The Old Testament Era's Overview
Tyrel L Potter
Old Testament Perspective
September 7, 2014
Daniel Diffey
Old testament Era’s Overview
Approximately six thousand years ago God created the world, including human beings. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve and how much they got off the wrong foot, and how basically all their descendants were not the most obedient people either. Which lead to “The Flood” and Noah’s Ark, this is the actual beginning of the Old Testament time periods. There are seven major Era’s within the old testament consisting of Patriarchs, Egyptian Sojourn, The conquest and the judges, The united monarchy, The divided monarchy, Babylonian exile, and the restoration time period. Each one of these eras were full of important happenings and have helped …show more content…
and ended in about 1800 B.C. This era is the time period between the leadings of Abraham and the leading of Joseph. Then is comes to an end at the beginning of the Bronze Age. Although this time period was full of major events there are two particular ones that really stand out. The first one is when Abraham has begun going to the promise land and he makes a covenant between himself and God. The second important event is when Jacob and Joseph leave for Egypt. After Joseph dies the Egyptian Sojourn era begins which took place from 1876 BC until 1400 BC. The Egyptian Sojourn is the time period when the Israelites were the slaves in Egypt, it is also the 40 years that Moses led them through the dessert. This time period has two events that stand out and are really important. The first event is when Moses went to the pharaoh asking to free the Israelites. When Pharaoh kept refusing God would hit all of Pharaoh’s land with a plague. This lasted until God killed all of the Egyptian first born sons, then Pharaoh let the Israelites leave Egypt. The second important event was when Moses received the Ten Commandments, these major laws guide Jewish and Christian beliefs even to this …show more content…
The united monarchy was when the Israelites were ruled by one king and one king only. These three kings were Saul who reigned from 1050 until 1010 BC, The second king was King David who reigned from 1010 until 971, and the last king was King Solomon who reigned from 971 until 931. The first major event that stands out is the entire life of King David, David showed strength and faithfulness. He also showed how to repent when sinning and how to show mercy. The second major event was when Solomon began building the kingdom into a power house. The divided Monarchy was after the death of Solomon in 930 BC and ended in 586 BC. This was when the kingdom divided into a north and a south. One major event that happened was when the kingdom started worshiping golden cows. The second major event was the breakout of prophets to warn the kingdoms. These prophets were Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, Amos, and later on
Old Testament Perspective
September 7, 2014
Daniel Diffey
Old testament Era’s Overview
Approximately six thousand years ago God created the world, including human beings. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve and how much they got off the wrong foot, and how basically all their descendants were not the most obedient people either. Which lead to “The Flood” and Noah’s Ark, this is the actual beginning of the Old Testament time periods. There are seven major Era’s within the old testament consisting of Patriarchs, Egyptian Sojourn, The conquest and the judges, The united monarchy, The divided monarchy, Babylonian exile, and the restoration time period. Each one of these eras were full of important happenings and have helped …show more content…
and ended in about 1800 B.C. This era is the time period between the leadings of Abraham and the leading of Joseph. Then is comes to an end at the beginning of the Bronze Age. Although this time period was full of major events there are two particular ones that really stand out. The first one is when Abraham has begun going to the promise land and he makes a covenant between himself and God. The second important event is when Jacob and Joseph leave for Egypt. After Joseph dies the Egyptian Sojourn era begins which took place from 1876 BC until 1400 BC. The Egyptian Sojourn is the time period when the Israelites were the slaves in Egypt, it is also the 40 years that Moses led them through the dessert. This time period has two events that stand out and are really important. The first event is when Moses went to the pharaoh asking to free the Israelites. When Pharaoh kept refusing God would hit all of Pharaoh’s land with a plague. This lasted until God killed all of the Egyptian first born sons, then Pharaoh let the Israelites leave Egypt. The second important event was when Moses received the Ten Commandments, these major laws guide Jewish and Christian beliefs even to this …show more content…
The united monarchy was when the Israelites were ruled by one king and one king only. These three kings were Saul who reigned from 1050 until 1010 BC, The second king was King David who reigned from 1010 until 971, and the last king was King Solomon who reigned from 971 until 931. The first major event that stands out is the entire life of King David, David showed strength and faithfulness. He also showed how to repent when sinning and how to show mercy. The second major event was when Solomon began building the kingdom into a power house. The divided Monarchy was after the death of Solomon in 930 BC and ended in 586 BC. This was when the kingdom divided into a north and a south. One major event that happened was when the kingdom started worshiping golden cows. The second major event was the breakout of prophets to warn the kingdoms. These prophets were Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, Amos, and later on