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 – Deuteronomy Part 2

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Last week in our overview of Deuteronomy we covered Deut. 1, 3, 7 & 20 – Who the 7 nations were Israel was to kill all of and what 2 kings they conquered during their wanderings.

This week we are covering the rest of the book save the last 2 chapters.

Main points covered were:

• The nations God would NOT give Israel that He had already given to others.
• The reason why God gives land to nations and takes it from others
• That the time periods each nations has is predetermined by the foreknowledge and justice & mercy of God.
• The Shema
• The various idiomatic meanings for the word “destroy” in relations to the nations God called Israel to conquer.
• Moses explaining the why, when and who regarding his replacement by Joshua.
• Joshua’s inauguration and commission by God before the tent of meeting.
• The Blessings and Cursings
• The updated and amended covenant with Israel’s 2nd generation.
• The terms of Israel keeping the land which differ slightly from other nations.
• The consequences for disobedience.
• Where Solomon got the prayer he prayed at the dedication of the temple in 2 Chronicles 7-8.
• The predicted future unfaithfulness of Israel.
• The song of Moses and its prophetic scope leading all the way to the Millennial kingdom.

Next week we will cover chapters 33-34.

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Old Testament Review – Deuteronomy Part 1

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Deuteronomy is Moses’ address to the 2nd generation of Israelites coming out of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness due to the rebellion of their parents.

It contains Moses’ retelling of the laws and judgments given by God, the rebellions of the 1st generation of Israelites, the lands conquered, the lands already allotted to others which were therefore off limits to Israel, the spying out of the land and its results including the 40 years of wandering, the blessings and curses evoked upon this 2nd generation at Mount Ebal and Gerizim, the reading of the law to this 2nd generation, Moses’ prayer, intercession, inauguration of Joshua as his successor and his death before Joshua led the 2nd generation of Israelites into the Land promised to them.

In this installment, we are looking primarily at three things of great importance:
1. The Judgment and Mercy of God
2. The Who and an additional “why” regarding those God called Israel to completely destroy
3. The superiority of the Law given to the Jews

Other topics are brushed up against, but these three took the greatest part of our time together due to their importance and the impact they have on the understanding of many other things throughout the Bible.

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Old Testament Review Exodus through Numbers

Old Testament Review – Exodus 32 – Numbers

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This week we really picked up the pace.

We had to begin by circling back to Exodus 32 to cover something of import which I had overlooked, and then moved on into Leviticus and Numbers. These books are very themed and easy to outline what the chapters were about without the need for very much commentary.

There were a few points of importance which have a substantial impact on the rest of scripture so we bore down on those, but otherwise, just offered a pretty basic overview.

Even still this is worth your time if you are wanting to familiarize yourself with these Old Testament books and some of the more impactful portions of them.

Key points:
• God choosing the Levites for Himself out of all of Israel
• Moses’ encounter with God
• The clearly stated reason for the inhabitants of the Promised Land being destroyed.
• The construction of the Temple
• The priesthood
• The Levites – their divisions and jobs
• God giving the Levites to the Priests as a gift
• The 5 sacrifices of Israel and their purposes
• The sin of Nadab and Abihu
• The sin of Moses and Aaron which kept them from entering the Promised Land and what that sin symbolized
• The Silver Trumpets
• The transfer of authority to Joshua from Moses
• The deaths of Miriam, Aaron & Moses
• The important provision for the daughters of Zelophehad

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Old Testament Review – Exodus Part 4

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This week it seems as if the beauty of the text took us on a VIP tour of not only Moses’, but also of God’s Own heart. We’re talking about things such as the inward thoughts, desires, intentions as well as the longings.

That, and it brought into clearer view the fact that God doesn’t ever do anything with half a heart, which has unexpected consequences when it comes to matter of mercy and justice.

Additionally these passages, have a direct impact on issues of freewill, sovereignty and inability to derail God’s plans and purposes, while His desires regarding each human heart – more often than not – remain unrealized.

It was a deeply rewarding study with profound implications in how we are to understand Who God is, how He thinks and feels, decides and acts.

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Old Testament Review – Exodus Part 3

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

• God speaks the “Ten Words” to Israel
• Israel recoils and requests a mediator
• God’s transparent & broken heart
• God’s intention & accommodation
• The tablets
• Moses records and reads the laws and rules
• The sins of the fathers and sour grapes

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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