Bible Numbers to Remember

Annual Family Retreat May 2010

Important Bible Numbers to Remember

The Old Testament

Important Bible Numbers to Remember

5,12,5,5,12

5•The Pentateuch: • 1st 5 books of the bible• Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and

Deuteronomy .• Written By Moses

12

•The Historical Books• Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st

and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.

5•The Poetic and Wisdom books

• Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon.

5•The Major Prophets• include Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and

Daniel.• The reason behind calling them Major Prophets?• These books were declared "major" because of the

amount of text, and not because they were considered more important than the "minor" prophetic books.

12•The Minor Prophets• Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah,

Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi

Is there any other books in the Old

Testament??

7•The Deuterocanon books• Also called the 2nd canonical books, • was removed by the Protestants.• It includes history and poetic books:• Tobit, Judith, 1+2 Maccabees,

Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch

The New Testament

Important Bible Numbers to Remember

4,1, 14,7,1

4•The Holy Gospels:

• The Gospels According To St. Mathew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John

• The life story of our Lord Jesus Christ, His birth, His deeds, His miracles, His teachings, His Divinity, His salvation, His death and His resurrection

1•The book of Acts:

• Acts tells the story of the beginning of the church, the works (Acts) of The Holy Spirit and the apostles.• I also explains how the Christian faith

spread to the whole world

14• The Pauline Epistles (Letters):• Were written by St. Paul• Contain education about Christ salvation, The Christian Life and Faith

• 9 letters to cities (churches):• Romans, 1st & 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,

Colossians, 1st&2nd Thessalonians

• 4 letters to persons:• 1st&2nd Timothy, Titus, Philemon

• 1 letter to group of people:• Hebrews

7•The Catholic Epistles:• Were written by 4 disciples• Contain teachings of the Christian life and faith• • The Epistle of St. James• • 1st&2nd Epistle of St. Peter• • 1st&2nd&3rd Epistles of St. John• • The Epistle of St. Jude

1•The Book of Revelation:• Were written by St. John• St. John wrote this epistle to tell people

about a vision he had of Jesus, Heaven and Things that will happen in the future

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