Firm Foundations

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Firm Foundations

• Lesson 29
• God sent prophets,
• Israel wouldnt hear them

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God spoke to his creation

• God
• Is the creator
• Merciful, wants all to repent
• He spoke throughout history
• Adam and Eve
• Noah
• Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
• Israel and Judah
• Other nations

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The message of the prophets

• Gods messengers
• Can you name some examples?
• Message repent, destroy idols, trust in the Lord
• Many Israelites worshipped idols
• God wont accept worship from them
• Reminded them of Gods laws
• Given by Moses
• Told of Gods punishment
• Would be conquered and carried away as slaves
• Assyria to invade Israel Isaiah 105,6
• Babylonians to destroy Judah Jeremiah 205

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Gods promised Deliverer

• Thousands of years passed, but God remembered His
  promise.
• God told many things about the Deliverer
• Hundreds of years before He came
• Through the prophets
• How could God tell about something before it
  happened?
• Most people werent interested
• but God kept His plans

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Israels attitude

• Some believed, most refused
• Killed the prophets
• Continued worshipping idols
• Continued worshipping in the temple
• Isaiah 2913
• We cannot fool God
• Many priests and leaders were evil
• False prophets came too
• Relax! Everything will be all right.
• Jeremiah 613-14

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Gods judgment

• God is patient
• After warning, waited 120 years before sending
  the flood
• Sent messengers to Israel for hundreds of years
• Israel didnt think God would send their enemies
  to punish them
• Assyrians conquered Israel
• II Kings 171-8
• Judah also refused to repent
• Babylon conquered Judah
• II Kings 251-12

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Return to Jerusalem

• Many years later
• People of Judah repented
• Lord brought them back to Jerusalem
• Rebuilt Jerusalems walls
• Rebuilt temple
• New name Jews
• Some brought sacrifices, but most didnt worship
  from the heart
• Did not believe they were sinners

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Greeks and Romans

• Punished again!
• Greeks took over Jerusalem
• but God used their ________ to spread His Word!
• Romans overcame the Greeks
• Made the Jews pay _____
• Strict punishment and _________
• Many worshipped C__s_r
• Permitted ____ to worship the Lord
• Romans built many excellent _____
• God used these to spread His Word

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Synagogues

• Persecution scattered to many countries
• No temples - Jews built meeting houses
• Cities/towns in Israel
• Many cities in Asia Minor, Greece, Persia, North
  Africa
• Teachers read/explained writings of Moses
  prophets
• Not necessarily devout

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Godly Jewish believers

• Some Jews kept on believing
• Trusted the Lord, tried to obey
• Waited/watched for the coming Savior
• Thousands of years passed, they knew it would
  happen exactly as God said

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Wrap-up

• Israel rejected Gods promises
• God never changed His plans or forgot His
  promises
• Preparing to show His grace mercy to Israel and
  the whole world
• established a common language__________
• established an excellent road system built by
  the ____________.
• Jewish meeting houses called __________ in
  distant countries.
• Making a way for everyone to hear about the
  long-promised Saviour