Bible 101

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Bible 101 The Books of the Law

• Genesis
• In the Beginning

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Books of History

• Joshua
• Subject Conquest and settlement of Canaan
• Time period 15 yrs, 1 month
• Author is Joshua
• Judges
• Subject Seven distinct cycles of sin to
  salvation
• Time period 350yrs
• Author Anonymous, but most suspect is was Samuel
• Ruth
• Subject The Kinsman redeemer
• Time period 12 yrs, sometime during the events
  of the book of Judges
• Author unknown
• 12 Samuel
• Subject book I - Story of Samuel and Saul
  becoming King/Book II - King David
• Time period 94 yrs / 33 yrs
• Author Samuel though he dies in vs.25 of 1
  Samuel, possibly Nathan, Gad or another unnamed
  prophet finished it.
• 12 Kings
• Subject history of the United kingdom (Solomon)
  / Divided kingdom / deported nation in captivity
• Time period 130 yrs 286 yrs 416 yrs total.

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Books of History, page 2

• 12 Chronicles
• Subject retelling of the events of 2 Samuel 2
  Kings
• Book 1 Davids reign
• Book 2 Solomons reign and the Kings after him
• Time period 33yrs / 433 yrs
• Author tradition - Ezra the priest
• Ezra
• Subject Restoration of the Temple / Reformation
  of the people
• Time period 23 yrs
• Author Ezra the priest
• Nehemiah
• Subject Reconstruction of the Wall (Jerusalem) /
  Revival of the people
• Time period 19 yrs
• Author Ezra wrote from Nehemiahs memoirs
• Esther very cool book
• Subject triumph of the Jews over a genocide
  attempt
• Almost wasnt included in the canon
• God is never mentioned
• Happens in the capitol city of the Persian empire

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Cain and AbelGen 41-2

• Adam knew Eve nuf said?
• Cain is born
• First children born
• Realize that Eve had no experience, no mother, no
  mid-wife
• Adam Girl what is up with that belly?
• By the Lord is a better translation, can also be
  even the Lord
• Names meant something
• Cain possessed or acquired,
• TLB says it means I have created
• Some suggest she is bragging God made a man and
  I have made a man
• None of the other English language translations
  imply that
• Fulfillment of the prophecy? (315) God is
  keeping His promise, Cain will get us back into
  the Garden
• After a few years of raising Cain she learned
  he probably wasnt the messiah
• Probably when he turned two and threw fits, after
  his first lie after she realized he was fallen
  like she was
• Abel emptiness or vanity
• Realized Cain wasnt the Messiah
• First post-partum I dunno
• Interesting theory about the boys being more
  alike than twins
• Adam and Eve may have had the same DNA, she was
  made from him first clone?

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Worship in ExileGen 43-8

• Offerings (How did they worship God?)
• God holds you accountable for what you know, not
  what you dont
• What did Adam know about covering sin and coming
  before God?
• Notice in vs. 3 there was
• a time (it cam to pass) for worship
• A place (Cain brought) for worship
• A ritual (coming before the Lord with something)
  for worship
• Vs. 3 Cain fruit of the ground
• Vs. 4 Abel fatty portions from the firstborn of
  his flock
• Later reading read Leviticus 1-5 (offerings)
• Vs 4- One accepted and one rejected?
• How did they know?
• Did fire come down from heaven? Elijah, Gideon,
  Samsons Parents and others
• Abel was coming in obedience to what they knew
• Offered the blood sacrifice (try not to think
  about Indiana Jones here)
• Came by faith (Heb 114) he believed that the
  sacrifice covered his sin -
• What was Cain was offering?
• NOT that he brought Grain later in the law that
  is part of the peace and fellowship offerings
• His own way not in obedience to what they had
  been shown

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God confronts Cain

• God Confronted Cain (vs.6)
• Why? (asking those loaded questions again)
• Notice the gentleness of God
• Gives Cain a chance to repent (Adam in 39,11)
• Gives him hope of acceptance (what should Cain
  have done?)
• Vs. 7 Warns him of sin, its desire for him.
• We dont need deliverance, we need repentance.
• I know there is deliverance my friend was
  delivered from drugs when he got saved
• Sad thing about deliverance ministries is that it
  puts the blame for your sin on something else.
• Vs. 8 First Murder
• Cain lures his brother out into the field
• Syrian text and the Latin Vulgate add
• Let us go out to the field, implying he led Abel
  out there.
• Cain would not be talked out of his Sin danger
  of anger
• Consequences of anger are often more than we can
  bear.
• Cain kills Abel, but why?
• Abel exposed his disobedience (1 John 312)

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Cains judgmentGen 49-15

• The big Question? (vs. 9) Where is Abel?
• Lies to God
• Smarts off God (bold? stupid? angry still?)
• Why did God ask chance to confess
• Weirdness Abels blood cried out (vs.10)
• Gen 94-6 life is in the blood, capitol
  punishment
• Num 35 33-34 blood defiles the land
• Deut 211-9 cleansing the land of the guilt of
  innocent blood
• Lev 17 10-12 not eating blood
• Heb 1224 Jesus blood (forgiveness) speaks
  better things than Abels blood (murder)
• Vs. 11-12 The punishment
• The ground was cursed (from the blood)
• Was this curse for Cain only?
• You shall be a fugitive (runs from home) and a
  vagabond (without a home)
• My punishment (iniquity) is more than I can bear
• What Cain couldnt bear
• Couldnt grow food
• Hidden from Gods face
• Because he is a fugitive, he will be killed
  (avenger of blood?)

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Cains DescendentsGen 416-18

• Cains family
• Dwelt in Nod, east of Eden
• Why was everything east of Eden?
• Enoch to Lamech
• No ages we will see in Seths line later
• Enoch is not the same Enoch from Seths line
• The only thing said about this Enoch was that a
  city was named after him (City was destroyed in
  the flood)

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LamechGen 419-22

• Lamech was 7th from Adam through Cains family
• The Righteous Enoch was 7th through Seths line.
• Some suggest its possible they were
  contemporaries.
• Polygamy first guy to take 2 wives
• Adah beauty
• Jabal father of shepherds
• Jubal father of musicians
• Zillah in the shadow of (Adahs Beauty)
• Tubal-Cain instructor of metal smiths
• Interesting that bronze and iron were used
• Many other alloys that have been found in ancient
  digs that cannot be explained
• Imagine how good you could get at a trade if you
  had 900 years to perfect it?
• Sister Naamah its significant when women are
  mentioned in genealogies
• Nothing is recorded in the Bible about her, but
  tradition holds she was the wife of one of Noahs
  sons

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Lamechs PoemGen 423-24

• Lamechs poem
• Issue - he killed a man in self defense
• May not have been necessary, he was only wounded
• The killing was not necessarily on purpose,
  possibly not pre-meditated.
• He figured that if Cain was avenged 7 times for
  pre-meditated murder, then Lamech would be
  avenged 77 times for self defense
• Shows us a snapshot of Cains society in the city
  of Enoch?
• Affluent
• Animals to care for (possibly eat according to
  Missler)
• Music to entertain
• Technology that would take until the time of
  Joshua to duplicate (after the flood)
• Laws (some argue his boasting was actually a
  self-defense plea for a later trial
• Rebellious
• Polygamy
• Indulgent
• Violent (boasting about murder)
• Dead - This record is the end of Cains line
  they ALL died in the flood.

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Next week

• Pick up with Seths line next week
• Read Genesis 5-6
• Not sure how far we will get through the
  Genealogy
• Memorize the names of the first 17 Books of the
  OT