A. Rules

1. First of all, we want to discuss the rules of our Bible Lessons. We are not here to discuss denominations. It matters little what you or I think. Our main concern is "what does the Bible say?'.
2. Our second rule is that we are not here to ask you to join a church. |
3. Our third rule is that we will not argue.

B. Theme
1. The theme of our Bible Lessons is "Open your heart when you open your Bible." It is very important that we put aside biased opinions and prejudice in this study and open our hearts to the truths of God's Word.

C. The Search
1. The story is told of a very poor family who lived in a large two-story home that had been built: many years before. This family hardly had enough to eat and struggled from week to week to barely exist. For many years they had been in dire need of the necessities of life, but one day, out of curiosity, they decided to explore the attic of their home. To their amazement, they found a chest full of gold, silver, and jewels! Unbelievable riches right at their fingertips, but yet they had been in poverty all those years! The very same story is true in millions of homes all over the world. Right within the pages of our Bibles lie the greatest riches this world will ever know, but yet men pass it by daily and fail to heed the message it contains. Our Bible is not only a guide for a richer, fuller life in this world, but is also a guide to tell us how to reach that place God has prepared for those who obey the pages of this Book.
2. The search we are beginning tonight is of far greater significance than that made by our forefathers in their search for gold in California in the year 1849. People all over America sold their homes to join the army of prospectors searching for riches. But the gold those historical fortune seekers found soon passed away and was gone. The riches we will find in our search will last us for time and eternity. This study will be the greatest search of my life for truth, and we hope the greatest search of your life.

D. The Hands
1. This Book we hold in our hands has been opened by kings and rulers, by rich and poor alike. Many mothers have shed tears on the pages of these sacred writings. But the reason we are opening this blessed Book tonight is to search through its pages for truths that have been hidden from our view and to let God talk to our hearts.

Page 1. General View of the Old Testament (click on image to enlarge)
A. Expectation and Longing
1. Throughout the Old Testament there is a theme of expectation and longing to find God. Job said, "oh that I knew where I might find Him." Within the heart of every man there is a longing to fill that empty space which was put there by God. Eternity is placed in the heart of every man, and nothing can fill that longing but the eternal God.

B. Books of the Bible
1. The number of books in the Old Testament is quite easy to remember. The word "old" has three letters; the word "Testament" has nine letters. Put three and nine together and you have 39-the number of books in the Old Testament.
2. Division of the Books
a. Law -five books consisting of both ceremonial and moral law, including the Ten Commandments all written by Moses.
b. History -twelve books consisting of history of the nation of Israel.
c. Poetry -five books of promise, praise, prayer, prophecy, and commandments.
d. Prophecy -seventeen books-five major and twelve minor prophets. Prophecies in these books deal with Israel at the particular time of their writings and also foretell events to take place in years to come, such as the Messiah, the Church Age, the end times, tribulation, and the Kingdom Age.

C. Covers 3,600 Years of Man's Day
1. The Old Testament was written over a period of 1,400 years by thirty-two writers and covers 3,600 years of man's day. These writers came from all walks of life, yet each is in perfect harmony with all the rest. Amos was a country preacher; Isaiah was a brilliant court preacher; Moses was an heir to the throne of Egypt; David was a king and a beautiful song writer, and Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived, but still there is no contradiction in their writings because there was just one author of all thirty-nine books-the Holy Ghost. Read II Pet. 1:21.
2. We quote from an eminent theologian as he apologizes for the Bible, "Of course, there are scientific errors -we must excuse such mistakes; after all, the Bible is not a textbook of science. We cannot expect it to be scientifically perfect." He is right about one thing; the Bible is not a textbook of science. The Bible is the Word of God written for salvation of souls and deliverance from damnation and hell. There is only one way to be saved, and it is revealed in this Book. However, this book is scientifically correct. Our God made this world, and all the scientific marvels that man is just now discovering were there from the beginning. Man did not surprise God with waves that could broadcast a radio or television program. God made those waves in the beginning. Jet propulsion is not a surprise to God. That force was made in the beginning. The Bible contains no scientific mistakes because God knew every fact of science from the beginning.
3. What would the Bible be like if we tried to change it to suit every scientific fad? Any science book over one year old is obsolete. What would the Bible have been like in 500 B.C. ? A.D. 1000? even 1970? It would be full of absurd scientific ideas and monstrosities. In 1861 the French Academy of Science published a booklet stating fifty-one scientific facts that contradicted the Word of God. It was really impressive when published. Yet today, not one scientist in the world who believes a single one of those so-called facts lives. The most phenomenal thing of all is that THE BIBLE HAS NOT CHANGED. Every syllable is the same as when it was written.
4. Let's be sure of what the Word of God says. Satan loves to make a fool of people and confuse them. A religious theologian from a University spent much time, money, and years of research to prove that apples do not grow in the Mesopotamian Valley. He was assuming the Bible said Adam and Eve ate an apple from the tree of life. However, the scripture does not tell us what kind of fruit it was.
5. All we know of God, we will find between the covers of the Bible. A study of this natural world will never teach us. We can look at the sunset and think of His beauty; we can look at the thunder and lightning and think of His power; we can think of our conscience and know He is righteous. But to really know Him personally, how He deals with man, what the expectations from man are, how much He loves man-only the Bible reveals this to us.

Page 2. The Creation (click on image to enlarge)
A. In the Beginning
1. Now let's turn to the first verse of the Bible and read it all together. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." It doesn't say HOW He did it, WHY, or WHERE He performed the creation. It doesn't say where it came from, what He made it of-just the bold fact-"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." To "create" in its proper sense, is the divine act of absolute creation without the use of pre-existing material, or to call into being that which was not. It is by faith that we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear, Heb. 11:3.
2. Moses, who wrote the book of Genesis, was trained to be the Pharaoh and was learned in the science of Egypt. Archaeologists have dug up and put together things Moses read and studied. Moses studied in his day the farfetched idea of how the earth hatched from an egg. However, Moses does not mention an egg; only that God created the heaven and the earth. He studied evolution, too. Egyptians taught that man sprang from little white worms found in slime and mud after the annual overflow of the Nile River. This idea might have come from watching a caterpillar change into a butterfly. Their theory of evolution was not far behind those of today. Yet, Moses mentions none of this in his writings. The Bible does not reflect the scientific background of the day in which it was written. The Holy Spirit of God kept it from error.
3. Genesis is a book of beginnings. If you try to go back beyond the beginning, you have only God. He had no beginning, for He is eternal. Before creation there is only God and eternity, and at the end of all things there will still be God and eternity, and we must plan to spend that eternity somewhere.
4. The length of eternity could be illustrated in this way. If the world was one gigantic, stainless steel ball and a little sparrow would come by every thousand years and simply brush his wing against it, when this gigantic ball was completely worn away and nothing left, eternity would have just begun.

Page 3. The Creation of the Earth (click on image to enlarge)
A. The Days of Creation
1. Genesis 1:2 tells us that the earth was without form and void, or that it was formless and empty. And then light appeared, Gen. 1:3-5. God brought light to a world that was weird and depressing, dull and monotonous. The earth rotates on its axis at the rate of about 1,000 miles an hour. If it turned at the rate of 100 miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times as long, the summer would burn up our vegetation every day, and each sprout would freeze in such a long night. The sun, with a surface temperature of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit, is just far enough away so that this "eternal fire" warms us just enough, and not too much. This light shines just as much in the poor man's hut as in the palace. It is free for all.
2. On the second day, the water above was divided from the waters below. In Hebrew it means, "let there be space between the waters." The waters lifted up from the waters below are in vapor form in the ocean of air above us, forming the atmosphere. This also gives us the air, which we breathe. We live at the bottom of an ocean of atmosphere. A room 60 x 60 x 60 feet will hold 250 pounds of water in the vapor state. Water is held in suspension in the atmosphere above us. The atmosphere and clouds are very important to life. If the atmosphere were thinner, we would be burned of exposure of the sun; if thicker, we would get no sun. If it were not as it is, we would get no sound. The tinkling of a bell nor the boom of a cannon could be heard.
3. On the third day the waters were gathered together unto one place and the dry land was called earth and the waters called seas. Grasses, herbs, and fruit trees were also brought forth. God said, "1 have given every green herb for meat." Here is a statement in biology that is most surprising and in perfect accord with scientific knowledge. The statement about green herbs was not proven true until the synthesis of chlorophyll was discovered and the fact that all life was dependent on every green thing was made known by science. The vegetable kingdom multiplies so rapidly that if one grain of corn were planted and its yielded seed were planted again for three years straight, the fourth year there would be enough seed available to plant the entire United States-four million square miles.
4. On the fourth day the sun and moon were given to divide the day from the night and to be for signs, for seasons, days, and years. This was the beginning of time. Since there was no such thing as time until this day, we do not know how long the actual creation of the earth took, or the other steps up to this time.
5. On the fifth day God commanded the waters to swarm and the birds to fly in the heavens. There were millions of different creatures. This was the first moving life.
6. On the sixth day the cattle, beasts, and creeping things were made, and the first man, Adam, was formed out of the dust of the earth. The animals were created with a body and a spirit. Man was made with the same plus the ability to choose between right and wrong. This is where the soul of man comes in. It was not enough that man should be made to live above the animals and below God; he must also be capable of building a home and reproducing the human family upon the earth. And so God made mankind of opposite sexes, male and female, man and woman. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh," Gen. 2:24. Marriage and the home are ordained of God, planted in the very foundation of human life for the accomplishment of His wise and good purpose. Man was created in God's image, or substance, and a rib was taken from the side of the man to make the first woman.
7. On the seventh day God rested from all He had made, Gen. 2: 1-3. God's perfect number is seven. Seven times God said, "It is good." The words "heaven," "made," and "good" are all mentioned seven times. God's seal of perfection was stamped on everything He made. If God said it was all good, it must have been very good. The six days of creation represent six thousand years of man's day. The seventh day represents God's day. We are living at the very end of man's day and almost at the beginning of God's day of rest, or the one thousand years of peace (the Millennium).

Page 4. First Dispensation-Innocence (click on image to enlarge)
A. Dispensation of Innocence
1. There are seven dispensations of time we will be studying in our lessons. A dispensation is a period of time in which God deals with man in a particular way. It is a probationary period of time that has always ended in judgment because of the sins of man. We are now living at the very end of the sixth dispensation of time.

B. Warned of Consequence of Sin
1. Adam and Eve were created in innocence, surrounded in the Garden of Eden with all the blessings that could come through creation. Everything in this garden was designed for their happiness. God planted the first garden in this beautiful paradise, and He placed Adam there to dress it and keep it. There were abundant provisions for food, shelter, and clothing as he found need for them and the earth was rich in resources for him to develop. The best part of all was that he had fellowship with God. The earth was a perfect paradise -no fear of man or beast, no thorns or thistles, no fatigue or pain. There was only one requirement, only one simple commandment-"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," Gen. 2:16-17.

C. The Serpent
1. Satan came to Eve in the form of the serpent, and asked her, "Why is God keeping you from that fruit? Can He really love you when He limits you so much?" Satan accused God of being selfish, unjust, and cruel. "He's not really interested in your welfare. He doesn't want you to be as He is." Satan implied he knew as much about the tree as God. "Go ahead and eat of it. You'll be wise." When Eve saw that it was "good for food" (the lust of the flesh), that it was "pleasant to the eyes" (lust of the eyes), and it was a tree to be desired "to make one wise" (pride of life), she could no longer resist. She ate of the fruit! (I John 2:15-16 gives us the steps in the fall of man.) 2. Here we learn one important lesson. Though the tempter may persuade us to sin, he cannot force us to transgress the laws of God. Eve took of the fruit of her own willful choice and act. Adam followed her example and speedily shared her sin of disobedience and its tragic consequences. Some may wonder, since man was made in God's own image, why didn't God make man incapable of choosing sin? Then there would have been no sin to grieve Him. But neither would there have been any voluntary and faithful worship to please Him. If there is no opportunity for a Cain to develop, there is also no opportunity for an Abraham to walk by faith with God. God could have no satisfaction from a world of puppets. Man was made in God's image, but he had his own free will.

D. Sin Breaks Communion With God
1. Eve ate the forbidden fruit and then gave it to Adam, causing him to sin: also. No one sins alone. We always influence someone else by our actions. For instance, if one of us sins in front of our children, the same sin, no doubt, will be repeated in their lives. 2. Did the marvelous results Satan promised come? No-only a sense of guilt and sordid shame resulted. They wanted to cover their souls. That was impossible, so they attempted to cover their bodies. When they heard God's voice so many times before, there was joy -but now there was fear caused by sin. They became afraid and hid themselves. Sin cannot stand in the presence of God. It seeks a hiding place.
3. And the Lord called unto Adam and said, "Where art thou? God sought Adam, not Adam sought God. It is always the same pattern, Rom. 3:11. God sought Abraham, Jacob, and Moses. "Ye have not chosen Me, I have chosen you," John 15:16.
4. "I am afraid" is mentioned for the first time in the Bible. "Because I was naked, I hid myself." Here we catch the first note of that bell of conscience, which rings through man's history. When they sinned, they knew they were naked, and they sought to cover themselves. Thus clothing marks the dawn of guilt-sin, shame, and clothing. Every suit of clothes, every milliner's shop, every display window in a department store is a witness to the fact of sin, of conscience, of man's fall, for all clothing goes back to that.
5. Sin breaks communion with God. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Adam and Eve died a spiritual death that day. No longer did God walk with them. Through the fall man became subject to physical, spiritual, and eternal death.

Page 5. Innocence Ends in Judgment -"The Expulsion" (click on image to enlarge)
A. The Curse
1. Three curses were given because of the fall of man. The serpent received the first curse. "Thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."
2. The woman received the second curse. "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
3. The ground was then cursed for Adam's sake. "In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 4. That curse is still upon the ground because we know how easily weeds grow. A cocklebur produces two seeds. One grows the first year and the other the following year. If the first seed is damaged or perishes after it sprouts, the second seed immediately springs up. It is the opposite with useful plants. They grow only by much toil and cultivation.
5. Four consequences evolved from their sin. There was physical suffering with many burdens to bear. There was mental suffering; haunting fear. Social suffering-their children had to also bear the curse. Greatest of all was the spiritual suffering, because now they were separated from God.

B. The Promise
1. When we as humans would be angry at the foolishness of man's sin, God, in His mercy, gives us a promise. " And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel," Gen. 3: 15. In speaking to the serpent, God made a promise of ultimate victory for man. Woman caused the fall, and a woman was to be the source of redemption.
2.The remainder of the Bible is a development of this promise. In the Old Testament-He is coming. The gospels say-He has arrived. The epistles tell us He is coming again.
3. The promise of Genesis 3:15 not only gave the hope of a Redeemer who would contend with Satan and overcome him, but also implied that there would be perpetual enmity between the opposing seeds in the world. The seed of the serpent and the seed, or spiritual children, of the Deliverer would be in a continual conflict of opposing each other. The one would bruise the heel of his opponent, but the other would ultimately bruise his head, or destroy his usurped authority in the world and overthrow his kingdom. Thus a perpetual warfare is declared between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil among men. Jesus once said to the wicked, "You are of your father the devil," or in other words, "the seed of the serpent."

C. Adam and Eve Driven From Garden
1. When man knew that he was naked, he sought to make a covering of his own and failed. Then God made him a covering out of the skins of animals. To cover his nakedness was not so easy as man had thought; it took the life of an animal. To cover man's sin and guilt is no simple and easy matter. It takes life and death-even the life and death of Jesus Christ to cover the nakedness of man's sin. "Without the shedding of blood is no remission."
2. Man was driven from the Garden of Eden with its blessings and delights and cherubim’s were placed at the east of the garden with a flaming sword to keep them from eating of the Tree of Life. This tree is not mentioned again in the Bible until the very end of all things-the New Jerusalem that is prepared for the bride of Christ. Man will never be permitted to eat of this tree until that day when sin and death have forever been destroyed.
3. Satan rejoiced as he heard God pronounce judgment on Adam and Eve. He envies people's happiness and doesn't care whom he hurts. Eve never dreamed of this horrible outcome at the first of her conversation with Satan. Satan made sin look so desirable and beneficial. He made her believe she would be greater than God and have more liberty. Now, how man must struggle to live. Thorns and thistles grew along with fruits and flowers. Every person in the bondage of sin is bound with invisible chains. Death began to work in their bodies, but most horrible of all, they were separated from God. They traded the Garden of Eden for a world of sin, sorrow, sickness, and death.
4. From this day on, the soul became the battlefield we still fight on. Satan is subtle and cunning; he adapts himself to any circumstance and any situation. He is cruel with no pity even for children. Five out of six young people between the ages of twelve and eighteen harbor the thought of atheism. If only Eve had never talked to him or listened. "Resist the devil and he will flee from you." Let us not be ignorant of his devices. He works skillfully on the poorest drunkard or the biggest organization such as the United Nations. "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation," II Pet. 2:9. As a roaring lion, he may come to you in sheep's clothing.

Page 6. Second Dispensation-Conscience (click on image to enlarge)
A. Cain and Abel Born
1. On damp, chilly evenings, the family would gather around the fireside. Adam and Eve would tell their children, Cain and Abel, of how life used to be in the garden, how God's full pleasure shone on them, and of the joy of fellowship with God. The entire world was peaceful then. The words "enemy," "fear," "pain," and "danger" were unknown. But then the terrible day of disobedience dawned. Their sin was no secret, for all could see its results. What strange feeling the two sons must have felt. The hands of God had molded their parents. They had not been, nor any other of the billions to be born. All mankind would be born according to the laws of nature. They would not be shapen from dampened dust, nor taken from the ribs of one in deep sleep. No doubt they longed for the day when the curse would be removed.
2. Eve said upon Cain's birth, "I have gotten a man from the Lord," Gen. 4:1. When her pain and labor had been forgotten, she remembered the promise so well spoken to her by God after the fall. "The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent." How she must have dreamed and hoped that this child would cancel and recall the curse, which was fallen upon them. And Adam's sons must have wondered how long it would be before the curse would be lifted. "Will we ever be permitted in the garden again?" I'm sure they must have talked of ways to please God. They were anxious for His displeasure to pass.
3. Cain and Abel, the first sons born to Adam and Eve, are representative of the opposing seeds. Abel was righteous, while Cain was of the wicked one. The Cain-spirit never ends until "the seed of the woman" returns to set up His Kingdom on earth, and His adversary, "that wicked one" is cast into the lake of fire. In the process of time, Cain and Abel brought their respective offerings to the Lord. Cain offered the fruit of the ground, while Abel brought an offering of atonement, made by faith. No doubt Adam, their father, had told them the story of the fall and its tragic consequences, but Cain, with indifferent heart, came his own way with the fruit of a cursed earth and without humility or faith. God had no respect for his offering, but accepted Abel's offering. The reason God acknowledged Abel's offering is because it takes the shedding of blood to remit sins. Abel "heard" that God required a sacrifice. Faith comes by hearing, and not by fancy, Heb. 11:4.

B. Cain Kills Abel
1. Jealousy and wounded pride could be seen in the eyes of Cain. It is as scary as if a madman were peeking at you through a window as it is to look in eyes filled with jealousy and hate. We want to cry out, "Cain, why act that way? Why not humble yourself and ask God what is wrong? Why not do as Abel is doing, if that pleases God?"
2. Then without warning, there came a sound that neither Cain nor Abel had ever heard. Their mother and father had often spoken of it. It was the voice of God speaking again to man. "Why are you wroth? Why is your countenance fallen? If thou doest well, should thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." This is the first time the terrible word "sin" was spoken. It sounds its sad horrible note all through the Bible. God is warning Cain against future sins. Lain had already displeased God by the spirit in which he brought his offering. "If thou doest not well, sin lieth (literally "croucheth") at the door." There at humanity's door, crouching, waiting, sin was. What a picture of sin and temptation. If I had ever seen a wild beast, a tiger or panther, watching us, crouching, its body low to the ground, ready to make a cruel spring on my child, I could never forget it. Now God Himself is tenderly explaining to Cain "sin is like a crouching beast." Cain, sin is watching you, waiting for you, ready to spring on you at the first opportunity.
3. " And unto thee shall be his desire." Sin desires to have you. What a sermon God is preaching to man. How carefully God warns Cain against the danger of future sin, and actually, this sermon is direct to every one of us. It is a strong, clear, tender warning. How many million will ignore it! Cain will, Solomon, Judas, and Peter will! Sin is so dangerous because a sin once committed seems to love that sinner with a kind of tigerous, murderous ferocity. It is God's way of telling us that sin seeks to repeat itself. One man said, It is easier to find one who has never committed a sin than to find one who has never committed the same sin twice."
4. Hearing the voice of God, Cain should have fallen to his knees. But no! His angry mind became even angrier. So, God not only refuses my offering, but also tells me my whole attitude is wrong. Well, I'll handle things my own way." He refused to admit he had not done well and that his life needed improvement. Cain's bitterness screamed and pounded at his mind. Bitterness is like a poison that spreads all over the system. Violence gathered like a hurricane in his mind. We don't know how much time passed after God's warning; Maybe one day-maybe many. The Bible just says "one day when they were in the field, Cain talked with Abel his brother." Perhaps they were discussing the accepted and rejected sacrifices. I can see a strong arm uplifted and one crushing blow! Then, murder came bursting into the world.
5. Cain must have been horrified to see Abel's face in death. For the first time, he is looking at a face of death. Here is the finish of sin-death! This is not the only time jealousy will strike a fatal blow. Just like so many murderers yet to be born, Cain ran away. "If I can only get away from this body, I'll forget." What he didn't realize was that to run and hide was the beginning of punishment. No doubt Cain ran many miles, but with every step, he remembered the act: and horrible silence of Abel in death.
6. Then Cain hears the voice of God again. "Where is Abel thy brother?" He answers, "I know not," (a lie-then Cain became insolent). "Am I my brother's keeper?" Did Cain really think that God did not know where Abel was? Does sin blind a person that much and warp his mind that quick? If it were not written in God's Word, one could hardly believe a man would speak so impudently when he realized he was talking to God! Cain's cold, defying impudence shows the state of his heart that led to murder. He could never have committed this crime if he had not first cast off his fear of God. Sin poisons the heart and drugs the conscience.
7. Adam and Eve reaped the first fruits of the fall, to see their first son a murderer and their second son the murdered victim of enmity between the "seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent."
8. God speaks again, "Now you are cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. Henceforth when you till the ground it shall yield you no return; a fugitive and a vagabond you will be." Cain, you've made an enemy, not only of God, but of the earth also. This fills Cain with fear. "My punishment is greater than I can bear." All of a sudden, he becomes a coward; afraid of everyone. " All that see me shall slay me." His main punishment would be the sorrow and regret he felt in his soul. Where did the fugitive go? No one knows for sure. We just know he "went out from the presence of the Lord." "Went out"-two words that tell the sad and changeless story of the wages of sin: Sin separates! The descendants of Cain became inventors of instruments of music, or entertainment, as a substitute for the presence of God. Read Eccl. 7:29. "Men have sought out many inventions as substitutions."

C. Righteous Seed Renewed
1. God gave Adam and Eve another son, Seth, and renewed the righteous seed in him. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.
2. The corruption, which had become so great in the line of Cain, overspread the whole earth. The wickedness of man was almost inconceivable; every wicked imagination of the heart was evil continually, and deeds of violence are everywhere. Cain, a murderer driven from God, founded this first civilization. No one among his descendants called on God; they ignored Him. No doubt Adam and Eve looked with horror at the growing rebellion and impudence for their grandsons and great-grandsons. They were depraved and putrid in God's eyes.

D. Noah Found Grace
1. Amid this universal wickedness, one faithful man was found. To this righteous man, Noah, God announced His purpose to destroy the world.

Page 7. Noah Builds the Ark (click on image to enlarge)
A. Make Thee An Ark
1. Noah was just, perfect, and walked with God. Only of one other man was it said that they walked with God -Enoch. Noah had never seen it rain; had never heard of or seen an ark. There was no water nearby to launch it. But God had said, "Make thee an ark of gopher wood," and so Noah set out to do just that. People ridiculed him and held their ribs with laughter when they heard that a flood was coming. To the people of that day, it seemed impossible that it would rain. To us today, it seems almost unbelievable that there is going to be rapture! "Oh, I've heard that story since I was just a kid," the scoffers say. But yet, it is coming just as surely as the flood came.
2. Noah had to care for his family, preach, and build an ark. He had to plant food for them to eat and also harvest it: His question might have been, "How much time should I spend each day building this ark?" He didn't know when the flood would come, but he knew he must be ready when it did happen. Therefore, he had to arrange his day carefully between taking care of his family, preaching, and preparing a means of salvation from the flood. We must also be careful in arranging our day. We know that judgment is coming and our preparation for it is the most important thing in the world.

B. Noah Warns of Coming Judgment
1. Man was created to be good and 1ive worthily. He failed that test of obedience and continued to drift in sin. He practiced every evil possible. God gave instruction, guidance, and warning, but the love of sin continues even until we hear the cry "Give us Barabbas." Sin spreads so fast; it doesn't take long to spread from one heart to another. It is universal. In Noah's day the whole earth was filled with wickedness. All were going with the tide except one man-Noah! Noah was about five hundred years old when he heard the call to build an ark. His pulpit was the dockyard where he worked. He wasn't building it just for his family, but he preached and pleaded daily for others to be saved from the flood. A great wave of indifference engulfed the world of his day, yet the need was never greater. Today the world is indifferent to the things of God; yet He is pleading with us.
2. In one sense, Noah was not a very successful preacher. Out of all his preaching, Noah saved only seven, but from those seven, he saved the whole world. Before the day of the flood, Noah and his family were in the minority by far; yet when the flood came, they were in the majority.
3. Then on that last day, God called Noah and his family into the ark. Noah chose to go in just as much as the others chose to stay out. Of all the clean beasts Noah took seven in the ark. Of the unclean, only two, a male and a female. And then, in simple, but impressive words the Bible describes the horrible catastrophe. The Bible paints no scenes as human writers would. We see nothing of the death struggle; we hear not the cry of despair. Only one impression is left with vividness-the utter destruction of all flesh, save Noah and his family. Oh, the horror of many clinging to huge rocks still above water with fathers reaching for their children and their wives clinging to them. Both man and wild beasts were looking for safety. Maybe some pounded on the ark, thinking that Noah would let them in. But God has shut the door! The fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. The waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountain. For one hundred fifty days the earth was a shore less ocean. Only one boat sailing without a human pilot, "but God remembered Noah." Oh no, He didn't ever forget him- not for a moment!
4. Was God just in bringing the flood to destroy sinful man? The answer lies in the history of His treatment of His creatures before this event. He had given Adam and Eve clear instructions about the consequences of sin; had warned Cain before he murdered Abel; had called Enoch to walk by His side; had counseled with Noah; and with all of them He had walked frequently; that in His wonderful presence righteousness might become attractive to them. But now He says, "My Spirit will not always strive with man." In other words, God's Spirit strives with man as long as there is any hope of saving him; until in the depth of sin he literally drives God away.
5. What a judgment! The flood was purging a corrupt generation, preparing the way for a better generation. In a certain sense, God does this from age to age. He turns the earth upside down like a dish and empties it of its inhabitants. He sweeps the earth clean of each generation of men and starts with another; a new generation. This is accomplished through death.

Page 8. The Ark That Noah Built (click on image to enlarge)
A. Size of Ark
1. Read from the circles the size of the ark and its capacity. Actually, 1,310 railroad boxcars could have been put inside the ark. The average size of all animals put together would be about the size of two household cats. So, we see that there would have been plenty of room in Noah's ark for all it contained, plus plenty of room for food. Skeptics say that Noah couldn't have built a boat big enough to hold all those animals, but according to the dimensions God gave him, it could easily have been done.
2. There was never any definite length of the cubit in ancient days. Most common was the cubit of the elbow, that is, the distance from the elbow to the fingertip. There was also the cubit of the armpit, or the distance of the whole arm. Ancient Egypt had two lengths for the cubit at different times. One was the length of a newborn child; the other was the length of the king at a certain age. The cubit we are using is called the "great cubit," which is the distance from the elbow to the fingertip plus a hand's breadth. This is the size of the cubit given to Ezekiel by God.

Page 9. Days of Noah-Coming of Christ (click on image to enlarge)
A. Comparison
1. Read Matt. 24:37-44 and II Pet. 3:3-7. There is a perfect parallel between Noah's day and our day. Read from the chart the conditions prevailing in Noah's day, and then the scriptures and statistics for our day.
2. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse:
a. Murders for 1977-19,120-up 38% over 1968
b. Forcible rape for 1977-63,020-up 99% over 1968
c. Robbery for 1977-404,85O---up 54% over 1968
d. Crime rate is up eight times more than the population increase
e. One murder is committed every 27 minutes
f. One forcible rape every 8 minutes
g. One robbery every 78 seconds
3. Marrying and giving in marriage:
a. Seventy-years ago-one divorce in 40 marriages
b. Today-one divorce out of two
4. Knowledge increased-about 90% of all scientists are living now-college: Universities, etc.
5. As a snare shall it come on them that dwell on the earth-the Flood seems impossible; the rapture seems unbelievable.
6. Read other three comparisons and the scriptures.
7. This judgment of the Flood will be as nothing compared to the last judgments that are soon to happen when the small, the great, ancient, medieval and modern man shall stand before the judgment seat of God. The next event to occur is the rapture of the Church. Are you prepared, should He come tonight?

SEARCH FOR TRUTH HOME BIBLE STUDY PROGRAM
THEME: "Open your heart when you open your Bible."
LESSON NO.1 Study Sheet
Coverage: Creation through the Flood
Page 1. General View of the Old Testament
1. Number of books-39 (Old, 3-Testament, 9 = 39)
2. Theme of Old Testament-expectation and longing, ]ob 23:3
3. Period of writing-1400 years by 32 different writers, II Pet. 1:21
4. Books of Bible
a. Law-5 books
b. History-12 books
c. Poetry-5 books
d. Prophecy-5 major-12 minor
Page 2. The Creation
1. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." Gen.
1:1, Heb. 11:3,]ob 38:1-7
2. Genesis is a book of beginnings
Page 3 The Creation of the Earth
1. First day, light appears, Gen. 1:3-5
2. Second day, water above divided from waters below, Gen. 1:6-8
3. Third day, earth and sea divided, grass and trees, Gen. 1:9-13
4. Fourth day, sun and moon given for light, time, and seasons, Gen. 1:14-19
5. Fifth day, sea creatures, fowls of the air created, Gen. 1:20-23
6. Sixth day, cattle, beasts, and first man Adam, Gen. 1:24-31
7. Seventh day, God rested from all that He had made, Gen. 2:1-3
Page 4. First Dispensation- Innocence
1. Adam and Eve warned of consequence of sin, Gen. 2: 15-17
2. The serpent deceives Eve, Gen. 3: I
3. Adam and Eve eat of forbidden fruit, Gen. 3:6-7
4. Sin breaks communion with God, Gen. 2:15-11
5. God sought Adam, Rom. 3:11,John 15:16
Page 5. Innocence ends in judgment
1. The curse, Gen. 3:14-19
2. The promise, Gen. 3:15, Rom. 5:19
3. Adam and Eve are sent from the garden, Gen. 3:23-24
Page 6. Second Dispensation-Conscience
1. Birth of Cain and Abel, Gen. 4: 1-2
2. Cain kills Abel, Gen. 4:8
3. Seth begins bloodline of promised Redeemer, Gen. 4:25-26
4. World became very wicked, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen. 6:1-8
Page 7. Noah Builds the Ark
1. Noah builds an ark of gopher wood, Gen. 6:14-16
2. Noah warns of coming judgment, 11 Pet. 2:5
3. Conscience Dispensation ends in judgment by the flood
Page 8. The Ark that Noah Built
1. Size: 600 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 60 ft. high
2. Would hold 1,310 box cars, or 100 Barnum circuses
Page 9. Days of Noah-Coming of Christ, Matt. 24:37-44,11 Pet. 3:3-7
1. Wickedness great in the earth-11 Tim. 3.13
2. Large number of unholy marriages-Matthew. 24:38-39
3. Many men of renown, Dan. 12:4
4. World unaware of approaching disaster, Luke 21:35
5. All the earth corrupt, 11 Tim. 3:2
6. Noah's family enters ark for safety, I Thessalonians. 4: 17
7. Noah returns to earth after flood, Jude 14-15

Page 10. Third Dispensation-Human Government (click on image to enlarge)
A. God's Covenant with Noah
1. The Dispensation of Conscience was a failure and ended in judgment.
The Human Government Dispensation, which means that man was now responsible for governing the earth for God, was then ushered in.
2. After the flood, Noah's ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat, 500 miles away from his home in Mesopotamia. He came to a redeemed and cleansed earth. Noah was to start a new life, just as we do when we receive the Spirit of God in our hearts-old things are passed away. Noah had put everything he possessed into the ark; now in return, the world was his. One year and seventeen days after they entered the ark, Noah and his family came forth from the ark, built an altar, and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord. With this first act of worship of putting God first, God was well pleased.
3. After Noah made his sacrifice to God, a covenant was made between them
with the following provisions;
a. God would not curse the ground anymore or destroy all the living.
b. Noah and his descendants were to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
c. Man could now eat of the flesh of every living thing, if the blood was drained from it, along with all green herbs.
d. The law of capital punishment was established, that whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man should his blood be shed.
e. The earth should never be destroyed again by the waters of a flood, (the earth will be destroyed the next time by fire. Read II Pet. 3:6-7).
4. God gave the rainbow as the seal of the covenant that He made with man. The covenants God made with Adam and Noah have not been done away with, but are still in force today. The Dispensations of Conscience and Human Government are for the entire Gentile world and still continue today.

B. Noah's Sons
1. From Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth the world became repopulated. Noah began to practice agriculture and planted a vineyard. He drank of the fruit of the vineyard in excess and lay exposed in his tent, and Ham, his younger son, did not show his father the proper respect or minister to his needs while his father was in a drunken state. He mocked him while Noah lay in this condition, but Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulder and went backward into Noah's tent and covered their father. When Noah awoke and knew what his son, Ham, had done, he pronounced a curse upon him and a blessing upon his two other sons.
2. Ham was to be a servile race-a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Shem's descendants were to be blessed by God. Shem was the chosen one from whom the promised Messiah would come. Japheth was promised that God would enlarge him and that he would dwell in the tents of Shem.
3. With their future destinies foretold, the sons of Noah disobeyed God by not going forth to repopulate the whole earth. Instead, they went forth to one place-the rich plains of Shinar. And the whole world was of one language, since they all came from the same parental home.

C. A City and a Tower Built
1. Once again man was determined to have his way. He was not satisfied to obey the command of God to disperse themselves over the entire earth. God had made the earth to be inhabited and to cultivate it and enjoy its fruits. But now, they conspire to build a city and a tower and to make for themselves
a great name.
2. Nimrod, a mighty man who was the grandson of Ham, convinced all the people that they should begin building a great city for protection, (not trusting God to help them in the time of trouble), and a huge tower too high for the waters to be able to reach should there ever be another flood. This bold man sought to turn men from the fear of God and bring them into a constant dependence on his power. Nimrod's plan was to have a federation of power in the government of the world with himself as the head of it. The tower was to be the center of their religious activity and Nimrod was to be over both the political and religious systems. Actually, Satan was seeking to oppose the plan of God for a Kingdom and a Church and was attempting to establish a kingdom and a church of his own, using Nimrod to bring about his plan.
3. Nimrod was the first idolater and the first type of the Anti-Christ in the Old Testament. The word Anti-Christ means one who is against or coming to destroy the real Christ. Read II Thess. 2: 1-4. The nature of the Anti-Christ is to oppose all that is called God, to exalt himself above God, and to show the world that he is God. The only restraining force in the world today to keep the Anti-Christ from coming into power is the Church.
4. The descendants of Noah represent the very hour in which we are now living. In setting aside God's ways, our modern civilization is seeking to make a great name for themselves, to reach the moon, to soar into the heavens, to create life, and to prove that there is no God. A religious leader recently stated that in this modern space age men should forget their old-fashioned ideas about heaven and hell. The Russian cosmonauts told the world that they had circled the earth and no where did they see a God. All this is paving the way for the Anti-Christ. At what time has the United Nations ever set aside a full day for a religious leader to speak, when the foundation of the U.N. was set up without prayer, for fear of offending some atheistic nation? The stage is being set right now for the Anti-Christ to take control of this world with a one-world government, a one-world church, a one-world police system, a one-world metric system, and a one-world language.

Page 11. God Confounds Their Language and Scatters Them (click on image to enlarge)
A. Their Language is Confounded
1. The multitude was very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and they began to build a tower made of burnt brick cemented together with mortar that it might not admit water. "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that built it," Ps. 127:1. Everything was going fine until the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men were building. He saw the motive behind it and the imagination of their hearts to defy Him.
2. Then suddenly, bedlam broke loose! The masons could not understand the mortar boys; the carpenters could not make out what the architects were saying. Hysterical pandemonium was everywhere. God resolved not to destroy them utterly, but to cause a tumult among them by producing in them divers languages and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. No doubt all those who could understand each other separated themselves into groups. This is the ultimate end of all enterprises which leave God out.
3. On the day of Pentecost, almost 2,300 years after Babel, something equally miraculous happened. Another group was gathered in a common cause, all with one accord in one place, when suddenly they began to speak in an unknown tongue. Not until then did men hear each in their tongue wherein they were born the glad tidings of the gospel. This experience re-gathers all people to a common tongue. At the tower of Babel, it was the speakers who were confused; on the day of Pentecost, it was those who were listening who were confused.

B. The Lord Scattered Them
1. After the confusion of tongues the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the earth to remote valleys, plains, seashores, islands of the sea. They retained their separate tongue given them at the tower. It is now an established theory that the various existing languages belong to three great families, corresponding broadly to the three sons of Noah. The descendants of Ham settled largely in Africa and Arabia, the descendants of Shem, out of which the Messiah was to come, settled in Assyria, and the descendants of Japheth traveled toward Asia Minor and Europe.
2. The third dispensation ended, once again, with judgment with the dispersion. The first two dispensations received the judgments of God because of their sin. In every dispensation God makes it very clear to man what is expected of him. There are always two courses of life to follow, and man is held accountable for which course he chooses. We cannot be careless about our choice. Remember, in every dispensation there is only one way to be saved, and that is God's way. Regardless of how many ways to be saved man comes up with, or how many religions are started, the fact remains that there is still only one plan of salvation that we must follow to be saved.

Page 12. Fourth Dispensation- Promise (click on image to enlarge)
A. Dispensation of Promise
1. This dispensation consists of promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The dispersion of the world's population is the last chapter on the human race that the Bible records. With the call of Abram, the attention is
focused upon the chosen people, Israel. God now selects a man out of which to make a special and a holy nation. This nation was to be a safety deposit box for God's truth, a channel through which the whole world was ultimately to be blessed. In Genesis, three times this channel through which the Messiah was to come is given more definite than before.
a. Gen. 3:15-the seed of the woman (race)
b. Gen. 22:18-the seed of Abraham (nation)
c. Gen: 49:10-the seed of Judah (tribe)
Later, it mentions the seed of David (family) in II Sam. 7:12, and last, it is prophesied that He should come through a virgin, Is. 7:14.

B. The Call of Abram
1. All three branches of the scattered races were soon turned to idol worship. With idolatry came its usual consequences-a deep moral degeneracy, cruelty, tyranny, and licentiousness, which means "no moral restraints." Thus, the extreme wickedness of such cities as Sodom and Gomorrah came into being.
Men began to worship the sun, moon, and stars, the principle of fire, departed heroes, and even inferior animals, and gave to them the worship due only to the one true God. Read Rom. 1:21-25. The people of Abram's day were idolaters; even his own father, Terah, was filled with this terrible sin of idolatry.
2. The descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were strictly admonished to teach their children about the one true God in an idolatrous world. When an Israelite father sat down to eat with his children, when he was walking down the street with them, when they went to bed at night, and when they awoke in the morning, he was to diligently teach them these words, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might," Deut. 6:4- 7.
3. The first eleven chapters of Genesis cover about 2,000 years -half the length of time covered by the entire Old Testament. The Spirit seems to hurry over all the events at the dawn of history until it comes to Abram and
then stops and devotes fourteen chapters to this one man. The reason is obvious; the "Father of the Faithful" plays an important role in the history of redemption. Through the line of Shem, God now singles out one man through whom He can work. With Abram we are introduced to the history of God's chosen people, Israel, who were to be a witness to the entire world of the one true God and through whom the promised Redeemer would come.
4. The call of Abram was personal. He was not to take his father, or any of the rest of his family. It was a call for separation. Many times we are called to separate ourselves from our loved ones and friends to follow God, but we have a promise that He will go with us, and we know that some day He is coming back for His own that we might dwell with Him forever. Our lives must be regulated by other affections than those which arise from the relationships of flesh and blood; we must walk by faith, or the unseen, with God's commands and
presence guiding us. Our families may often wonder why we don't do the same things or walk the same way they do. But the reason is that we have received that call for separation, just as Abram did.
5. The promise God made to Abram was as follows:
a. He would be a great nation -his seed would be as the sand of the seashore and as the stars of heaven
b. His name was to be great
c. God would bless those that blessed him and curse those that cursed him.

C. The Covenant
1. The call of Abram was accompanied by a promise and a covenant. Each pledged to do certain things for the other. On God's side, He promised to bless Abram, give him a family that would grow into a mighty multitude who should inherit the land of Canaan for an abiding possession, and He would always be their God. On Abram's side, he pledged to walk before God in righteous obedience and devote himself and all his family and descendants to the service of God. As a token of this covenant, every man child in Abram's family, as well as his descendants, were to be circumcised. How thankful we are that God still makes a covenant with us, even today. God promises to heal us in sickness, protect us from danger, be with us in time of sorrow, and solve
our problems. All we have to do is to separate ourselves from the world, live a clean and holy life, and devote our lives to His service. The best trade of our lives is when we trade our sins for His salvation.

D. Abram and Lot Separate
1. When Abram left his home, he took his wife and nephew, Lot. Up until this time Lot had been with Abram in all his travels and had shared in the great wealth God had given Abram. Now there were so many flocks and herds the land could not contain them. But, oh the peril of riches! Here is the first rich man mentioned in the Bible, and we no sooner hear of his riches than we must listen to the story of strife in the family. It is not surprising that the servants quarreled. The herds were so great that in rounding up the wandering cattle, the servants would begin to argue and fight over which cattle belonged to which master. From an occasional misunderstanding, it grew until it became a daily affair.
2. Abram was the older and wealthier of the two, and was the head of the family, but instead of speaking harshly to Lot, he gave him his choice. Out of the land before them, if Lot chose to go to the right, Abram would take the left, or if he wanted the left, Abram would go the right. We would expect Lot to say, "Not so, Uncle Abram, for by all rights you should have first choice, and I will be glad to take what is left." But no! Lot was selfish and desired to pitch his tents toward the rich, fertile, well-watered plains near the wicked-cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. So Abram took what was left-the hilly country of Canaan.
3. In almost every respect Lot compares unfavorably with Abram. Abram walked by faith; Lot walked by sight. Abram was generous; Lot was greedy. Abram looked for a city whose builder and maker was God; Lot made himself a home in a city built by man and destroyed by God!

E. Birth of Ishmael
1. God had made the promise to Abram that He would make a mighty nation of him, and he believed and trusted God. However, after it had been ten years since Abram and Sarai had entered Canaan and they realized they were getting old, Sarai became discouraged. She persuaded her husband to resort to a custom accepted in that day of taking another wife. He consented and took Sarai's maid, Hagar, to be his wife and she gave birth to a son whom they named Ishmael. But it was not the plan of God to establish the covenant with this son of the bondwoman. Abram failed to wait patiently and obediently for the will of the Lord to be done.
2. Ishmael became the father of a great nation, the Arabs, and there has been a continual struggle between the Arabs and Jews ever since. Right now in Palestine there is a warfare going on between these two descendants of Abraham to gain control of the site of old Jerusalem.

F. Birth of Isaac
1. When Ishmael was thirteen years old the Lord appeared again to Abram and changed his name to Abraham and his wife's name to Sarah, and informed him that Sarah would give birth to the long-promised son. Sarah laughed when told she would give birth to a son, but the following year Sarah conceived and bare a son to Abraham in her old age. Abraham was one hundred and Sarah ninety when Isaac was born. Isaac and Jesus were both long-promised sons to be born, and both were against the laws of nature. Sarah was past the age of child-bearing and Mary was a virgin who had never known a man.

G. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
1. About this same time, three angels visited Abraham with a report concerning the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah where Lot was living. The sin of these cities was very great, their iniquity now called for a visible, revelation of divine wrath. After learning of the impending doom, Abraham pleaded with God for the guilty cities if there should be as many as fifty righteous in them. Abraham came from fifty down to ten souls, and God assured him that if there were but ten righteous souls He would not destroy the cities for their sakes, but there were not even ten to be found!
2. Even after Lot had been warned of the destruction of Sodom, he was still reluctant to leave, and God had to send two angels to take he and his wife and two daughters from the city. Have someone read Gen. 19: 1-13. Then the Lord rained fire and brimstone upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and overthrew all the inhabitants of the cities of the plain. No doubt there was a great volcanic upheaval of hot lava through the beds of sulphur and bitumen that lie in this area, which would account for the fire and brimstone falling from heaven. This volcanic ash falling on human flesh causes the flesh to change into a chemical salt. Evidently, Lot's wife not only looked back, but went back and was caught in the aftermath of the volcanic upheaval. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were not only burned to ashes, but were buried
beneath the lava and sulfur and now lie at the bottom of the Dead Sea.
3. A book has now been published about the search for Sodom and Gomorrah
in the Dead Sea. Portions of the walls of the cities have been recovered, and now scientists are sure that the ancient cities actually lie buried at the bottom of this sea.
4. The sin that was so great in those wicked cities was the sin we call today
SODOMY, which is a sin of homosexuality. In the United States alone there are fifteen million homosexuals. Together, as an organization, on May 29, 1965 they picketed the White House with banners protesting the regulation of the federal government against such practices and demanded their rights to have homosexuality declared as "honorable" in military service and employment. In England homosexuality has already been legalized. Not one publisher in England will dare print anything against this horrible, damnable sin. It has become so prominent allover the world, including our beloved America, that recently Life Magazine devoted several pages to the subject. In San Francisco six ministers had a party for six hundred homosexuals so that there might be "better relations between the church and homosexuals," (read Luke 17:26-30). EVEN AS THE ANGELS CAME TO WARN LOT TO FLEE SODOM, WE ARE HERE TO WARN YOU TO BE READY FOR THE SOON COMING OF CHRIST.
5. There is a striking similarity between the days of Noah and the days of Lot; so striking that it cannot be mere coincidence. Jesus used these two periods of history to show us the world conditions as they will exist once again just before the return of the Lord. He says in essence, "watch the signs of the times." When the world conditions described before the flood of Noah and the destruction of Sodom occur again, then know that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near, even at the door.
6. Both of these ages were characterized by eating and drinking. There is nothing wrong with eating and drinking; we must do so to survive. However, they lived only for eating and drinking. They were interested only in physical food and rejected the bread and water of life. It is estimated that we waste enough food to feed the starving millions of the entire world. The consumption of intoxicating beverages and liquor in the U.S. has reached proportions never dreamed of before. Social drinking has become almost universal. Three billion gallons of liquor are sold annually in America, or twenty gallons for every person. There are eight million alcoholics in our country and more bartenders than ministers of all denominations put together.

H. Offering of Isaac
1. After the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah we come to a very crucial time in the life of Abraham. There was a supreme test; the trial of Abraham's life. In many a man's life there will be one great sorrow; one great trial. Abraham's came about one night as he watched the stars, thinking of how God had given him a promise that his seed would be as numerous as the stars. As he sat there that night, perhaps Abraham said to himself, "My race will soon be run, but in Isaac shall my seed be called. Yes, God is good. Through Isaac He will bless the generations to come." Then suddenly a voice spoke. Abraham knew that voice well. There was no doubt as to the speaker. This time He spoke not of his hopes or the increase of his race, but of the annihilation of it. "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I tell thee of."
2. What occurred between that command and the start of the journey toward the land of Moriah the next morning is left to our imagination. What a night it must have been for Abraham! His only son to be offered up for a burnt offering! The next morning they prepared for their journey. Isaac was all excited about the trip. On the third day Mount Moriah loomed ahead on the distant horizon. When they reached the foot of the mountain, the servant and the donkey were left behind. The wood, the flint, and the knife were placed on Isaac's back and they ascended the mountain. Once Isaac said to his father, "Haven't you forgotten something, father? Here is the wood and the fire, but where is the lamb?" Abraham answered, "God will provide," still hoping and believing.
3. The altar was completed and Abraham gazed into the distance. How could he give him up, the child of his old age, the symbol of promise? How could he tell his mother that he laid his hand upon her child? Then Isaac had completed his work. "Where shall we get the lamb?" Then Abraham placed his hand on Isaac's shoulder and said with trembling voice, "Isaac, my son, thou art the lamb!" Isaac could have seized the knife and struck his father down, but as a true type of Christ, he opened not his mouth and lay down willingly upon the altar and was bound with thongs. Abraham placed a farewell kiss on Isaac's brow and drew back the knife. There was a moment of hesitation. Then the knife flashed in the sunlight as he lifted it up, but before he could
bring it down, he heard the voice of God. "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, for now I know that thou fearest God." Then he heard the struggle of a ram caught in the thicket nearby, and immediately he secured the ram and offered it as a sacrifice.
4. From Mount Moriah one can see Calvary. Centuries later, another procession was winding its way up the hill to Calvary. Jesus Christ was bearing his cross up this hill. Like Isaac, He is obedient, but from the cross He would not come down. It was not the nails that held Him to the cross, but His love for you and for me.
5. The things that God sometimes demands of us in His Word may seem unreasonable, and we may feel that they are unnecessary, even as Abraham might have thought that the offering of his son was unnecessary. But we must step out by faith and obey every command of the Bible regarding soul salvation if we expect to reap the eternal rewards.

Page 13. Isaac and Jacob (click on image to enlarge)
A. Birth of Esau and Jacob
1. Isaac lived a quiet, peaceable life. He had the faith of his father, but lacked his energy and forceful character. Isaac married Rebecca when he was forty years old, and she was barren until Isaac was sixty. Isaac prayed and Rebecca gave birth to twin boys. It was told her before their birth that the elder shall serve the younger. Esau was born first, hairy and red. The name Esau means Edom, or "Red." Esau became a mighty hunter and Jacob a quiet, domestic youth and dwelt in tents. Isaac loved Esau and Rebecca loved Jacob.
2. Since Esau was the eldest son, the birthright belonged to him. There were certain privileges connected with this blessing. This meant he would have superior rank in the family. He would succeed to a double portion of his father's property, the priestly office, or spiritual leader of the family would be his, and greatest of all was the covenant blessing which meant that they would be a link in the descent of the promised Messiah. The birthright was held as dear as life itself since it contained both material and spiritual blessings.

B. Esau Sells His Birthright
1. One day Esau returned from hunting weary and faint and saw his brother Jacob preparing some pottage of lentils. Famished and exhausted he longed for the fragrant food and begged his brother to let him eat some of it. Seeing his brother's distress, Jacob agreed to give his brother the pottage, but only on the condition that he sell him his birthright. Unable to control the pangs of hunger, Esau was willing to trade all his privileges for a single meal. This was not enough for Jacob. "Swear unto me," he said, and Esau swore to give it him. So the birthright was sold-for one morsel of meat! Esau was saying in effect, I cannot live on promises; give me something to eat and drink, or else I die. This age is saying the same thing. "Eat, drink, and be merry" is a common saying, yet man is forgetting that tomorrow we die, and where will we spend eternity? 2. Isaac waxed old and his eyes grew dim so that he could not see. One day he called Esau to him and asked him to go hunting and bring him some venison, and in return he would bestow the patriarchal blessing upon him. His words, however, did not escape the quick ears of Rebecca. Eager to obtain this blessing for her favorite son, Jacob, she bade him go quickly and slay two kid goats with which she prepared savoury meat such as Isaac loved. Then placing the garments of his brother and the skins of the lambs on his arms and neck, she directed him to go into the presence of his father and receive the blessing of Esau's. Isaac suspicious that Jacob was standing before him and asked how he had killed the animal so quickly. His quick answer that the Lord had brought it to him did not relieve Isaac's mind. He asked that he come near and let him feel whether he be Esau or not. Isaac said that the hands are the hands of Esau, but the voice is of Jacob. Finally Isaac ate of the meat and then bestowed upon Jacob in all its fullness the covenant blessing. He prayed that God would give him the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, that He would make people to serve him and nations to bow down to him so that he might be lord over his brethren, and a blessing to all that blessed him, a curse to all that cursed him.
3. Jacob had scarcely gone forth from his father's presence when Esau returned from the chase. With savory meat he presented himself before Isaac. The old man trembled very exceedingly when he heard the voice of his eldest son, but he had come too late. With a great and exceeding bitter cry Esau implored his father for just one blessing that might be left. Isaac assured him that his dwelling would be of the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven, but he must live by his sword and serve his brother till the day when he should gain the dominion and break his brother's yoke from off his neck.
Thus Esau set out to kill Jacob.
4. Men today are neglecting salvation in their best days. They are exchanging their birthright for what is sure to perish and cause them to perish with it. "For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matt. 16:26. In despising the great gift of God, men are selling out their souls for the pleasures of this world.
5. God said, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated," Rom. 9:13. Jacob had an inner drive within him to excel; he was not satisfied with just the ordinary things of life. He valued the most important things of life -those of the spiritual side. God still loves those who are more interested in spiritual things than carnal. Esau despising his birthright is a type of the nation of Israel. Just as Jacob was grafted in and took his place, so the Gentile nations were grafted in to take the place of the chosen nation, Israel.

C. Jacob's Vision
1. When Rebecca learned of Esau's threat to kill Jacob, she sent him to her brother, Laban's home, to find him a wife there. When Rebecca kissed Jacob goodbye that day, it was for good, for Jacob never saw her face again. Jacob's sin of deception caused him to flee from his brother. Sin always drives a man out, away from his home and friends, his joy and peace. As the sun went down on the first evening of his journey, Jacob put several stones together for a pillow and lay down to sleep. As he slept, there appeared to him a vision of the night. A ladder seemed to rise up from the bare ground and reached even unto heaven, with angels ascending and descending on it. How swift the change from the lying, deceiving wretch with the venison in his hands to the youth who sleeps at the foot of the ladder. Jacob discovered that night that God is near, that God is merciful and forgiving, and that He will bless him and care for him wherever he goes. The next morning Jacob took the stone upon which his head had rested, set it up for a monument, poured oil upon it as a sign of consecration and worship, and vowed that if God would be with him and bring him again to his father's house in safety and peace, he would come there to Bethel again and worship.
2. What about our vows? Do we ever make avow in some danger or hour of peril, or in a moment of spiritual uplift, or in sorrow? Have we kept those vows? Somewhere, and you and I know best where it is, there is a stone which I once we set up as Jacob did at Bethel. If we will go back to it and renew our vow, God will bless us again. And how many times we need to be blessed and I refreshed in this long pilgrimage of life!

D. Jacob Wrestles With an Angel
I. For the next twenty years Jacob lived with his uncle, Laban, working fourteen of those years for his daughter Rachel, whom he loved. At the end of the first seven years he was deceived and given Leah for his wife, and after seven more years was given Rachel. For the next six years Jacob worked for Laban, during which time eleven sons and one daughter were born to him by his two wives and their two handmaids. After completing his time of service Jacob returned to his home with his family and his many herds and flocks. As he came to the brink of the river which divided him from his father's home, messengers came with the news that Esau was coming to meet him with four hundred men. That night Jacob sent his family and herds ahead, but he stayed behind to renew his supplications for divine protection.
2. Through the night, even to the breaking of the day, there wrestled with him One whom he knew not and whose name he could not prevail upon Him to reveal. Jacob struggled desperately with the angel and said, "I will not let you go except you bless me." The angel did bless him and changed his name from Jacob, which means supplanter, or deceiver, to Israel, which means power with God. Henceforth, forever, the name of God's chosen people would be Israel. The angel also left the mark of their mysterious conflict by touching the hollow of Jacob's thigh so that it remained out of joint until his death. Jacob is a new man; he is a regenerated man, just as we must be. Christ said that "Ye must be born again." We can be born again; we must be born again!
3. The next morning Jacob met Esau, and Esau fell upon Jacob's neck and kissed him. There was a complete reconciliation, and Esau agreed to leave the land of Jacob's inheritance to him, and he and his family retired to the mountains of Seir and called the land Edom. A few years later Rachel died giving birth to their youngest son, Benjamin.

Page 14. Dispensation of Promise Ends in Egypt Bondage (click on image to enlarge)
A. Joseph Sold By His Brothers
1. Of Jacob's twelve sons, Joseph was the most beloved. Very likely he was a picture of Rachel, who had passed away, and as a token of his love, Jacob foolishly gave Joseph a coat of many colors, to which the color of blood was soon added. Joseph had dreams of his brothers bowing to him, and after telling them of these dreams, they hated him the more. One day as Joseph went to see how his brothers fared, they conspired to kill him as they saw him coming. Judah convinced them that he should be sold to a caravan of Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, so they dipped his coat in the blood of an animal and told their father he had been killed by a wild beast.
2. Instead of moaning over his fate or exhausting himself in self-pity, Joseph
resolves to make the best of the situation. If he must be a slave in Egypt, then he will be the best kind of a slave possible. He was sold to the house of Potiphar and blessing and prosperity were brought to that house because of Joseph. But soon, Joseph fell into temptation. This was no ordinary temptation. Joseph was loyal to the master who had bought him and had honored him by promotion, but it was not a sense of loyalty to Potiphar nor the dread of his anger if he should yield and be discovered. It was his loyalty to God and to his conscience. Joseph won his battle because he was able to pronounce the most difficult word in any language, whether it be Hebrew, Egyptian, English or Spanish-"NO!"

B. Joseph Is Cast Into Prison
1. Potiphar's wife lied and told her husband that Joseph had tried to seduce her, and he was immediately cast into prison. Can you imagine how Joseph must have felt that first night in the prison. No doubt a voice told him that he had acted like a fool. If you had yielded to that temptation you would be living in ease and comfort instead of this stinking prison! Does it pay to be good? But the Bible tells us, " And he was there in the prison, but the Lord was with Joseph." He is with all who will stand with God and conscience.
2. It was not long before Joseph had won the confidence of the jailer and his fellow prisoners. Instead of being soured by misfortune, he resolved to make the best of his lot and do what he could to help other prisoners. He eventually was released from prison because of his God-given ability to interpret dreams. Pharaoh had a dream no one could interpret. Joseph was called from the prison by a former prisoner who had been restored to Pharaoh's house. The dream was of seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Because of his ability to interpret the dream, Pharaoh promoted Joseph to be the food administrator over all the land of Egypt and to make provision for the seven years of drought. Joseph now stood the test of prosperity. He did not become selfish and proud, but was the same warm-hearted Joseph he had always been.

C. Joseph Forgives His Brothers
1. Joseph never forgot his family or his father's house, for when the famine was very severe and his brothers were forced to come to Egypt to buy food to survive, Joseph forgave them and disclosed himself to his brothers and wept over them. They bowed before him, thus fulfilling his dreams that Joseph had told his brothers of as a boy. Jacob and all his household came to Egypt and there were fed and protected and made a great nation, and in the fullness of time, Jacob's seed was brought back to the land of Promise.
2. Before Jacob's death he blessed his sons and assigned Judah the portion of the blessing through whom the Messiah was to come. Blessings were also pronounced upon Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's sons, and they were reckoned as Jacob's own sons and both grew into great tribes.

D. Egypt's Bondage
1. After the death of Joseph, there arose a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph and who regarded with no friendly feelings the strange community with alien rites and traditions who had settled on the eastern outskirts of Egypt. This group of people had grown from around seventy to approximately two million. He viewed with alarm their rapid increase and feared lest in the event of a war they might ally themselves with an enemy and fight against his own people. Therefore, day after day their lives were made bitter with hard bondage. But the more they were afflicted, the more this strange people grew and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty.

NEXT LESSON- The human race must now be taught the language of God when He talked of things to be used in our redemption. Study the next lesson and see what Israel's first "object lesson" is.
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THEME: "Open your heart when you open your Bible."
LESSON NO.2 Study Sheet
Coverage: Human Government Dispensation to Egyptian Bondage
Page10. Third Dispensation-Human Government
1. God makes a covenant with Noah, Gen. 8.20-22,9:8-17
2. The earth to be destroyed by fire the next time, II Pet. 3:6-7
3. Noah's sons told to replenish the earth, Gen. 9: 1
4. Ham is cursed, Shem and Japheth are blessed, Gen. 9:20-27
5. The whole world had one language, Gen. 11:1
6. Noah's descendants begin to build tower, Gen. 11:2-4
Page 11. Human Government Ends in Judgment- "The Dispersion"
1. Nimrod was the founder of Babel, Gen. 10:8-10
2. God confounds their language and scatters them, Gen. 11:5-9
3. The beginning of nations and languages
4. Human Government ends in judgment by the dispersion
Page 12. Fourth Dispensation-Promise
1. The scattered races turn to idol worship, Rom. 1:21-25
2. The call of Abram, Gen. 12: 1
3. The promise given to Abram, Gen. 12:2-3
4. The covenant and its seal between God and Abram, Gen. 17: 1-14
5. Abram and his wife's names are changed, Gen. 17:5,15
6. Abraham and Lot separate, Gen. 13:8-13
7. Ishmael is born, the father of the Arabs, Gen. 16: 15
8. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by fire, Gen. 19:1-28
9. Isaac is born, the promised son, Gen. 21:1-3
10. Abraham's faith is tested, Gen. 22:1-14
Page 13. Jacob and Esau
1. Esau and Jacob are born to Isaac and Rebecca, Gen. 25:21-26
2. Esau sells his birthright to Jacob, Gen. 25:29-34
3.Jacob deceives his father and receives the birthright, Gen. 27:1-40
4. Jacob's dream and his vow to God, Gen. 28:10-22
5. Jacob spends 20 years working for his wives and for his cattle,
Gen. 29 and 30
6. Jacob wrestles with an angel and has his name changed to Israel,
Gen.32:1-32
Page 14. Promise Ends in Judgment-"Egypt Bondage"
1.Jacob has twelve sons
2. Joseph is the most loved of Jacob, Gen. 37:3
3. Joseph is sold by his brothers, Gen. 37.12-28
4.Joseph is cast into prison, Gen. 39
5.Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dream and is promoted, Gen. 41:1-44
6. Joseph forgives his brothers, Gen. 45:1-7
7. Jacob and all his family moves to Egypt, Gen. 46:1-7,26
8. Promise ends in Egyptian bondage, Ex. 1:8-14

Page 15. Life of Moses (click on image to enlarge)
A. Moses, the Deliverer
1. This study is about one of the most influential men of the Bible. God said that He would not speak to this man in the usual manner of dark speeches, but mouth to mouth and face to face. Moses is reverenced today by the Jewish people as one of the very greatest men in all of their history.
2. The children of Israel had come to Egypt with a family group of about seventy persons, and at the beginning of our lesson they number between two and three million. They had been welded together into a mighty union because they had been forced to seek companionship with each other, as the Egyptians despised them as servants and treated them harshly. This has always been a characteristic of the Israelites even until today. When they are abused, they weld themselves into a unity that gives them strength. When conditions are easy for them and they receive kind treatment, they drift away from each other in a measure and associate themselves with other groups.
3. Because of Pharaoh's fear that these people would rise up against him and his kingdom would be in jeopardy, he oppressed them heavily and they became slaves instead of a free group that had come down into Egypt to live. Satan had a plan for Israel, as well as God. His plan was for Israel to be in bondage, poverty, and sorrow. The plan of God was for them to have liberty, joy, and plenty. They had to get to the place where they wanted deliverance more than anything else in the world before God would deliver them. God wanted to do more than just bring them out of bondage of Satan and slavery; He wanted to bring them into something glorious and wonderful; to a land flowing with milk and honey where the blessings of the Lord were. He wants to do more than just deliver us from our bondage of sin; He wants to give us joy and peace. To just join yourself to a church and say "I'm saved now," is not enough; God's plan is to deliver us and then bring us into a glorious fellowship through the Spirit of God, which is the born-again experience. A life of joy, victory, and peace can be ours when we have that definite, heart-felt experience a person receives when they are truly born again of the water and of the Spirit.

B. The Birth of Moses
1. By the monstrous decree of Pharaoh, the Hebrew midwives were to destroy every son born to the people of Israel to keep them from multiplying so rapidly. But the midwives feared God and saved the boy babies. Then he commanded them to cast every son into the Nile River and save the daughters. Spies now watched the chambers of the Hebrews to see that no male child was permitted to live. A Levite and his wife gave birth to a son and saw that he was a goodly child and hid him for three months in their house. When it was no longer possible to keep him in secret, Moses' mother made him a cradle of bulrushes. This plan must have been formulated in heaven that brought about the preservation of this boy, Moses. Possibly God whispered the plan to his mother when she went to him in prayer. In weaving that little ark, that mother's heart, soul, prayers, and tears were interwoven. By night they carried the babe and his cradle down to the river where he was tenderly laid by the hand of his faithful mother. When the rising sun made it dangerous for her to linger any longer, she gave her little babe a farewell kiss, and then with heavy heart went to her work in the field, leaving Miriam, her daughter, to watch after the little ark.
2. When she had done her prayerful best, by faith she trusted God that He would somehow save her little boy. When we have done our prayerful best, 1we can trust that God will save our children. There is a heavy responsibility upon every parent to raise our children in the way they should go, for God's Word declares that when they are old, they will not depart from it.
3. When the morning came, the daughter of Pharaoh came to the river to bathe. At just the right moment, the baby began to cry. Those tears blotted out all that was against him and gave him a chance for life, because the daughter of Pharaoh was moved and wanted the baby for herself. Moses was saved from death and destruction by the very river that was to have destroyed him and by the daughter of the very ruler who had issued the decree for his death. God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. About that time Miriam was standing by and asked the princess, "Would you like for me to get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" The princess answered, "Yes, go!" She went right to her own mother and Moses' mother was paid
by Pharaoh's daughter to nurse her own child! God took the weapon out of Satan's hand and defeated him at his own game when he thought he would destroy this one that was going to be raised up of God to be a great leader.
4. Moses became a man of faith because his mother and father lived by faith and because his early life was spent in a home of faith. No doubt as his mother was changing his clothes or bathing him that she told him of the promise of God that He would not leave them in the land of Egypt. There must come a deliverer some day, and she was praying that her son would be the one. When Moses was at his sweetest and tenderest years, his mother gave him up to become the son of another because she knew it was God's will. In Pharaoh's court Moses had the best advantages in all the land, and perhaps the world, for the great mission God had called him for. He mastered the sciences of his day, but he always remembered his mother's teaching
and her prayers that some day he might be his people's deliverer. He became an Egyptian in manner and speech, but he always remained an Israelite at heart. Moses chose to suffer the afflictions with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season because he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.
5. When Moses was forty years old he went into the field where the Israelites were working and he saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating an Israelite. Moses felt that this was his chance to show his people that God had raised him up another Joseph in the court of Pharaoh who would deliver them soon, and he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. However, the next day when he, went again to the field, he was met with a sneer of envy and suspicion instead of gratitude. He saw two Israelites fighting, and Moses tried to settle their , dispute. One of them spoke up and asked if he would also kill them as he had the Egyptian. At this statement Moses became afraid and fled for fear that this report would reach the ears of Pharaoh.

C. The burning bush
1. There are three forty year periods in the life of Moses. The first forty years he spent learning in the courts of Egypt. The second forty years he was on the back side of the desert on the plains of Sinai herding sheep. The third forty year period he led the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The forty years he spent in the wilderness was a proving ground for him, and the hour came when he was called from the wilderness to deliver Israel.
2. One day as Moses was tending his sheep, God appeared to him in the form of a burning bush. All through the rest of his life, Moses walked in the light of that bush that was burning, yet was not consumed. The Lord told him that He had heard the cries of His people and had seen their affliction and was ready to deliver them. Moses began to make excuses that he wasn't able to deliver the people of God and the Lord said, "What have you got in your hand, Moses?" He answered, ':Just a rod." The Lord told him to throw it down and it became a serpent. God told him to pick it up again, and it
became a rod. God was showing him that he didn't have to have anything big or great, or an army; all He needed to do was just use what was in his hand. Moses then gave the excuse that he was slow of speech, so God sent Aaron, his brother, to do the speaking for him. .
3. With this divine revelation, Moses was ready to perform God's will. It was going to be quite a task to organize this great host of people and leave the land of Egypt, but he had a promise from God that He would be with him. Then began the long, drawn-out contest between Moses and Aaron and the magicians of Pharaoh's court.

D. God Sends Ten Plagues
1. Pharaoh would not listen to Moses and Aaron, and time after time his heart was hardened. God sent nine grievous plagues on the land of Egypt. First there was the plague of the rivers turning to blood, then frogs, lice, flies, sores on the cattle, then on the people, then hail, locusts, and darkness that covered the whole land. Throughout the plagues there was a marked contrast between the effect on the Hebrews and that on the Egyptians. From the fourth plague on, the Israelites were exempted from the pestilences; consequently, they were enjoying a progressive peace and contentment while the Egyptians were experiencing increasing suffering. This gave the Israelites
the opportunity they needed to get everything prepared for the departure from the land of bondage.

E. Blood on the Door Post
I. With the last plague of thick darkness over the land, the enraged Pharaoh's told Moses to see his face no more. But soon came the awful climax of judgment. Until the night that Christ was born, this was the most momentous night in the history of mankind. When the sun set that evening, Israel was a race of slaves. When the sun rose the next morning, Israel was a nation on the march. Over all Egypt lies the mantle of night. But in the homes of the despised slaves, all is different. On the door post and on the lintel, or facing, of every slave's hut there is the stain of blood. Within the house, every family stands by a table where a roasted lamb is ready to be eaten. Their staffs are in their hands, their loins girt about them, their shoes on their feet. Not a word is
spoken, but in every face there is a look of expectation and dread. If a child moved to open the door, immediately he was rebuked and told not to go out.
2. Then the hour of midnight approached-what they had been waiting for! Suddenly there arose a great cry, a long wail of woe, a tidal wave of lamentation. Parents stirred uneasily and called for their sons, only to find that they were cold in death. Pharaoh's awoke and called for his prince, only to find that his first-born was dead. Everywhere there was the cry of death. A moan of anguish went up to Egypt's skies. But in the houses of Israel where the blood had been sprinkled on the door posts, there was no death. The Angel of Death passed over those homes. The frantic Pharoah called for Moses and Aaron and told them to .'Get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel, and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said." That night Israel was on the march. After 430 years of bondage, the hour of deliverance had come.
3. It is so important that we have the blood of the Lord applied to our hearts and lives. The midnight hour of this world is coming and only with the blood applied to our hearts will we be preserved and be ready to escape the awful things that are coming to this world. You might say, .'How do I get the blood applied to my heart?" The blood is applied through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is a type of you and I repenting, being baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. That's what happened in the New Testament Church when it was set up.
4. The Feast of the Passover is still commemorated by Jews today, the name l of the feast being taken from the fact that on that night the destroying angel I who smote the first-born of Egypt passed over the houses of Israel where the blood was sprinkled on the door posts. This is the same feast Jesus and His disciples were celebrating when He instituted the Lord's Supper.

F. Crossing the Red Sea
1. At early dawn the Israelites set out upon their journey. A pillar of cloud went before them by day and a pillar of fire by night, which indicated when they should move and where they should camp. They did not take the regular route between Palestine and Egypt because they had many things to learn and I they were not sufficiently trained to go against the mighty Philistines.
2. By a change of direction, God led them toward the Red Sea. There they camped. All at once they noticed a cloud of dust, and immediately they knew that Pharaoh and his army was coming after them. The people became frightened as the news spread through the camp. What would they do? They did not yet understand the miraculous power of God, and they began to complain and wished they had stayed in the land of Egypt as slaves rather than die in the wilderness. Man's extremity is God's opportunity, provided man puts his trust in God.
3. Now the pillar of cloud came between the two camps, putting the Egyptians in darkness and giving light on the Israelites' side. All night long God caused a strong east wind to drive back the waters of the sea and made the sea dry land! The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. They marched across on dry land! What a deliverance! Just as they got on the other side, Pharaoh's army came to the bank of the Red Sea and decided to cross over also, but just as they got to the middle, the Lord took off their chariot wheels. As they began to try to flee from the Israelites, the Lord commanded Moses to stretch out his hand over the sea, and the waters came crashing down on the Egyptians, their chariots, and their horsemen. On the other shore, God's people stood speechless. They were amazed at the majestic display of divine power. All they had done was to obey God's command. There followed a great time of rejoicing for the miracle God had just performed!
4. After crossing the Red Sea the Israelites began a new life. God was their leader now to guide them to their new home. They were miraculously fed with manna from heaven and water from a rock. Their clothes and shoes did not wear out for forty years. There was not a feeble one among them until they sinned in the wilderness. Think of it! Not a sick or crippled person out of two million people! Blessing, victory, and the divine protection of God overshadowed them throughout their journey to the Promised Land. Many times they grumbled and complained, but when they would repent, God would show His favor upon them again.
5. Some may wonder why God worked only through the nation of Israel when there were other nations around them that He could have blessed. God had a particular people that He wanted to use, and that people was to be a peculiar people unto Himself among all people of the earth. This nation was to be a witness, an illustration, a repository of God's truths, and a channel through which the Messiah should come. The nation of Israel was to be a peculiar treasure above all that were in the earth.

G. Giving of Law on Mount Sinai
1. A short time after their deliverance from Egypt, they journeyed to Mt. Sinai where Moses received the Law from God. This great mountain was to be their school house for the next year. God had already taught them His wisdom and power in Egypt and along the journey to Mt. Sinai He taught them of the love and mercy and watchfulness He had for them. But here at Sinai they entered a deeper lesson. It was necessary that God give them some standards to live by and much training and discipline. Moses ascended the mountain alone and there listened to the voice of God amidst a great
cloud of glory which filled the mountain.
2. There God gave Moses the "Law." There are three divisions of the Law, or Mosaic Covenant:
a. The commandments, expressing what the people should be, or the moral law
b. The judgments, which are laws that exhibit strict and perfect justice, sometimes called the judicial law
c. The ordinances, which regulated the religious life and worship of Israel, or the ceremonial law
3. The Law that God gave Moses gave no righteousness or life. It only exposed and condemned. It could not save, because man, in himself, was too weak and sinful to keep it and thus to work out salvation.

H. Building the Tabernacle
1. The plans for the building of the Tabernacle were given to Moses along with the Law. The following pages go into detail on the Tabernacle.
I. Forty Years Wandering in Wilderness
1. Israel moved toward the Promised Land after their stay at Sinai. Upon arriving at the border, Moses sent twelve men to report on the land of Canaan. All reported a good land, but ten declared that it could not be conquered. Fear immediately destroyed their faith, and the people refused to enter into their promised possession. They were sentenced to wander in the wilderness for forty years as a punishment of their rebellion and unbelief. All above the age of twenty were doomed to die without entering Canaan except Joshua and Caleb, the two spies who brought back a good report.

Page 16. The Tabernacle-Examples and Patterns (click on image to enlarge)
A. A Figure and a Shadow
1. Now let us take a look at the Tabernacle in the wilderness that Moses built according to divine direction. This structure is extremely important, as it is God's first grade in the school of redemption. The beautiful plan of salvation as revealed in the New Testament, with its shedding of blood, was first revealed to man in a simple, easy-to-understand object lesson in the Old Testament. Every part of the Tabernacle and its furnishings speak in loud tones of Jesus Christ. It was a figure, a shadow, and an example of things in heaven that the Almighty God wished to show to earthly man.
2. A figure is an outline, or a sketch of an object. Read Heb. 9:8-9,23-24. Here we find that the Tabernacle is an outline, or a sketch of things in heaven.
3. A shadow is a reflection of an object. Read Heb. 10: 1. It is as if the light of God is shining on an object in heaven and its image is being reflected upon the earth. In. Heb. 8: 5 and I Cor. 10: 11 we find that it is an example or .pattern of things in heaven. Read these two scriptures and also Luke 24:44. Since there are so many valuable lessons to be learned from the Tabernacle, it would be good that we take a close look at it.

B. Divisions of the Tabernacle
1. There are three divisions of the Tabernacle; the outer court, the Holy Place, and the Holiest of Holies. The outer court represents a repentant sinner's approach to God of repentance and baptism. The Holy Place, which was ten cubits wide, ten cubits high, and twenty cubits long, equaling two thousand cubits, represents the Church Age, or the two thousand years from the Holy Ghost being poured out to the second coming of Christ. The Holiest of Holies, which was ten cubits wide, ten cubits high, and ten cubits long, equaling one thousand cubits, represents the millennial reign of Jesus Christ when we shall reign with Him for a thousand years of peace on the earth.

C. Outside View of the Tabernacle
1. Let us follow the steps of the priest as he performs the duties of the Tabernacle. As the priest enters the gate of the outer court, (the drawing does not show a gate) there are four poles holding up this gate, representing the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The gospels do not tell us how to be saved, but just lead us up to the book of Acts which does. The gate and walls of the court were so high that no one could see over, and there was no way to enter the Tabernacle except by the gate. Hanging upon these four poles were curtains of fine twined linen of blue, purple, and scarlet. The blue represents His Deity, the scarlet His suffering, and the purple His royalty. The gate was covered by this beautiful hanging through which men must press their way, read Luke 16: 16.
2. As the priest entered through the gate, the first thing he encountered in the outer court was the brazen altar. An animal must be placed upon this altar and its blood shed, for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. Twice every day a Iamb was to be offered on this altar unto the Lord.. The next step was for the priest to wash at the brazen laver, lest he die. Then the priest entered into the Holy Place where he could see to perform his duties by the aid of the golden candlestick. He offered incense twice each day, which filled the Tabernacle with a fragrant odor that was pleasing to God, and ate of the shewbread.
3. The Holiest of Holies contained the ark of the covenant where the presence of the Almighty God dwelt. Only the High Priest could enter this room, that was separated from the Holy Place by a heavy veil, once a year to offer an atonement for the sins of the people of Israel. According to history pomegranates and bells were placed around the hem of the High Priest's garment and a rope tied around his leg so that if there should be sin in his life, without the proper consecration, he would immediately be slain by God and they would pull his body out by the rope if the bells ceased to ring. If God accepted the sacrifice for the sins of the people, the fire of God would come down and consume the sacrifice from off the brazen altar.
4. We have been made a royal priesthood unto God and a peculiar people, that we should show forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light, I Pet. 2:9. With a general view of the Tabernacle in mind let's examine each article of furniture in the Tabernacle.

Page 17. Brazen Altar (click on image to enlarge)
A. A Place of Death
1. (On the left side of the chart we have what is represented in the Tabernacle, ~
and on the right a fulfillment.) Without the shedding of blood on the altar, there was no remission of sins. The blood of bulls and goats did not wash away their sins, but only rolled them ahead until the time that Jesus Christ would become our perfect sacrifice and we could receive forgiveness of our sins. Read Heb. 9:28 and Is. 53:7.

B. A Place of Sacrifice
1. The priests offered sacrifices of lambs and bullocks, but our sacrifices must be a living sacrifice-our own bodies. We must die daily to the flesh. Read Rom. 6:6, 8:36, and Gal. 2:20. Under the dispensation of grace we are crucified with Christ by dying daily to our own will and the desires of our flesh that we might please Him.

C. Priest Must Come By Way of the Altar
1. The priest could never enter the Holy Place or Holiest of Holies to perform the duties of the Tabernacle without first coming by the way of the altar. We can never expect to come to God without first repenting of our sins, which is a type of death, and being thoroughly sorry for our past lives and the sins we have committed, and determining in our hearts that we will never do them again. Read Acts 3: 19 and I John 1: 9. The act of repentance is not just "once and for all." We must always keep a repentant attitude toward God and acknowledge our sins and mistakes.

D. Made of Shittum Wood Overlaid With Brass
1. The wood represents Christ's humanity and the brass represents judgment. It is at the brazen altar that we find judgment of sin. The repenting of sins is not enough to get rid of them, or remit them. It is only the first step toward salvation, even as the brazen altar in itself was incomplete. The fire upon the altar was to burn continually. It must never go out. Even so, God is ready to forgive us of our sins whether it be day or night; as long as we are willing to admit that we are sinners and approach Him with faith.

Page 18. Brazen Laver (click on image to enlarge)
A. Priest Must Wash
1. God gave Moses strict instructions that the priests must wash at the brazen laver before ministering at the brazen altar or entering the Tabernacle. Though our sins may be forgiven at the altar of repentance, still they are not washed away, or remitted, until we are buried with Him in baptism. Read Acts 22:16 and I Pet. 3:20-21. Today there is not much stress placed upon baptism, but this teaching has no scriptural foundation, for God placed much emphasis upon it.

B. Laver Reflected Image of Priest
1. The laver was made of brass from looking glasses. It reflected the image of the one who approached it. The repentant sinner sees himself as he is and realizes his sinful condition as he approaches God in baptism. We are washed, we are sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by His Spirit Read I Cor. 6:9-11. We are made new creatures in Christ. Old things are passed away and all things are become new, Rom. 6:3-7.

C. Last Command Was to Wash
1. When God was giving Moses instructions on how to build the Tabernacle and its furniture, He named every piece to be used and the very last article of furniture named was the brazen laver. He places a death sentence on the priest who would disobey this command. Likewise, Jesus was with His disciples for .forty days after His resurrection, opening their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. He told them about the coming Comforter and all that was written in the law of Moses and the Psalms and prophets concerning Himself, and then told them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel unto every creature; he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, he that believeth not shall be damned," Mark 16: 16. Baptism was the last thing
mentioned in His plan, even as it was in the Tabernacle plan. Jesus said that that the man who refused to be baptized after he becomes a believer, or has repented, shall be damned. In the first figure, all things were told unto Moses before the stress was laid upon the laver of washing, and Jesus told His disciples all things before He laid stress upon washing, or baptism.

Page 19. Golden Candlestick (click on image to enlarge)
A. The Light of the Tabernacle
1. After passing the brazen altar and the brazen laver, the priest could now enter the Holy Place. There was no floor in the Tabernacle. For the ceiling, there was a beautiful linen covering composed of ten curtains embroidered with figures of cherubim's. Over those curtains was a covering of eleven curtains made of goats' hair. Above that was a covering of rams" skins dyed red. The outside covering was of badgers' skins, which protected it from the weather and hid from view all the inner beauty. As we enter the sacred enclosure there are three objects which meet our view. At the left on the south side stands the golden candlestick. Opposite it is the table of shewbread, and directly in front of the veil is the altar of incense. The light which shone from the golden candlestick was not a natural light belonging to earth, nor was it the light of day or of the sun. It was the only light which shone in the .Tabernacle. Jesus Christ is our divine light. Without Him our lives are in darkness. Read John 8: 12. He alone can give light to our pathway.

B. The Light to Perform Duties
1. By the aid of the light from the golden candlestick, the priest could see to eat the shewbread and offer incense. Without the light of divine revelation, we could not see the glory of God and His ways. The natural light of man which guides him through the natural life and shows him what he should do and how he should do it, can shed no light upon the soul's concerns. If such were the case, many of the great men of the world would be leaders for the cause of Christ instead of atheists. It is the man that will listen to the voice of God and obey Him who walks in the light and understands His
ways. Read. II Cor. 4:6 and Eph. 3:5.

C. The Light to Burn Continually
1. This light was never to go out. We have been given the responsibility to be a light to this dark, evil world. Our lights are to glorify God and to show forth His praises. Once we have been filled with the Spirit of God, we are debtors to Him, as well as to lost humanity, to point them to Jesus Christ, who taketh away the sin of the world. Read Mat. 5: 16 and I Pet. 3: 15.

Page 20. Table of Shewbread (click on image to enlarge)
A. The Priest's Food
1. The priests lived upon this shewbread and received their strength and vigor from it. This shewbread typifies the Word of God, or the Bible. We grow in Christ and receive strength as we read His Word. Just as we must eat natural food for our physical strength, we must partake of the Word of God to receive our spiritual strength. Read John 6:32-35 and 63, and I Pet. 2:2.

B. Shewbread Must Be Renewed
1. The shewbread was to be continually renewed. It was never permitted to grow old or unfit for use. There was fresh bread upon the table every week, just as there is in His Church. He renews His Word unto us from day to day and week to week. Christ, our Bread from heaven, never grows old. Nothing else feeds our souls like this bread. We must search the scriptures daily to keep His Word renewed in our lives. The Bible is not like any other book. We can read the same scriptures over and over again and each time receive something new and precious. It is also very necessary that we assemble ourselves together to hear the Word of God taught by His ministers as we see that evil day approaching, to give us strength to stand. Read Heb. 10:25,John 5:39, and Acts 17:11.

C. Shewbread Was Bitter
1. Frankincense was an aromatic gum taken from a tree with a bitter taste. This was sprinkled upon the shewbread, and how true that is with the Word of God. Sometimes we taste of it, and what it says do is bitter to the natural man. All through the Word of God we find sprinkled on top of it the frankincense which is bitter to the carnal nature, but sweet to the inner man. To the man who eats it, it becomes sweeter than the honeycomb. But to the man who just eats on the surface of God's Word, he will get nothing but the taste of the frankincense, and many times reject all because of the bitter taste he received of the frankincense which covers the bread of life. Read II Tim. 3: 16-17 and Ps. 119: 103. The Word of God is also used to reprove and rebuke us. God has ordained that we have pastors and teachers to help perfect us through the teaching of the Word of God, even though it may sometimes be that bitter frankincense of reproof and rebuke.

Page 21. Altar of Incense (click on image to enlarge)
A. Last Act of Priest Before Passing Veil
1. The altar of incense is a type of our prayer and praises to God, drawing nigh unto Him by the Spirit. Prayer is what brings us closer to God than anything we can do. It was while offering incense at the altar that the priest was closer to God than at any other time, because this was the last act performed before passing the veil. There is nothing here to remind us of the world. The golden candlestick is shedding forth its radiant light; if we hunger, there is the table of shewbread. This is the place where we are "shut in with God." Read Rom. 8:26-27 and Matt. 6:6. Many times we do not know what we should pray for, but the Spirit maketh intercession for us. Our prayers
are not to be seen of men as the Pharisees of Jesus' day, but are to be in secret.

B. Fire Brought From Altar of Sacrifice
1. The fire for burning the incense was brought from the brazen altar of sacrifice. We can have no communion with God in the Holy Place in prayer unless we have a continual sacrifice upon the brazen altar with the fire devouring it. The sons of Aaron once offered strange fire to the Lord, or fire from some place other than the altar of sacrifice, and were immediately devoured by the fire of God. This shows us that we should beware of any prayer which is not backed up by sacrifice, or repentance, to the Lord. Our prayers are answered when we keep His commandments and do those things which are pleasing to Him. Read John 15: 7 and I John 3:22.

C. Incense Offered Daily
1. Just as the priest offered incense daily on the golden altar, we must pray without ceasing. This does not mean that we must constantly be on our knees praying, but we should never cease to pray. We should develop a daily prayer life and then keep that prayer time. As we do our work, we can have a prayer in our hearts and a continual praise to Him for all of His goodness. If we will pray, we won't faint, or grow weak and sluggish. Read Luke 18:1 and I Chron.16:11.

D. Three Types of Fire in Tabernacle
1. If you will remember, we have seen three types of fire. The fire on the brazen altar was afire of destruction. The fire in the golden candlestick was for instruction, and the fire in the altar of incense was for construction. Our sins are destroyed or consumed on the altar of sacrifice, then we receive instruction as the light of God shines upon His Word to teach us His ways. Through prayer we begin to construct a spiritual life according to God's plan. We are God's house, and nothing is built unlt:s:. there is first destruction. Trees must be cut down for lumber to be used in the building. No building
is built without a blueprint to guide the builder. After the materials are gathered, the blueprint, or instructions are read, then it is time to begin constructing the house. Many try to build a house for God by following their own ways; perhaps in a continuous state of repentance, or having never fully repented, follow Him by reading the Word of God, but we must do more than just read and memorize the Bible. Others lead a life of prayer, but have no foundation of knowledge behind their prayer life.
2. If we have begun our perfect work with the fire from the altar of burnt offerings, have washed, have taken the fire from the brazen altar and touched the wicks of the golden candlestick, on past the table of shewbread to the altar of incense and there use the same fire to construct the work of repentance and knowledge of His Word, being instructed by the Holy Ghost, we can then be ready to enter within the veil at the coming of Jesus, or the rapture of the Church.

Page 22. The Tabernacle in the Old Testament-A Type of the New
Birth in the New Testament (click on image to enlarge)
A. Jesus Christ Fulfilled the Tabernacle
1. The Tabernacle in the Old Testament is a perfect type of the new birth experience. As you will notice, the furniture in the Tabernacle was in the shape of a cross. Jesus Christ completely fulfilled this plan in His life and in His death. (Use your pointer to show the comparison between the cross on the left and each article of furniture on the right.) He was our burnt offering, He washed, or was baptized, He was the light of the world, the bread of life, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane before His death on the cross, and then rent the veil in two whereby we may now come boldly into the presence of God. At the same moment Jesus died on the cross, the veil in the temple at Jerusalem was completely torn, or ripped from top to bottom by an unseen blade. This brought the Levitical priesthood to an end, because now every priest who came into the Tabernacle could see beyond the veil. Since the descent of the Holy Ghost,
every man who will read the book of Acts and will be guided by it can see past the son-ship of Jesus (the veil) and know that He is the Word made flesh, our mediator, and the hope of our resurrection.
2. Even as Jesus Christ performed every detail of the Tabernacle, even so every person who plans to make it in the rapture must also be very sure that he, too, has performed every detail of this Tabernacle, for this is a pattern of things in heaven. With this world in the condition that it is today, we must be very sure that we know the proper escape route.
3. What is the escape route ? Let's go through it once more. As you remember, the gate of the Tabernacle represented the four gospels. Nowhere in the gospels can you find the plan of salvation. The Church Age, or the grace dispensation did not start until the book of Acts. In no other book can you find this plan. First of all, every sinner must repent. If we repent with an honest and open heart, our sins will be forgiven by our sacrifice, Jesus Christ. Next, we must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and our sins will be washed away, or remitted. If we are to be in the bride of Christ, we must have the name of the bridegroom upon us, for what man would choose a wife who would not take his name upon her? Most of the church world has stopped with these two acts. They repent to a degree, they are baptized after a manner, but they have not entered into a definite experience of the Holy Ghost. You do not just drift into the Holy Ghost after being baptized. The Holy Ghost is a definite experience, even as
repentance and baptism are. Do you remember that we mentioned that after the High Priest had offered the sacrifice for the atonement of the sins of Israel and had followed all the steps through the Tabernacle all the way into the Holiest of Holies, if God had accepted their sacrifice, there was a definite sign of His acceptance. The sacrifice on the brazen altar was consumed by the fire of God ri1!;ht before their eyes! There was no need to wonder if God had accepted them for that year. All could see for themselves!
4. You need not wonder or hope that you are saved; you can know definitely by the seal of the Holy Ghost. Noah had a seal of his covenant, the rainbow which was a definite sign that you could see. Abraham had a definite seal of his covenant with God, which was circumcision. Jacob had a definite seal of his birth --the blessings of his father. My friend, the Holy Ghost is a definite, know-so experience. How do you know when you have It? Are you going only by feelings, or do you have the positive seal of the Holy Ghost? Remember, this is God's escape route from the judgments that are coming at the end of this dispensation.
SEARCH FOR TRUTH HOME BIBLE STUDY PROGRAM
THEME: "Open your heart when you open your Bible."
LESSON NO.3 Study Sheet
Coverage: Birth of Moses to Entering the Promised Land
Page 15. Fifth Dispensation-Law
1. Moses, the deliverer from bondage, Ex. 3:7-10
2. The Birth of Moses, Ex. 2:2-10
3. Moses slays the Egyptian and flees to Midian, Ex. 2: 11-15
4. God speaks to Moses through the burning bush, Ex. 3, 4: 1-17
5. God sends ten plagues on the land of Egypt, Ex. 7: 19-10:29
6. Blood applied to the door post, Ex. 12:1-36
7. Israelites cross the Red Sea, Ex 14: 1-31
8. Moses receives the Law on Mt. Sinai, Ex. 19 and 20 --
9. Plans for the building of the Tabernacle, Ex. 25, 26, & 27 ~
10. Forty years of wandering in the wilderness
Page 16. The Tabernacle
1. The Tabernacle given for a figure, Heb. 9:8-19, 24 a shadow, Heb. 10:1,
examples-patterns, Heb. 8:5, I Cor.. 10: 11, Luke 24:44
2. The divisions-Outer Court, Holy Place, Holiest of Holies
3. Holy Place -10xl0x20 cu.= 2,000, or "The Church Age"
4. Holiest of Holies-l0x10x10 cu.= 1,000, or "The Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ" Rev. 20.4
Page 17. The Brazen Altar
I. A place of death and shedding of blood typifying Jesus Christ, our perfect
Sacrifice, Heb. 9:28, Is. 53:7,John 1:29
2. Our bodies must be a living sacrifice, Rom. 6:6, 8:36, Gal. 2:20
3. Must go by altar to enter Tabernacle; no way to enter presence of God
except by way of repentance, Acts 3: 19, I In. 1:9
Page 18. The Brazen Laver
1. Priest must wash before ministering in Tabernacle; our sins are forgiven
at altar of repentance, and washed away, or remitted in baptism, Acts 22: 16,
I Pet. 3:20-21
2. Laver reflected image; repentant sinner sees himself before baptism, I Cor.
6:9-11
3. Last command to Moses-"Wash at the laver that ye die not"-last words of
Jesus-"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;' Ex. 30:20-21,
Mark 16:16
Page 19. The Golden Candlestick
1. The light of the Tabernacle; Jesus is divine light, Jn. 8:12
2. The light of God reveals His mysteries, II Cor. 4:6, Eph. 3:5
3. This light was to burn continually; we are the light of the world to burn continually, Matt. 5.16, I Pet. 3:15
Page 20. The Table of Shewbread
1. Priest lived on this bread; we live by the Bread of Life, John 6:32-35, 63, I Pet. 2:2
2. Shewbread to be continually renewed; Word of God must be continually
renewed in our lives, John 5:39, Acts 17: 11
3. Frankincense was sprinkled on the Shewbread; Word of God is sometimes bitter, II Tim. 3:16-17, Ps. 119:103
Page 21. Altar of Incense
1. A type of drawing nigh to God in prayer, Rom. 8:26-27, Mat. 6:6
2. Fire for incense brought from Brazen Altar; our prayers must be backed up by sacrifices, John 15:7, I John 3:22
3. Incense offered daily; pray without ceasing, Luke 18: 1, I Chron. 16: 11
4. Three types of fire: destruction (Brazen Altar), instruction, (Candlestick), construction (Altar of Incense)
Page 22. The Tabernacle is a type of the New Birth in New Testament
1. Furniture was in the shape of a cross; Jesus Christ fulfilled every part of the Tabernacle; we must also fulfill it
a. Repentance-sins forgiven by our sacrifice, Jesus
b. Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ-sins washed away
c. Enter the presence of God, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, John 3:5, Acts 2:38
2. Make sure we know the proper escape route.