1. Learn to read the Bible effectively
Week 7

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Agenda for Week 7
Summary of Week 5
Mystery?
Period between the Testaments
Break for refreshments
Bible Terminology Part 3
Summary & Questions

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Summary of Week 6
Answers to the critics claim that…
The Bible is a work of fiction
Bible happenings came about by chance or coincidence
The Bible was written a long time ago and is not reliable
The Bible contradicts itself

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Summary of Week 6 (cont.)
History of Israel – Part 5
Hezekiah to Zedekiah
The Purpose of God
Why God created man

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Mystery?

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Mystery
“And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.” Luke 9:2 KJV

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Mystery
“(Jesus said) ‘Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.’ But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.” Luke 9:44-45 KJV

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Mystery
“These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.” John 12:16 KJV

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Mystery
“And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.” Acts 28:30-31 KJV

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Mystery
“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.” Ephesians 3:4-5 KJV

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Mystery
“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.” Romans 16:25-26 KJV

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Mystery
“… the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.” Colossians 1:26 KJV

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Mystery
Summary:
Aspects of the Kingdom of God involving Jesus were a mystery to the world until the Apostles’ day.
The Apostles received an understanding of the mystery Christ.
God has revealed his plan slowly through the ages, and…
The revelation is complete.

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Period Between the Testaments

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Bible Terminology – Part 3

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Bible Terminology
Patriarch
Psalm
Blasphemy
Temptation
Meek
Antichrist
Mediator
Messiah
Passover
Saviour
Israel
Abram
Abraham
Exhort
Church

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Antichrist
“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us … … Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:18-22 KJV

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Church
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
Ephesians 5:23 KJV
1577 ekklesia (ek-klay-see'-ah);from a compound of and a derivative of 2564; a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation
KJV-- assembly, church.
NOT A BUILDING!!

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Bible Terminology
Patriarch
Psalm
Blasphemy
Temptation
Meek
Antichrist
Mediator
Messiah
Passover
Saviour
Israel
Abram
Abraham
Exhort
Church

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Summary & Questions

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Summary of Week 7
Mystery
Period between the Testaments
Recap of history
Bible Terminology

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Conclusion
Any Questions?
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