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Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two Joshua to David

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Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two – Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Summary of what we have learnt.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The Book of Joshua • Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan into the promise land. • After main power bases of the heathen Canaanites were destroyed, smaller armies were still scattered. • He divides up the land the tribes are separated. It was the duty of the tribes to defeat them in their inherited area. • Length of book is almost 30 years. Conquest is 5 -7 years • After the death of Joshua, there was no central leader in Israel

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Tradition has ascribed authorship to JOSHUA, with a date of writing approximately JOSHUA 1390 B. C. Four basic divisions: i. PREPARATION of the PREPARATION People (Joshua 1 -5) ii. CONQUERING the CONQUERING Land (Joshua 6 -12) iii. DIVIDING the Land DIVIDING (Joshua 13 -21) iv. RENEWAL of the RENEWAL Covenant (Joshua 2224)

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Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua 1. Notice how the battles of (1) When Israel obey s God and recognizes that it JERICHO and AI JERICHO AI is the Lord who fights for are told in detail: them, they have victory at Jericho. These battles establish the (2) Wh en Isra pattern for the el disobey s, they experie rest of the nce def eat at Ai. conquest.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua 2. Notice the emphasis on keeping the COVENANT: COVENANT Both the military conquest and Israel’s continued enjoyment of the land depends entirely on the people’s faithfulness to God. The book begins and ends with emphasis on keeping God’s commands.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua Understand the Why was it purpose of Holy necessary? “And the LORD drove out from WAR: God’s WAR before us all the people, command to kill including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will every man, woman serve the LORD, for He is our and child in the land God. " But Joshua said to the often prompts two people, "You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He important questions: is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods,

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua Understand the Why was it purpose of Holy necessary? • God is jealous for his glory WAR: God’s WAR Since Israel was to reflect his command to kill glory to the world, it was imperative that they remain holy every man, woman (i. e. , separate) from the pagan and child in the land nations around them. For this often prompts two reason, it was necessary to completely destroy the pagan important questions: inhabitants of the land. Otherwise, the Israelites would inevitably be influenced by their immorality and idolatry (which of

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Joshua Understand the Doesn’t this conflict purpose of Holy with God’s loving WAR: God’s WAR nature? command to kill • All of us are by sinners by nature and prior to every man, woman faith in The Messiah, we and child in the land were ‘objects of wrath’ often prompts two (Eph 2: 3). We are all important questions: sinners from birth and we all deserve the judgment that came

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Key Verses: 1: 3 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses. [In this regard, Joshua compares to Ephesians 1: 3 in the New Testament, “… blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies. ”] 1: 8 -9 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 11: 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Messianic Christology in Joshua is a type of the Messiah in two Joshua very important ways. First, his name, Yeshua, a contracted form of Yehoshua, meaning, “YHVH is salvation, ” is the Greek equivalent of the name Jesus. Joshua is actually called by the name Yeshua (Jesus) in Acts 7: 45. Second, Joshua is seen as a type of the Messiah in his work of leading Israel triumphantly into the rest of their promised possession, the land of Canaan (cf. Heb. 4: 8). This is but a foretaste of the rest we

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Messianic Christology in Joshua was met by the COMMANDER of the Lord’s army. This is COMMANDER undoubtedly Theophany, a preincarnate appearance of the Messiah.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Messianic Christology in Joshu RAHAB’s scarlet cord (2: 21) portrays salvation through the blood and death of the Messiah (cf. Heb. 9: 19 -22). This Gentile prostitute heard of the mighty works of God, believed, hid the spies, was delivered when Jericho was destroyed, and is found in the genealogy of the Messiah (Matt. 1: 5).

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Joshua shows how God fulfils his PROMISE to PROMISE Abraham. PROMISE FULFILLMEN “Abram passed through T “So the LORD gave to Israel all the land to the place ofthe land of which He had sworn Shechem, as far as theto give to their fathers, and they terebinth tree of Moreh. took possession of it and dwelt in it. The LORD gave them rest all And the Canaanites were according to all that He then in the land. Then around, the had sworn to their fathers. And LORD appeared to not a man of all their enemies Abram and said, "To your stood against them; the LORD descendants I will givedelivered all their enemies into this land. " And there hetheir hand. Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD built an altar to the

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Joshua shows how God fulfils his PROMISE to PROMISE Abraham.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Possession of the The CENTRAL Campaign Land ii. The SOUTHERN Campaign iii. The NORTHERN Campaign i.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Entering the Land

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Division of the Land

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The Book of Judges • The Israelites did not possess all the land (Judges 1: 2) • God sent Judges (Judges 3 -16) • The Israelites did not keep God’s laws (Judges 17 -21)

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The Book of Judges • This was a DIFFICULT Service time in the history of Salvation Sin Israel. • The Individual tribes were judged in the Saviour Slavery absence of a central GOVERNMENT Supplication • Israel follows the same circle for many years.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David • Length of time represented by the book - ____ 332 years. • Other books that were written during the time of Judges – ______ RUTH a. Orientation Authorship has traditionally been assigned to SAMUE _____ with a date of writing about 1000 B. C. Lthat The book of Judges is a foundational book spans from the beginning of the Era of Theocracy to almost the end of theocracy, approximately 1375 to 1043 B. C. The Hebrew title for Judges is better translated as ‘Chieftain’.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Helpful hints for reading Judges The nature of the Judges: They were regional CIVIL and CIVIL MILITARY leaders – they were MILITARY not kings nor were they primarily judicial in function. The nature of Theocracy: Theocracy means rule by GOD Note the downward spiral of MORAL degeneration:

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Key Verses: 2: 15 -16 Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed. 16 Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them. 2: 20 -23 So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice, 21 I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or not. ” 23 So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 21: 25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David All the Judges are TYPES of Christ e. g. Gideon as a type of Christ • Heralded by a prophet preaching repentance. • He first made an onslaught on the adversary. • In the same action, he built an altar, and himself offered sacrifice, as though he were a priest. • The altar was named Jehovah-Shalom -- the Lord of Peace. • His own people cried out against his worthy action. • A sign, a prophecy, of dew (foreshadowed the work of the Holy Spirit). • Those who were gathered unto him, by the sound of the trumpet, were reduced to a faithful remnant. • The coming victory was symbolized in barley bread -- (Lev 23: 10 -- barley). • The destruction of the Midianite host prefigures the greater destruction of the Last Day oppressor, in the same plain of Jezreel (Armageddon) • A victory accompanied by the blast of trumpets, the smashing of earthenware vessels and the manifestation of torches of fire (Trumpet and Bowl judgements).

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Judges illustrates quite graphically Israel’s break with the COVENANT. In COVENANT. particular, Judges highlights their failure to drive out the Canaanites and the resulting consequences: Immorality, idolatry & division Repetition of the phrase, “in those days there was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. ” This prepares the way for the next major chapter in the Old Testament story, the Era of Monarchy.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Representing all tribes and all land.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The Book of Ruth

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Authorship has traditionally been assigned to SAMUEL, with a date of SAMUEL writing about 1000 B. C. Ruth is not a foundational book, but is complementary to the book of Judges, also set in the Era of Theocracy (Ruth 1. 1). Overview and Outline • Ruth’s DECISION to follow Naomi DECISION (Ch. 1) • Ruth’s FAITHFULNESS to Naomi FAITHFULNESS (Ch. 2) • Ruth’s CLAIM upon Boaz (Ch. 3) CLAIM • Ruth’s REDEMPTION by Boaz (Ch. REDEMPTION

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The laws concerning the KINSMAN redeemer "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. But if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. ' "Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him; and if he stands firm and says, 'I do not want to take her, ' "then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders,

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Naomi serves as a picture of ISRAEL ________ ISRAEL a. Naomi, whose name means “sweetness” or “blessedness, ” starts the story in her land with an inheritance (land, a husband sons). b. Naomi is removed from her land loses her inheritance (her husband sons die). She then calls herself Mara, which means “bitterness, ” because of the way the Lord has dealt with her. c. Then as a result of God’s kindness and grace (as expressed through Ruth), Naomi returns to her land regains her inheritance (she has a grandson through Ruth). She is again called

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Messianic Christology in Ruth BOAZ, as Kinsman-Redeemer is a BOAZ Type of Christ as he… • Was a blood relative (a kinsman) of those he redeems (Deut. 25: 5, 7 -10; John 1: 14; Rom. 1: 3; Phil. 2: 5 -8; Heb. 2: 14 -15) • Was able to pay the price of redemption (cf. 2: 1; 1 Pet. 1: 18 -19); • Was willing to redeem or pay the price (cf. 3: 11; Matt. 20: 28; John 10: 15, 19; Heb. 10: 7); • Was free himself, as the Messiah was free from the curse of sin, being

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Ruth shows that even in time of great trouble for the nation, some remain FAITHFUL to the FAITHFUL covenant.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Ruth serves as another illustration of how God fulfills his promise to promise Abraham to bless all the nations of the earth through his descendants. Ruth also gives us a piece of David’s genealogy, and genealogy therefore also a piece of The Messiah’s genealogy.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David 1 and 2 Samuel (parallels 1 Chronicles 9 -29)

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David 1 & 2 Samuel were originally ONE book in the Hebrew canon. It was divided into two by the translators of the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Old Testament) in the third century B. C. Our English Bible follows this same pattern. For 1 Samuel 1 -24, SAMUEL is suggested as the author. For the remainder, NATHAN and Gad are likely candidates. Time of writing is approximately 975 B. C. These books describe the end of theocracy and the reigns of Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Overview outline of 1 and 2 Samuel • SAMUEL - Judge and Prophet in Israel (1 Sam SAMUEL • SAUL: The First King of Israel (1 Sam 8 -12) SAUL • The DECLINE of Saul and the Rise of Dav Sam 13 -31) • David’s Rule over JUDAH (2 Sam 1 -4) JUDAH • David’s Rule over all ISRAEL (2 Sam 5 -24) ISRAEL

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Messianic Christology of 1 and 2 Samuel The first obvious and David, as a Type of interesting portrait of Christ is Christ was a shepherd born in SAMUEL in that he was a SAMUEL prophet, a priest, and though Bethlehem, a hero, had to endure the he was not a king, he was a wilderness and the judge who was used of God to trials there and inaugurate a new age. finally became king. The primary portrait and anticipation of Messiah is found in the life of DAVID

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David The prophet Samuel acts as a BRIDGE between the Judges and BRIDGE the kings and shows us God’s

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David 1 Samuel • United Monarchy - 1 st Samuel is a transition period. Israel is still United training. • There was a loose confederacy-1 banner over all. • Samuel appoints first king to begin monarchy: SAUL. He had a goo SAUL bad finish. • God rejected Saul and another king, DAVID was appointed. DAVID • 1 Samuel records the rise & fall of Saul. • David kills Goliath. • Struggle between Saul & David. • Deaths at end of 1 st Samuel-Saul, Jonathan, Samuel.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Saul

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Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David 2 Samuel • Struggles with Saul are behind Struggles David. • David comes to power first over Southern portion of Israel- King in Hebron over all Israel Hebron then a few years later. • David’s real enemy is revealed. Himself • Adultery with Bathsheba, murder of Uriah marks David’s fall

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Highs and Lows

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David How the Sin of Kings was Handled 1. Saul’s sin = taking on the role of priest ’s sin and offering burnt offerings (1 Sam. 13: 1 -15) & not obeying the Lord completely by not destroying all the Amalekites and their property (1 Sam. 15). 2. David’s sin = Adultery/murder (2 Sam. 11) ’s sin and counting Israel (2 Sam. 24). 3. Why the different treatment? a. Different hearts b. God did not reject Saul because of reject

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Potential discrepancy "When you come to the land “But the thing which the LORD your God isdispleased Samuel when they said, "Give giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set us a a king to judge us. " So Samuel prayed to king over me like all the nations the LORD. And the that are around me, ' "you shall surely set a king over you LORD said to Samuel, whom the LORD your God "Heed the voice of the people in all that they chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as kingsay to you; for they over you; you may not set a have not rejected you, but they have rejected foreigner over you, who is not ?

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Israel chose a king based on looks and the appearance of appearance strength God uses the unexpected, unimpressive, and inexperienced to accomplish remarkable things.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David SAUL DAVID A man after the A man after God’s people’s heart (1 Samuel 8: 5) 13: 14) He was the people’s He was God’s choice. Man of Unbelief Man of Faith

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David “You have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel” 1 Samuel

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David What made all the difference between these two men was their Spirit. “And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul…” 1 Samuel 16: 13 -14 One man was Spirit-filled and led. The other was Spiritdevoid and distrusting. David would plead with God not to take his Spirit (Ps 51: 11). God, on the other hand, would take his Spirit from Saul.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David All men are sinners (David and Saul). What happens after the sin makes a big difference in one’s relationship with God has always planned on being King of His people. He showed the people their own failure to rule themselves (Judges) and their need for a godly king. David and his throne is a type foretelling the coming of Christ as the King of Kings.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David God dwelt with His people in the Tabernacle and Temple by the Ark of the Covenant.

Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David

Journey of the Ark of the Know your Bible: Old Testament Survey Part Two - Joshua to David Covenant (God’s Manifest Presence) 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tabernacle finally placed in David’s Tabernacle awaiting the building of the Temple. 7