Old testament survey!

God, The Father’s, identity, who is God?, what is His nature?, it has Never changed!

God is love ( 1 Jn 4:8 )- He has, and will always be love; God never changed, MEN changed, ( Mal 3:6; Heb 1:12: 13:8 ), so He had to have a progressive agenda after the fall ( Gens 3:15 );
2 truths- 1. It is God’s will that none perish, but ALL, repent ( 2 Pet 3:9 ); 2. God hath put in EVERY human his Godhead knowledge that is CLEARLY seen, so all are without excuse ( Rom 1:18-20 ); MOST IMPORTANT PART of Old testament- Must be read through the lenses of Jesus unveiling, and through the perspective of your inner man ( Jn 5:39; 2 Cor 3:14; Rom 7:22 );
God is good ( Gens 1:31 )- God is, and always will be good, He created things good, and men brought disorder in the world;
( 2 Cor 13:14 )- Grace of Lord Jesus, love of God, communion of Holy Spirit; there is your Godhead roles;
GODHEAD, TRINITY, THREE IN ONE-( Gens 1:26; 11:7; Zech 4:14 )- Trinity, word trinity not in Bible, just means 3, Godhead ( Rom 1:20; Col 2:9 ), 3 in one, verses in old testament; Godhead explained- There is ONE God ( Mal 2:10; Mk 12:32; Eph 4:6; 1 Cor 8:6; 1 Tim 2:5 ), in THREE persons ( 1 Jn 5:7 ; Jn 14; 14:26; 15:26; Jn 16; 16:7-15; Matt 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14; ); All different roles, SAME nature; Ex- Ice, water, vapor- same element, three different forms; Ex- egg white, yoke, shell- same element three different forms;
God’s nature is good, not Bad He CAN’T SIN ( Gen 1:31 ); Just like, I CAN’T Be 6’10, and white, it’s not my nature, so if you asked me to fill out an application, and check my race as white, and my height as 6’10, I can’t, because it’s not my nature; What’s my point, since God CAN’T SIN, sin HAS to be paid for, or it WILL NOT be God’s nature, and Jesus paid it ( Gal 3:13 ); So if YOU, don’t accept the punishment for sin, Jesus, that MEN BROUGHT into the world ( Rom 5:18; Gens 2-3 ), NOT God, then you will suffer consequences eternally, because He is just!, that He takes NO PLEASURE in doing ( Ezek 33:11 ); He is Just, and He redeemed what MEN caused; God is the HELP, NOT the problem!
God is for you, NOT against you; God so LOVED the world ( people, not system ) ( Jn 3:16; Gens 1:26 )
God made EVERYTHING PERFECT ( Gens 1:31 ); MEN disordered it ( Gens 2-3 ); God redeemed it ( Gens 3:15; Jn 3:16 )
If it’s good, it’s God ( Gens 1:31 ); if it’s bad it the devil ( 1 Jn 3:8 );
1. MERCY- Before Law ( Rom 5:13 )
2- JUDGMENT – During law ( Gal 3:24 )
3- Grace – Jesus ( Titus 2:11-12 )
( 1 Cor 10:6-11 )- Old testament stories were recorded for our example to learn from
THE BAD- ( Amos 3:7 )- God Always warned nations, BEFORE destroying them, and always promised restoration to his people ( Jer 30 );
THE BAD- Where is the love in destroying? If would have let go, we as a human race would of destroyed each other ( Gens 6:5 ); God’s severity, judgment, always saved something else from happening; ( Rom 11:22; Ps 99:4 )- With God there is severity, and judgment, also righteousness, and goodness! Sin has to be paid for, Old Testament it wasn’t yet, still everyone without excuse ( Rom 1:18-20 ), New testament, Jesus paid for it all ( Isa 53 );
THE BAD- God destroyed people in Old testament! True, but it was a curse ( Deut 27:26 ), because they couldn’t keep all the law, but Jesus has redeemed believers from curse ( Gal 3:13 ); and never willingly ( Lam 3:33 ), but because of their actions!, but promised redemption ( Isa 43 );
THE BAD- The law worked God’s wrath, because it was conditional with actions, but believers are not under the law, but under grace ( Rom 4:15; 6:14 ); people did this to themselves ( Hos 13:9 );
Biggest difference from old, New testament ( Heb 1:1 )- God wasn’t able to communicate spirit to Spirit ( 1 Cor 2; Jn 16:12-13; Col 1:27 ); so spoke through symbolic things; bushes, clouds, lay on side to symbolize years, etc; He had to work from outside, in, law, because Jesus hadn’t come, and died, and resurrected yet for the Holy Spirit to live in believers, grace ( Jn 16:7 ) to work inside, out, and reveal things to them from Spirit to spirit; Natural man without spirit can’t receive from God ( 1 Cor 2:14; Eph 3:5 ); Must read old testament through lenses of Jesus, and inner man perspective ( 2 Cor 3:14; Jn 5:39; Rom 7:22 );
spirit, temporarily entered into men, when accomplishing things in old testament ( Ezek 2:2-3; Ps 51:11 );

QUESTIONS?, Before we get into questions concerning how God has, is, will operate, remember; 1. It is God’s WILL, that NONE should perish ( 2 Pet 3:9 ); 2. God has put His FULL revelation of His nature, into EVERY human born, so they are without excuse ( Rom 1:18-20 );

How can a loving God, send someone to hell that never heard the gospel in a far country? He won’t, God reveals, and shows, EVERYONE who, has, and will be born, the knowledge of Him, so EVERYONE is without excuse; God will judge those that never heard the gospel, by the knowledge that He put in them at birth; ( Rom 1:18-20 )
If God knew people would not choose Him, then why create them just to go tell hell? Even though He knows, people still have a choice ( Deut 30:19 ), and to God, the people that are going to heaven, because of CHOOSING to accept Jesus, those people to God it’s worth it! People in hell will continue to hate God there as well; They got what they wanted, no God, which what hell is;
But if God knows person won’t choose Him, then why not just create people He know will choose Him? Because God has a seed, harvest law, that produces after its own kind ( Gens 1:11 ), so if God pick, and chose people according to knowing there life or not, then He would have to violate the seed, harvest law for everything, food, fruit, etc, and He CAN’T violate His laws; ( Ps 89:34 );
Why didn’t God send redemption, Jesus, right away? Not because of God needing time, but again, men needing a progress time, to first KNOW God, then God had to establish himself a people on earth, Jews, to establish, teach, keep, His nature, laws, of His expectations; Then, so people can realize, they alone CAN’T keep His nature, He had to make people realize they need a Savior; Then, acknowledge people of this Savior coming, and what will happen; All of this He had to find PEOPLE that would cooperate with Him, in doing these things! That took time ( Gal 4:4; Eph 1:10 );
JEWS- They destroyed THEMSELVES, but still, their help was in God ( Hos 13:9 )
All law in old testament was for JEWS ONLY ( Rom 2:14; 3:19 ); Gentiles before Christ went off of their intuitive knowledge by God ( Rom 1:18-20 ) and their conscience ( Rom 2:15-16 ); you can as gentiles use laws in old testament for moral guidance, or good ONLY, but God NEVER related to gentiles as He did with Jews; ( Jonah )- Nineveh, and other non Jewish nations was reap what sow result, not law of God result
Reading the old testament stories of Bible hero’s, they are there for you, and every story you can believe God can do that for you, because He is no respect of persons ( Acts 10:34; Rom 2:11 );
Reading the old testament curses, you can read them in ( Deut 28:15-66 ), and compare all of those to ( Gal 3:13-14 )- Christ has redeemed believers from those all!

GODS names ( Jehovahistic names ) in old testament, hasn’t changed! Jesus said He only does what He sees His Father do while God in the flesh ( Jn 5:19; 1 Tim 3:16 );

We are part-takers of His divine nature ( 2 Pet 1:4 );
El shaddai – Lord Almighty ( Gens 17:1 )
El Elyon- Most High God ( Gens 14:18 )
Adonai – Lord Master ( Gens 15:2 )
Yahweh- Lord Jehovah ( Gens 2:4 )
Jehovah Nissi- The Lord my banner ( Ex 17:15 )
Jehovah Raah- Lord my Sheppard ( Ps 23 )
Jehovah Rapha- The Lord that heals ( Ex 15:26 )
Jehovah Shammah- The Lord is there ( Ezekiel 48:35 )
Jehovah Tsidenu- Lord our righteousness ( Jer 23:6 )
Jehovah Mekoddishkem- Lord sanctification ( Ezekiel 31:13 )
El olam- Everlasting God ( Gens 21:33 )
Elohim- God ( Gens 1:1 )
Qanna- Jealous ( Ex 20:5 )
Jehovah Jireh- The Lord provides ( Gens 22:14 )
Jehovah Shalom- Lord peace ( Judges 6:24 )
Jehovah Sabaoth- The Lord of Hosts ( 1 Sam 1:3 )

Where is Holy Spirit in old testament?

Holy Spirit spake through men, as they did things, and wrote the Bible, but only temporary, until Jesus came to earth, died, rose, and went back to heaven ( Gens 1:2; 11:7; Ex 31:3; 33:14-15; Num 11:25-departed; Judges 3:10; 11:29; 14:6,19; 15:14; 1 Sam 10:6,10; 11:6; 16:13; 14-departed; 2 Sam 23:2; 1 Chron 12:18; 2 Chron 15:1; 24:20; Neh 9:20,30; Ps 51:11; Ezek 2:2-3; 10:17-18; 11:5; 37:1-10; 47:1-6; Isa 8:1; 48:16; 63:11; Jer 20:9; 30:1-2; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:21; Jn:16:7; Job 33:4; Zech 4:1-6; Acts 1:16-Ps 41:9; 28:25 );

Where is Jesus in old testament?

( Jn 5:39 )-The scriptures testify of Jesus, Jesus is concealed in the old testament, but in every book, He is there!
( 2 Cor 3:14 )- When reading Old testament now, it must be read without the vail, which is through Jesus!
( Gens 3:15 )- Jesus redeemer
( Ex 3:14 )- Jesus, I Am
( Lev 1:1-4 )- Blameless lamb
( Num 21:8 )- Curse for us
( Deut 18:18 )- Our Prophet
( Josh 5:14-15 )- Our guarantee of promise land
( Judges 2:18 )- Deliver
( Ruth 4:15 )- restorer
( 1&2, 1 Samuel 7:8-12 )- Safe King
( 1&2, 1 Kings 8:56 )- King of rest
( 1&2 Chron )- Builder of temple, believers are temple ( 1 Cor 6:19 )
( Ezra 7:10 )- Our teacher
( Neh )- Rebuilder of from broken walls
( Esther )- Our Saviour from utter destruction
( Job 19:25 )- Redeemer
( Ps )- Our praise
( Prov )- Our wisdom
( Eccl )- EVERYTHING vain, without Him
( Song of Solomon 2:1 )- Rose of Sharon, grow fruitful in unproductive atmosphere
( Isa 7:14 )- Emmanuel, God with us in the flesh, Son of God
( Jer 23:6 )- Our Righteousness
( Lam 3:22-23 )- Our daily mercy
( Ezek 43:2 )- The glory of God
( Dan 3:25 )- Our protector
( Hos 3:1 )- Lover of unfaithful
( Joel 3:16 )- Hope of people
( Amos 7:7 )- Our plumeline
( Obadiah 17 )- Our deliverance
( Jonah )- Our salvation
( Micah 5:2 )- Our everlasting
( Nahum 1:2 )- Our avenger
( Hab 2:4 )- Our faith we live by
( Zep 3:17-19 )- Our hope
( Haggai 2:7 )- Desire of nations
( Zech 3:8 )- Our Branch
( Malachi 4:2 )- Our Sun of righteousness

Point of books explanations mostly are from Life Application Bible;

Adam to Jesus generations! ( Lk 3; Matt 1:17 )

Adam to Abraham;

Adam to Seth- 130 yrs- ( Gens 5:3 )
Seth to Enos- 105 yrs- ( Gens 5:6 )
Enos to Cainan- 90 yrs- ( Gens 5:9 )
Caiman to Mahalaleel- 70 yrs- ( Gens 5:12 )
Mahalaleel to Jared- 65 yrs- ( Gens 5:15 )
Jared to Enoch- 162 yrs- ( Gens 5:18 )
Enoch to Methuselah- 65 yrs- ( Gens 5:21 )
Methuselah to Lamech- 187 yrs- ( Gens 5:25 )
Lamech to Noah- 182 yrs- ( Gens 5:28-29 )
Noah to flood- 600 yrs- ( Gens 7:6 )
Flood to Arphaxad- 2 yrs- ( Gens 11:10 )
Arphaxad to Salah- 35 yrs- ( Gens 11:12 )
Salah to Eber- 30 yrs- ( Gens 11:14 )
Eber to Peleg- 34 yrs- ( Gens 11:16 )
Peleg to Reu- 30 yrs- ( Gens 11:18 )
Reu to Serug- 32 yrs- ( Gens 11:20 )
Serug to Nahor- 30 yrs- ( Gens 11:22 )
Nahor to Terah- 29 yrs- ( Gens 11:24 )
Terah to Abraham- 70 yrs- ( Gens 11:26 )

Adam to Abraham= 1948 yrs, also found in ( Lk 3:34-38 );

Abraham to Egypt-

Abraham to Isaac- 100 yrs- ( Gens 21:5 )
Isaac to Jacob- 60 yrs- ( Gens 25:26 )
Jacob to Egypt- 130 years ( Gens 47:28 )

Abraham to Egypt= 290 yrs

Egypt to Exodus-

Jacob, Levi, Kohath to Egypt- ( Gens 46: 8,11 )
Kahath had Amram- ( Ex 6:18 )
Amram had Moses- ( Ex 6:20 )
Moses to Exodus- 80 yrs- ( Ex 7:7; Acts 7:21-23, 29-30;

Egypt to Exodus= 63 yrs ish+ 80yrs- Moses to Egypt

Exodus to death of Joshua

In wilderness- 40 yrs- ( Num 32:13 )
Wilderness to death of Joshua – 25 yrs ( Jos 14:7,10; 24:29 )

Exodus to death of Joshua= 65 yrs

Judges under kings, either oppressed, or judged Israel;

Cushanrishathaim- 8 yrs- ( Jud 3:8 )
Othniel- 40 yrs- ( Jud 3:10-11 )
Ehud 80 yrs- ( Jud 3:15-30 )
Jabin 20 yrs- ( Jud 4:3 )
Deborah 40 yrs- ( Jud 4,5 )
Midian 6 yrs- ( Jud 6:1 )
Gideon 40 yrs- ( Jud 6-8 )
Tola 23 yrs- ( Jud 10:1,2 )
Jair 22 yrs- ( Jud 10:3-5 )
Ammonities- 18 yrs- ( Jud 10:5-8 )
Jephthah- 6 yrs- ( Jud 12:7 )
Ibzan- 7 yrs- ( Jud 12:8-9 )
Elon- 10 yrs- ( Jud 12:11 )
Abdon- 8 yrs- ( Jud 12:13-14 )
Philistine- 40yrs- ( Jud 13:1 )
Samson- 20 yrs- ( Jud 13:24, 15:20 )
Eli/ Samuel- 40 yrs- ( 1 Sam 4:18 )

Judges to Samuel= about 450 yrs- ( Acts 13:20 )

Under kings of Judah-

Saul- 40yrs- ( Acts 13:21 )
David- 40yrs- ( 1 Chron 29:26-27 )
Solomon- 40 yrs- ( 1 Kings 11:42-43 )
Rehoboam- 17 yrs- ( 1 Kings 14:21 )
Abijam- 3 yrs- ( 1 Kings 14:31; 15:1-2 )
Asa- 41 yrs- ( 1 Kings 15:8-10 )
Jehosphaphat- 25 yrs- ( 1 Kings 22:41-42, 45 )
Jehoram- 8 yrs- ( 2 Chron 21:5 )
Ahaziah- 1 yr- ( 2 Chron 22:1-2 )
Athahah- 6 yrs- ( 2 Chron 22:10-12 )
Joash- 40 yrs – ( 2 Chron 24:1 )
Amaziah- 29 yrs- ( 2 Chron 25:1 )
Uzziah- 52 yrs- ( 2 Chron 26:3 )
Jotham- 16 yrs- ( 2 Chron 27:1 )
Ahaz- 16 yrs- ( 2 Chron 28:1 )
Hezekiah- 29 yrs ( 2 Chron 29:1 )
Manasseh- 55 yrs- ( 2 Chron 33:1 )
Amon- 2 yrs- ( 2 Chron; 33:20-21 )
Josiah- 31 yrs- ( 2 Chron 34:1 )
Jehoahaz- 3 mon- ( 2 Chron 36:1-2 )
Jehoiakim- 11 yrs- ( 2 Chron 36:3-7 )
Jehoiachin- 3 mon- ( 2 Chron 36:9 )
Zedekiah- 11 yrs- ( 2 Chron 36:11-21 )

Under kings of Judah = 513 yrs

Babylonian captivity= 70 yrs- ( Jer 29:10 )
Babylonian captivity to Christ, is 14 generations ( Gens 6:3- 120 years max; Ps 90:10 after 80 soon die ); ( Matt 1:17 )= 120×14= 1680 yrs

Adam to Jesus recap

Adam to Abraham= 1948 yrs
Abraham to Egypt= 290 yrs
Egypt to Moses= 63 yrs ish
Moses to Exodus= 80 years
Exodus to death of Joshua= 65 yrs
Judges to Samuel = 450 yrs- ( Acts 13:20 )
Kings of Judah= 513 yrs
Babylonian captivity= 70 yrs- ( Jer 29:10 )
= 3479 YEARS Adam to Babylonian captivity
= 1680, 14 generations from Babylonian captivity to Christ
- 3479+ 1680= 5159 approximately Adam to Jesus!

Old testament survey!

God is love ( 1 Jn 4:8 )- He has, and will always be love; God never changed, MEN changed, ( Mal 3:6; Heb 1:12: 13:8 ), so He had to have a progressive agenda after the fall ( Gens 3:15 );