08 Old Testament 2

8/9/2019 08 Old Testament 2

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Third Sunday of Easter


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Opening Prayer

Come, Holy SpiritCome, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful andenkindle in them the fire of Your love.V. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit, Youhave taught the hearts of Your faithful. In the same Spirithelp us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice in

Your consolation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.Amen.


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First Joyful Mystery The Annunciation

The Second Glorious MysteryThe Ascension

And he led them out as far as Bethania: and lifting uphis hands, he blessed them. And it came to pass,whilst he blessed them, he departed from them, andwas carried up to heaven. And they adoring wentback into Jerusalem with great joy Luke 24:51-52


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Themes of the Pentateuch

Creation

There is only one God

This one God created everything

Everything God created was good

Man created in image & likeness of God Importance of Sabbath

The Fall

All die because of Adams sin

All inherit the effects of Adams sin

Rapid deterioration of human race

The Flood

Escalation of sin

Purification

Tower of Babel

Pride, confusion, alienation

Abraham, the seed of salvation

Called to go out in faith

Rewarded by being promised as ablessing to the nations

Asked to sacrifice his only son, Isaac

God will provide himself the lamb for aburnt offering (Gen. 22:8)

Isaac fathers Jacob, called Israel

Israels 12 sons become the Israelites

Genesis ends with Joseph, Israelsyoungest son sold into slavery in Egypt

Genesis


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Exodus means leaving in Greek and refers to the departure fromslavery

Initially, Joseph was favored by pharaoh, but eventually a pharaoharises who did not know Joseph, and the Israelites became slaves

They lived and suffered in Egypt for 400 years before emergence ofMoses

Like Abraham, Moses goes out in faith

He pleads with pharaoh to allow Israel to journey into the desert so thatthey might worship God

After much suffering, pharaoh allows them to go Israel is delivered through the waters of the Red Sea, foreshadowing

Baptism

Moses is a type of Jesus - he leads Gods people, as a miracleworker, and one who frees them from slavery

Exodus


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Picks up the story in the 2nd year after the departure from Egypt

Moses develops forms of worship more specifically

Proper worship and holiness of life are the main points of Leviticus

247 laws regulating life, worship and ritual sacrifice are laid down

Establishment of the Levitical priesthood

Levitical sacrifices foreshadow Jesus perfect sacrifice on the Cross

Day of Atonement is established, on which the Hebrews are purifiedexternally from sin

Leviticus


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In Hebrew, the name of the book is in the wilderness

God calls a census to prove that he has kept his covenant withAbraham

The descendants of Jacob have grown to 600,000 in 400 years

God calls the Jews to be a holy people

Because they doubt God, they wander in the desert for 38 years

God never leaves them and appears to them under the form of a cloud

Most Israelites who fled Egypt are dead upon entering Canaan - it is anew nation

Numbers


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In Greek, the name means second law

Dates from the 7th century B.C.

Near death, Moses promulgates the 10 Commandments

Orders that the law be read aloud every seven years

Israel is called to love and adore the one true God and to follow thereligious laws out of love for God

The fire of love eventually dies, and Jews grow legalistic and pharisaical

Deuteronomy

Hear, O Israel: The Lord your God is one Lord; and you shall love theLord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with allyour might. And these words which I command you this day shall beupon your heart; and you shall teach them to your children and youshall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.(Deut. 6:4-9)


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Told the Jews and us how to recognize the Messiah

Jesus is a man

Jesus is GodPassion and death of JesusResurrection of JesusAscension of JesusProphesies from book of Wisdom

Messianic Prophecies


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Jesus is a man

I will put enmity between you and the woman and between youroffspring and hers; he will strike at your head while you strike at hisheel. Gen 3:15

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son born of awoman. Gal 4:4

God replied: Nevertheless, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son,and you shall call him Isaac. I will maintain a covenant with him asan everlasting pact. Gen 17:19

The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham. (The beginningof the genealogy of Jesus) Luke 3:34


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Jesus is a man

A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall arise from Israel.Num 24:17

Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob. (Thebeginning of the genealogy of Jesus) Matt 1:2

But you Bethlehem-Ephrathah... from you will come forth for me onewho is to be ruler in Israel. Micah 5:1

Joseph too went up to the city of David that is called Bethlehem. While theywere there, ... she gave birth to her first-born son. Luke 2:4-7


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Jesus is God

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you this sign; the virgin will bear

a son and name him Immanuel. Is 7:14

...the angel Gabriel was sent... to a virgin...Mary. Behold you will

conceive and bear a son and you shall name him Jesus...He will be calledthe Son of God. Luke 1:26-35 Mat 1:19-23

I will proclaim the decree of the Lord who said to me, You are myson; today I am your father. Ps 2:7

And a voice came from the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, withwhom I am well pleased. Matt 3:17


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Jesus is God

I will open my mouth in story drawing lessons from of old...thepraiseworthy and mighty deeds of the Lord, the wonders heperformed. Ps 78:2-4

All these things Jesus spoke in parables. He spoke to them only inparables to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: I will... Matt13:34,35

He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering,accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men hid their

faces...we held him in no esteem. Is 53:3

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.John 1:1


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Passion and Death of Jesus

And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver . Zech 11:12

What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? They paid

him thirty pieces of silver. Matt 26:15

Isaiah chap 53 foretellsHe would be silent: 7He would be scourged: 5

He would be pierced: 5He would be buried with the wicked: 9

He would take away the sins of many: 12


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Passion and Death of Jesus

Psalms foretell of Jesus' sufferingsBetrayed by a close friend 41:9Prayed for his enemies 109:4

They cast lots for his clothing 22:17-19Forsaken by God 22:1No bones were broken 35:21.


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Resurrection of Jesus

... my body dwells secure, for you will not abandon me to Sheol, nor letyour faithful servant see the pit. Ps 16:10

You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not

here. Mark 16:6

Straight to the grave they descend where their form will waste away,Sheol will be their place, but God will redeem my life, will take mefrom the power of Sheol Ps 49:15

You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is nothere. Mark 16:6


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Ascension of Jesus

...from Sinai the Lord entered the holy place. You went up to its

lofty height... Ps 68:19,19

So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them was taken into heaven

and took his seat at the right hand of God. Mark 16:19


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Prophesies from book of Wisdom

Let us beset the just one because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himselfagainst our doings; reproaches us for our transgressions of the law. 2:12

Yes the just man dead condemns the sinful who live 4:16

...and styles himself a child of the Lord. 2:13

This is he whom once we held a laughingstock... see how he is accountedamong the sons of God 5:3-5

...and boasts that God is His Father. Let us see whether His words betrue; let us find out what will happen to Him. For if He be the Son ofGod, He will come to defend Him. 2:16-18

If you are the Son of God, come down from that cross... Let Him come downfrom the cross now and we will believe in Him... For He said, I am the Sonof God. Mt 27:40, 42-43


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Stump the Dummy

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