Old Testament Survey - Student.pdf - Bible Baptist Church of Blarney

Old Testament Survey
Preliminary Bible Information
I. The Bible as a Whole
Preliminary Bible Information
A. Our Bible consists of a collection _______________ books.
B. These are divided into ________ groups of books
1. The Old Covenant scriptures and the New Covenant scriptures; or, as we commonly name
them, the Old and New Testaments.
2. Each of these two Testaments are not in historical order, but have been laid-out according
to content. In other words, the books of the Bible are grouped along with other books that
speak of the same thing.
C. The Bible is the most published book in the world of all time.
D. It is the word of God for the heart of man. It alone has changed the ways of mans thinking and
actions like nothing else.
E. Therefore it will be the most hated object in the universe by Satan!
II. The Old Testament
A. The First Books - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
1. These are called, The Pentateuch, or Torah
a. Pentateuch means "________"
b. Torah means "________" or "teaching."
2. Who wrote the Pentateuch?
a. The Lord commanded ________ to write down various things; “in a book” (Ex
17:14); “write these words” (Ex 34:27)
b. Exodus says that “________ wrote all the words of the Lord” (Ex 24:4); he wrote the
itinerary of the exodus wanderings (Num 33:2); “Moses wrote this law” (Dt 31:9). In
Exodus 24:7 it is said that Moses read the book of the covenant, which he must have
just completed.
c. The rest of the OT bears witness to the writing of the Pentateuch by Moses. David
referred to “the law of Moses” (1 Kgs 2:3). In the time of Josiah there was found in
the temple the “book of the law of the Lord given through Moses” (2 Chr 34:14). Day
by day Ezra read from “the book of the law of God” (Neh 8:18; cf. “the book of the
law of Moses,” 8:1).
d. In the NT, Jesus refers to “the book of Moses” (Mk 12:26; Lk 20:37) and otherwise
mentions the commands or statements of Moses (Mt 8:4; 19:8; Mk 7:10; cf. Lk 16:31;
24:44). The Jews also quoted from the Torah as coming from Moses, and Jesus did
not contradict them.
3. What’s The first Five Books All About?
a. Genesis deals with the fall of man and God's selection of His people, the Jews, to be
the channel for His great plan of redemption.
b. The rest of the Pentateuch deals with Israel's deliverance from Egypt (first half of
Exodus) and detailed explanation of God's Law:
1) The ______________ law (no longer applicable for today)
2) the _________ law (still relevant for today for loving God and your neighbour).
3) The ______________ law (rules for how human are to govern themselves)
c. They are loaded with important principles for living.
B. The Historical Books: Joshua to Ezra.
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