guild
And so our God Almighty Who was and is and is to come
In creation I sing praise to the King of Kings
Through all my everything and I will and will you
Holy, Holy, Holy, and so our God Almighty Who was and is and is to come
In creation I sing praise to the King of Kings
Through all my everything and I will and will you
Okay, and I intend to try to give most of it away by the time I'm done.
I have to do it on the whole thing here so I can get away.
Alright, the worksheets coming around. We tracked the worksheets.
The completed worksheets. The eighth completed worksheets for me is the first prize for teenagers with RJ.
The seventh completed worksheets is the first prize.
The thirteenth completed worksheets is lunch. Some of you have reached lunch.
Children's workers worksheets count one and a half times.
I did take some. I took four to lunch this last week and so I'm working on it.
I'll get there. I'll get everybody eventually.
I know I owe Jason lunch. He reminded me that he was there.
So we will get there.
So as you're looking at your worksheet we're going to talk Bible talk.
So to that end we are going to learn some very basic things about the Bible.
Some things that you might think people already know but some people don't know.
So we're going to try to get everybody on the same page as far as some of these things go.
Does everybody have a pen that needs a pen?
Do you guys need pens?
Alright we need pens over here if you got pens.
Keep it up Jason. Keep up adding them numbers bro.
Alright so we're going to start with the middle box at the top.
That's where we're going to start at.
So what we're talking about is the Bible and today we're doing the Old Testament.
Next week we're doing the New Testament.
So I hope you'll at least get a couple of things out of this that you didn't already know.
So as we study the Bible it goes Genesis through Malachi in the Old Testament.
It's the first 39 books of the Bible.
And we're going to study them a little bit.
We're going to look at the names of them a little bit differently.
So they're broken down into sections.
And the first section is in this box.
And I'm just going to give it to you.
It is the law.
So if you see TL there that is the law.
Alright so now there's a lot of adults in the room that I see who know their Bible pretty well.
And then there's some teenagers.
So adults give the teenagers a chance to answer first before you answer so we keep moving.
Don't go too fast.
So the first book of the Bible is called?
Who said it?
Right there.
Coming back at you.
Oh look at that.
You have to fight for it.
Here.
Did he get candy?
Apparently all I can hit is Kishon.
I can't actually hit him.
Okay.
So you sit next to that guy he knows the answer.
Alright.
So it is Genesis and that's what goes into blank.
G for Genesis.
G-E-N-E-S-I-S Genesis.
And there's a little dash over there on the side and the number 66 goes there.
Why do you think that is?
Because there are 66 books in the Bible.
Okay so we begin.
So the little dash on the right.
Okay.
So Genesis starts and he's the first of 66 books.
66 is a lot.
And the little dash to the right of the word Genesis goes 66.
Okay.
And I will come back and ask questions and that's when I'll throw most of the candy.
But we're going to keep moving.
Alright.
And the word Genesis means and it starts with a B.
Beginning.
She beat you to it.
Today I'm giving candy a lot of candy today.
Okay.
If you get a candy you don't like give it to somebody around you.
Okay.
So yes Genesis and the word Genesis means beginnings.
But as you can see it is not a beginnings book only.
Right.
It is the first book.
It does mean beginnings and it's where Adam and Eve are created in the world, the universe.
Everything is created.
Right.
But it's part of the law section.
We're in the law section.
Okay.
And so we're going to go down.
See how fast we can go down this list.
After Genesis is?
After Exodus is?
Okay we're going to stop there so we can spell it.
Kishan can you spell Leviticus.
L-E-B-I-T-I.
Yes that is right.
It's dangerous up in here.
He's like hey that's my candy.
Alright.
So yes Exodus is E-X-O-D-U-S and he did spell Leviticus correctly.
E-L-B-I-T-I-C-U-S Leviticus.
That's easy to spell incorrectly.
It's a weird one.
It's not a word we would normally use anymore.
What's that?
Yeah.
And the first part of it is Levi, like the tribe of Levi or Levite without the E on the
end.
And it does kind of create the order of the Levites.
Okay and then the next one is?
Numbers.
Quick on the draw.
Okay.
And then?
Deuteronomy.
No not Deuteronomy.
Dave I have to get candy back for you for that one.
Short.
Okay.
Alright so Deuteronomy.
And then note that Deuteronomy is the two final speeches of who?
Moses.
That is correct.
The two final speeches of Moses.
Okay.
Alright.
So Moses as he's about to go away, he's not going to be with them anymore.
He gets two huge this is what you do and another this is what you do.
And then they combine those two things into the book of Deuteronomy.
Hence the word Deut, Deut, being kind of like tied to the Latin for two.
Okay.
Now there's a little phrase here.
Let's see if somebody can get it.
And the law books altogether have a purpose.
They tell us how five letters H-G-R-T-I.
How God.
Who said that?
Wrong.
He's rocking.
He's rocking back there.
No.
How God.
I'm coming closer to anything about why we're here.
Rescue.
No.
Relates to Israel.
Very good Josh.
I got close.
Alright.
So these books talk about how God relates to Israel.
In other words, in Deuteronomy for example, Moses is telling them how to behave as God's
people.
Before and after they enter the promised land.
Before that, there's the whole wilderness thing, Leviticus is all the rules and laws
about worshiping God, sacrifice, all that kind of thing.
How to be made clean if you're unclean.
Exodus is the story of them leaving Egypt and really becoming their own country.
And all that.
Okay.
So these law books are how God relates to Israel.
Now we're going down to the left.
We're not straight down.
To the left.
It starts with an H. And this section of books is called the?
What are they?
Nope.
It starts with an H. Prophets doesn't start with an H.
History.
I think you got it.
That's a pretty good shot.
Okay.
So yes, history.
Okay.
So we're going down the left on history.
Now, if you know your books of the Bible, then you know that the first two J's are?
Joshua Judges.
That's right.
So we're doing good.
Nice catch.
Oh, I thought you caught it.
Oh, that's a good catch.
Okay.
Alright.
So Joshua Judges.
Alright.
And the story of Joshua.
Joshua is Moses' replacement.
Alright.
He's going to lead the Israelites, bring them out of the wilderness and into the promised
land.
He and one other individual were the only people of his generation to survive the desert.
What was the name of the other individual, by the way?
Caleb.
Just shout it out if you know it.
Caleb.
Right there.
Nope, it's Caleb.
Your brother, except without the K.
One out of two ain't bad.
Okay.
Yeah, he's pretty old.
Okay.
So Joshua was Moses' replacement.
He's leading them into the promised land.
And again, a lot in there about the details of how it would all be set up, where they
would live, what the tribes were like, everything like that.
But remember, they didn't have a king.
And so then after they got settled on land, instead of a king, they had judges.
A judge was like a ruler over the people.
People had a debate that they couldn't figure out themselves.
They went to the judge and he told them what to do.
Okay.
So this is their history developing Joshua, Judge's Root.
Okay.
Now, oh yeah, it is Ruth.
Who said that?
Let me say Ruth.
Ruth.
Yeah, it's Ruth.
Arden said Ruth.
Arden was the first person to say Ruth.
And landed right in his lap.
Look at that.
I think those plow like frisbees.
Okay.
So it's Joshua, Judge's Root.
Okay.
And then there are three little dashes.
What?
Second Samuel.
Yep.
Keep going.
That's right.
Don't get too far ahead of us.
Okay.
All right.
So we've got three first and second.
There's a first book and a second book.
And they're mainly broke into that because they're real long.
Right?
And first and second Samuel, what is the unique thing that happens for the very first time
in first and second Samuel that comes to mind?
Anybody got it?
Yeah.
God.
People cry out for a king.
They've screwed it all up during judges.
And they cry out for a king.
And Samuel's pretty ticked off about that, isn't he?
And God says to Samuel, don't worry about it.
They're not refusing you.
They're not kicking you out.
They're kicking me out.
They want a human king instead of God as their king.
That was in first and second Samuel.
And then they got kings.
And a long line of kings.
And it was a bad prophecy by Samuel about how it would be when they would get a king
and how the kings would take their sons and how the kings would overtax and the kings
would follow false gods and the king's heart wouldn't be true and all of these things.
And that's exactly what happens.
Okay?
And so first and second Samuel is like going into having a king.
And David's story is in first and second Samuel.
Well, it begins there.
And then first and second Kings is the story of them having kings leading up to the exiles.
And then first and second Chronicles is very much the same story as first and second Kings.
It overlaps a lot.
But it's written from a different perspective.
Historians think it was written from the perspective of after the exile to give them hope.
To help them realize what they had done was not something they could never come back from.
Okay?
It's hard to read in chronological order.
Yeah.
So first and second Samuel, first and second Kings, first and second Chronicles.
And then we kind of already had it.
We got E-N-E.
Who's got it?
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
That is correct.
So knowing the books of the Bible, apparently in this case.
That was terribly.
Okay.
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
And then we have a little phrase at, sorry about that Josh, bad aim and pretty light.
Little phrase at the bottom.
It's O-T-H.
Anybody want to take a stab at it?
Nope.
That is absolutely incorrect.
Okay, so the middle word is the.
Say it again.
Nope.
So remember these are history books.
And if you went and read a history book that was the 20th century for example, what would you expect to see?
Would you get every detail that happened?
Every little detail like who was born on every day and everything that happened.
Would you get all that?
Or would you get like an outline?
Outline the history.
Outlines the history.
So the history section outlines the history of God's people.
That's what it does.
It's not everything that ever happened.
There's some really cool kind of very small things in there that you go like, wow, that's neat.
That's really a very detailed thing for that person's name to be mentioned in that way in their life in the outlines of the history.
But there's a lot that's not there.
It's really the important things, how God was reacting, how God was acting, how people were acting and all that kind of thing.
Especially in Judges, the sin spiral.
And then crying out for a king and then getting a king and then what happened with the kings and then going to captivity and looking back on it.
Ezra and Nehemiah are both stories of how they came back from the captivity.
So are we caught up?
So it goes first line history, then Joshua, Judges, Ruth, first and second Samuel.
So one and two Samuel, one and two kings, one and two chronicles.
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
Esther is spelled E-S-T-H-E-R.
Ezra is spelled exactly like it sounds.
That's E-Z-R-A.
And then it outlines the history.
Okay.
Alright.
And now we're going to go all the way up to the right.
So go up in the right hand corner.
You'll see a P.
Peter.
It's not Peter.
So this is the name of this section.
It is not prophets.
Robert.
Say it again, Jay.
Blossom.
No, but you're getting closer.
Not prophets.
Nope, it's not prophets.
The prophets are coming yet, but this isn't it.
Okay.
What kind of literature is Song of Solomon?
Does anybody know?
Song.
Say it again.
Poem.
It is.
It's poetry.
The word is poetry.
So Psalms is Psalms, but Song of Solomon is actually a poem.
The whole thing, beginning to end, is a poem.
We don't see it necessarily because it's not originally written in English.
Okay.
So this section is called poetry.
And the first book of the poetry section starts with a J.
It is Job.
Good job, Jason.
It might be a little heavier.
So far back.
Holy crap.
I think I came in on a rocket.
Yeah, one rocket and one kite.
Job.
Okay.
Then P. Nope, we're in the Old Testament.
He really wants Peter.
All right.
So one of those P's is Psalms.
I have it as the one under Job.
And the other one is Proverbs.
Okay.
So Job is the story of an individual, while you're filling those in, Job is the story of a single individual who was a righteous man, pretty much, as men go.
He did everything right.
He followed God.
He sacrificed the God.
He worshiped God.
He was so righteous in his own mind.
I don't mean arrogant.
I just mean he was trying to be right so much in his own mind that when his kids would have parties, he would sacrifice the next morning to make sure just in case they had sinned while they had their party to pay for their sin, he would sacrifice.
That's how much it was.
He was so into God.
Right?
And he was worshiping, talking to God, praying, everything like that.
And the story develops that Satan, the devil, goes to God and accuses Job.
And God says, have you seen my servant Job?
Isn't he awesome, basically?
And Satan says, yeah, but he's only awesome because you take such good care of him.
And he says, no, no, he's awesome just because he's awesome.
I do take good care of him.
You're right.
And basically they have a contest.
And the devil is allowed to strike everything that Job owns right down to his health eventually.
And he's left.
And he comes to a moment in time where he's sitting in ashes, scraping with a piece of
a broken pot, the sores on his skin.
That's how terrible his life is.
He's got sores that itch so bad.
He's got a piece of a broken pot scraping the sores on his skin.
And at that moment in time, his wife, who was left to him for some unknown reason, comes
up and she says, Job, just curse God and die.
And Job says, I will not.
I have not sinned against the Lord ever and I will not.
He says, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
God gave me everything and he can take it away if he wants to.
And ultimately Job does come face to face with God and he does kind of sort of sin against
God because he accuses God and he wants to talk to God face to face.
And then when God kind of chastises him and then he repents and then God chastises everybody
else and he says to everybody else, look at my servant Job.
If you'll go to him and he'll pray for you, I'll forgive you, basically, simply put.
So this story of Job who is very faithful and it is the second really big introduction
of what character in the Bible.
There are other places where it appears a little maybe more symbolically, but here there
is a character that is in this story.
I just told you the story who is really a big player in the biblical story and he's
a big player in this story and he is...
Nope, not Job.
Satan.
The devil.
That's right.
So basically by the time you get to the book of Job, it shows because of the way they talk
about the devil, I'm going to do all three, two out of three, by the way they talk about
the devil that they did have an understanding of who the devil was.
There's not a like when the devil comes up to God and starts talking to him, there's
not a big introductory paragraph that explains who the devil is or what he looks like or
anything like that.
So there's just the devil does this and it just happens, blah, blah, blah.
So the people already had an understanding of who the devil was.
One was the other big episode, really big.
When Eve tempted Jesus.
No, previous to that.
I'm talking about going back.
We're Old Testament only right now.
So Adam and Eve.
Right?
So they think, people think that the serpent who tempted Adam and Eve was actually the
devil in disguise or devil influenced.
One or the other he was being influenced by the devil.
But does the Bible say that the devil tempted Adam and Eve?
No.
It does not.
So don't teach that it does because it does not say that.
If you go there and read, you will not see in Genesis the devil tempted Eve.
You will not see that.
It's the serpent.
And then later the serpent is said to be, the devil is said to be a serpent.
So they make that connection.
But never are we told clearly in scripture that it was the devil that tempted Eve.
Yes, Gashon.
Okay.
So Job, Proverbs, Psalms.
That's where we're at right now.
PP.
Should be two P's.
Got P for Proverbs and P for Psalms.
Psalms is with a P.
You can put them whichever way.
It doesn't matter.
Because one's next to it and one's under it.
So yeah, in the Bible, if you go flipping through the pages of your Bible, which we're
not worried about order so much at the moment.
If you flip through the pages of your Bible, you will see Psalms first, then Proverbs.
That is correct.
And then Proverbs is a book of wisdom.
But it's in this category because it's arranged with a lot of poetry.
There's a little bit of prose and a lot of rhyming language, like poetry.
Not in the English, I know, because we don't see it in English, but in the Hebrew, which
it was originally, it would be rhyming and it would be very poetic in nature.
And it's short, powerful sayings mostly.
And that's what a proverb is.
I'm going to teach you a word if you don't already know it.
The word is pithy.
P-I-T-H-Y.
Pithy.
Be careful when you say it.
Make sure you say it correctly.
It's pithy.
And pithy means short and powerful.
That's what it means.
And so Proverbs are short and powerful.
They're pithy.
Okay.
And then Psalms.
And Psalms is the prayers and the songs mostly of the temple and of the era that we have
already looked at, which is the history books.
Then you've got Ecclesiastes.
That's next.
And I'll spell it for you, hopefully, if I spelled it correctly.
E-C-C-L-E-S-I-A-S-T-E-S.
Say it again.
E-C-C-L-E-S-I-A-S-T-S.
Is that not what I said?
S-T-E-S at the end.
Okay.
So now you got me wondering if I misspelled it because I did it from memory.
No, that's it.
Okay.
So I said it right, right?
Okay.
I did do it right.
Okay.
And then the big long one goes all the way across from left to right.
And I've already mentioned it.
Song of Solomon.
Okay.
So Song of Solomon is a really long poem, basically, possibly written by Solomon.
And it, at least on the surface, sounds like it's written to a woman that he loves, possibly
one of his wives, a concubine, something like that.
And it uses a lot of imagery about romance, intimacy, and things like that.
But in the midst of that is a lot of powerful wisdom about relationships, about self-control,
about passion, things like that.
So it's Song of Solomon.
Okay.
And then, all right, now we've got the phrase that sums it up.
Anyone take a stab at it?
C, S, P, and W.
No, the A is and, but the last is not wisdom.
Although I guess you could put that.
Who's that?
Okay.
Say again.
All right, it contains songs, proverbs, and writings.
Okay.
The reason it's not and wisdom is because a proverb is a wisdom saying, it's a short
pithy saying.
The songs might contain some wisdom, but they're, it's songs, proverbs, and writings.
Okay.
None of these books except for proverbs is expressly written for the purpose of wisdom.
And then proverbs is not for the purpose of wisdom, right?
It is a collection of sayings and prose.
Some of it is story.
You actually can go in and read.
It's like their story.
Okay.
So while it is kind of written to be a wisdom book, it's the only one.
And it is definitely poetry.
Okay.
So it contains songs, proverbs, and writings.
All right.
Now we're going to the middle box on the bottom.
Everybody's been aching for this one.
It's MP.
The middle box on the bottom is the major prophets.
Major prophets is first.
Okay.
So middle box on the bottom, one out of two.
Major prophets.
Okay.
And so the majorest of all major prophets is, starts with an I.
Isaiah.
It's Isaiah.
Did you get it?
Anybody over here get it?
Did somebody say Isaiah?
Look at that.
You got stuff going on.
That's tiny little warheads.
Don't say all great.
Okay.
From my elbow out.
All right.
Major prophets starting with Isaiah.
We've already talked about that.
Isaiah is really long, right?
And when we talk about Isaiah, we're talking about the first one.
And that's Isaiah.
And so the first one is the first one.
It is the first one.
Okay.
That's Isaiah.
Okay.
So let's go to the middle box.
Okay.
In the middle box, it says Isaiah.
Okay.
And the first one is Isaiah.
Here we go.
Okay.
Good.
And the second one is Isaiah.
Okay.
This is Isaiah.
Isaiah is really long.
Okay.
And when we say major, what is the difference between a major prophet and a minor prophet?
Does anybody know?
How many prophecies?
Nope.
What is the difference between a major and a minor prophet?
Basically how many?
No, it's not how many came true.
No, they were all correct. 100%. They did not. In fact, if they were ever wrong, that's
a false profit. They could be right 99% of the time, but if they ever prophesied incorrectly,
that's a false profit.
Nope, they both, minor and major profits, all get it all right. So the difference, go
ahead. I'll give you one, one swipe at it.
Yep, nope, not benefits. So it's simply this. The major profits, we have more of what they
said and the minor profits, we have less. That's it. So when you go in the Bible, you'll
notice that the ones we're going to list here are all the bigger profit books. They're
longer books. And the ones in the other box are all the smaller ones. That's it. If a
person thought it was because these guys were more accurate than these guys, that would
be a problem because they are 100% accurate. There's no prophecy that is wrong, otherwise
they wouldn't be in the Bible. There's no prophecy in any of these books that did not
come true or it could still be happening. It's not come true yet because some of them
are futuristic prophecies. So we have the major profits. Isaiah is the biggest and Isaiah
is the biggest book. In fact, so much so that some people call it Deutero Isaiah. So I already
told you, Deut has to do with two. So what do you think Deutero Isaiah means? It's a
double book. Some people think that it was actually two books to start with and it was
combined together. But that doesn't really matter. When you read in your Bible, the chapter
divisions, they are not inspired of God. The little notes, that's not inspired of God.
None of it is. The part that's inspired of God is the actual Word of God. So it doesn't
matter whether it was meant to be two separate things or not. It was written two times, two
different speeches, anything like that. It doesn't matter if they are mashed together.
It just means it didn't get a chapter division like the others, for example. So it would
be first and second Isaiah. That's all. And it would be in the same order, most likely.
So that doesn't really matter. Anyway, and then the next one starts with a J and it is
Jeremiah. And the next one starts with an L and it is? No, we are past Leviticus. Lamentations.
Who said it? Did you say it? I'll give it to you. Lamentations. Did you say it? Anybody
else said it at that same time? Okay, we are good. So I said Jeremiah and Lamentations
at the same time. So if you are thinking about my logic, who do we think wrote the Book of
Lamentations? Jeremiah. That's right. So Jeremiah wrote the Book of Jeremiah and Jeremiah probably
wrote the Book of Lamentations and they are often clumped together. And amazingly enough,
some people think they could be one book, but we have them as two. Jeremiah, Lamentations.
Jeremiah was called the Weeping Prophet. Why was he called the Weeping Prophet? It is.
To lament something is to weep over something. But even in the Book of Jeremiah, if you didn't
have Lamentations, whoo, sorry, don't lose an eye. Let me see if I can hit her again.
Hells well, no ambulance necessary. Okay, so even in the Book of Jeremiah, without the
Book of Lamentations, they would still call him the Weeping Prophet. Does anybody know
why? What about Jeremiah's story? It is so bad. He did actually prophesy some good things.
He prophesied a little bit about the coming of Jesus, but mostly, you are right, it was
mostly bad. Why was it so bad? Because they were going the wrong way. So he was prophesying
about them needing to come back. That was just a game. Let me see if I can hit her again.
So they needed to come back to God. What did they do to him because he was prophesying
about them needing to come back to God? Does anybody know? They locked him up. I think
they beat him, and don't quote me on that one, but they put him down in a muddy well.
They locked him down in a well that was full of mud on the bottom. That was it. There were
other prophets who were saying, oh, don't worry, God is going to rescue you. But Jeremiah
was the only one saying, you are in trouble. You are not doing right. God is not going
to rescue you if you don't repent and turn back to God. They threw him in the well. They
kept all the other guys. They had a huge battle. Tons of guys died. A lot of the prophets died.
It was terrible. Jeremiah survived. Jeremiah was a loyal Israelite. He wanted to see his
people come back, be strong again. He said one thing he would never do is go into Egypt
for safety. When they were being attacked, he said, well, I will never flee into Egypt.
I will stay here and be God's people no matter what. Guess where he died? Egypt. They carried
him to Egypt in chains. They took him to Egypt against his will. He said I will never go
to Egypt. They carried him to Egypt in chains. He died on an island which was like a refuge
for people who fled from the war in Egypt. It was terrible. Good reason to call him the
weeping prophet. Lamentations, we did a cool exercise on this. Lamentations is organized
really cool where it follows the Hebrew alphabet. The beginning of every line is another Hebrew
letter. It would be A, B, C, D. It's really neat. We did that with the alphabet ourselves.
You can listen to the podcast online because that's podcasted. Ezekiel. Then starts with
a D. Daniel. Don't miss that one. That one I found out much later in life that I was
named after that guy. A couple of famous stories from the book of Daniel. Tell me tell me one.
Famous story from the book of Daniel. The lions then. Everybody knows the story of Daniel
and the lions then. Even if you aren't a Christian, you don't have any Christian background probably.
So he. Yep, that's a good one too. If you've heard anyone say the handwriting is on the
R. That's from the book of Daniel. Have you seen a knight's tale? Has anybody seen the
movie the knight's tale? It's not brand new anymore. It's a great movie. There's a scene
at the end. It says you've been measured. You've been weighed. You've been measured.
You've been found wanting. Great movie if you haven't seen it. Kind of a little bit
risque at points but really PG I think. But anyway, that's what was written on the R.
You've been weighed. You've been measured. You've been found wanting. And so that's a
quote from the book of Daniel. Okay. And then the summary. It's long. Let's take the top
part first. It says C.I.B.2. I gave you the word G. Nope. So think of the summary. The
major prophets did what? Nope. So. Nope. Carled Israel. Back to. Starts with a G. God. Yes.
Carled Israel back to God. Very good. And then the second part says and. Okay I'll give you
that. It prophesies Jesus. So the major prophets. Carled Israel back to God. And also prophesied
Jesus. That was impressive. Okay. Now we're going to go to the right. And we've just finished
the major prophets. And so now we will start the minor prophets. Very good. Okay. Oh short.
Sorry. Okay. And so these are not necessarily an exact Bible order here. But if you can
get these and you have read the Bible or been told about the Bible at some point in your
life because these smaller names are not always easy to remember. Okay the first one is with
an H. That is not the first one. Although that is on the list. Hosea. Yeah. So they
are somewhat in order. Yes. You just went to the first H you thought of. Yes. It might
be. Yeah it's possible. So Hosea. I think the first four are in order. In fact I think
the first six are in order. Yeah Hosea Joel Amos. Obadiah. Okay. If there is somebody
under the age of 18. Adults don't answer. You can tell me what the major prophecy of
the book of Obadiah is. I'll give you this right now. The major prophecy is not Jesus.
But we have talked about it tonight. Ten seconds. Eight. Six. Five. Three. Two. Okay adults
are in. Give us a little bit of a smile. No it's not return of the drill. Think further
back. Go further back into the night service. Like to the very beginning. Rewind. No. He's
got it. You gotta be able to say the country name. It's Edom. I'll get it. About the only
thing in Obadiah. Almost the whole book is about the downfall of Edom. Okay there is
a little bit more. But most of the book is about the downfall of Edom. Okay. And then
we've got a big fish. Shota. I don't know that was terrible. That was good. That one
flew. Okay. Micah. Then somebody already said the next one starts with an N. Nahum. RJ and
I preached through the entire book of Nahum about four years ago. It was awesome. You
will. Listen once it's full I'm going to ask questions and then everybody will have a chance.
So hopefully you're writing this stuff down. What? I have a picture where you preached
through Nahum 9. It's on my wall in my bedroom. Yep. A picture that I drew. We may have done
both. Yeah. Okay. Then Habakkuk. And then that one seems like it's not pronounced like
it's spelled Hagiai which is just H-A-G-G-A-I. Habakkuk has the most K's of any word I've
ever seen in my life. H-A-B-A-K-K-U-K. Not to be confused with the KKK or you in the
KKK. Habakkuk. H-A-B-A-K-K-U-K. It's like Habakk the United Kingdom. And then Zephaniah
and Zechariah Malachi. Okay. And Malachi ends, the book of Malachi ends 400 years before
the birth of Jesus. So when the book of Matthew takes up the birth of Jesus and the book of
Luke takes up pretty close to the beginning like that, that's the end of the 400 year
dry spell. There are no prophets. There's not like itty bitty major prophet, minor prophet,
itty bitty prophet. No there's just no prophets for 400 years. And Malachi said that that's
the way it would be, that there would be no real prophets in Israel for 400 years. Okay.
So notice it says same and there's an arrow point to the left because the minor prophets
called Israel back to God and prophesied Jesus. That's what they did. It was the same thing,
the same job. Israel was drifting, they called him back and they prophesied Jesus. Okay,
now we're in the bottom box and we're almost done and then we're just going to do some
more. In the sense of the prophets, maybe I would give credit to Anna and Sinian who
were in the temple. She was a prophetess, he was a prophet when Jesus came in as a baby.
He said now I can die. He was waiting for Jesus to be born. I would give credit to him.
He was waiting for that. And then he prophesies about what will happen. And then you know
John's dad prophesied at his birth and Mary prophesied when she found out she was pregnant.
So that doesn't make them prophets, right? But they did prophesy what would happen to
Israel, what God would do, that kind of thing. So I don't know, but I would give credit to
Sinian and Anna. Yeah. All right. So our 40 plus authors. Okay. So how many people wrote
the Bible? Over 40. All right. 1600 plus years. That's correct. Coming back. Do it again.
Yeah! Nailed him. All right. 40 plus authors, 1600 plus years. One theme. The next box,
make sure you get that blanks filled in for the question and answer time, which is right
around the corner. One theme. And what is that theme? R-I-J or R-in-J? Redemption in
Jesus. That's right. Very good. I just want to throw a piece of candy at you. Stop at
a question just for fun. Okay. Okay. All right. And so we've got 40 plus authors, 1600 plus
years. One theme. Redemption in Jesus. This next line is a list of professions that the
authors served in or lived during their lifetime. So the S is what? Shepherds. Very good, Josh.
That's terrible. All right. F is? Fisherman. I'll give you a Fisher. He caught one. And
the K? Kings. That's right. One there. One inch higher. It wouldn't have come back. I'm
going to do it again. There's an adult in the room and you want to throw candy at people,
just volunteer to teach. That's the key. Okay. Shepherds, fishermen, kings. F? Farmers.
P? Pastors. No. No pastors actually, by the way. Priests. Yes. So like Old Testament priest
style. And D? Doctors. Name the doctor. Yeah, that. Luke. Yeah, the candy's good. Okay.
Yes, Luke was the doctor. Was Luke a disciple? Not one of the 12 anyway, right? Yeah, so
he became a disciple later. Who probably led him to Christ? Paul. That's right. Yeah, probably.
Or one of the people that Paul led to Christ, one of the other, but most likely Paul. Okay.
And then the last one is, oh. Officers. Good enough. Officials or officers. People that
work for the government in some capacity, like a tax collector, military man, whatever.
Okay. So going to give you some references. In the interest of time, I'm going to read
the references to you real quick, just so you are a try anyway, just so you know what
they say. The first reference is Psalm 12.6. You guys got to go? Bye. Bye. Going to miss
out on the final rain of candy. You should probably get them invited to use group name.
Did you already do that? Okay. All right. So Psalm 12.6 says as follows. It says, the
words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth refined seven
times. 2 Timothy 3.16. Does anybody know what that says without me going there to look it
up? I'm on my way, but. The word of God is. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness. And then 17
says that the man of God may be adequate and equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3.16.
And you got Revelation 22 and that's actually 18 to 21. So Revelation 22, 18 to 21. 22,
18 to 21. Revelation 22. It's the very last verses of the Bible. And it says as follows.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds
to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book. And if anyone
takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from
the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. He who testifies
to these things says, yes, I am coming quickly. Amen. Come Lord Jesus, the grace of the Lord
Jesus be with you all. That's the summary. Now, there's a raging debate as to whether
or not that verse when it talks about adding is referring only to the book of Revelation
or it's referring to the whole Bible. So, add or subtract anything from the Bible, suffer
the curses and so on, or if it's just Revelation. And I'm not going to settle that debate today,
if I could even. And then 2nd Peter 1, 21 says, for no prophecy was ever made by an
act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. And then Psalms, yes,
1 19 11. And somebody ought to know that verse and if you don't, you should definitely memorize
it. Does anybody know it? Yes. No, that's in Psalm 119, but that's not the one. Yep.
Yep, that's it. Psalm 119 11. I'm going to name a book of the Bible and you're going
to tell me what section it goes under. First person that gets it gets the candy. Okay,
here we go. Judges. One landed, one fell short. I'm going to give you a few, just because
you were so close in there. Okay. Poetry. Okay. Alright. Havakuk. Minor prophets it
is. Okay. Of all the prophets he wrote the most that we have. Isaiah, that's correct.
Halfway there. That's terrible. Okay. Survive the lions. Okay. Talks about love and intimacy.
Sorry, a little high RJ. Okay. Israel calls out for a king. First and second Samuel. Okay.
As many pithy writings. Proverbs is correct. One out of two. Oh, did you? Excellent. Well
done. Okay. Alright, this is a harder one. Never mentions the name of God. Esther is
correct. Well done, Tim. Okay. Yes. So God's name is not God is not mentioned in the book
of Esther. It's one of the reasons why they almost didn't make it in the canon, but they
did put it in because it does speak very much about him. Just never says the word God. Okay.
This book is alphabetized. Lamentations. Very good. Nice. Two for two. Okay. Let's see.
Don't really talk about that. Okay, I'll do this one anyway. Alright, see if you can get
it. This book says there is a time for everything. Ecclesiastes is correct. Well done. That is
true. There is a time for everything. Has a great musical lyric based on that too. Okay.
This section of books contains songs, proverbs, and writing. Poetry. Poetry. Aaron was first.
I hope you like the book. At least they're gluten free. He even pulled up that psychic
grunt and he still didn't catch it. Okay. This book is composed of the two final speeches
of Moses. Deuteronomy. Alright. These two books tell the tale of the return of Israel to the
promised land. No. That's probably written after the return and does reflect back, but
these two books are the actual return. What? Nope. They are named after the two men who
led the returns. Oh, Joshua. He's got one. Ezra's one. Nehemiah. Okay, that's right.
Alright, we're going to call it. So next week we'll do the New Testament. The idea is to
brush up on our basic Bible knowledge. I think we did a pretty good job of that. We maybe
found some things that we didn't know before and it was neat that we knew some things that
weren't in the lesson. So let's pray together and then we'll just kind of go have snacks
and fellowship a little bit and be done.