Transcript Introduction © John Stevenson, 2012 Dr. John T. Stevenson http://JohnStevenson.net [email protected] [email protected] Jezreel Sown By God.

Introduction
© John Stevenson, 2012
Dr. John T. Stevenson
http://JohnStevenson.net
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jezreel
Sown By God
Sea of
Galilee
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Separating the
Wheat from the Tares
• Destroyed by Romans after 4
B.C. rebellion
• Herod Antipas changed the
name of the city to Autocrasis
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Megiddo
Sepphoris
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Nazareth
Sea of
Galilee
http://golden-gateinter.blogspot.com/2010/12/bait-suci.html
http://wakeforestpilgrimage.wordpress.com/page/2/
Sea of
Galilee
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Tiberias
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Capernaum ●
Sea of
Galilee
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Tiberias
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Capernaum ●
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Tiberias
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Nazareth
Caesarea
Philippi
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Laish
(Dan)
Capernaum ●
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Tiberias
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Nazareth
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The City of God
Caesarea ●
Joppa ●
(Modern Tel Aviv)
Jerusalem
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Now there is in
Jerusalem by the
sheep gate a pool,
which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda,
having five
porticoes (John
5:2)
In these lay a
multitude of those
who were sick, blind,
lame, and withered
(John 5:3)
And a certain man was
there, who had been
thirty-eight years in his
sickness. 6 When Jesus
saw him lying there, and
knew that he had
already been a long
time in that condition,
He said to him, "Do you
wish to get well?" (John
5:5-6)
The sick man answered Him,
"Sir, I have no man to put me
into the pool when the water
is stirred up, but while I am
coming, another steps down
before me." (John 5:7)
Old
Testament
World
New
Testament
World
• Different geographical
regions
• Different languages
• Different national
invaders
• Different types of
literature
400 BC
5 BC?
Old
Testament
completed
Birth of
Jesus
Malachi?
Amos
400 Silent Years
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
5 BC?
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Birth of
Jesus
Malachi?
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
Amos
Alexander
the Great of
Macedonia,
332 B.C.
Tyre 
• Fall of Tyre
on July 29.
332 B.C.
• Seven
month
siege
And when the book
of Daniel was showed
him, wherein Daniel
declared that one of the
Greeks should destroy the
empire of the Persians, he
supposed that himself was
the person intended; and
he was then glad.
(Antiquities 11:8:5).
• Cultural interchange
from east to west
• Scientific learning
• Hellenization
• Greek language
• Alexander’s death
Cassander
Lysimachus
Antigonus
the one-eyed
Seleucus
Ptolemy
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
• Pharos Lighthouse
• Library of Alexandria
• Septuagint
• War with the Seleucids
Antiochus III
“the Great”
Ptolemy
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt
• First revolt in Judah
Antiochus imposed the following
Regulations
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Jews could not assemble for prayer
Observance of the Sabbath was forbidden
Possession of the Scriptures was illegal
Circumcision was illegal
Dietary laws illegal
Pagan sacrifices mandated
Antiochus IV
•Maccabean Revolt
•167 B.C.
•Mattathias
•Temple liberated
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Malachi?
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
167 BC
Maccabbee
Rebellion
5 BC?
Birth of
Jesus
Amos
Hasmonean
kings
Hellenistic Kings
• Ptolemies
• Seleucids
Rome
• Commissioned to
clear the seas of
piracy
• Conquests in Syria
• Conquest of
Jerusalem
• Territorial
arrangements
Antipater
as
Procurator
Herod
Phasael
Parthians

Petra
Herod the Great
40 - 4 B.C.
Zerubbabel’s
Temple
Seleucid
Addition
Hasmonean
Herod’s Temple
Expansion
Caesarea
Herod’s Domestic Troubles
It is better to be Herod’s uV
Than to be Herod’s uioV
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Malachi?
167 BC
4 BC
Maccabbee
Rebellion
Death of
Herod the
Great
Amos
Pompey
the Great
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
Hasmonean
kings
Hellenistic Kings
• Ptolemies
• Seleucids
Rome
Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Zealots
• Jesus
• Christ
• Lord
• Son of Man
• Immanuel
What do the following authors tell
their readers about Jesus?
Isaiah
John
Paul
(Isaiah
7:14; 9:1-7;
11:1-4;
53:1-12).
(John 1:118; 5:16-18;
8:56-58).
(Rom 1:1-5;
2 Cor 8:9;
Phil 2:5-11).