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THEME:  "Open your heart when you open your Bible."

LESSON No. 1

Coverage:  Creation Through The Flood

Page 1   General View of the Old Testament

     1.  Number of Books - 39 (Old, 3; Testament, 9 = 39)
     2.  Theme of the Old Testament - Expectation and Longing - JOB 23:3
     3.  Period of writing - 1400 years by 32 different writers
    *4.  Only ONE AUTHOR - 2 PETER 1:21; 2 TIM 3:16
     5.  Books of the Bible:  Law      -  5 books (THE TORAH)
                              History  - 12 books
                              Poetry   -  5 books
                              Prophecy -  5 major; 12 minor

Page 2   The Creation

     1.  "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." - GEN 1:1;
          HEB 11:3; JOB 38:1-7
     2.  Genesis is a book of beginnings

Page 3   The Creation of the Earth

     1.  1st day, light appears - GEN 1:3-5
     2.  2nd day, water above divided the waters below - GEN 1:6-8
     3.  3rd day, earth & sea divided; grass & trees - GEN 1:9-13
     4.  4th day, sun & moon given for light, time & seasons - GEN 1:14-19;
         PSA 104:19
     5.  5th day, sea creatures, fowls of the air created - GEN 1:20-23
     6.  6th day, cattle, beasts & first man Adam - GEN 1:24-31
     7.  7th day, God rested (ceased His creative work) from all that He 
         had made - GEN 2:1-3; HEB 4:9-11

Page 4   First Dispensation - Innocence

        DISPENSATION = A period of time in which God deals with man in 
                       a particular way

     1.  Adam & Eve warned of consequence of sin - GEN 2:15-17
     2.  The serpent (the devil) deceives Eve - GEN 3:1  (REV 12:9)
     3.  Adam & Eve eat of the forbidden fruit - GEN 3:6-7
     4.  Sin breaks communion with God - GEN 2:15-17; ISA 59:2 (Spiritual Death)
     5.  God sought Adam - ROM 3:11; JOHN 15:16
    *6.  They sewed fig leaves together to cover their nakedness - Man's 
         way of trying to cover up his sin
    *7.  God shed the blood of innocent animals to cover their sin which
         established this principle in God's plan -GEN 3:7,21; HEB 9:22

Page 5   Innocence ends in Judgement

     1.  The curse   - GEN 3:14-19
     2.  The promise - GEN 3:15; ROM 5:19
     3.  Adam and Eve are sent from the garden - GEN 3:23-24

Page 6   Second Dispensation - Conscience

    *1.  Dispensation of Conscience = Man was now aware (conscience) of 
         good and evil - GEN 3:5
     2.  Birth of Cain & Able - GEN 4:1-2
    *3.  God accepts Abel's sacrifice because it was his best (firstlings
         of the flock) and it was a blood sacrifice - GEN 4:4; HEB 11:4
    *4.  God did not accept Cain's sacrifice because it was not his best 
         and Cain displayed a bad attitude - GEN 4:3-7
     5.  Cain kills Abel - GEN 4:8
     6.  Seth begins blood line of promised Redeemer - GEN 4:25-26
     7.  World became very wicked, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the
         Lord - GEN 6:1-8

Page 7   Noah Builds the Ark

     1.  Noah builds an ark of gopher wood - GEN 6:14-16
     2.  Noah warns of coming judgement - 2 PET 2:5  (1 PET 3:20)
     3.  Conscience Dispensation ends in judgement by the flood

Page 8   The Ark that Noah Built

     1.  Size:  600 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 60 ft. high
     2.  Would hold 1,000 box cars, or 100 Barnum circuses

Page 9   Days of Noah - Coming of Christ - MATT 24:37-44; 2 PET 3:3-7

     1.  Wickedness great in the earth - 2 TIM 3:13
     2.  Large number of unholy marriages - MATT 24:38-39
     3.  Many men of renown - DAN 12:4
     4.  World unaware of approaching disaster - LUKE 21:35
     5.  All the earth corrupt - 2 TIM 3:2
     6.  Noah's family enters ark of safety - 1 THES 4:17
     7.  Noah and his family were in the ark 371 days
     8.  Noah returns to earth after the flood - JUDE 14-15

 

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