1. Tisha B’Av 9 th of Av Solomon’s Temple (1 st ) 586 BC Zerubbabel’s Temple (2 nd ) 70 AD

2. Eicha (Lamentations) Scroll Bible Lands Museum - Jerusalem

3. Numbers 19: 1-10

4. Bible Basics

5. Now faith is the substance (assurance) of things hoped for, the evidence (certainty) of things not seen. NKJV Hebrews 11:1

6. Pontius Pilate Prefect of Judea

7. The man without the Spirit (natural or unspiritual man) does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God - foolishness - cannot understand I Corinthians 2: 14

8. I am the truth The words I say to you are not just my own I gave them the words you gave me – they accepted them John 14: 6-10 John 17: 6-8

9. Spirit of truth Teach you all things Remind you of everything I have said Guide you into all truth Not speak on his own Tell you what is yet to come John 14: 15-17; 25-26 John 16: 12-15

10. These are written that you may believe John 20: 30-31 …men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit II Peter 1: 19-21

11. And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. Luke 24: 23-27; 44-49 Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures

12. Word of God Word of the Lord Gospel Holy Spirit Baptism Acts 8: 14-17, 25 Gospel of God Word of God I Thessalonians 2: 8-9, 13

13. The Spirit clearly says… I Timothy 4: 1 Many will turn away from the faith False prophets will deceive many people Matthew 24: 10-11

14. II Peter 3: 14-18 …contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures…

15. The Bible written over a period of almost 1500 years from Moses (~1400BC) to John (almost 100AD) about 40 different writers One Message from One Author

17. Fragments

18. Scroll http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah

19. Codex

20. Papyrus – flattened reeds (papyrus plant) Parchment – processed sheepskin Vellum – processed calfskin Manuscript material

21. Masoretic Text, Biblia Hebraica (900AD) Hebrew, Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls (200BC) Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek Septuagint (LXX) (300BC) Hebrew, Aramaic into Greek Vulgate (400AD) Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek into Latin NT Greek Text (200AD) The Bible

22. NT – over 5,800 Greek MSS Almost 24,000 MSS in Greek, Syriac, Latin More evidence than any other book in history

23. Old Testament Message & Canon Historical Overlap

24. New Testament Message & Canon Historical Overlap

25. New Testament Message & Canon Historical Overlap