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Old Testament Survey: Genesis-Esther
GOD’S KINGDOM PROGRAMDATE THEME EVENT REFERENCEBC Kickoff &
RebellionCreation, Fall, Flood
Gen 2:4-11:9
ca.2100-1850 BC Instrument of Blessing
Patriarchs Gen 11:10-50:26
ca.1446-1406 BC Nation Redeemed & Commissioned
Exodus, Sinai, Wilderness
Exodus-Deuteronomy
ca.1406-600BC Government in the Promised Land
Conquest & Kingdom (United/Divided Monarch)
Joshua-Kings
ca.600-400BC Dispersion & Return
Exile & Initial Restoration
Daniel-Chronicles
ca.4BC-AD Overlap of the Ages
Christ’s Work and the Church Age
Matthew-Acts
ca.AD-Eternity Mission Accomplished
Christ’s Return & Consummation
Revelation
Merneptah Stele
Merneptah SteleThe princes are prostrate, saying, "Peace!"Not one is raising his head among the Nine Bows.Now that Tehenu (Libya) has come to ruin,Hatti is pacified;The Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe:Ashkelon has been overcome;Gezer has been captured;Yano'am is made non-existent.Israel is laid waste and his seed is not;Hurru is become a widow because of Egypt.
Canaanite Genocide
“Joshua is a story of the Kingdom of God breaking into the world of nations at a time when national and political entities were viewed as the creation of the gods and living proofs of their power. Thus, the Lord’s triumph over the Canaanites testified to the world that the God of Israel is the one true and living God, whose claim on the world is absolute.” (Wood, A Survey of Israel’s History)
Canaanite Genocide
“The battles for Canaan were therefore the Lord’s Holy war, undertaken at a particular time in the program of redemption. God gave his people under Joshua no commission or license to conquer the world with the sword but a particular, limited mission. The conquered land itself would not become Israel’s national possession by right of conquest, but it belonged to the Lord. So the land had to be cleansed of all remnants of paganism.” (Lewis)