Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary-Vol. 1

God's Servant

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God’s servant offers you convenient commentary books, which are practical, concise, and relevant. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary books are intellectually stimulating and include all that expensive multivolume commentaries have to offer. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary books present each book of the Bible, chapter by chapter, with consideration of the King James Bible as the standard and credit given to references within the text, which allows you to examine your Bible within its historical background and customs. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary illuminates the Bible within its time and place, which affords doctrinal penetrating insight into the practical application of truth for everyday living.

God’s servant, former entrepreneur and educator, has devoted years of study to religious theology after completing degrees from community college, business college, state college, state university, Christian college, Seminary Studies, and Christian Growth Plans. God’s servant has written monographs for various churches, planned seminary classes, taught Bible classes, and serviced in the Church for years, and now writes in an easy to read manner for those who want complement their religious conscience with a solid foundation of Christianity, which offers a real relationship with God

Sujets

• Biblical Commentary
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781499053333
• Langue: English

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GIVER OF TRUTH BIBLICAL COMMENTARY
 
 
VOL 1-OLD TESTAMENT GENESIS TO ESTHER
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GOD’S SERVANT
 
Copyright © 2015 by God’s Servant.
 
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Giver of Truth Bible Commentary
 
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God’s servant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dedicated to those who would come to believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and accept Him as LORD of their lives so they have eternal life with Jesus.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
GENESIS
EXODUS
LEVITICUS
NUMBERS
DEUTERONOMY
JOSHUA
JUDGES
RUTH
FIRST SAMUEL
SECOND SAMUEL
FIRST KINGS
SECOND KINGS
FIRST CHRONICLES
SECOND CHRONICLES
EZRA
NEHEMIAH
ESTHER
PREFACE
In the making for years, God’s servant presents a biblical study with a commentary on context and customs to bring clarification of meaning to the text. With consideration of the King James Bible as the standard and credit given to the original writers of the Bible and any references used within the text so as to make them readily accessible, God’s servant makes a contribution of conservative biblical scholarship useful for pastors and lay persons. Written for the purpose of those who will be saved and for bringing all readers closer to God, each book of the Bible is presented in biblical order chapter by chapter with examination of the historical background and custom, which affords doctrinal penetrating insight into the practical application of the truth with clarity.
Research was derived from ancient church and historical records, which included the writings of the Mishnah, the Talmud, and Josephus AD 37- c.100. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and various maps, were used to bring about understanding of biblical times. Derived from Ugaritic literature, Amarna Letters, and clay tablets from Mesopotamia made available in English source, the study of ancient civilizations, ancient Near East religions, life in biblical times, which included family life and relationship roles, customs, food and drink, clothing and cosmetics, burial and mourning, is made evident in the presentation of this biblical study with its commentary on context and customs. Research derived from the study of ancient records, such as the Amarna Letters, the Ugaritic literature, Mari and Nuzu clay tablets from Mesopotamia, made available in modern times made possible the Scripture tidbits, which offer additional information.
GENESIS
INTRODUCTION
Moses’ superb training in the courts of Egypt along with his exceptional spiritual gifts and his divine call uniquely qualified him to compose the essential content and shape of the Pentateuch of which Genesis is a part. Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit gave the Book of Genesis its essential substance; therefore, he may correctly be called its author. Certainly, ancestors contributed the primeval accounts and genealogies but Moses compiled the work in its essential form. Later inspired editors modernized and supplemented the book in a number of places to form the book as we have it today.
Moses deemed it exceedingly necessary he conduct his own life well and give laws to others since he had considered God’s nature and contemplated God’s operations; Moses viewed God as LORD of all things who sees and knows all things and thence bestows a happy life upon those who follow Him but plunges those who do not walk in the paths of virtue into inevitable miseries. Moses sought to raise the mind upwards to regard God and persuade men they are the most excellent of God’s creatures upon the earth. Moses taught God is possessed of perfect virtue and man ought to strive after the participation of God’s nature.
As founder of Israel’s theocracy, it was necessary for Moses to give Israel its prior history, meaning and destiny, as well as its laws. Every significant political and/or religious community in the ancient world has retained accounts of its defining origins. The Book of Genesis furnishes the theological and ethical underpinnings to give Israel its unique covenantal relationship with God. Since creation myths were basic to pagan religions, Moses provided the Genesis creation account, which countered them with the truth of the One and only living God. The Hebrew faith was a radical departure from the characteristic mythical thought of the pagans because it made a cemetery for lifeless gods and myths. The Book of Genesis should not be considered mere human history comparable to ancient pagan mythologies because it is part of the revealed word of God in which the explanations and events are true and recognized as integral parts of the God-planned and God-directed course of history of which Genesis is the starting point.
Taking into account the book’s essential form and content, the writing of Genesis can be dated about 1400 BC; but a more exact dating cannot be determined. The Book of Genesis, the first book of the Torah, the five books of the law, recounts the origins of Israel reaching back to the beginnings of human history and to the conflict between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of serpent, Genesis recounts the election of the nation of Israel to a unique covenant relationship with the only true God. According to the covenant, the descendants of the patriarchs would become a great nation in the land of promise through whom the Gentiles would be blessed. Moses wrote the Book of Genesis to provide encouragement to the Israelites as they faced the various challenges of separating from their background of slavery in Egypt and moving forward toward the conquest of the Promised Land.
The focus of the Book of Genesis is ultimately Christ. What was begun in Genesi s is fulfilled in Christ. Christ is the quintessential offspring promised to Abraham. Believers are blessed in Christ because He alone by His active obedience satisfied the law’s demands by His willingness to relinquish the rights of equality with God and died in the place of sinners. All who are baptized into Christ are Abraham’s descendants. The bold prophecies and subtle types in Genesis show God was writing a history, which was to be completed in Jesus.
CHAPTER ONE
Moses begins the book in verse 0ne by expressing the universe is God’s creative work stating God created the heaven and the earth; that is, the invisible and visible. By sovereign originative power God brought into being out of nothing all that exists in the universe. God brought into existence all His needed raw materials such as electrons, neutrons, and protons of which these building blocks of atoms combine to make up molecules to produce all matter in existence. With His materials, God produced creation from out of nothing; He put forth His plan so that in six days, He completed creation.
On the very first day, from the uninhabitable earth, God’s Spirit, moved upon the face of the waters to bring His created matter into an order ready for life by bringing the unorganized state of things into distinct formations. The matter comprised the basics of God’s workings and God organized His created beginning elements and brought forth light divided from the darkness on that same day.
God’s continual creation process proceeded in a distinct organized manner. On the second day, God divided the waters, which were under heaven, from the waters, which were above heaven. On the third day, God separated the waters from the land and brought forth all manner of vegetation after its kind. On the fourth day, God put lights in the sky, which included the sun, moon, and stars. On the fifth day, God brought forth winged fowl that fly in the sky and all the creatures that live in the waters of the earth. On the sixth day, God brought forth the animals of the earth and on the sixth day God also made man in His own image. From the beginning, the world, as man knows it, was God’s work.
God, who filled the domains of sky, water, and land, blessed the living creatures with reproduction, each to his own kind and made man His vice-regent, to rule over all other creatures, which made mankind responsible for his mandate of care. Like no other creatures, God had made man in His own image with a soul to live eternally. Mankind, male and female, the children of the living God were set in this world to display the glory of the great Creator of the universe by establishing His will. God completed the heavens and the earth in all, a vast array in six days, and deemed all He had made as good because it satisfied His benevolent purpose as Ruler over the cosmos.
CHAPTER TWO
Having finished His work in six days, God rested on the seve