Salvation History

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• Overview In this chapter you'll learn
• 1. The "big picture" overview of Salvation
  History-which will be explored step-by-step later
  in the course
• 2. The definition of "covenant" and how it is the
  key concept that links the Old Testament stories
  to
• the mission of Christ and
• the continuing mission of the Catholic Church
• 3. How to understand the Genesis stories of
  creation
• 4. How fundamental Catholic doctrines on marriage
  and the family are logically based on a proper
  understanding of the covenant with Adam

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• Why study Bible history from the perspective of
  God's covenants with mankind?
• 1. With a better understanding of Scripture,
  today we as Catholics can enter into more fully
  the liturgical worship of the family of God, the
  Catholic Church.
• 2. The Old Testament can be understood as a
  sequence or series of covenants that God
  established down through the ages leading up the
  coming of Christ.

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• The Mind of the Church
• The Old Testament is an indispensable part of
  Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired
  and retain a permanent value, for the Old
  Covenant has never been revoked. (CCC 121)

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• The Five Old Testament Covenants

Old Testament Covenant Made with Covenant included Biblical reference
Number 1 Adam Family the foundational covenant which all others spring Genesis 126 23
Number 2 Noah Household Genesis 98 - 17
Number 3 Abraham Tribe Genesis 121-3 2216 - 18
Number 4 Moses Nation Exodus 195-6 34 - 10
Number 5 David Kingdom 2 Samuel 78 - 19
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• How to understand "covenant"
• "Covenant" is NOT interchangeable with the word
  contract
• "Contracts" exchange property, goods, and
  services "covenants" exchange persons
• In a covenant you say, I am yours, and you are
  mine."
• Covenant creates what type of bond? A sacred
  family bond

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• In ancient Israel, there was no word for family.
  so it is suggested that the word used was
  covenant.

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• What is God doing in the series of covenants?
• He is "fathering His family.
• He is trying to reunify this family, which has
  been broken by sin.
• When Jesus comes, He does NOT abolish the Old
  Covenant law,
• He completes and perfects it.

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• The Greek word for international is "Catholic.
• Jesus transforms David's national, political
  kingdom into an international, spiritual kingdom,
  which is the Catholic Church.

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• The Catholic Church is the sacramental family of
  God.
• It will accomplish what? The supernatural
  reunification of God's family.
• How the sacraments unite us in the Catholic
  family
• 1. Baptism gives us the family name of the
  Trinity which is the eternal, original family.
• 2. The Eucharist perfects and strengthens the
  family bond by feeding us the flesh and blood of
  Christ, the second Adam.
• 3. In the Church, we become adopted members of
  the Trinity as our family

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• Mind of the Church
• God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself,
  in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to
  make him share in his own blessed life. For this
  reason, at every time and in every place, God
  draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to
  know him, to love him with all his strength. He
  calls together all men, scattered and divided by
  sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To
  accomplish this, when the fullness of time had
  come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In
  his Son and through him, he invites men to
  become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children
  and thus heirs of his blessed life. (CCC 1)
• God's plan...unfolds in the work of creation,
  the whole history of salvation after the fall,
  and the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which
  are continued in the mission of the Church. (CCC
  257)

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• The creation accountsGenesis
• What is the Catholic teaching regarding the
  Bible?
• The Bible is inspired by God, meaning God is the
  principal author and the human authors are
  instruments that God uses.
• The Bible has no error even in the history that
  it teaches, but Hebrew/religious history is
  expressed differently than we do today.

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• Differences between Biblical history and modern
  Western history include
• Western history is sequential or in chronological
  sequence.
• Hebrew (or "religious") history is elliptical,
  circular-not always in the order events occurred.
• Religious history uses symbols and figures to
  express the meaning behind historical events.
• Religious history uses different literary types
  (poetry, etc.).

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• Mind of the Church
• "To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader
  must be attentive to what the human authors truly
  wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal
  to us by their words. In order to discover the
  sacred authors' intention, the reader must take
  into account the conditions of their time and
  culture, the literary genres in use at that time,
  and the modes of feeling, speaking, and narrating
  then current." (CCC 109-110)

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• The Word of God
• John 11-3 "In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
  was in the beginning with God all things were
  made through him, and without him was not
  anything made that was made." Col 116-17 In
  Jesus Christ "all things were created, in heaven
  and on earth ... all things were created through
  him and for him. He is before all things, and in
  him all things hold together."

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• The Mind of the Church
• The New Testament reveals that God created
  everything by the eternal Word, his beloved Son.
  (CCC 291)

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• The 6 Days of Creation
• Formless Empty
• Day 1 Day 4
• Separate Create
• Light/Dark Sun, Moon, Stars
• Day 2 Day 5
• Separate Create
• Waters Above/ Flying Creatures
• Waters Below Sea Creatures
• Day 3 Day 6
• Separate Create
• Water/Land Land Animals Humans
• (Plants) (Plants for Food)

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• DIGGING DEEPER - Church Doctrines that come from
  Genesis
• 1 . The Doctrine of Creation
• 2. The Doctrine of Man
• 3. The Doctrine of Marriage

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• I. The Doctrine of Creation
• Evolution vs. creation
• Can a Catholic believe in evolution? Yes
• Why? Because creation tells us where matter came
  from and evolution tells us how it developed to
  become what it is today.
• The "evolutionary" theories can't tell us the
  origin of matter, just how matter developed after
  it was created.

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• Mind of the Church
• Wherefore, the magisterium of the Church does not
  forbid that the teaching of evolution be treated
  in accord with the present status of human
  disciplines and of theology, by investigations
  and disputations by learned men in both fields
  insofar, of course, as the inquiry is concerned
  with the origin of the human body arising from
  already existing and living matter...
• (Pius XII, encyclical Humani generis (1950) DS
  3896)
• God declares that all creation is very good.

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• Word of God
• Genesis 131 "And God saw everything that he had
  made, and behold, it was very good."
• Therefore, it is wrong to believe that flesh is
  evil and just the spirit is good.
• In fact, God through Jesus Christ used our body
  to redeem us and restore us to relationship with
  Himself.

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• Mind of the Church
• The human body shares in the dignity of "the
  image of God" it is a human body precisely
  because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and
  it is the whole human person that is intended to
  become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the
  Spirit Man, though made of body and soul, is a
  unity... For this reason man may not despise his
  bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his
  body as good and to hold it in honor since God
  has created it and will raise it up on the last
  day. (CCC 364)

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• Word of God
• Genesis 126-28 God said, "Let us make man in our
  image, after our likeness....So God created man
  in his own image, in the image of God he created
  him male and female he created them. And God
  blessed them...
• Genesis 53 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had
  a son in his own likeness, in his own image and
  he named him Seth.
• Therefore, when God created us, He created us in
  a father-son relationship so we are truly
  children of God.
• What does "image and likeness" mean in Gen 53?
  To father a son.
• Therefore, when God created us, he created us in
  a father-son relationship, so we are truly
  children of God.

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• Why are there two creation stories?
• The two stories Gen 1 and Gen 2 are
  complementary
• First, God transforms the cosmos into a home and
  the creatures into His children (Genesis 1)
• Then, God fashions man into a married couple
  (Genesis 2)

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• Four truths the creation accounts in Genesis
  teach us
• 1. We learn that all human life has sacred
  dignity from pre-born to the natural end of life,
  because each person is formed in the image of
  God.
• Mind of the Church
• Every human life, from the moment of conception
  until death, is sacred because the human person
  has been willed for its own sake in the image and
  likeness of the living and holy God. (CCC 2319)

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• 2. We learn that human labor has a certain value,
  because work is not a curse but a blessing. We
  work in imitation of God for six days and rest on
  the seventh.
• Mind of the Church
• The sign of man's familiarity with God is that
  God places him in the garden. There he lives "to
  till it and keep it." Work is not yet a burden,
  but rather the collaboration of man and woman
  with God in perfecting the visible creation. (CCC
  378)
• God's action is the model for human action. If
  God "rested and was refreshed" on the seventh
  day, man too ought to "rest" and should let
  others, especially the poor, "be refreshed." (CCC
  2172).

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• 3. We learn the centrality of worship as a part
  of human nature.
• Mind of the Church
• The celebration of Sunday observes the moral
  commandment inscribed by nature in the human
  heart to render to God an outward, visible,
  public, and regular worship "as a sign of his
  universal beneficence to all." (CCC 2176)
• 4. We learn that all mankind is one family of
  God.

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• III. The Doctrine of Marriage
• How many of the world's religions require "strict
  monogamy" (just 1 husband and 1 wife)? One
  -Christianity
• Marriage is divinely instituted strict monogamy
  is rooted in the nature of man at the moment of
  our creation.
• Word of God
• Genesis 127 So God created man in his own image,
  in the image of God he created him male and
  female he created them. (28) And God blessed
  them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and
  multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it and
  have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
  the birds of the air and over every living thing
  that moves upon the earth." Genesis 224
  Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother
  and cleaves to his wife, and they become one
  flesh.

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• Jesus was asked by the Pharisees about divorce
  and He made clear that marriage is indissoluble.
• Word of God
• Matthew 193-6 And Pharisees came up to Him
  Jesus and tested Him by asking, "Is it lawful
  to divorce one's wife for any cause?" He
  answered, "Have you not read that he who made
  them from the beginning made them male and
  female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall
  leave his father and mother and be joined to his
  wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they
  are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore
  God has joined together, let not man put
  asunder."
• Marriage becomes indissoluble meaning,
  permanent when consummated with sexual
  intercourse.

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• Mind of the Church
• The married couple forms "the intimate
  partnership of life and love established by the
  Creator and governed by his laws it is rooted in
  the conjugal covenant, that is, in their
  irrevocable personal consent." Both give
  themselves definitively and totally to one
  another. They are no longer two from now on they
  form one flesh. The covenant they freely
  contracted imposes on the spouses the obligation
  to preserve it as unique and indissoluble. (CCC
  2364)
• Marriage has two purposes
• 1. We are in a sense co-creators with God in the
  act of marriage, helping build up God's family.
• 2. Marriage also has a "unitive" purpose, so the
  two become one flesh.

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• Summary
• The "Doctrine of Creation" teaches us that our
  bodies are good and that our sexual instincts can
  be harnessed to serve glorious ends.
• The "Doctrine of Marriage" teaches that we are
  created to be in an indissoluble covenant with
  our spouse and that the covenant is made by God
  to be fruitful.
• Contraception - violates God's blessing to "be
  fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 128 - above)
• All the Protestant denominations taught that
  contraception was wrong until only the last 70
  years.

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• Mind of the Church
• The regulation of births represents one of the
  aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood.
  Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses
  do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable
  means (for example, direct sterilization or
  contraception). (CCC 2399)

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• The Church is also the family of God in the
  eternal, everlasting sense.
• Mary - our Mother
• Pope - our Holy Father
• Priests - sacramental father
• Saints - older brothers and sisters
• Eucharist - family table

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• Satan doesn't directly lie, but uses the truth in
  a deceptive way
• Satan emphasizes the negative in God's
  prohibition
• Satan twists meaning of the word die to refer
  to physical death when God meant spiritual
  death

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• Chapter Two - One Holy Tribe Abraham, Isaac, and
  Jacob
• In this chapter you'll learn
• How the scope of the covenants gradually expands
  from Adam through Noah to Abraham
• The repercussions of repeated infidelity to the
  first (marital) covenant which continue to plague
  the Jews even today
• How the three promises made to Abraham will be
  fulfilled in the remaining covenants
• A thorough explanation of how the first 22
  chapters of Genesis all fit together and are
  fulfilled with the coming of Jesus Christ

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• God's response to the Fall of Adam and Eve
• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 3 - (14) The LORD God said to
  the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed
  are you above all cattle, and above all wild
  animals upon your belly you shall go, and dust
  you shall eat all the days of your life. (15) I
  will put enmity between you and the woman, and
  between your seed and her seed he shall bruise
  your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

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• The hinge on which the rest of salvation history
  will turn
• What are the two "seeds"?
• - The line of Satan is the line of Cain
• - The line of the woman is Seth
• Eve's firstborn is named Cain, who is the first
  Old Testament example of a "wicked firstborn" who
  succumbs to pride of place in the family.
• God will have to pass over the firstborn in order
  to get to the righteous son who will live out
  God's righteousness.

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• Cain kills Abel due to envy.
• - Jealousy is trying to get for yourself the same
  advantage someone else has
• - Envy is trying to destroy the other person's
  advantage

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• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 4 (23) Lamech said to his
  wives "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice you wives
  of Lamech, hearken to what I say I have slain a
  man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
  (24) If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
  seventy-sevenfold."
• (23) This is the first example of bigamy in the
  Bible
• (24) Satan's family reaches its (a)completeness
  in Lamech.

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• (25) And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a
  son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God
  has appointed for me another child instead of
  Abel, for Cain slew him." (26) To Seth also a son
  was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that
  time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
• (26) "to call upon the name" means worship..
• The Hebrew word for name "Shem."

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• The lines of Seth and Cain before the Flood
• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 6 (1) When men began to multiply
  on the face of the ground, and daughters were
  born to them, (2) the sons of God saw that the
  daughters of men were fair and they took to wife
  such of them as they chose. (3) Then the LORD
  said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever,
  for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred
  and twenty years." (4) The Nephilim were on the
  earth in those days, and also afterward, when the
  sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and
  they bore children to them. These were the mighty
  men that were of old, the men of renown.
• (4) In Hebrew, these are "men of Shem" (who are
  trying to make a "name" for themselves)

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• Who are the sons of God in Genesis 5? The
  Sethites
• The men of the line of Seth were marrying with
  the women of the line of Cain.
• The text also implies these marriages were
  polygamous.
• Marital infidelity in the Old Testament is what
  always brings God's curse
• God's judgment in this case is the flood.

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• The covenant with Noah
• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 9 (8) Then God said to Noah and
  to his sons with him, (9) "Behold, I establish my
  covenant with you and your descendants after you,
  (10) and with every living creature that is with
  you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of
  the earth with you, as many as came out of the
  ark. (11) I establish my covenant with you, that
  never again shall all flesh be cut off by the
  waters of a flood, and never again shall there be
  a flood to destroy the earth.
• (8-10) Covenant made with Noah and the family
  under his authority

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• Genesis Chapter 9 (20) Noah was the first tiller
  of the soil. He planted a vineyard (21) and he
  drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay
  uncovered in his tent. (22) And Ham, the father
  of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and
  told his two brothers outside. (23) Then Shem and
  Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their
  shoulders, and walked backward and covered the
  nakedness of their father their faces were
  turned away, and they did not see their father's
  nakedness. (24) When Noah awoke from his wine and
  knew what his youngest son had done to him, (25)
  he said, "Cursed be Canaan a slave of slaves
  shall he be to his brothers."

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• (22) "to look upon the nakedness" is a Hebrew
  idiom for incest
• (25) Canaan is the son resulting from Ham's
  incestuous union with his own mother
• This sort of incest was common as part of
  Canaanite religious worship and fertility cults.
• See Leviticus 187..." You shall not uncover the
  nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness
  of your mother she is your mother, you shall not
  uncover her nakedness."
• Why did Ham do this? He was trying to overthrow
  his father. Throughout the Old Testament, if you
  want to topple your father, you sleep with his
  wife or his concubines.

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• The Land of Canaan
• Shem was Noah's righteous first-born son.
• The Promised Land that the Jews were supposed to
  enter was not supposed to be known as "Canaan."
  It was supposed to be Shems land.
• That's why God gives the Jews the order to take
  it back from the Canaanites.
• The sons of Ham are the nations that are the
  worst enemies of Israel Egypt, Canaan, Assyria,
  Babylon, and the Philistines.

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• The Tower of Babel
• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 11 (1) Now the whole earth had
  one language and few words. (2) And as men
  migrated from the east, they found a plain in the
  land of Shinar and settled there. (3) And they
  said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks,
  and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for
  stone, and bitumen for mortar. (4) Then they
  said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a
  tower with its top in the heavens, and let us
  make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered
  abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
• (4) "make a 'Shem'" in Hebrew - meaning they are
  repudiating the crown prince, Noah's firstborn
  Shem

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• God's response to Babel the "rescue mission" for
  the world
• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 12 (1) Now the LORD said to
  Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and
  your father's house to the land that I will show
  you. (2) And I will make of you a great nation,
  and I will bless you, and make your name great,
  so that you will be a blessing. (3) I will bless
  those who bless you, and him who curses you I
  will curse and by you all the families of the
  earth shall bless themselves."
• (2) "make your 'Shem' great" in Hebrew

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• Three promises
• (a) I will give you this land.
• (b) I will make your name great- in Hebrew means
  give you a dynasty.
• (c) I will make you a blessing for the whole
  world.

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• Next three covenants given to seal these
  promises
• (a) Land given with the first covenant.
• (b) Great name, dynasty, or kingdom given with
  the second covenant.
• (c) Blessing of the entire world given with the
  third covenant.

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• Genesis 12 Abram's journeys of faith
• - Called from UR of the Chaldeans
• - Travels to Canaan - but famine forces him to
  leave
• - Goes down to Egypt.
• - Leaves Egypt enriched.

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• Genesis 13-14 Abram and Lot
• - Abram splits the land with Lot (Abraham's
  nephew) --- Lot takes the richest land
• - Lot is captured in a war, and Abram rescues him
• - Abram gives one-tenth of the booty to the
  priest-king of Salem, Melchizedek

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• Genesis 16 Abram's first offspring
• - Sarai's maid Hagar made pregnant by Abram
• - Son named Ishmael
• - This act - although Sarai encouraged it -
  violates the marriage covenant

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• Genesis 17 2nd covenant and name change
• - 13 years later God changes Abram's name to
  Abraham meaning "father of a vast multitude" and
  Sarai's name to Sarah meaning "Queen Mother"
• - God promises a son - Isaac, which means
  laughter
• - God gives Abraham the sign of the covenant
  circumcision of all males

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• Genesis 18-19 Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
• - Abraham negotiates to save the towns if he can
  find ten righteous people
• - Only Lot and his two daughters survive
• - Daughters then commit incest with him,
  resulting in sons, Ammon and Moab
• - They become the fathers of two more anti-Jewish
  ethnic groups

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• Genesis 21 Isaac
• - Isaac is born, and this finally divides Sarah
  and Hagar.
• Genesis 22 The test before the 3rd covenant
• Word of God
• Genesis 22 (1) After these things God tested
  Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said,
  "Here am I." (2) He said, "Take your son, your
  only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land
  of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt
  offering upon one of the mountains of which I
  shall tell you."
• (2) Isaac was probably in his teens'

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• (3) So Abraham rose early in the morning,
  saddled his ass, and took two of his young men
  with him, and his son Isaac and he cut the wood
  for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the
  place of which God had told him. (4) On the third
  day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place
  afar off. (5) Then Abraham said to his young men,
  "Stay here with the ass I and the lad will go
  yonder and worship, and come again to you."
• (5) This indicates Abraham may have had a trace
  of faith in his son's safety

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• (3) So Abraham rose early in the morning,
  saddled his ass, and took two of his young men
  with him, and his son Isaac and he cut the wood
  for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the
  place of which God had told him. (4) On the third
  day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place
  afar off. (5) Then Abraham said to his young men,
  "Stay here with the ass I and the lad will go
  yonder and worship, and come again to you.
• (5) This indicates Abraham may have had a trace
  of faith in his son's safety

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• (6) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
  offering, and laid it on Isaac his son and he
  took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they
  went both of them together. (7) And Isaac said to
  his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said,
  "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire
  and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt
  offering?" (8) Abraham said, "God will provide
  himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son."
  So they went both of them together.
• (8) In Hebrew Yahweh jaera

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• (9) When they came to the place of which God had
  told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid
  the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and
  laid him on the altar, upon the wood. (10) Then
  Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to
  slay his son. (11) But the angel of the LORD
  called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham,
  Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I." (12) He said,
  "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything
  to him for now I know that you fear God, seeing
  you have not withheld your son, your only son,
  from me." (13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes and
  looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught
  in a thicket by his horns and Abraham went and
  took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt
  offering instead of his son. (14) So Abraham
  called the name of that place The LORD will
  provide as it is said to this day, "On the mount
  of the LORD it shall be provided."
• (14) Moriah is in Jerusalem the new name formed
  by the combination of jaera and Salem 2
  Chronicles 31 Then Solomon began to build the
  house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah

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• 15) And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham
  a second time from heaven, (16) and said, "By
  myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you
  have done this, and have not withheld your son,
  your only son, (17) I will indeed bless you, and
  I will multiply your descendants as the stars of
  heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore.
  And your descendants shall possess the gate of
  their enemies, (18) and by your descendants shall
  all the nations of the earth bless themselves,
  because you have obeyed my voice."
• (16-18) God raises the 3rd promise to the level
  of covenant

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• Why would God do this - ask Abraham to sacrifice
  his only beloved son?
• Because He is blessing us in a way that the world
  will never recognize
• - Jesus was crucified in the same mountain range
  as Isaac was offered
• - Jesus took upon himself the curse of the oath
  in order to unleash the blessing for the whole
  world which God promised

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• In this chapter you'll learn
• 1. How the Israelites wound up in Egypt in
  slavery
• 2. The significance of the plagues God sent upon
  Egypt
• 3. The parallels between the life of Moses and
  the life of Jesus-and why Jesus is the "new
  Moses"

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How did the children of Israel become slaves in
the land of Egypt?
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Had this exile been foretold?

• Gen 1513
• 13Then the LORD said to Abram, Know this for
  certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a
  land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves
  there, and they shall be oppressed for four
  hundred years

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What had God promised Abram?

• Gen 178
• 8And I will give to you, and to your offspring
  after you, the land where you are now an alien,
  all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding
  and I will be their God.

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What did God promise Abram concerning his
descendants?

• 14but I will bring judgement on the nation that
  they serve, and afterwards they shall come out
  with great possessions. 15As for yourself, you
  shall go to your ancestors in peace you shall be
  buried in a good old age. 16And they shall come
  back here in the fourth generation for the
  iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

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Did Abrahams great-grandson Joseph expect the
Israelites exodus from Egypt?

• Hebrew 1122
• 22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made
  mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave
  instructions about his burial.

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Where did the Israelites live in Egypt?

• Gen 4727
• 27 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in
  the region of Goshen and they gained possessions
  in it, and were fruitful and multiplied
  exceedingly.
• Ex 822
• 22But on that day I will set apart the land of
  Goshen, where my people live, so that no swarms
  of flies shall be there, that you may know that I
  the LORD am in this land.

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What was the condition of the Hebrews in Egypt?

• Ex 18-14
• 8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not
  know Joseph. 9He said to his people, Look, the
  Israelite people are more numerous and more
  powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly
  with them, or they will increase and, in the
  event of war, join our enemies and fight against
  us and escape from the land. 11Therefore they
  set taskmasters over them to oppress them with
  forced labour. They built supply cities, Pithom
  and Rameses, for Pharaoh. 12But the more they
  were oppressed, the more they multiplied and
  spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the
  Israelites. 13The Egyptians became ruthless in
  imposing tasks on the Israelites, 14and made
  their lives bitter with hard service in mortar
  and brick and in every kind of field labour. They
  were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed
  on them.

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What did the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, decree
about the birth of baby boys?

• Ex 115-22
• 15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew
  midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the
  other Puah, 16When you act as midwives to the
  Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if
  it is a boy, kill him but if it is a girl, she
  shall live. 17But the midwives feared God they
  did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them,
  but they let the boys live. 18So the king of
  Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,
  Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to
  live? 19The midwives said to Pharaoh, Because
  the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women
  for they are vigorous and give birth before the
  midwife comes to them. 20So God dealt well with
  the midwives and the people multiplied and
  became very strong. 21And because the midwives
  feared God, he gave them families. 22Then Pharaoh
  commanded all his people, Every boy that is born
  to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile,
  but you shall let every girl live.

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What did one set of courageous parents do? How
was their baby saved?

• Hebrews 1123
• 23 By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for
  three months after his birth, because they saw
  that the child was beautiful and they were not
  afraid of the kings edict.
• Ex 25-9
• 5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at
  the river, while her attendants walked beside the
  river. She saw the basket among the reeds and
  sent her maid to bring it. 6When she opened it,
  she saw the child. He was crying, and she took
  pity on him. This must be one of the Hebrews
  children, she said. 7Then his sister said to
  Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and get you a
  nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child
  for you? 8Pharaohs daughter said to her, Yes.
  So the girl went and called the childs mother.
  9Pharaohs daughter said to her, Take this child
  and nurse it for me, and I will give you your
  wages. So the woman took the child and nursed
  it.

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• God fathers his family through covenants
• 1. The three stages of Biblical history

Stage Name Comments
Stage 1Natural Stage Religion built upon Nature The father is priest, prophet, king First-born is successor- Family is both church and state
Stage 2 "Levitical" or sometimes called legal phase Starts with the Mosaic Covenant- Priesthood stripped away from fathers and sons and given to the tribe of Levi Lasts over a thousand years A "bureaucratic" interim arrangement
Stage 3 "Age of Grace" or sometimes called "Evangelical" Age Not dependent on Sacrifices Dietary restrictions Instead, the sacraments binds Gods family
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• Continuation of Covenant with Abraham
• Isaac married Rebekah and had two sons.
• The oldest named Esau and the other Jacob.
• At the very moment they are conceived, God says,
  "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples,
  born of you, shall be divided the one shall be
  stronger than the other, the elder shall serve
  the younger." (Genesis 2523)
• The power of the blessing Whoever has the
  blessing will stand in relation to his brothers
  like a father.
• With Rebekah's help Jacob tricks Isaac and gets
  the blessing - but was it so treacherous?

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• Word of God
• Genesis Chapter 25 (29) Once when Jacob was
  boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and
  he was famished. (30) And Esau said to Jacob,
  "Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am
  famished!"... (31) Jacob said, "First sell me
  your birthright." (32) Esau said, "I am about to
  die of what use is a birthright to me?" (33)
  Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to
  him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. (34) Then
  Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils and
  he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus
  Esau despised his birthright.
• Esau had already legally sold his birthright-the
  blessingto Jacob!

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• Jacob escapes from his brother's wrath up to the
  North
• Jacob is tricked by Uncle Laban in which bride he
  gets on his wedding night.
• Finally, Jacob marries the woman he wants - named
  Rachel - and returns and reconciles with Esau

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• Joseph
• Up to the time they returned to Israel, Rachel
  had been barren, unable to bear children.
• In Israel, Rachel gives birth to Joseph.

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• The "coat of many colors"
• Jacob gives Joseph a coat, which shows his
  favouritism towards this first-born son of
  Rachel, the wife he truly wanted, it's a mantle
  of the father's authority
• Joseph's older brothers scheme to kill him, but
  instead sell him as a slave.
• Joseph ends up the slave of Potiphar - one of the
  most powerful men in Egypt - and he impresses
  Potiphar
• Unfortunately, Potiphar's wife accuses Joseph of
  rape.
• Joseph is thrown in prison - but is released when
  he interprets the Pharaoh's dream.

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• Joseph-powerful in Egypt
• Joseph is made prime minister, and he stores up
  grain in preparation for famine
• His ten half-brothers come to Egypt to get food
  from the prime minister and don't recognize him.
• Eventually, Joseph gets his entire family down to
  Egypt - and the pharaoh gives them Goshen, the
  best real estate
• Joseph gets more land by trading food for land
  throughout the famine!

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• The Book of EXODUS
• Word of God
• Exodus Chapter 1 (6) Then Joseph died, and all
  his brothers, and all that generation. (7) But
  the descendants of Israel were fruitful and
  increased greatly they multiplied and grew
  exceedingly strong so that the land was filled
  with them. (8) Now there arose a new king over
  Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
• (8) "Know" is a covenant term -- "Yadah" in
  Hebrew, meaning he refuses family relations with
  the Jews

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• (9) And he said to his people, "Behold, the
  people of Israel are too many and too mighty for
  us. (10) Come, let us deal shrewdly with them,
  lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they
  join our enemies and fight against us and escape
  from the land." (15) Then the king of Egypt said
  to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named
  Shiphrah and the other Puah,

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• (16) "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew
  women, and see them upon the birth-stool, if it
  is a son, you shall kill him but if it is a
  daughter, she shall live." (17) But the midwives
  feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt
  commanded them, but let the male children live.
• (16) Why kill the male children - why not the
  females, too? Because the Hebrew women will
  marry Egyptians - and then the land will pass
  back to the Egyptians
• (17) Hebrew midwives don't cooperate and Moses is
  successfully hidden

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• Covenant with Moses
• Moses has to escape Egypt after killing an
  Egyptian taskmaster
• He settles down to be a shepherd, marrying
  Zipporah, a Midianite woman (Midianites are
  relatives of Abraham)

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• The Burning Bush
• God narrows down the family line
• Word of God
• Exodus Chapter 3 (1) Now Moses was keeping the
  flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of
  Midian and he led his flock to the west side of
  the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain
  of God. (2) And the angel of the LORD appeared to
  him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
  bush and he looked, and lo, the bush was
  burning, yet it was not consumed. (3) And Moses
  said, "I will turn aside and see this great
  sight, why the bush is not burnt." (4) When the
  LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called
  to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he
  said, "Here am I." (5) Then he said, "Do not come
  near put off your shoes from your feet, for the
  place on which you are standing is holy ground."

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• (6) And he said, "I am the God of your father,
  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
  of Jacob." (12) He said, "But I will be with you
  and this shall be the sign for you, that I have
  sent you when you have brought forth the people
  out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this
  mountain." (13) Then Moses said to God, "If I
  come to the people of Israel and say to them,
  "The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and
  they ask me, "What is his name? What shall I say
  to them?" (14) God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I
  AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of
  Israel, "I AM has sent me to you.'"

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• (18) And they will hearken to your voice and
  you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king
  of Egypt and say to him, "The LORD, the God of
  the Hebrews, has met with us and now, we pray
  you, let us go a three days' journey into the
  wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our
  God.' (19) I know that the king of Egypt will not
  let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.
  (20) So I will stretch out my hand and smite
  Egypt with all the wonders which I will do in it
  after that he will let you go.
• (18) Initial request is A three day journey into
  the wilderness. NOT to be freed from slavery!

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• Exodus 4 (2) The LORD said to him, "What is
  that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." (3) And he
  said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on
  the ground, and it became a serpent and Moses
  fled from it.
• (3) The rod or staff is a symbol of authority The
  serpent is a symbol of evil.
• (4) But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your
  hand, and take it by the tail" so he put out
  his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in
  his hand
• (4) This shows that Moses has dominion over evil .

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• (5) "that they may believe that the LORD, the
  God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
  of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to
  you." (6) Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your
  hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into
  his bosom and when he took it out, behold, his
  hand was leprous, as white as snow. (7) Then God
  said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he
  put his hand back into his bosom and when he
  took it out, behold, it was restored like the
  rest of his flesh.
• (5-7) Sin is constantly being compared to
  leprosy when the Israelites come out of Egypt,
  they will no longer be in sin, but will be the
  children of God

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• (8) "If they will not believe you," God said,
  "or heed the first sign, they may believe the
  latter sign. (10) But Moses said to the LORD,
  "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either
  heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy
  servant but I am slow of speech and of tongue."
  (11) Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made
  man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or
  seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? (12) Now
  therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and
  teach you what you shall speak." (13) But he
  said, "Oh, my Lord, send, I pray, some other
  person." (14) Then the anger of the LORD was
  kindled against Moses and

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• he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the
  Levite? I know that he can speak well and
  behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he
  sees you he will be glad in his heart. (15) And
  you shall speak to him and put the words in his
  mouth and I will be with your mouth and with his
  mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. (16)
  He shall speak for you to the people and he
  shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him
  as God. (22) And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus
  says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son 23)
  and I say to you, "Let my son go that he is to be
  a role-model, a priest like the first-may serve
  me" if you refuse to let him go, born behold, I
  will slay your firstborn son.
• (22) This means that other nations are like God's
  younger children Israel is to be a role-model,
  a priest like the firstborn

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• Exodus 424 God tries to kill Moses - why?
• 424 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met
  him and sought to kill him.
• Because Moses is a covenant breaker
• The Midianites and Arab Muslims today practice
  circumcision - but at puberty (13 years), not
  when God specified for the Jews at 8 days
• Moses' son had not been circumcised, so Zipporah
  did it quickly

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• Exodus 7 What is the meaning behind the plagues?
• God is slaying the gods of Egypt.
• The people in Goshen (the Israelites) are
  completely protected from all the plagues

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• Exodus 825 Pharaoh offers to let Israel go to
  sacrifice
• 825 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and
  said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the
  land."
• Why is this unacceptable? Because they have to
  sacrifice three animals (cattle, goats and
  sheep), all three of which were were revered and
  worshipped as divinities in the Egyptian
  religion.
• God wants Israel to make a clear break with
  Egyptian idolatry, like a drunk must make a break
  with drinking by smashing a bottle of booze

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• The tenth plague the death of the political gods
  of Egypt
• Pharaoh was considered to be divine and his
  first-born son was divinized in a ceremony
• The first-born represented, in a sense, the
  political gods of Egypt
• Therefore, the death of the first-born created a
  power vacuum.
• Moses gives instruction for the Passover to
  protect the Israelite
• When the Israelites leave, the Egyptians are
  pressured into giving up all the gold and silver
  in exchange of the years of slavery.

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• Exodus 194-6 A nation of priests
• Word of God
• Exodus 19 (4) You have seen what I did to the
  Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings
  and brought you to myself. 5) Now therefore, if
  you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you
  shall be my own possession among all peoples for
  all the earth is mine, (6) and you shall be to me
  a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
• To prepare themselves, God asks that they abstain
  from sex for 3 days.
• But, they didn't do this, so they send Moses up
  the mountain alone.

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• Exodus 24 Moses and the elders "eat and drink
  with God"
• Every family was to be a church and every father
  a priest - if only they would trust and obey and
  forsake the gods of Egypt Exodus 32 tells us that
  they did not forsake these gods
• While Moses is on the mountain, Aaron has them
  make a golden calf. The Apis cult in Egypt
  worshipped a calf!
• Afterward, they got up to indulge in revelry,
  which is a Hebrew cliche for a sexual orgy, just
  like the Egyptians after worshipping Apis
• This was an utter renunciation of true religion
  and faith in God
• Moses mediates with God so the people are not
  destroyed

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• Word of God
• Exodus 32 (19) And as soon as he came near the
  camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses'
  anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of
  his hands and broke them at the foot of the
  mountain. (20) And he took the calf which they
  had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it
  to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and
  made the people of Israel drink it(26) then
  Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said,
  "Who is on the LORD'S side?
• (26) The first-born sons - who would not be alive
  if not for the Passover - are silent

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• Come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered
  themselves together to him. (27) And he said to
  them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put
  every man his sword on his side, and go to and
  fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and
  slay every man his brother, and every man his
  companion, and every man his neighbor.'" (28) And
  the sons of Levi did according to the word of
  Moses and there fell of the people that day
  about three thousand men. (29) And Moses said,
  "Today you have ordained yourselves for the
  service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his
  son and of his brother, that he may bestow a
  blessing upon you this day."
• (29) All twelve tribes were systematically and
  instantly defrocked and laicized, dispensed from
  the priesthood

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• Before the Golden Calf
• All the animal sacrifices and all of the dietary
  regulations seem not to have been required.
• After the Golden Calf
• Every day they have to be sacrificing sheep,
  cattle, and goats because they had to continually
  renounce the gods of Egypt

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• Two laws now exist for Israel
• Leviticus - which is the priestly code which
  requires all kinds of purification and strict
  morality.
• Deuteronomy - which is given to the twelve
  tribes.
• God allows the 12 tribes, but not the Levites, to
  divorce.
• Deuteronomy contains all kinds of concessions and
  compromises
• The original purpose of God was delayed until New
  Testament times when the priesthood of all
  believers was again proclaimed (see 1 Peter 29,
  Rev 16, and Rev 510)
• Catholics believe in the priesthood of all
  believers through Baptism.

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• Jesus as the New Moses
• Jesus' life follows the pattern we see for Moses
  and Israel

Moses Israel Jesus
MosesAlmost killed at birth Herod almost killed at birth
Israel-enslaved in Egypt Escapes to Egypt
Israel-God's first-born son God's first-born Son
Israel-brought through Red Sea Baptized in Jordan
Israel-40 years in the desertMoses-40 days fasting on Mt Sinai Fasted 40 days in the wilderness
Moses-took 12 chiefs for 12 tribes 70 Elders Took 12 apostles to rule the 12 tribes 70 other disciples (Luke 10)
Passover lamb must be eaten His body must be eaten


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• In this chapter you'll learn
• 1. The Biblical foundations for the Catholic
  Doctrine of the Kingdom of Christ
• 2. How and why the Kingdom of Israel arose - and
  the three prohibitions Solomon violated to cause
  its downfall
• 3. The key components of the Davidic Covenant and
  how they apply today as God fathers his family
  through covenants

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