The Story of the BibleLesson 2

Old Testament in Historical ContextRandy Broberg

Maranatha Mens Ministry

December 16, 2017

The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)

Key Teachings of OT

• God is the Sovereign Creator

• Man is a Sinner in need of Salvation

• God is Holy and He judges sin

• God is love and offers salvation to sinful man

• A Savior would be born to die for sins of man

• Man is saved by faith, not by works

• Israel, God’s chosen channel of redemptive message to the world

• All history will culminate at the throne of God

THE TIME OF THE BIBLEAll dates B.C. and subject to rounding

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POCKET GUIDE TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE

1. ADAM 2. NOAH3.

ABRAHAM4. DAVID 5. JESUS

1000BC2000BC2300BC4000BC 1 BC

1700 YRS 300 YRS

GENESIS REST OF OT

1,OOO YRS 1,000 YRS

POCKET GUIDE TO THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIBLE

1. ADAM 2. NOAH3.

ABRAHAM4. DAVID 5. JESUS

3,000 yrs. ago

4,000 yrs. ago4,300

Yrs. ago6,000Yrs. ago

1 BC + 2000

THE HISTORICAL AGES

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STONE AGE

BRONZE AGE

IRON AGE

PREHISTORIC HISTORY

MEGALTHIC PALEOLITHIC NEOLITHIC

ZOOM IN:POST FLOOD ERA (WITH CITY AND TOWER OF BABEL)

• Table of Nations and Tower of

Babel (Gen. 10-11)

• Beginning of:

• Animal domestication

• Agriculture

• Cities

• Writing

• Organized Religion

• Government

• Taxes

AGES AND ERAS: PROBLEMS

• Secular Long Time Assumptions

• Ancient Near East As A Cradle Of Civilization

• Distances In Time And Space

• Western Hemisphere In Stone Ages Till 1800 Ad

LONG TIME SHORT SPACE

LONG TIME LONG SPACE

SHORT TIME

SHORT SPACE

SHORT TIME

LONG SPACE

What If The Ages Were Geographic

And Not Time Related At All.

STONE AGE BRONZE AGE

IRON AGE

THE BIBLICAL PERIODS

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PATRIARCHSEXODUS JUDGES

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KEY PEOPLE

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ABRAHAMISAAC

JACOB

JOSEPH

MOSESJOSHUA

SAMUELSAUL

DAVIDSOLOMON

EZRA NEHMIAH ESTHER

ISAIAHEZEKIELDANIEL

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KEY BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL EVENTS

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God’s Land Promises

Land Promises Made

Land Promises Fulfilled

Land Enjoyed

Land Lost

Land Regained

THE EMPIRES

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EGYPT

HITITES

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ASSYRA

BABYLON

PERSIAGREEKS

ROMANS

IN EGYPTIN PROMISED LAND

THE LAND AND THE JEWS

ZOOM IN: THE PATRIARCHS

• GENESIS 12-51• Bread

• Hieroglyphics

• Bronze TOOLS

• Chariots

• Giza

• calendar with 365 days

• Tablets of Sumer

ZOOM IN:EGYPT AND EXODUS

• Exodus-Deuteronomy

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• 70 to 2M Hebrews in Egypt

• In Egypt for 400 years.

• Exodus for 40 years

• Delivery of the Law

ZOOM IN:THE 12 TRIBES UNDER THE JUDGES

• Joshua

• Judges

• Ruth

ZOOM IN:DIVIDED KINGDOM

• 2 Kings

• 2 Chronicles

• 722 B.C.: 10 Lost Tribes

Assyrian Exile

• Prophets of this era include:

• Jeremiah, Nahum,

Habakkuk, Zephaniah

ZOOM IN:BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY• 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles

• 605 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

conquers Judah

• 586 B.C., Jerusalem and the First

Temple are destroyed

• in Babylon 70 years

• Prophets of this era include:

• Ezekiel

• Daniel

Persian Empire 500 B.C.

ZOOM IN:THE RETURN

• Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zachariah,

Malachi:

• 539 B.C., King Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylon

• 538 B.C., King Cyrus allows the Jews to return to

Jerusalem

• 520-516 B.C., the Second Temple is rebuilt

• 458 Ezra returns and assembles the Old

Testament

• Nehemiah builds Jerusalem walls.

• ~430 B.C., Malachi, the last prophecy