Plan A PLAN B: THE BLOODLINE OF REDEMPTION

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1 Plan A PLAN B: THE BLOODLINE OF REDEMPTION

2 Reviewing The Oracles of God, The WHOLE Word of God Review of Tanakh /Timeline

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4 TORAH, HISTORY All Beginnings, first Promises, first Covenants, One Man, One People Selected, the Patriarchs 1: GENESIS Book of Beginnings In the beginning God

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6 TORAH, HISTORY Miraculous Deliverance, the Cloud and Pillar, The Tabernacle 2: EXODUS Deliverance

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8 TORAH, HISTORY Sacrificial System, Priests, Appointed Times 3: LEVITICUS Atonement Provided

9 TORAH, HISTORY Learning to Become a Nation 4: NUMBERS Wandering and Learning

10 TORAH, HISTORY Getting Ready to Enter the Land 5: DEUTERONOMY The Law Repeated Parting Messages

11 HISTORY Conquest, Hard Lessons, Learning to Obey 6: JOSHUA Entering the Land

12 HISTORY Sin cycles, Black hearts, Disobedience, Lessons 7: JUDGES Elohim s Way Dark Days

13 HISTORY Beautiful prophetic glimpse of Israel and Gentiles Kinsman Redeemer 8: RUTH Prophetic Love Story

14 You are here: Time of Judges

15 You are here: Time of the Monarchy Kingdom of Israel

16 HISTORY: END OF ERA OF JUDGES, BEGINNING OF MONARCHY Bad King, Good King 9: 1 SAMUEL Last Judge First King

17 HISTORY, UNITED KINGDOM OF ISRAEL, DAVID Davidic Covenant 10: 2 SAMUEL King David A man after God s own Heart

18 HISTORY: KING SOLOMON, KINGDOMS DIVIDED The Temple 11: 1 KINGS GLORIOUS to DIVIDED KINGDOM

19 HISTORY: BOTH KINGDOMS FALL, ISRAEL SCATTERED, JUDAH INTO EXILE Increasing Apostacy 12: 2 KINGS DIVIDED KINGDOM DECLINE AND FALL

20 HISTORY: JUDAH ONLY Same History, Different Perspective (line of Messiah) 13: 1 CHRONICLES DIVINE PERSPECTIVE KINGDOM OF JUDAH

21 HISTORY: JUDAH S HISTORY CONTINUED Up to Return to Land 14: 2 CHRONICLES MORE HISTORY OF JUDAH, TO CYRUS DECREE TO RETURN

22 You are here POST EXILE

23 HISTORY: POST EXILE Coming Home, Getting Right 15: EZRA REBUILDING THE TEMPLE AND THE PEOPLE

24 HISTORY:POST EXILE 16: NEHEMIAH REBUILDING THE CITY RESHAPING THE PEOPLE

25 HISTORY: POST EXILE God is with those who did not return to Israel Staying in Babylon 17: ESTHER BEAUTY QUEEN SAVES HER PEOPLE

26 You back at the beginning! Poetry (Writings)

27 POETRY: Why? Suffering, the Enemy and God, God s Sovereignty, Elohim speaks, Restoration 18: JOB SUFFERING, SCIENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY

28 POETRY: Heart of man, Prophecy to song 19: PSALMS SONGS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION

29 POETRY: Living Right Timeless instruction 20: PROVERBS INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIVING WISELY

30 POETRY: Living Wrong Mistakes, and How to Correct Them 21: ECCLESIASTES LIFE LESSONS FROM A BITTER OLD MAN

31 POETRY: Song with a Big Point Prophetic of Called Out Ones and Her Beloved 22: SONG OF SONGS LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES

32 You are back here: Major and Minor Prophets

33 Local (near) Fulfillment (Type) Far (END TIMES) Fulfillment Telescoping Prophecy

34 Why is Prophecy important for us to know? It is NOT ancient history. It has relevance in every age until ultimate fulfillment God validates Himself through prophecy

35 PROPHECY: TO ISRAEL AND JUDAH Contains Plan of God, Disobedience, Restoration, Both Advents, End Times 23: ISAIAH BIBLE IN A NUTSHELL

36 PROPHECY: TO JUDAH Obey or Else, Destruction as a Consequence Times of Gentiles Begin, Temple Destroyed 24: JEREMIAH BEFORE THE FALL

37 PROPHECY: TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM DESTROYED Weeping Prophet Weeps, also Rejoices 25: LAMENTATIONS IN MOURNING

38 PROPHECY: SOVEREIGNTY AND PLAN OF GOD Warnings and Consequences, Visions of Future, The Throne Room, The Glory Departs, End Times, Millennium 26: EZEKIEL VISIONS IN CAPTIVITY

39 PROPHECY: GENTILE KINGDOMS Most precise prophecies in Word, Future Kingdoms, End Times 27: DANIEL GENTILE AND HEBREW HISTORY IN ADVANCE

40 PRE-EXILE EXILE POST-EXILE 9 th Cent. BC 8 th Cent. BC 7 th Cent. BC 6 th Century BC 5 th Cent. BC TO GENTILE NATIONS Obadiah Jonah Nahum TO ISRAEL (north) Hosea Amos Micah* Isaiah* TO JUDAH (south) Joel Micah Isaiah* Habakkuk Zephaniah Jeremiah Daniel Ezekiel Haggai Zechariah Malachi

41 PROPHECY: TO ISRAEL Warnings, God s view of His People, Coming Judgment and restoration 28: HOSEA ADULTEROUS NATION ELOHIM S UNRELENTING LOVE

42 PROPHECY: TO JUDAH Warnings, Coming Judgment and restoration Day of the Lord, End Times 29: JOEL WAKE UP! DAY OF THE LORD

43 PROPHECY: TO ISRAEL Warnings, Coming Judgment and restoration You think you re prosperous now, but 30: AMOS DIRE WARNINGS DURING PROSPERITY

44 PROPHECY: TO EDOM Israel s brothers doomed for wickedness and betrayal 31: OBADIAH JUDGMENT OF WICKED BROTHERS

45 PROPHECY: TO ASSYRIA (Nineveh, Gentiles) Repent or Else, Repentance, Unhappy Prophet 32: JONAH A BIG FISH STORY BRINGS REPENTANCE

46 PROPHECY: TO ISRAEL Warnings, Coming Judgment and restoration God s people on trial, both comings, end times 33: MICAH POETIC JUSTICE

47 PROPHECY: TO ASSYRIA (Nineveh) Repentance didn t last, Assyria doomed 34: NAHUM COMING DOOM OF NINEVEH

48 PROPHECY: TO JUDAH Prophet unhappy with own people, challenges God, coming destruction, also restoration, seeks mercy, but will always praise 35: HABAKKUK CONVERSATION WITH YHVH

49 PROPHECY: TO JUDAH Warnings, Coming Judgment and restoration End Times 36: ZEPHANIAH THE DAY OF THE LORD

50 POST EXILE

51 PROPHECY: POST EXILE Get your priorities straight, get right with God 37: HAGGAI GET THE TEMPLE REBUILT!

52 PROPHECY: POST EXILE Multiple visions, future of Gentile Kingdoms and future of Israel, End Times, return of Messiah 38: ZECHARIAH VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

53 PROPHECY: POST EXILE Get your hearts right with God, watch out for backsliding, prepare for Messiah s first coming 39: MALICHI GET RIGHT, GET READY FOR MESSIAH

54 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS God prepares the world to receive her King

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56 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS Approximately 400 years between the writings of Malachi and the coming of the Messiah, which opens the New Testament. Sometimes these years are referred to as the silent years since God did not send any prophets to speak in these years (at least none whose messages He wished to have recorded). However, these years were anything but silent. World empires were changing and world conditions were changing.

57 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS Elohim brought His Son, Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah), into the world at precisely the moment He intended from before the beginning of time. But for those 400 years, He directed history in such a way as to prepare the way for His Son s coming. When the New Testament opens, the world scene is vastly different from that at the close of the Old Testament.

58 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS When Malachi closes the Tanakh (Old Testament) period of history, Israel had gone into exile due to their disobedience, and returned from Babylonian captivity (lasted 70 years, as God ordained). They returned to a city of rubble, and struggled to rebuild their Temple, city walls, and their homes. After much delay and oppression, they finally built a much smaller, less grand Temple (under Ezra and Zerubbabel s leadership), and eventually the city walls (under Nehemiah s leadership). They rebuilt their homes gradually and settled back into the land and the city of Jerusalem.

59 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS However, no longer under own rule. After Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem (606 BC), and took people captive to Babylon, Israel was no longer a sovereign nation, but ruled by and part of the Babylonian Empire, then the Persian Empire, then the Greek Empire, and eventually the Roman Empire at the time of Yeshua s first coming. Gentile kings allowed Israel to continue religious practices (usually true with conquering forces). If they lived peacefully and didn t rebel they were usually allowed to live their normal, typical lives, but without self-governorship.

60 BABYLONIAN DOMINATION BCE PRE AND POST EXILE: 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Prophets: Jeremiah (and Lamentations), Ezekiel, Daniel Judah conquered by Babylon Jerusalem and First Temple destroyed (586 BCE) Most Jews exiled to Babylon (for 70 years) Little to no Jewish presence in the land

61 PERSIAN DOMINATION BCE POST EXILE: Ezra-Esther, Prophets: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi Some (remnant) Jews return from Babylon Temple, city walls rebuilt Jews under Persian rule People continue to fall away from God Old Testament time line ends

62 GREEK DOMINATION BCE POST EXILE: Land conquered by Alexander the Great; Persian Empire ends, Greek Empire begins Hellenistic influence on world (Greek common language, academics, philosophers, etc.) Alexander dies, empire divided among 4 generals Jews ruled by Syrian Seleucid rulers, including Antiochus Epiphanes ( abomination of desolation ) Tanakh translated into Greek (common language), called the Septuagint, (275 BCE)

63 HASONEAN SELF RULE BCE Maccabean (Hasmonean) revolt against Antiochus (desecrated Temple, Jews could not practice faith) Jews retake Jerusalem, cleanse Temple (164 BC) (Hanukkah, Feast of Dedication) Syrians granted self-rule to Israel (Judea then) Collapse of Seleucid kingdom allowed Jewish independence, for a time Jews flourished under Hasmonean dynasty

64 ROMAN DOMINATION 63 BCE Jerusalem captured by Roman general, Pompey (63 BCE) Rome places vassal king on throne in Israel, Herod (not Jewish, an Idumean) Temple restored and refurbished as Herod s pet project for his posterity Priesthood appointed, not hereditary (Aaronic) (throne, priesthood not occupied by Jews)

65 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS After Temple was rebuilt in Jerusalem, the God-directed Aaronic priesthood, and all the associated rites, rituals and sacrifices was re-instituted. Priests were of the tribe of Levi, from the family of Aaron, as God directed. At this time we don t hear much about political and religious factions that split the people of Jesus time. Second Temple (aka Ezra s Temple ) rebuilt after the exile and captivity during Persian dominion.

66 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS Under Greek (Syrian) rule after Alexander s death, Antiochus Epiphanes deposed last hereditary priest, Onias, began selling position to highest bidder. This practice continued, even after Jesus came. High Priest was usually not even Jewish. Total mockery. Herod undertook a massive restoration and renovation of the second Temple in order to carve his name in history. It was still under construction when Yeshua taught there.

67 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS This is now the world Elohim determined would be the time of the Messiah s birth. A time when even the priesthood was corrupt, and the strength and brutality of Rome ruled the world. It was now when over 300 promises regarding the coming Anointed One would be fulfilled precisely in the life, death and resurrection of His Son, a human being offered as a sacrifice for all human beings, but One who is also fully God Himself.

68 TIME BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS Though we cannot comprehend it, The One who inhabits eternity was the One who died a horrible death on an execution stake, but was raised back to life as the First fruits of all who would believe. He did this for YOU, and for me. WHY? His unfathomable love and desire to be with us.