The Importance Of Obedience, And Purity Of Worship

Chapter three of Engaging the Christian Scriptures goes into detail over selective parts of the sections of history, writings, and prophets. Chapter three gives the reader information over several books in the Bible such as Joshua, Judges, Jeremiah, etc. The chapter dives into the text of Joshua and gives the reader useful insight over Joshua and him leading the Israel across the Jordan river to conquer the land of milk and honey, Jericho. The book of Judges purpose was to teach Israel that God is faithful and certain to punish sin therefore each person must remain loyal and devoted to the Lord. The purpose of Jeremiah was to warn of the destruction that they were about to face and to urge Judah to return and submit to God. Towards the end

Without devotion to God, violence and death would flourish in Israel. These factors would impede God’s blessings of security and life; thus, the Mosaic covenant demonstrates the continual faithfulness of God in the Old Testament. Finally, God is faithful to Israel during the people’s complaints in the desert. Rather than abandoning the nation for its faithlessness, God provides them will nourishment and protection during their journey. These acts further reinforce the faithfulness of God, even when his followers stray. In all, the Pentateuch demonstrates the theme of God’s faithfulness.

At first glance Joshua seems to just be a story of the Israelites and the settling of the Promised Land, however, there may also be a prophetic vision of God’s plan for Salvation of His people. The book of Joshua shows the difference between living a life, like Moses, under the Law of the Old Testament and under the freedom, which came from Jesus Christ, as Joshua did. One could certainly make a strong case that Joshua 1-6 can be looked at as a metaphor of Jesus Christ and man’s salvation through Him. The evidence ranges from Joshua’s name to the meaning of the Jordan River. The implications would mean that God was discretely showing the Israelites His plan for future salvation well over a thousand years before Christ.Joshua chapters

The book of Judges introduces us to the long years of Israel’s struggle to maintain control of the Promised Land and serves as the transition from the conquest to the kingdom. It deals with events following Joshua’s death (c. 1380 BC)

Joseph M. Bolton RELS 103-02 Online Old Testament Studies Spring Semester 2011 Session E May 8, 2011 to July 2, 2011 The Old Testament TimeLine Creation & Primeval History The Creation: * God creates the Heavens and the Earth * God creates man in his image. *

Meaning/Interpretation: Joshua 1 describes how God uses Joshua to fulfill His promise to the Israelites. God encourages His people to be strong and courageous as they trust Him and Joshua to lead them into battle. This major theme of Joshua is repeated multiple times throughout the chapter. This repetition is used to highlight the significance of being strong and courageous during the time. Being strong and courageous in times of battle and uncertainty required the Israelites to put their trust in God. As He promised to Moses, God promised to that He would never leave Joshua. Yet, the main theme of the book of Joshua is obedience. Joshua displays obedience when he gives instruction to the people of Israel to be lead to Canaan. Joshua tells the people that they need to prepare to cross the Jordan river in there days. The significance of three days is not known, but it is speculated that it could have taken three days to cross the river. Furthermore, the people of Israel trusted God and Joshua to lead them to the promised land of Canaan.

For Gilead, operates in the Transjordan against the Ammonites- contract that if successful then we will be made a ruler

     The Jewish Bible or Tanakh, is the sacred book that interprets history as the Jews have experienced it. Although it is proper to think of the Bible as a single book of scriptures, it is more accurate to describe it as a library of books assembled under three major headings. The most important is the Torah, which means “devine instruction and guidance.” Torah is also known as the Five Books of Moses; the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The second portion is the Nevi’im meaning writings of the Prophets. The third section of Tanakh is referred to as Kethuvim or “the Writings.”

This first volume contains 39 books, and 929 chapters: almost identical to the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. Interpretation of the scriptures are more about God ‘The Father’, himself, but lays the foundation for the second volume the New Testament. Originally written in Greek about 45 AD, this volume contains 27 books and 260 chapters. Its scriptures tell the story of the life of Jesus, believed by Christians to be the Messiah, Son of God in human form, and sent by God to fulfill the promises and prophesies of the Old Testament.

The assignment discusses the conquest of Joshua and the Persian period. Reading about Joshua’s conquest showed me how God will encourage someone when they are doing a good task. Joshua was able to complete this task, and he was rewarded for completing. Sometimes we just have to listen to God and allow him to lead us. Once we are able to complete the task that is given to us, God will able

The rest of the books from Judges to 2 Kings, show how the Israelites were transitioning into a larger kingdom. Throughout Judges, we see the terrible results of what happens with disobedience and faithlessness. The whole book is about repenting and it is a call to return to the covenant. The people continually committed sins and practiced idolatry, then they would remember God and ask for His help. God would send a judge to deliver the people from their situation. The invasion in Canaan was incomplete as the “Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God, and worshiping the Baals and the Asherahs” (Judges 3:7).

The Catholic Church understands that the Bible is not meant to be read as a literal story, but instead to inform the reader. This means the Bible is true, however not always literally true. People should not take some parts literal since the Bible was made very long ago, plus some of the scholars could not write some statements any differently, (For example, Jesus tells people to take the plank of wood out of their own eye before noticing the speck of dust in other people's). Instead the Church teaches that scripture is, “inspired.” “We must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully and without error teach that truth which God for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scripture.” (CCC, 107)

Before introducing these war texts, I would first present some background frame of reference. I would first explain some scholarly thought about the time (622 BCE) in which Joshua was written and how Josiah’s reign might have influenced the lens from which the authors created and edited the final form known today. Given that most of my congregation believes heavily in the inerrancy and infallibility of the bible in combination with a small amount of human error, this information

To speak of the Hebrew Scripture is to speak of story, a story stretching from the very beginning of time to only a few centuries before the beginning of the Common Era. It is to speak of richness of content, of purpose and of reality and to engross oneself in an overarching narrative that, depending on your personal convictions, continues to the present day. Within this richness is found a wide variety of different events and experience, told through a series of genre ranging from foundational myth to apocalypse, law giving to poetry, genealogy to wisdom and many more. Within this diversity however, three broad sections can be discerned that speak to a shared purpose and content, these are the sections of Law, Prophecy and Writings. It

The main purpose for the book of Joshua is the completion of the promise God made in Genesis 12-50 (Attridge, Harold W., 2006, P.310). To start off the process of the Israelites attaining the profiled promise of God they cross the Jordan river with Joshua, the rest of the book is set in a desert region as they journey to the land of Canaan (Joshua 1:2). As far as the social setting of this book the way they greet