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Judges 2:7-10 (NKJV)

So, the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders

who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord Which He had done

for Israel. Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died when he was one hundred

and ten years old. And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnathheres, in the

mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash. When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.

Judges 2:16 (NKJV)

Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of

those who plundered them.

• The author is unknown
• It is believed that Samuel wrote a portion of the book of Judges

• About 1050-1000 B.C.

• Disobedience brings oppression
• Repentance
• God’s Provision of Deliverance

• The book of Judges tells of the history of the Israelites from the death of Joshua until the ministry of Samuel (approximately 350 years).
•  During this time the people repeatedly turned from following God. Their disobedience brought bondage and oppression.
• God raised up fifteen Judges to bring deliverance to His people. The best-known Judges are Deborah, Gideon, and Samson.
• The book of Judges covers 13 of the 15 Judges.

• Condition of the Israelites: Judges 1:1-3:6

Judges 2:17-18(NKJV)

Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods,

and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked,

in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so. And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD Was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD Was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.

• Ruling Judges: Judges 3:7-16:31

• Idolatry and Civil War: Judges 17:1-21:25
  • The worship of foreign gods (Judges 17-18)
  • The attack on the tribe of Benjamin because of the Levite’s concubine (Judges 19-21)

• Christ as our deliver and righteous judge

2 Timothy 4:8(NKJV)

Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the

righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have

loved His appearing.

Acts 17:31(NKJV)

because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by

the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from

the dead.

Joshua

Joshua 1:1-3(NKJV)

“Ater the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, it came to pass that the LORD

spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying:

“Moses My servant is dead. Now, therefore. arise. go over this Jordan, you and all this

people, to the land which l am giving to them-the children of Israel.

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to

Moses.”

• It is believed that the majority of the book of Joshua was written by Joshua himself
• It is possible that a scribe recorded some of the events of the book of Joshua that actually occurred after his death

• 400-1375 B.C.

• The central theme of the book of Joshua is “Possessing the Inheritance”
• Victory through Faith

• The book of Joshua describes the conquest of the land promised to Abraham, the land of Canaan.
• Joshua’s name means “the Lord saves” or “the Lord is salvation”. The Greek translation of the name Joshua is Jesus.

Genesis 15:18-21(NKJV)

On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your

descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river

Euphrates-

the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites.

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

• Preparation for Possession: Joshua 1:1-5:15

Joshua 1:11(NKJV)

“Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions Tor

yourselves, for within three days you will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the

land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

• Circumcision of the Second Generation: Joshua 5:1-1
• The Conquest: Joshua 6:1-12:24

Joshua 10:40(NKJV)

So, Joshua conquered al the land: the mountain country and the South and the

lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly

destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

• The Division of the Land: Joshua 13:1-22:34

Joshua 21:43-45(NKJV)

So, the LORD gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers,

and they took possession of it and dwelt in it.

The LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their

fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the LORD delivered all

their enemies into their hand.

Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of

Israel. All came to pass.

• The Death of Joshua: Joshua 23:1-24:33

Joshua 23:14(NKJV)

“Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts

and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD

your God spoke concerning you. Al have come to pass for you; not one word of them has

failed.

Joshua 24:14, 15(NKJV)

“”Now therefore, fear the LORD, Serve Him in sinceriy and in truth, and put away the

gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the

LORD!

And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom

you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of

the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my

house, we will serve the LORD.

• Christ in the book of Joshua
  • The very name of the book speaks of Jesus our savior as the name of Joshua means, “the Lord saves” or “the Lord is salvation.”
  • Christ revealed as the Commander of the Army of the Lord

Joshua 5:13-15(NKJV)

“And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked,

and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua

went to Him and said to Him. “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”

So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now Come.

And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does

my Lord say to His servant?”

Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your

foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.

 

• The Redemptive work of Christ on the Cross

Joshua 2:17, 18(NKJV)

So, the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have

made Us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window

through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your

brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home.

• Christ as a fulfillment of all of God’s Promises

Joshua 23:14(NKJV)

Behold, this day l am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts

and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD

your God spoke Concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has

failed.

Numbers 1:2-3 (NKJV)

Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their familles, by

their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,

From twenty years old and above-all who aro able to go to war in lsrael. You and

Aaron shall number them by their armies.

 

• Moses

• About 1400 B.C. (shortly before his death)

• God’s guiding presence from Sinai to Trans-Jordan

• The book of Numbers tells of the preparation and journey to the promise land.
•  It describes the murmuring, complaining and disobedience of the Israelites that led to forty years of wandering in the wilderness.
• The Hebrew title for this book is “ln the Wilderness.”

• Instructions for Camping and Marching: Numbers 1:1-10:10
  • Numbers 2:2(NKJV) “Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems (flag or banner) of his father’s house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.
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  • 1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
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North Camp	East Camp	South Camp	West Camp
Dan	Judah	Reuben	Ephraim
Asher	Issachar	Simeon	Manasseh
Naphtali	Zebulun	Gad	Benjamin
Total: 157,600	Total: 186,400	Total: 151,450	Total: 108,100

• Sinai to Moab: Numbers 10:11-21:35
  • Numbers 10:11-12 (NKJV) Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony. And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys, then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
  • Spies sent out: Numbers 13:1-14:45
• Balaam and Balak: Numbers 22:1-25:18
  • Balak hires Balaam to come and curse the Israelites
• Instructions for Conquering and Possessing the Promise Land: Numbers 26:1-36:13
  • The appointing of a new leader: Joshua– Numbers 27:12-23
• Christ in the book of Numbers
  • Christ the Rock and Provider
    • Numbers 20:8(NKJV) Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”
    • 1 Corinthians 10:4(NKJV) and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
  • King Jesus
    • Numbers 24:17(NKJV) I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.
      • Balaam’s prophecy concerning the future rule and reign of Jesus

 

 

Leviticus 11:44(NKJV)

For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you

Shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that

creeps on the earth.

Leviticus 11:45(NKJV)

For I am the LORD Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You

shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

• Author
  • Moses
• Date written
  • About 1400 B.C. (1445 B.C.)
• Theme
  • Holiness (A form of the word holy is found 78 times within the book of Leviticus)
  • Priesthood
• Purpose
  • The book of Leviticus is a handbook for the priests and Levites outlining their duties in worship, and a guidebook of holy living for the Hebrews. The Hebrew meaning of Leviticus is “And He Called.” The Greek meaning is “Matters Pertaining to the Levites.”
• Content
  • Offerings: Leviticus 1:1-7:38
    • Leviticus 1:2(NKJV) “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the livestock-of the herd and of the flock.
  • Priesthood: Leviticus 8:1-10:20
    • Leviticus 8:2(NKJV) Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
  • Guidelines for Holy Living: Leviticus 11:1-15:33
    • Leviticus 11:2(NKJV) “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, “These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth:
    • Foods, Childbirth, Leprosy, and Bodily Discharges
  • The Day of Atonement: Leviticus 16:1-34
    • Leviticus 16:2(NKJV) and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat, which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
    • Leviticus 16:3(NKJV) Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.
  • Practical Holiness: Leviticus 17:1-22:33
    • Eating (do not eat blood)
    • Unlawful Sexual Relations
    • Punishments for Sin
  • The Sabbath, Feasts, and Seasons: Leviticus 23:1-25:55
    • Leviticus 23:44(NKJV) So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

	The Three Major Feasts
Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover)	Celebration of God’s deliverance	March – April
Feasts of Harvest/ Weeks (Pentecost)	50 days after the feast of Unleavened bread, celebrating the early harvest	May – June
Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) Feast of Ingathering	Celebration of the completed harvest, and a remembrance of their dwelling in temporary shelters in the wilderness	September- October

 

• • The Year of Jubilee: Leviticus 25:8-17
    • Blessings and Retribution: Leviticus 26:1-27:34
    • Leviticus 26:3-4 (NKJV) If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season. the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• Christ in Leviticus
  • Jesus as the Spotless Sacrifice
    • 1 Peter 1:19(NKJV) but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
    • Jesus as our High Priest
    • Jesus as our Jubilee

Genesis

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

• Author
  • Moses
    • How did Moses know the information to write this book?
      • God gave him revelation during the time he spent on Mount Sinai
• Date
  • About 1400 B.C.
  • Moses wrote Genesis during the forty years in the wilderness
• Theme 
  • Beginnings
  • Key Words Create, Covenant, and Genealogy
• Purpose 
  • To record God’s creation of the world and His desire to have a family
    God’s desire to have a people set apart to worship Him
    God’s desire for relationship
• Content
  • Creation: Genesis 1:1-2:25
    • Genesis begins with God creating the entire solar system, the preparation of Earth for habitation, and the creation of life on the Earth (Vegetation, Animal Kingdom, Man)
    • Genesis 1:31(NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Fall of Man: Genesis 3:1-24
    • The devil deceives Eve into eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
    • Genesis 3:24(NKJV) So He drove out the man: and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
  • Pre-Flood World Genesis 4:1-5:32
    • The life and family of Adam
    • Genesis 4:1(NKJV) Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”
  • Noah and the Flood Genesis 6:1-9:29
    • Genesis 6:5-8(NKJV) Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
  • The Nations Genesis 10:1-32
    • Genesis 10:1(NKJV) Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
  • The Confusion of the Languages Genesis 11:1-9
    • Genesis 11:6, 7(NKJV) And the LORD said, Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
  • Genealogy Genesis 11:10-32
    • Genealogies of Abram
  • Abram (Abraham) Genesis 12:1-23:20
    • Genesis 12:1-3(NKJV) Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, even from your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 1 will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will Curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.“
  • Isaac Genesis 24:1-26:35
    • Abraham waited 25 years after the promise of Isaac
  • Jacob 
    • Genesis 27:1-35:39
  • Esau 
    • Genesis 36:1-43
  • Joseph 
    • Genesis 37:1-50:26
• Christ in Genesis
  • The Seed of Woman
    • Genesis 3:15(NKJV) And 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.
  • Melchizedek
    • Genesis 14:18 (NKJV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
    • Hebrews 7:1-3 (NKJV) For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning rom the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.