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This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to observe carefully, understand accurately, evaluate fairly, feel appropriately, act rightly, and express faithfully God’s revealed Word, especially as embodied in the Old Testament.
- The OT was Jesus’s only Scripture and makes up three-fourths (75.55 percent) of our Bible. If space says anything, the OT matters to God, who gave us his Word in a book.
- The OT substantially influences our understanding of key biblical teachings. By the end of the Law (Genesis–Deuteronomy), the Bible has already described or alluded to all five of the major covenants that guide Scripture’s plot structure (Adamic-Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and new).
- We meet the same God in both Testaments. Note how the book of Hebrews begins: “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (Heb.
- The OT announces the very ‘good news/gospel’ we enjoy. The gospel is the good news that through Jesus––the divine, crucified, and resurrected Messiah––God reigns over all and saves and satisfies believing sinners.
question is not “does the Bible apply to my life,” but, “does my life conform to the Bible?” The unifying purpose of the Old Testament is to show how God saves human beings from sin, for
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While the stories of Abraham, Moses, David, and maybe a few others might be familiar, it’s easy to lose sight of how the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament fit within the grand story of the Bible and what each teaches.
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The title "Genesis" is the Greek word meaning "origin, source, generation, and beginning." The first eleven chapters record history's beginning's through many monumental events: the creation of the world, the creation of man, the fall of man, and the judgments of the Flood and of Babel.
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Updates and revisions of all Life Application materials, the article “The Time between the Old & New Testaments,” and the articles in “A Christian Worker’s Resource” were produced by The Livingstone Corporation.
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Old Testament is first and foremost a religious volume. Its vocabulary is in consequence heavily weighted on the side of religious terms and phrases—about God and man, sin, sacrifice, prayer,
