�ݺ�ߣ

JUDGES,KINGS, PROPHETS PREPARE THE WAY

PENTATEUCH CREATION - GOOD ,VERY GOOD SIN ENTERS - HOPELESSNESS CREATOR GOD  REDEEMER GOD ABRAHAM - INDIVIDUAL JOSEPH - FAMILY MOSES - NATION 40 YEARS IN DESERT- PREPARATION

PENTATEUCH Abraham –father of faith- salvation begins Centered on Moses God reveals himself as God of freedom God of love & forgiveness God who keeps his covenant God who instructs/guides Man towards goodness & love

Old Testament prefigures New Testament Red Sea- Baptism Manna- Eucharist Bronze Serpent lifted up on pole- Christ on the Cross- power to heal & redeem

HISTORICAL BOOKS JOSHUA JUDGES RUTH 1 AND 2 SAMUEL 1 AND 2 KINGS

HISTORICAL BOOKS ABOUT 1000 YEARS’ HISTORY ENTRY INTO PROMISED LAND DECLINE UNDER THE JUDGES PROSPERITY UNDER MONARCHY MIXED FORTUNES UNDER DIVIDED KINGDOMS EXILE RETURN FROM EXILE

RELIGIOUS PURPOSE OF BOOK OF JOSHUA CROSSING OF JORDAN COQUEST OF CANAAN GIFT OF GOD - FULFILMENT OF PROMISE TO ABRAHAM CELEBRATE – CICUMCISION & PASSOVER FEAST

AT DEATH OF JOSHUA GOD’S PEOPLE A NATION SETTLED IN THE PROMISED LAND IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH YAHWEH

BOOK OF JUDGES TIME OF JUDGES – 1250-1050BC JUDGES – WARLORDS /MILITARY LEADERS 12 JUDGES : 6 + OTHNIEL EHUD DEBRAH GIDEON JEPHTAH SAMSON

ISRAELITES COMMIT APOSTASY GO AGAINST GOD / COVENANT GOD DELIVERS THEM TO OPPRESSORS ISRAELITES CRY OUT TO GOD A HERO /JUDGE DELIVERS THEM PEACE DESCENDS

Pattern of events: People sinned God punished them (delivered to hands of oppressors) People cried out to Yahweh Yahweh sent “deliverer” Judge People experience peace Judge dies, People revert to sin

SIN PUNISHMENT REPENTANCE DELIVERANCE

GOD STOOD BY THE PEOPLE WHEN THEY WERE FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT But ALLOWED THEM TO EXPERIENCE DISASTER WHEN THEY TURNED AWAY FROM HIM

DEBRAH GAVE COURAGE TO ARMY – LED BY BARAK GIDEON FOUGHT MIDIANITES ARMY REDUCED IN NUMBER POWER OF YAHWEH SAMSON FOUGHT PHILISTINES STRONG IN BATTLE BUT WEAK IN COMPANY OF WOMEN

“ In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was best in his own eyes” Jgs 21:25

RUTH FIDELITY,KINDNESS,LOVE, ACCEPTANCE BRINGS BACK HOPE BOAZ – OBED – JESSE -DAVID ANCESTOR OF JESUS

1 AND 2 SAMUEL ISRAEL’S TRANSITION FROM A LOOSE CONFEDERATION TO A UNITED KINGDOM - STRONG MARCHY AND EMPIRE

SAMUEL SON OF ELKANAH & HANNA SERVED UNDER ELI AT TEMPLE AT SHILOH RELIGIOUS,POLITICAL UNIFYING FORCE PROPHET AND JUDGE

DANGER FROM PHILISTINES AND OTHER ENEMIES ISRAELITES ASK FOR A KING: “ GIVE US A KING TO RULE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS” 1 Sam 8:5

THEOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS “ THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED YOU,BUT THEY HAVE REJECTED ME FROM BEING KING OVER THEM” 1 SAM 8:7 SOCIAL PROBLEMS SAUL ANNOINTED KING

NATION OF ISRAEL NOW A KINGDOM

SAUL – 1 st KING WON MANY WARS VICTIM OF PRIDE,JEALOUSY,HATRED OF DAVID SAMUEL ANNOINTES DAVID,PROCLAIMED KING OF JUDAH ON DEATH OF SAUL

DAVID COMPLETES SAUL’S CONQUESTS CONSOLIDATES POWER ESTABLISHES EMPIRE JERUSALEM MADE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CAPITAL

DAVID SINS PROPHET NATHAN DENOUNCES DAVID’S SIN DAVID’S FAMILY IN DISARRAY DAVID EXILED

DAVID SINNED BUT HE REPENTED FAITH IN GOD DYNASTIC COVENANT DAVID “A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART” LEFT RICH HERITAGE

SOLOMON GIFT OF WISDOM BUILT KINGDOM OF GRANDEUR PEOPLE OPPRESSED FELL VICTIM TO APOSTASY PUNISHMENT – BREAK UP OF KINGDOM: NORTHERN KINGDOM – ISREAL SOUTHERN KINGDOM - JUDAH

PROPHETS MEN WHO SPOKE FOR GOD PROPHECY – THE INTERPRETATION OF THE MIND AND WILL OF GOD

ROLE OF PROPHETS KEEP NATION FAITHFUL TO YAHWEH CHALLENGE & ENCOURAGE GOD’S PEOPLE FOCUSED ON MONOTHEISM - MORALITY --FUTURE SALVATION

FORMER PROPHETS SAMUEL ANNOINTS ISRAEL’S FIRST KING NATHAN CONSCIENCE OF DAVID ELIJAH CONTEST AT MT CARMEL “ YAHWEH PROVED HE AND HE ALONE IS GOD”

LATTER PROPHETS 8 th T0 5 th CENTURY BC CHANGING POLITICAL SCENE EXILE OF ISRAEL (NR KINGDOM)-ASSYRIA EXILE OF JUDAH (SOUTHERN KINGDOM) - BABYLON

AMOS & HOSEA – ISRAEL JEREMIAH – JUDAH CALLED ON PEOPLE TO REPENT THEY DID NOT GOD’S JUDGEMENT FELL ON THEM

ISAIAH “IF YOU DO NOT STAND FIRM IN YOUR FAITH,YOU SHALL NOT STAND AT ALL.” (IS 7:9) COMING OF MESSIAH “SUFFERINF SERVANT”

WHAT HAD ISRAEL DONE TO ANGER GOD? AMOS – SOCIAL INJUSTICE HOSEA – ISRAEL UNFAITHFUL TO GOD MICAH – THE SINS OF ISRAEL’S RULERS JEREMIAH THE FALSE GODS UNCHECKED CORUPTION

EXILIC & POST EXILIC PROPHETS EZEKIEL “ DRY BONES”BROUGHT TO LIFE THROUGH BREATH OF GOD HOPE JEREMIAH PROMISES EXILES IN BABYLON WILL RETURN STRESSES – SEEK GOD WITH THE HEART

ISAIAH TEACHES ABOUT THE MESSIAH – KING OF HOUSE OF DAVID BORN OF A VIRGIN (Is 7:14) SALVATION THROUGH ROYAL SON OF DAVID ( Is 9:6-7)

ISAIAH “IF YOU DO NOT STAND FIRM IN YOUR FAITH,YOU SHALL NOT STAND AT ALL.” (IS 7:9)

SUMMARY CREATOR GOD  REDEEMER GOD PROVIDER GOD OF GENESES  LIBERATOR GOD OF EXODUS GOD DEFINES FREEDOM / JUSTICE DACALOGUE/ TEN COMMANDMENTS GOD OF PROPHETS WHO SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE & PEACE

PEOPLE OF OLD TESTAMENT SOUGHT: MEANING IN LIFE ANSWERS TO EVENTS LISTENED TO GOD BECAME MORE AWARE OF GOD’S MYSTERY JOURNEYED TOWARDS THE TRUTH OF GOD

HOW DIFFERENT ARE WE FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT?

FORMER PROPHETS SAMUEL ANNOINTS ISRAEL’S FIRST KING NATHAN CONSCIENCE OF DAVID ELIJAH CONTEST AT MT CARMEL “ YAHWEH PROVED HE AND HE ALONEIS GOD”

ISAIAH TEACHES ABOUT THE MESSIAH – KING OF HOUSE OF DAVID BORN OF A VIRGIN (Is 7:14) SALVATION THROUGH ROYAL SON OF DAVID ( is 9:6-7)

SUMMARY CREATOR GOD  REDEEMER GOD PROVIDING GOD OF GENESES  LIBERATING GOD OF EXODUS GOD DEFINES FREEDOM / JUSTICE DACALOGUE / TEN COMMANDMENTS

JUDGES – TAKE POSSESSION OF PROMISED LAND KINGS - BRING ISRAEL TO NEW GLORY AND DESTRUCTION DIVISION OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH EXILE INTO BABYLON

PROPHETS : VOICE OF GOD REMINDED ISRAELITES OF COVENENT GAVE WARNINGS OF GOD’S WRATH INSPIRED HOPE REVIVED MEMORY – GOD’S FAITHFULNESS

�ݺ�ߣ

10 Judges, Kings And Prophets

More Related Content

10 Judges, Kings And Prophets