Old Testament Overview Part 2

This is a Continuation of the Old Testament Overview (from Max Anders 30 Days to Understanding the Bible; some additions via me :)
Era #1: Creation

• Creation: God creates the Earth and Man
• Fall: Adam and Eve sin by disobeying God's command.

Note: Read Genesis 3:15 - Right after the "fall" God tells the serpent that the "seed of a woman" would crush Him. God reveals the redemption is coming through the "seed of a woman" This is the first reference of Jesus. We see that he will be apart of mankind. Its a small tidbit but this is that God reveals at this time.

• Flood: Now that Satan knows that his demise is coming through mankind...he goes after mankind to make them all evil. God has to intervene to keep His plan of redemption in place. He does so with the flood (Genesis Chapter 6)
• Tower of Babel: The Start of different nations (Genesis 11)

Era #2 - Patriarch

• Abraham - God promises Abraham that he will be the father of many nations and his offspring will be many in number (Genesis 15)
• Isaac - He is the 2nd in line to God's promise.
• Jacob - Brother of Esau, Father of the 12 tribes of Isreal. God changes his name to Isreal (Genesis 35:10)
• Joseph - Son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery by his own brothers, made prominent in Egpyt. He is the reason Isreal moves to Egypt. (eventually they will multiply and be oppressed by the Pharoh.

Era #3: Exodus

• Moses - Called by God to lead his people out of Egypt
• Red Sea- God Delivers Israel from the Egyptions
• The Law - God Gives Moses the Law to give to the Israelites
• 12 Spies - 12 Spies are sent into the promised land to give an account. 10 come back negative, 2 come back positive in what God has called them to do. Israel listens to the 10 negative spies.
• Wandering - God is upset with unfaithfullness of Israel. Commands that Israel cannot go into the promise land until all the Israelites that are age 21 or older die. This takes 40 years (Numbers)
• Re-Telling of the Law (Deuteronomy) - Moses is disobedient and doesn't get to go into the promised land, but because the Israelites that are going into the promised land were kids when Moses gave them the law. He has to reteach it to them. ( all the adults are dead because of their unfaithfulness)

Note: This is a picture of what the temple looked like in Moses time. It was called the tabernacle or tent of meeting. It was a mobile temple.

Era #4 - Conquest Era

• Joshua - Becomes the leader after Moses Dies
• Jordan - God gives Israel another "Red Sea" Experience. The remaining Israelites were probably too young to remember the red sea parting. He does this during flood level at the Jordan River
• Jericho - Isrealites first defeat was God given. He did it but they defeated Jericho and the walls came down.
• Rahab - She was a prosititute from Jericho that hid the spies when they came to check out Jericho. She got them out of there and wanted them to spare her and her family when they returned. She did what they asked of her and Rahab and her family was spared. She became apart of the nation of Israel and also was a gentile (non-jewish) women in the lineage of Jesus.
• Conquest - Throught the book of Joshua Israel takes the promised land back by defeating pagan nations that inhabited the land
• Dominion - Israel, according to their tribes, settle in different areas of the land (see map)