”, Torah, and often in the New Testament as “The Law”.

When

Around 1400BC (my dates are not exact), after the Israelites were brought out of Egypt.

There are going to be critics who like to say that the Bible wasn’t written by the people that claimed to write it.

I’m not going to deal with those issues. I’ve taken a few Old Testament “introduction” classes that spend so much time arguing over this that you never actually get to the Old Testament.

If these are serious questions you wrestle with – buy a copy of Josh McDowell’s “Evidence that Demands a Verdict”

People have debated such things as … the Bible couldn’t have been written by Moses because writing didn’t exist in Moses’ day.

That’s been totally disproven. Writing has existed for quite some time, long before Moses.

Over the years there has been debate over the book of Genesis, as well as just about every other book of the Bible as to it’s authenticity or it’s authorship. In college I took a class at CSUF called “Introduction to the Old Testament” where we learned about the “Documentary Hypothesis”, a theory of authorship that became popular in the late 1800s. It was proposed by a German theologian named Julius Wellhausen who wrote a book “Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel”. He proposed that the first five books were NOT written by one author, Moses, but were actually collected from four different sources known as “JEPD”. Or, “the Yahweh, Elohim, Priestly, and Deuteronomist” authors.

I am NOT going to spend any more time on this baloney except to tell you that it has been thoroughly refuted.

If you want to do your own research, I’d suggest that you start with Josh McDowell’s latest version of “Evidence that Demands a Verdict”.

Why?

This is the beginnings of Israel.

A Jewish child might ask, “Where did our nation come from?”

The answer lies in the book of Genesis.

It is known as the “book of beginnings”

Our English title “Genesis” comes from the Greek scholars who translated the Old Testament into Greek. “Genesis” comes from a word that means “beginning”.

In the Hebrew Bible, the title is “Bereshith”, which is simply the first Hebrew word of Genesis 1:1, meaning “In the beginning”.

It’s very common for the Hebrew titles of the Old Testament books to simply be the first word.

This is a book about all sorts of beginnings.

The beginning of the universe.

The beginning of man.

The beginning of sin.

The beginning of sacrifice.

The beginning of Abraham’s family, and ultimately the Jewish people.

There is a principle in hermeneutics call the “principle of first mention”. The idea is this – the first time that you see a word or a principle in Scripture has a lot of weight in the understanding of that principle or word. You will see quite a few of these “principles” in the book of Genesis.

The book of Genesis starts with the creation of the universe, and takes us through the life of Joseph, the great-grandson of Abraham.

So how did Moses write about things that happened so long before his time? How can we know these things are accurate? Aren’t these things all mythology?

I think Moses tells us if we read carefully.

(Genesis 2:4 NASB 2020) This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

The Hebrew word translated “account” is toledoth, and can be translated “descendants, generations, or geneaologies”, but it can also carry the idea of an “account” or a “record”

Looking at the English translations you might not pick it up, but if you search the Hebrew text for toledoth, you will find that it appears at the natural section breaks in the book. It appears 13 times, like these first three times…

(Genesis 2:4 NASB 2020) This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created…

(Genesis 5:1 NASB 2020) This is the book of the generations of Adam…

(Genesis 6:9 NASB 2020) These are the records of the generations of Noah…

These aren’t just genealogies, but histories.

I think it’s highly likely that the first chapter of Genesis was told to either Adam or Moses by God, then Genesis 2-5 were written by Adam, then the next section by Noah, and so on.

If you follow this through the book of Genesis, you see that it’s very possible that when Moses was writing this book of Genesis, he had ancient documents to draw from, records that extend all the way to the life of Joseph, even to the life of Adam.

As for the first two chapters of Genesis, I’m not going to spend a lot of time debating the age of the earth – but just to let you know that I am a “Young Earther” – meaning that if Moses wrote that God created the world in six days, that’s good enough for me.

Over my lifetime I’ve seen theories come and go about various parts of the Bible.

There have always been people who have debated about whether things in the Bible actually happened or not.

I have learned that if you wait long enough, the evidence will eventually come in proving that the Bible is true. Science often changes, but the Bible does not.

When I was in grade school, we were taught that the universe was 3 billion years old. Today they say it is 13.7 billion years old. And I’m not that old…

If you’ve ever been to Israel, hopefully you’ve learned how much archaeology and science continue to prove the reliability of the Bible.

If you want an outline of the Book of Genesis, it is laid out chronologically, starting with the creation.

I’m not going to give you outlines of each book of the Bible, because that’s what you’ll find in Halley’s Handbook.

Genesis starts with creation and takes you through the flood, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ends with Joseph.

It takes us right up to the time of Moses.

Messianic

Do you see Jesus in the book of Genesis?

Yes, lots of times.

Around Christmastime Pastor Bob spent time in Genesis 3:15, when God made the first hint that the “seed of the woman” would crush Satan.

We see another picture of Jesus in the person of Melchizedek, a mysterious king from “Salem” (Jerusalem) who meets Abraham after a battle …

(Genesis 14:18 NASB 2020) And Melchizedek the king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.

Jesus told the Jews,

(John 8:56 NASB 2020) Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day, and he saw it and rejoiced.”

How did Abraham see “Jesus’ day”? I think one of the times was through this person called Melchizedek.

I’m just scratching the surface here -

Significant Verse

Certainly one of the key figures to the book of Genesis is Abraham, called the “father of faith”.

God made many promises to Abraham, including a promise for descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.

(Genesis 15:6 NASB 2020) Then he believed in the Lord; and He credited it to him as righteousness.

Abraham believed what God said, and God took that faith and credited Abraham with righteousness.

God considered Abraham “right” because Abraham believed God.

Paul will use this to drive home his point that we are saved through faith, not by works,

(Romans 4:3 NASB 2020) For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Paul will quote Genesis 15:6 again in Romans 4:22 and Galatians 3:6. James will quote it in James 2:23.

(Romans 4:20–22 NASB 2020) —20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. 22 Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness.

(Galatians 3:5–6 NASB 2020) —5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

(James 2:23 NASB 2020) —23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

There are folks who like to say that God has changed His “rules” throughout history – that in the Old Testament people were saved by the keeping of the Law, and in the New Testament it is through faith.

But God has never changed His rules.

Salvation has always been through faith (read Hebrews 11)

Exodus

Author:

Moses

When:

1400 BC

Why:

The birth of Israel.

While Genesis gives us the background to what will become the nation of Israel, Exodus gives us the actual birth of the nation.

It was a mass of slaves miraculously delivered out of Egypt, brought into the wilderness, and turned into a God-worshipping people.

The name “Exodus” is again from the Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint).

It means “the way out” from “ex” (out of) + “hodos” (the way)

It is the book that describes how the Israelites got out of slavery in Egypt.

The Hebrew name for the book is again the first two words in Hebrew

In Hebrew, the name is ואלה שמות

(wuh-ay-leh shmot)

Which means “These are the names”. Huh? It’s the first two words in Hebrew. From here on out we won’t spend too much time on the Hebrew titles of the books.

You can find an outline of Exodus in Halley’s.

There will be a large amount of history – ten plagues, parting of Red Sea, the golden calf, etc.

There will also be large portions where God dictates His laws to Moses.

There will be significant amounts dedicated to the design and construction of the Tabernacle – the portable worship center that Israel would carry with them through the wilderness.

Significant Verse

One key verse is when God calls Moses to serve Him (and it will serve as our Messianic passage)

(Exodus 3:13–15 NASB 2020) —13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

The phrases “I AM” are based on the Hebrew verb hayah, which is the simple verb “to be”, but in first person (“I am”)

This is the foundation of God’s name “Yahweh”.

15 God furthermore said to Moses, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon Me.

You won’t see this directly in the English versions, but in most of your Bibles, in the Old Testament, when you see the word “LORD” in all capital letters, the underlying Hebrew is actually the name of God, “Yahweh”, or more specifically four Hebrew consonants, YHWH. (some of your Bibles explain this in the preface)

Sometimes this is referred to as the “tetragrammaton”, or “the four letters”.

You will see “LORD” (Yahweh) in Genesis as well, but that’s because Moses wrote Genesis after this event in Exodus 3.

Why do our English translations use “LORD” instead of “Yahweh”?

Because we follow the excellent tradition set by the Jews, where they were concerned about people misusing God’s name (taking His name in vain).

In your first year Hebrew class, when you see something like this word

יְהוָ֞ה

… you are taught to pronounce it Adonai, which is the actual Hebrew word for “Lord”.

It gets a little more interesting from here.

Ancient Hebrew was written with only consonants, and no spacing between words. If you knew Hebrew, you would know how to divide up and pronounce the individual words.

After the Jews were taken captive to Babylon in 586 BC, the rabbis became concerned that their people might forget how to pronounce the written text, so they devised a system called “pointings” – little dots and dashes above, below, and sometimes inside the consonants, and these “pointings” taught you how to pronounce the words because they were the vowels.

When they got to the name of God itself, rather than put the vowels for “Yahweh” in the text, they used the vowels for “Adonai” instead (uh-oh-ah) along with the consonants of Yahweh.

Again, to the first year Hebrew student, the first time you encounter God’s name you can be confused. You are so busy trying to read the consonants with the vowels that you ignore what you are seeing.

Let me try and explain it in English for you.

You start with the consonants of God’s name – YHWH

Then you have the vowels of Adonai (lord).

When you combine them, it looks like “Yuh-hoh-wah”.

For those with a German background, you turn Y’s into J’s and W’s into V’s.

And you come up with “Jehovah”.

I don’t want to blow up some of your favorite songs, but the name “Jehovah” is a misunderstanding of the Hebrew text.

It was meant to be pronounced “Adonai”, or … “Lord”.

Our English Old Testament translators have helped us out by translating all occurrences of Yahweh as “LORD”, in all caps.

Here’s the answer for the quiz today:

God’s name is Yahweh.

Not “God”. Not Jehovah. Not Lord.

When you start seeing LORD in the Old Testament and thinking to yourself that this is the name “Yahweh”, some passages will make a lot more sense to you. Like…

Exodus 3:15 God furthermore said to Moses, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon Me.

But wait … there’s more!!

When the Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated the Hebrew Old Testament into Koine Greek in 200 BC, they translate the phrase “I AM” (Ex. 3:14) as ego eimi. Ego is the first person singular pronoun “I”, and eimi is the first person singular present tense of the verb for “I am”. They could have translated it as just eimi, but they added the pronoun ego to make it more emphatic, and to make you think a little. (this is just concerning Ex. 3:14, not all occurrences of “LORD”)

In the New Testament, the apostle John does something interesting in his gospel. You will see the phrase ego eimi seven places that add some incredible significance when you have Exodus 3:14 and the name Yahweh in mind.

We will just take a peek:

To the woman at the well when she talked about the Messiah…

(John 4:26 NASB 2020) Jesus said to her, “I am He, the One speaking to you.”

To the Jews who were questioning Jesus…

(John 8:24 NASB 2020) Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”

(unless you believe Jesus is Yahweh…)

Lesson

The Great I AM

What does all this mean for me?

There are many lessons we can learn from God’s name.

1. His presence

God dwells outside of time.

He always “is”. He’s not just the “God who was”, or the “God who will be”.

He always “is”.

He is currently, at this moment living in 1400BC with Moses. At the same time He is living in the year 2500AD with the saints in eternity.

And all at the same time He is here. Now.

To the Jews who didn’t like Him …

(John 8:58–59 NASB 2020) —58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” 59 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and left the temple grounds.

The Jews knew what He was saying. He was claiming to be the Great I Am. He was claiming to be Yahweh.

You may wonder if God understands what you’re going through – maybe He took a break, maybe He’s somewhere else.

He understands. He IS here with you right now.

2. Our needs

I remember hearing Pastor Chuck once say, “As the I AM, He is whatever you need. You tell Him what you need and He responds with “I AM”.” He is what you need.

To the Jews in Capernaum who had been around when He fed the five thousand, Jesus said,

(John 6:48 NASB 2020) I am the bread of life.

When He said this, He used the phrase, Ἐγώ εἰμι

To the disciples tossed on the sea …

(John 6:20 NASB 2020) But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”

Again, He used the phrase Ἐγώ εἰμι

In the Old Testament, you will hear or read of phrases about names of God, and some translations will start the name with “Jehovah”.

When Moses healed the bitter waters at Marah…

(Exodus 15:26b NASB 2020) …I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

You’ve perhaps heard the phrase “Jehovah Raphah”? The Hebrew is Yahweh Raphah

(Judges 6:24 NASB 2020) Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and named it The Lord is Peace.

The Hebrew is Yahweh Shalom

Leviticus

Author:

Moses

When:

1400BC

Why:

This is an instruction manual on worship.

The title of the book refers to the Levites, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The tribe of Levi was the tribe who served God at the Tabernacle and the Temple with all that God required of Israel – sacrifices, prayers, worship.

The priests were one part of the tribe of Levi, and they are a big part of the book.

The book is an instruction manual for the tribe of Levi – it’s how God is meant to be worshipped.

Sometimes we joke about Leviticus and say things like, “If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, just start reading the book of Leviticus…”

But I have learned over the years that Leviticus is foundational to understanding the whole Bible. So much of the Bible is based on the principles found here.

Significant Verse

The key verse in Leviticus is:

(Leviticus 19:2 NASB 2020) “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

The concept of “holiness” is to be “set apart”, or perhaps “different”.

It means to be set apart from sin.

It means to be set apart for God’s use.

If you are looking for a good verse to memorize, this is a great one.

You will find in Leviticus that “holiness” affects every aspect of your life – whether it’s the things you eat, how you worship God, what you touch, or even your sex life.

When Paul writes to the Thessalonians that “sanctification” (the process of growing in holiness) is God’s will for our lives, including sexual purity (1Th. 4:3), he goes on to write,

(1 Thessalonians 4:8 NASB 2020) Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

As a believer in Jesus Christ, God has put His Holy Spirit inside of you, and guess what the “HOLY” Spirit is trying to produce in you?

Holiness.

So learn what that means and grow in it.

Messianic

It’s the book of Leviticus that helps us understand why Jesus had to be a sacrifice.

Sin carries a price, and that price can be paid through sacrifice.

(Hebrews 9:13–14 NASB 2020) —13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Paul wrote it like this:

(2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB 2020) He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

We might say, He paid a debt He didn’t owe because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay.

The foundation of this is clarified in Leviticus.

Numbers

Author:

Moses

When:

1400BC

Why:

This is how the masses of Israel were organized in the wilderness

The English name of the book has to do with two different times when God told Moses to “count”, “number”, or take a “census” of the tribes of Israel.

The first time was at the beginning of their 40 year wandering in the wilderness.

The second time is at the end of the 40 years.

It’s important for us to realize that the purpose of the “census” was not about how big the nation was, but how big their army was.

The “census” was a “draft”. If you were counted, then you would be fighting in the battles.

Much of Numbers deals with the history of those forty years that Israel wandered in the wilderness.

There will be sections about how the Israelites were to be organized.

There are some miscellaneous laws – like one about jealousy, another about the Nazirites (think “Samson”)

And then there’s the messy history.

You will read about the people complaining and Moses complaining,

Twelve spies will be sent out to check out the Promised Land – yet the people only heard about the bad things ahead and so the nation ended up wandering for forty years instead of taking the Promised Land.

You’ll read about different times Moses faced opposition – like Korah’s rebellion.

You’ll read about their initial victories against the Amorite kings of Sihon and Og.

You’ll read about a talking donkey … and no his name wasn’t Mr. Ed.

Messianic

You’ll read about Messianic prophesies being given by a man named Balaam, who we generally consider a “false prophet” – yet he spoke truth at times:

(Numbers 24:17 NASB 2020) I see him, but not now; I look at him, but not near; A star shall appear from Jacob, A scepter shall rise from Israel…

Significant Verse

Pastor Bob often ends the service with this, and you probably can hum a tune that also goes with this.

This was a blessing that the priests were to use to “invoke My name” on the people of Israel…

(Numbers 6:24–26 NASB 2020) —24 The Lord bless you, and keep you; 25 The Lord cause His face to shine on you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His face to you, And give you peace.’

Since the Bible tells us that we are all “priests” (Rev. 1:6), perhaps you too might want to learn these verses.

I’d like to encourage you to learn and memorize these verses.

Learn to pray them each day over your family.

Deuteronomy

Author:

Moses

When:

1400BC

Why:

A Law Review.

The book of Deuteronomy gets its name from the Greek which means “Second Law”.

It is basically Moses repeating the Law for the nation at the end of the forty years – before he dies – and is a reminder of what God said to them over those last forty years.

But if you pay attention, some of the laws are tweaked a bit to reflect that the people will be in the Promised Land, and no longer wandering in the wilderness.

After the books of Isaiah (90x) and Psalms (68x), the book of Deuteronomy is the most quoted book of the Old Testament by Jesus (41x)

When Jesus is being tempted by Satan, He answers each temptation with a quote from Scripture. Want to guess where each quote comes from?

Deuteronomy.

So don’t blow off this book.

If you were to look for a key “word” in this book, it would be …

Love.

The Hebrew word is ahab.

If you’ve been to Israel, perhaps you’ve visited the factory on the Dead Sea, or bought the Ahava beauty products.

The name comes from this.

Ahab is found 22 times in the book of Deuteronomy, the second book “of the Law”.

Surprising?

Not really.

It is God’s love for us, and our love for God that ought to result in us learning to obey God – to obey His commandments.

Significant Verse

You may know this one. Jesus called it the “Greatest Commandment”

(Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB 2020) And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

But Deuteronomy isn’t just about our learning to love God, it’s about God’s love for us.

(Deuteronomy 10:15 NASB 2020) Yet the Lord set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.

Oh how He loves us.

If running short on time – just encourage folks to come to Wednesday night – Bob is teaching through Deuteronomy.

The book starts with Moses retelling the nation the history of their last forty years.

Then Moses reminds them of all the Laws that God has given to them.

You will note that some of the laws change a bit because the people are no longer going to be wandering in the wilderness, but Moses is preparing them for conquering and settling down in the Promised Land.

The book will end with Moses passing the baton to Joshua, some fascinating prophesies by Moses about each of the tribes, and then the death of Moses.

Homework this week:

Assignment: Read “Henry H. Halley – A Memoir” (at the back of HBH); Read chapter on 2Kings in HBH (about 16 pages in the Deluxe version, lots of pictures)

I don’t expect you to memorize anything in HBH – I want you to know how to find the material when you need it.

Let yourself get engrossed in what you are reading. It’s ok to get sidetracked and wander through the book.

And think about whether any of today’s verses are ones you might want to memorize (btw – I’m not a stickler on you getting every word correct, I want you to just learn the verse)

I’ll email out your assignment tomorrow.

Quiz:

1. What is the name of God?

a. God

b. Yahweh

c. Jehovah

Next Week:

We will be covering Joshua through 2Kings.

We will also be attempting to begin to build a timeline of significant events and where the Old Testament books fit into the timeline.