The Truth Revealed

R. R. Enget

Description

This book presents an seven-week Bible study, offering the tools to understand the Bible by using context, grammar, and historical clues.

In The Truth Revealed, Enget offers a seven-week Bible study that provides the necessary background and tools to understand the Bible as a whole. The Bible study lays out the detailed redemption plan of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Through this study, Christians will quickly understand God’s plan and equip themselves to relate to others the saving knowledge of knowing Jesus as their Savior.



The book cover illustration of the wheat field is symbolic of the three-step resurrection process that began at the resurrection of Jesus and the last step will happen after the Millennium. Chapter six of the study defines the process in more detail.

Sujets

• Biblical Studies
• Philosophie et théologie
• Jesús de Nazaret
• Jesus
• Resurrection
• Truth
• Religion
• Savior
• Résurrection (homonymie)
• Jésus de Nazareth

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 10 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664248052
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

THE Truth REVEALED
 
Unraveling the Secrets of the Bible You Won’t Hear Sunday Morning
 
 
 
 
 
 
R. R. ENGET
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 R. R. Enget.
 
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This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
 
 
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All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-4806-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-4807-6 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-4805-2 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021921664
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 6/25/2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Lesson 1     Genesis and Marriage
Day 1   Creation Was Not Simple
Day 2   The Plurality of God (Trinity)
Day 3   Where was Eve?
Day 4   The Big Lie
Day 5   The Blame Game
Lesson 2     So Much Failure!
Day 1   Murder
Day 2   Noah, the Only Righteous Person
Day 3   Ark Instructions
Day 4   Starting Over
Day 5   Tower of Babel
Lesson 3     God Changes His Approach— He Selects a People
Day 1   Choose Me
Day 2   Call of Abraham- the   father of the Jewish people
Day 3   The Topsy-Turvy World of Abraham and Sarah
Day 4   Abraham’s Faith Confirmed
Day 5   The Son of Promise
Lesson 4     The Rest of the Story
Day 1   Lots of Drama
Day 2   An Egyptian Prince and a Vice President
Day 3   The Law/Mosaic Covenant
Day 4   Don’t Make Me Go!
Day 5   Long Live the King?
Lesson 5     What Time Is It?
Day 1   A Child Is Born
Day 2   Expectations
Day 3   Jesus Declared He Is God and Began His Ministry
Day 4   Who Is the Kingdom For?
Day 5   The Triumphal Entry
Lesson 6     Jesus the Messiah   Rejected by His People
Day 1   Jesus Fulfilled the Passover
Day 2   Jesus Is Condemned
Day 3   Jesus in the Tomb
Day 4   Resurrection Day
Day 5   Preparing for the Kingdom!
Lesson 7     “Being Justified Freely by His Grace”
Day 1   Transitions
Day 2   A Division Was Made
Day 3   Gentiles and the Law
Day 4   Law Was Over and the Age of Grace Began
Day 5   Waiting for Marriage
INTRODUCTION
This Bible study has been an exciting adventure. The words seemed to fly onto each page as I held my MacBook, sitting cross-legged on my bed during the Covid-19 Pandemic. My goal was to lay out the Bible in an organized way that helps make the Bible more understandable.
The Bible can be confusing if you don’t pull away and see it with a telescopic perspective. Oftentimes, we look at a passage and don’t think of how it fits in the whole narrative of the Bible. That’s what I hope to do with this overall method of addressing the Bible.
Think of understanding the Bible as comparing it to a body. The body needs the skeleton to give form, and the flesh covers your skeleton and completes the body. This Bible study is the skeleton only. The flesh or the details can be added later.
I looked at scripture the wrong way when I was young. I opened the Bible to a page and put my finger on a verse with my eyes closed. I opened my eyes, read that verse, and thought God was speaking to me through that random verse. That memory makes me chuckle, now. I know that wasn’t the way God intended His Word to be read.
Before we begin this study, I want to clarify how to study the Bible. It is threefold:
o contextually
o grammatically
o historically
First, read it in context . Grabbing an isolated verse without context can make it say something it doesn’t. Read all the scriptures around it, think of who wrote it, and ask some questions such as the following:
o Was it before or after the death and resurrection of Jesus?
o Is it part of the Gospel of Grace?
o To whom was this passage or book meant for? Jews or Gentiles?
o Was it written while the Jews were under the law?
Secondly, as you read the Bible, note the grammar . Watch for verb and subject changes and the different words used for God.
Lastly, know the history surrounding the passage . What were the politics and customs of that time?
Since very few of us can read Hebrew or Greek, we rely on the translators. Listed are some of the ways the translators agreed to treat the scriptures.
1. How they translated the names of God are important to define. For example:
• The name of Elohim was translated as God. It is a plural noun and suggests the mystery of the Trinity (Genesis 1).
• El is translated as God in singular—for example, El Shaddai (God Almighty) as used in Genesis 17:1, and El Roi (God Who Sees) as used in Genesis 16:13.
• YHWH /Yahweh/Jehovah was translated as LORD (all capitals). It’s God’s holy covenant name, used primarily for God’s covenant people in the Old Testament (Jews). Yahweh/YHWH/Jehovah’s definition is “to be.” In Exodus 3:14, “God said to Moses, I AM Who I AM,” which means the Self-Existent One, always was and always will be.
• Adonai is translated as “Lord” (lowercase letters). It is a substitution for Yahweh/YHWH/Jehovah, out of reverence for God’s covenant name. Moses’s dialogue with God in Exodus 4:10–12, is a good example. “Then Moses said to the LORD, O my Lord …” Moses would not say God’s holy name out loud, so he used Adonai for the second Lord. Many Jewish people today will not utter the name of God or write it out fully because of their respect for the majesty and holiness of God (e.g., Yahweh is YHWH; God is G _d in written form).
• El Elyon is “God Most High” (Genesis 14:18). It was used for the Gentiles, who were not under the covenants with the LORD/Yahweh/YHWH, but were included after Christ’s resurrection.
2. The translators will add words to the translation that you will not find in the original. Those are in italics. Italicized words are used to smooth out the translation. I oftentimes read the passage without the added words just to check if the meaning stays the same.
Is the Bible the True Word of God?
“Why do you believe the Word of God is true?” I remember being asked that question on a chilly fall day in 1982, while eating lunch with a friend at the University of North Dakota. I was tongue-tied and ill equipped to fully answer that question. That incident caused me to think my answer through, and later I became prepared to answer that question. Here is my answer today.
I believe God’s Word is true because:
1. It is an intricate book of sixty-six individual books, written by forty authors over 1,600 years, and yet it agrees and fits together as one book. Every word of the scriptures is God-breathed, and He used spirit-filled Jewish men to write those books (Romans 3:1-2).
2. The Bible has 1,239 prophecies in the Old Testament and 578 in the New Testament, for a total of 1,817 according to J. Barton Payne’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy. Many prophecies are fulfilled, and others are waiting to be fulfilled as God carries out His plan. A good description of fulfilled prophecies is the book Fulfilled Prophecies and Other Evidence That the Bible Is the Word of God by Matthew McGee. There is no other book that fulfills its prophesies to the letter as the Bible does.
3. The Jewish people’s existence. The Jews’ supernatural two-thousand-year survival outside of their land (after 70 A.D.) and their miraculous return to the Promised Land (Israel) in 1948 is simply amazing. One good resource is Supernatural or Just Remarkable? which was written by Ariel Hyde from Jewish Voice .
4. My personal faith and testimony . Jesus lives inside of me, and He lives in every believer who has come to a saving knowledge of Him. Jesus is real.
How Does This Class Function?
In the first class, we will go over the main introduction and the first week’s introduction. At home, you are encouraged to complete the following “five days” on your own.
When you arrive the following week, we will review and discuss the five days you completed that week. We will continue with that pattern until final eighth week.
There are many scriptures to look up each day. This study uses the New King James Version. I encourage you to look up all the scriptures and make notes in your Bible or a designated notebook. I encourage you to find and use a Strong’s Concordance . Strong’s will help you find the exact meaning of a Hebrew or Greek word, and you don’t need to speak or read the language.
I also included scriptures that we fly through as we cover the Bible