Bible Study Intensive

The rest of the story. We know from last week Saul’s days are numbered. The people had rejected God as their king and now God has rejected Saul as the people’s king. The last question last week showed us that God was looking for someone after His own heart to be king. 

Israel had gone from the very heights of victory and success as they came to the land God had promised to Abraham. As we saw last week time passed and the land was in chaos. This is no surprise to God.

This story takes place in the time of the judges before a king was in place to rule over the nation. The Talmud speculates that Samuel wrote the book, but there is no author named so we can say that for certain.

The name of the book comes from the 12 leaders whose leadership was from the time of Joshua to Samuel. We will look at the book as a series of snapshots taken over a period of 200-300 years. None of the judges ruled over the entire nation, but each of the 12 judges ruled over a geographic area for a period of time.

The next series of books we will be digging in are the historical books. We don’t know who wrote the book of Joshua, but it was someone who knew his exploits before and mentions the memorials after his death. The book of Joshua provides the means by which God fulfilled His part of the covenant. 

We ended our last lesson with grumbling by the people and seeing this is a consequence for their disbelief. We will start to see what is further revealed by the Lord.

The Hebrew title of this book is “In the Wilderness”. When the book was translated into Greek it was changed to numbers, because that is what the first chapters describe, census taking. Interesting in what we will learn about Jesus in this book.

By this time you know what we are digging to find, glimpses of Jesus. Guess what?!! By studying this book, that is often ignored by Christians, we will see in the images of Leviticus, the person of Jesus and His role. Put on your Indiana Jones hat and let’s go digging!!

**We will use the same study sheet for weeks 13 & 14 **

God, through the Holy Spirit, directed Moses in the Genesis Chapter 1 to spend 31 verses and 3 verses in Chapter 2 to describe the creation of the world. Starting in Exodus Chapter 25 through 31 God explained to Moses the way in which the tabernacle was to be constructed. Then in Chapters 35 through 40 the actual construction was described. In all 50 chapters were devoted to the tabernacle and functions.

**We will use the same study sheet for the next two weeks**

God, through the Holy Spirit, directed Moses in the Genesis Chapter 1 to spend 31 verses and 3 verses in Chapter 2 to describe the creation of the world. Starting in Exodus Chapter 25 through 31 God explained to Moses the way in which the tabernacle was to be constructed. Then in Chapters 35 through 40 the actual construction was described. In all 50 chapters were devoted to the tabernacle and functions.