Category Archives: – Thru the Bible Series

We began this series on January 11, 2017 and continues to this day.

It chronicles our ongoing trek through the Bible beginning in Genesis, though our trek has not followed a 100% traditional order.

We have attempted to keep books whose contents are related in time, as much together as possible with some noteworth exceptions.

The specific chapters covered are NOT usually part of the title of each post making specific scriptures a little tricky to find by a simple “search”.

To compensate for that we have a page dedicated to this series which lists each of the scriptures we’ve covered so far as a link. It is our hope that this will help aid you in your studies….God Bless!

Old Testament Review – Exodus Part 2

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This is our second week reviewing Exodus and these are the high points we addressed:

• 400 years… 430 years or 179 years of bondage?
• Moses’ mom recognizes his call at his birth
• When God calls He provides
• God’s power in our weakness
• Late life does not disqualify – in fact, it may actually help
• The Hardening of Pharaoh’s heart
• The rules are for everyone – (God threatens to kill Moses)
• 3 Days in… 2½ months in… Water & Manna
• God test’s Israel’s hearts and obedience
• The Manna becomes a testimony against Israel
• Water from the Rock (which represented Christ)
• Moses discovers a new name and attribute of God
• The establishment of Israel’s tribunal
• God encounters… Israel retreats

This review is intended to remind us of all we learned over the course of our 9 years studying the Old Testament. The things listed are major lessons which are often “first mentionings” of patterns, procedures, principles and truths repeated throughout scripture. Meaning, learning them early in our journey through the Bible will greatly aid us in comprehending all that comes afterwards.

Much of the foundational lessons of Exodus are not really found in Israel as much as they are in the person of Moses. At many times and in many ways, he IS the lesson, and the lessons are relational to their core!

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Old Testament Review – Exodus Part 1

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We left off last week with the death of Joseph at 110 years old in 1805B.C. and the prediction of Moses’ birth 278 years later in 1527 B.C.
Our re-trek through Exodus-Deuteronomy will largely be about major and foundational truths which are first established in these books.
As you know Exodus, means “departure” making the primary focus of the book about Israel’s departure from Egypt, which begins with Moses in their generations. So it is that Exodus begins with a listing of the tribes who came to Egypt with Jacob and then immediately goes into Egypt’s oppression of Israel.
This introduces our first big lesson which has a very universal impact on our understanding of scripture, God and His dealings with nations – including His Own people. And it is something which God specifically spoke to Abraham about many years prior.
So this week we BEGIN Exodus, but focus largely upon Genesis 15 and Exodus 12:40-42 and that is entirely because Israel’s oppression in mentioned right out the gate in chapter 1.
This lesson MAY seem unnecessary to many, but it really does address some major theological content which establishes first principles for many issues people run into throughout scripture.

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Genesis Overview Part 4

Old Testament Review – Genesis Part 4

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This week we made it our aim to finish Genesis and just barely, we did!

To start off, we backed up just a little, as we often do, in order to pick up a few stray, but important points I’d left unaddressed from last week. These regarded God’s name El Shaddai and Abram being renamed to Abraham.

We then hit most of those highlights of the remainder of Genesis beginning in chapter 23 on to 10. We touched upon Eliezer, Isaac & Rebekah, Esau, Jacob & Leah / Rachel and then finished with our focus really on Joseph.

We didn’t really touch on Joseph’s brothers since in many ways, this early in Genesis they were largely more peripheral to the main points.

Lots of good stuff here in terms of teachings, principles and life lessons.

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Genesis Review

Old Testament Review – Genesis Part 3

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This week we moved on in our review of Genesis with only a few major events.

We further discussed the time period between the flood and Abram, with Peleg being a thumbtack on the map of human history – when the peoples of the earth were divided into the new language groups God generated and went out establishing new lands which would eventually become nations. This is where we brought of Job who, almost certainly was alive at that dispersion and helped settle the land of Uz. As such, we covered lightly covered Job and how, contrary to what many believe, he likely lived the whole of his life just after the dispersion at the Tower of Babel and died years before Noah did. Then Noah died two years before Abram was born.

We then addressed a few of the high points of Abram-Abraham’s life before introducing Isaac and Jacob which is where we will pick up next week.

All in all, we covered many of the major events and people from 2417 B.C. – 2006 B.C.. This leaves us only 1,606 more years of Old Testament history to cover, 479 of which will bring us to the end of Genesis and begin Exodus with the birth and call of Moses.

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Old Testament Review – Genesis Part 2

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:14:40 — 40.4MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS   Wednesday 7/22/26 Thru the Bible: Old Testament Review – Genesis Pt. 2 Message Video Player Message Audio Player: ***Video is HERE*** Thru the Bible Old Testament Review – Genesis Pt. 2 We ended last week with the division of the godly lineage of Seth and the ungodly lineage of Cain and how the righteous intermarrying with the unrighteous filled the earth with wickedness so that in the end only one man possessed favor with God – namely Noah. We skipped the whole Nephilim thing since we covered it in detail […]

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