Transcript Chapter 5 – God Reveals Himself to His People

Chapter 5
The Old Testament
God Reveals Himself to His People
Our Lady of Lourdes High School
Grade 9 Religion
Mrs. Safford
GOD’S COVENANT WITH ADAM
Questions to Think About
• Is Creation good, evil, or both?
• What does it mean that man is made in the
image of God?
Is Creation good, evil, or both?
• God’s creation is good.
• Each individual story in the Bible contains its
own truths and reveals something about the
nature of God. When read in its entirety, the
Bible emerges as a complete vision of
salvation history.
• God saw each stage of his creation as good,
and the totality of it as very good.
What does it mean that man is made
in the image of God?
• God made man in the image of God, which
means human beings are persons in a family
relationship with God and other human
beings.
Assignment
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Angel
Ark
Ark of the Covenant
Circumcision
Covenant
Creation
Exile
Exodus
Flood
Gentile
Golden Calf
Idolatry
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Manna
Pagan
Passover
Pharaoh
Plague
Priest
Protoevangelism
Serpent
Tabernacle
Ten Commandments
This will count as a homework grade.
ADAM BREAKS THE COVENANT
Questions to Think About
• Why did Adam and Eve fall from grace?
• What is protoevangelium?
• What is original sin?
Why did Adam and Eve fall from
grace?
• Adam and Eve were seduced by the serpent,
and brought to spiritual death to themselves
and their descendents, which is called original
sin. The serpent is Satan, who works against
God’s plan for his people.
• When Adam and Eve sinned, they immediately
experienced losing supernatural life, the life of
grace in their souls.
What is protoevangelium?
• Protoevangelism is the curse Adam and Eve is
a manifestation of God’s love, which included
the promise of a Savior.
What is original sin?
• Original sin is a wound in human nature that
became evident in Adam and Eve’s offspring.
Assignment
• Create 10 cards using larger index cards:
• draw a picture on the front
• write a paragraph about their importance
with God on the back.
• See the list on the next two slides to use of
the following people:
• Must include the people in orange
People Assignment
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Aaron
Abel
Abraham
Adam
Cain
David
Eve
Ezra
Isaac
Jacob
Jeremiah
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Joseph and his brothers
Josiah
Judges
Macabees
Messiah
Moses
Noah
Samuel
Sarah
Saul
Solomon
This will count as a test grade.
THE COVENANT WITH NOAH
Questions to Think About
• What is the significance of the flood?
• What was the sign of the covenant with
Noah?
• What did God promise in his covenant with
Noah?
What is the significance of the flood?
Because of the wicked violence of the human
race, God sent a flood to destroy the earth.
• God saved only a righteous man Noah, and his
family and created a new covenant with
humanity.
• The flood is a type for the Sacrament of
Baptism, and the Ark is a type for the Church.
What was the sign of the covenant
with Noah?
The rainbow
What did God promise in his covenant
with Noah?
• God promised never to destroy the whole
earth by a flood and gave Noah and his family
dominion over it.
THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM
Questions to Think About
• What sacrifice did God ask Abraham?
• Why is it likely Isaac was a willing participant
in his own sacrifice?
• How is Isaac a type of Christ?
What sacrifice did God ask Abraham?
• God wanted Abraham to offer his son as a
burnt offering.
• This was particularly difficult, since Abraham
had waited many, many years for God’s
promise to be fulfilled in Isaac, and that now it
looked like the promise was being taken away.
Why is it likely Isaac was a willing
participant in his own sacrifice?
• Human sacrifice to pagan gods were common,
so 13 year old Isaac would know what was
happening.
• Isaac was young and strong, Abraham was old,
so Isaac could have overcome his father to
save his life.
• However, Isaac carried the wood for his own
sacrifice.
How is Isaac a type of Christ?
• Abraham was obedient to the point that he
offered his son Isaac, a type of Christ in
sacrifice.
What was God’s covenant with
Abraham?
• God made a covenant with Abraham by
promising his countless descendents , the land
of Canaan, as a dwelling place, a line of kings,
and a worldwide blessing.
• The external sign of this covenant is
circumcision.
• Video: The Covenant with Abraham
JOSEPH
Questions to think about?
• What did Jacob’s sons do their father’s
favorite son, Joseph?
• How did God bring good out of evil of Joseph’s
brothers?
• How is Joseph a type of Christ?
What did Jacob’s sons do their
father’s favorite son, Joseph?
• They sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt and told
Jacob that Joseph was dead.
How did God bring good out of evil of
Joseph’s brothers?
• Joseph became minister to Pharaoh, and was
able to save his family when famine occurred.
How is Joseph a type of Christ?
• Joseph was betrayed by his own brothers, but
God arranged by his own hand that Joseph
would be their savior.
• Christ was also betrayed by his brothers,
ultimately by all of us, and God arranged by
his own hand, that their would be a Savior
that the salvation of the world would be
accomplished.
MOSAIC COVENANT
Questions to Think About
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How did Moses escape death as a newborn?
How did God appear to Moses?
What was Moses’ reaction to God’s voice?
What does God reveal to Moses about his
intentions?
• What name does God reveal to Moses?
How did Moses escape death as a
newborn?
• His mother placed him in a reed basket and
set it into the Nile River.
• Moses was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter
and raised him as a prince of Egypt.
• Moses real mother secretly passed on the
faith and traditions of Israel to him.
• Moses later became a fugitive when he was
older, when he killed an Egyptian taskmaster
who was abusing a Hebrew slave.
How did God appear to Moses?
• He spoke through a bush that burned but was
not consumed.
What was Moses’ reaction to God’s voice?
• He was “afraid to look at God.”
What name does God reveal to
Moses?
• “I am who I am.”
• This word is sometimes written “Yahweh” or
“Jehovah”
• The Jews refer to this as a Tetragrammation or
four letters (YHWH) as written Hebrew does
not include vowels.
Questions to Think About?
• What demand did Moses make to Pharaoh?
• What threat accompanied the demand?
• How many plagues did God tell Moses he
would release?
What demand did Moses make to
Pharaoh?
• The people of Israel must be allowed to
undertake a three day’s journey into the
desert to offer sacrifice to the Lord.
What threat accompanied the
demand?
• God said, “If you refuse to let (Israel) go,
behold, I will slay your firstborn son” (Ex 4:23).
• The Pharaoh responded by making the
Israelites work even harder.
How many plagues did God tell Moses
he would release?
• God released 10 plagues on Egypt, cultivating
with the promise to kill the first born son in
Egypt.
• Other words, he would do to Pharaoh what
Pharaoh was doing to God since Israel was
God’s firstborn son, which is God’s chosen
people.
Questions to Think About
• How was Israel spared the final plague?
• How is the blood of the Passover lamb a type
of Blood of Christ?
How was Israel spared the final
plague?
• According to God’s instructions, the Jews
sacrificed an unblemished lamb, spread its
blood over the doorposts and lintels of their
homes and then consumed
the meat as part of a sacred
meal.
How is the blood of the Passover
lamb a type of Blood of Christ?
• The blood of the Passover lamb sprinkled on
the doorposts to save the firstborn sons of
Israel from immediate death, was a type of
the Blood of Christ, which was shed to save
God’s people from eternal death.
Questions to Think About
• How did Israel defeat Egypt without raising a
sword?
• How is the passing through the Red Sea a type
of Baptism?
How did Israel defeat Egypt without
raising a sword?
• Moses parted the Red Sea and Israel passed
through dry-shod.
• The pursuing army drowned when Moses
made the waters flow back with God’s help.
How is the passing through the Red
Sea a type of Baptism?
• By having then pass through the waters of the
Red Sea, God saved the people of Israel from
certain death.
• Through the waters of Baptism, God saves his
children from external death.
Questions to Think About
• How is the manna in the desert a type of
Eucharist?
• What did God promise Israel when Moses
reached Mount Sinai?
• What happened to Israel in the desert?
How is the manna in the desert a type
of Eucharist?
• God nourished the Israelites with daily bread
from Heaven.
• Christ identified himself as the true Bread
from Heaven, who is offered daily in the Mass
as nourishment for the faithful.
What did God promise Israel when
Moses reached Mount Sinai?
• God promised they would be a kingdom of
priests and a holy nation.
• God would talk directly to Israel, and Israel
would bring God’s word to the nations.
• Israel agreed to obey God’s commandments.
• Therefore, the Mosaic Covenant through
Moses, God established a covenant with the
Jews to be a nation of priests and gave them
the law.
What happened to Israel in the
desert?
• In the desert, Israel fell into idolatry, so God
(though Moses), gave her Deuteronomy, as
second law, which took into account Israel’s
hardness of heart.
Questions to Think About
• What was the tabernacle?
• What was the Ark of the Covenant?
• What were the Israelites doing while God was giving the
Law to Moses?
• What did Moses do to the tablets of the Law when he saw
the people’s idolatry?
• What was the punishment of the Israelites idolatry?
• What determined Israel’s success against Canaan?
What was the tabernacle?
• It was a traveling temple, the design God gave
to Moses.
What was the Ark of the Covenant?
• It was an ornate box, that contained the
tablets upon which God had inscribed the Ten
Commandments.
• The Ark was God’s throne on earth.
• God dwelt with his Chosen People in the Ark,
which was eventually housed in the Temple in
Jerusalem.
What were the Israelites doing while
God was giving the Law to Moses?
• They were worshipping a golden calf Aaron
had made for them out of their own gold.
What did Moses do to the tablets of
the Law when he saw the people’s
idolatry?
• He smashed them out of anger.
• Moses summoned the men of the tribe of
Levi, who had not taken part in the idolatry to
kill the men of Israel who had , killing some
3000 of them.
• The result of the Levites loyalty was the
priesthood that had been promised to all of
Israel, was now restricted to only the Levites.
What was the punishment of the
Israelites idolatry?
• The generation of Israelites who had escaped
Egypt-including Moses-were not allowed to
enter the Promised Land, but wander in the
desert.
• The second law (Deuteronomy) made
concessions to Israel’s hardness of heart.
What determined Israel’s success
against Canaan?
• As long as the Israelites remained faithful to
the Mosaic Covenant, God fought on behalf of
Israel, leading them to victories against
stronger and more numerous enemies.
• Unfortunately, the Israelites often lapsed in
their faithless immoral practices.
Assignment
Find out why these places are important in
Biblical History using your book:
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Israel
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Palestine
Zion
This will count as a quiz grade. Write a brief definition
on loose-leaf paper to be handed in to me.
THE COVENANT WITH DAVID
Questions to Think About
• Why did Israel want a king?
• What is new about the Davidic covenant?
• What are the primary features of the Davidic
Covenant?
• What are the Secondary features of the Davidic
Covenant?
Why did Israel want a king?
• If they had a king like every other nation, he
might unite them, and solve all their
problems.
What is new about the Davidic
covenant?
• This was the first time the idea of divine sonship had been applied to an individual.
• Before this time, the whole people of Israel
had been called God’s firstborn son, but not
single person, had ever been called Son of
God.
What are the primary features of the
Davidic Covenant?
• The establishment of a dynasty that will never
end.
• A kingdom
• A temple
• Divine sonship in the person of a King, who
will never be disowned by God.
What are the Secondary features of
the Davidic Covenant?
• Office of the Queen Mother
• Office of the Prime Minister
Questions to Think About
• How did the Davidic Covenant shift the
geographical heart of Israel?
• What does it mean that the Davidic Covenant
constitutes a new law based on wisdom?
• When did David’s kingdom reached its zenith?
How did the Davidic Covenant shift
the geographical heart of Israel?
• The geographical center shifted from Mount
Sinai, whereupon the Law had separated from
other nations.
• This shifted to Mount Zion, wherefrom the
Israelites were to be a nation of priests to lead
all nations of God.
(The Last Supper was celebrated in the Upper
Room located in Mount Zion.)
What does it mean that the Davidic
Covenant constitutes a new law
based on wisdom?
• The Law of Moses was not abandoned, but
human wisdom and its role in interpreting
that Law would achieve a new predominance.
• The wisdom literature is the scriptural
patrimony of the Davidic Covenant.
When did David’s kingdom reached
its zenith?
• David’s kingdom reached its international
zenith under Solomon, who built the Temple
and gave Israel wisdom, literature, its new law,
for all people.
How did the nation of Israel fare after
Solomon?
• Solomon fell into apostasy through
accommodating his pagan wives.
• Solomon’s foreign wives led him away from
God into idolatry.
What is the Assyrian captivity?
• The Assyrian captivity carried the Northern
kingdom of Israel into exile.
How were the rulers of the two
kingdoms over the years?
• Both nations had good and bad kings, that is
kings that led the people back to God and
kings who worshipped foreign gods.
• Sometimes, the faithful were persecuted.
How did the Assyrians neutralize
conquered people?
• The Assyrian captivity carried the Northern
kingdom of Israel into exile.
• Those who were not killed were split up and
resettled in other conquered lands.
How did God show his faithfulness to
Israel during this time?
• God sent prophets to Israel and Judah
denouncing the pagan gods and calling the
Hebrew people to the one, true God.
• The prophets warned of the retribution of
God’s justice and wrath.
• Prophets also foretold that a new kingdom
was coming that was greater than David’s.
How did the Jews return to
Jerusalem?
• Babylon was captured by the Persian Cyrus
the Great.
• He invited the Jews back to Jerusalem.
• Cyrus the Great also offered to rebuild the
temple for them.
• The Jews gave him the title “the Lord’s
Anointed or Messiah.”
Why was the Jews joy of rebuilding
the temple mixed with sorrow?
• The second temple was a poor shadow of
Solomon’s magnificent edifice.
• The Ark of the Covenant was taken away.
How did Alexander the Great look on
the Jewish religion?
• Alexander the Great conquered Israel in fourth
century BC.
• Alexander the Great was intolerant of the
Jews.
• He forced them to worship Greek gods.
• Alexander the Great even erected a statue of
Zeus in the Temple.
Who were the Macabees?
• These brothers were fervent Jews.
• They drove out the Greeks, and freed the
people of Judea.
The Covenants Review
Citations for this Chapter
Book: Armenio, Rev. Peter. Faith and
Revelation: Knowing God through Sacred
Scripture. 1st ed. Woodridge: Midwest
Theological Forum, 2009.
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