Judges 3.31 - 4.10 - Deborah & Barak, Part 1

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Judges

A Judge by Judge Bible Study -  24 December 2017

Archdale church of Christ – Russ McCullough

Lesson #5 – Judges 3.31 – 4.10

1.     How many unimportant sentences are in God’s Word?

2.     Judges 3.31 mentions a “one verse” judge.  Who is he?  His name means D_________________.

3.     NOTE: We will render a new sermon very soon on this man.

4.     What did the people of Israel don once more?  What triggered this event?

5.     The Hebrew word for “sold” is MAKAR which means to “sell and / or to be given over to D______________.”   God did not sell Israel in order to make a P______________but to P________________ them at any C_________ regardless of the “R_____________ on I _______________.”

A.   Judges 2.14 __________________________________________

B.    Judges 3.8 ___________________________________________

C.    Judges 4.2 ___________________________________________

D.   Judges 4.9 ___________________________________________

E.    Judges 10.7 __________________________________________

F.     Deuteronomy 31.17 ____________________________________

G.   Psalms 106.34 – 46 ____________________________________

6.     Who did God next sell Israel to?

7.     His name means “I_______________” and may have been a continuous royal title like P__________ or C_____________.

8.     Jabin reigned in H_______________ which is about a 1/3 of the way from Haifa to D______________________.

9.     The commander of Jabin’s army was a man named S___________.  What his name actually meant is U__________________.  It may mean M_________________ or S____________ H______________.

10. He lived in H_________________ - h______________ which means “F__________________.”  A recent dig discovered a metallic relief picturing a woman with ear rings in the shape of C___________ W_____________.  It was located WSW of the Sea of G______________ very close to the Mediterranean Sea.

11. Why did Israel cry out to the Lord?

12.  How long did he oppress Israel?

13.  Who was judging Israel at this time?  Her name means B_______.  She was a P___________________.  Her husband’s name was L______________ whose name means T______________.

14. Where did Deborah sit and judge Israel?  Why did the people come up to her?

15. Who did she summon?  B__________ which means L_____________.  Who son was he?  A____________ which means F_____________ of P________________.  Where did he live?  K_____________________ which is located on the SSW coast of the Sea of G___________ and means roughly “H_________ C_____________.”

16. What is the answer to the rhetorical question of verse 6?  How does this reflect on the fact that Deborah was judge and not Barak?

17. Where was Barak to gather his army of _____________?  Mt. T___________ which is located about __________ miles WSW of the Sea of G______________.

18. From what 2 tribes was he to gather his army?

19. God promised to D__________ O_______ the enemy army by what river?  K______________.  The battle was fought in the J____________ Valley between M________________ and Mt. T____________.

20. What condition of going did Barak demand of Deborah?  Her reply?

21. The victory will not be credited to him but to whom? 

ANSWER CODE:

1.     None, Shamgar, Destroyer

2.     We will render a new lesson soon on the life of this man.

3.     Shamgar, Destroyer

4.     Evil, Death of Ehud

5.     Death, Profit, Preserve, Cost, Return, Investment

6.     Same word, “sold” is used 5 times in 5 verses in Judges, Prediction, Explanation

7.     Jabin

8.     Intelligent One, Pharaoh, Caesar

9.     Hazor, Damascus

10. Sisera, Unclear, Mediator, Swift Horse

11. Harosheth-hagoyim, Fortress, Chariot Wheels, Galilee

12. 900 Iron Chariots

13. Twenty years

14. Bee, Prophetess, Lappidoth, Torches

15. Between Ramah and Bethel, to render judgements between disputants

16. Barak, Lightning or Lightning Flash

17. Abinoam, Father of Pleasantness, Kedesh-naphtali, Galilee, Holy City

18. Has not God already asked Barak to go out?  Yes., Poorly

19. 10,000, Tabor, 10, Galilee

20. Zebulon & Naphtali

21. Draw Out, Kishon, Jezreel, Megiddo, Mt. Tabor

22. I won’t go unless you go with me, She did

23. The glory won’t go to him but to a woman

Paul's Letter to the Ephesians - An Introduction

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       Ephesians

Paul’s Greatest Church Planting Success

 20 December 2017

Archdale church of Christ – Russ McCullough

Lesson #2 – Introduction

1.     Both the author and the recipient are clearly S______________ in 1.1.

2.     This Letter to the Ephesians was actually the _______ letter of Paul as we know from 3.1 – 4.  The referenced letter is lost to history by the W_____ of the H__________ S______________.

3.     The city of Ephesus was likely the _______ largest city in the Roman Empire and had an estimated population of _______________ or more based upon the _______________ seat capacity theater.

4.     Ephesus was the capital of the Roman province of A___________.

5.     Many early manuscripts do not contain the name of “Ephesus,” and is a likely an indication of the fact that the book, like others, was ENCYLICAL which literally means: __________________________________________.

6.     Our English word “encyclical” was first used in ca. ___________ and originates from both the Latin and Greek languages.  Latin: encyclicus.  Greek: enkyklios.  Both words mean the same: en (in) + cyclicus / kyklios (circle).  Our common English usage means: “a letter written to each member of a singular group by rotation one to another.”

7.     We know from history that it was common practice that once a letter was R__________ to the congregation, it would be C__________ before the A__________________ was sent to the next congregation.  This constant “passing around” wore the original A____________ out almost immediately.

8.     By the “encyclical method,” each congregation over time would have a L____________ of all the New Testament books.

9.     This “encyclical” model was adopted on the American Frontier by the practice of C______________ R____________ P_________________.

10. This was “standard operating procedure” in the 1^st century church of Christ as we see from Colossians 4.16 and also seen in Paul’s letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.  It is most clearly stated in the Book of R_____________ where the E____________ List is stated precisely.

11. From Acts 28 we know that Paul was imprisoned in Rome ca. 0060.  From here in prison Paul wrote what have come to be known as the P_________ E____________, one of which is Ephesians.  We know this from 6.18 – 20.

12. The first mention of the church of Christ in Ephesus was in Acts 18 while A__________ and P_____________.  There they converted A____________.  It is only after this in Acts 19 that P ______ comes to the great city.

13. Ephesus was a great S____________ on the C___________River.  (Centuries later Ephesus was abandoned when silt filled the harbor.)  She was of great economic prowess and competed with the great cities of R___________, A_____________ of P___________, A_____________ , A___________ of S__________, C__________________and C_______________for prominence in the ancient world.

14.  Ephesus as renowned as a great religious center and was home to the temple to the goddess A____________ or as the Romans called here, D____________.  This temple was one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.  There was a booming tourist trade where S__________ artisans sold S_______________ of the goddess for the gullible to take back home.

15.  Paul met with such success in Ephesus that he stayed here about ______ years.  For the first ______ months he preached at the J____________ S_______________.  After being “asked to leave” he spoke daily for 2 years at the L______________ Hall of T___________________.

16. The letter to the Ephesians is a didactic book in New Testament genre.  A didactic book is one centered in D____________.  “Didactic” means “…designed or intended to T__________.”  The English form of this word was first used ca. 1658 and comes to us from the Greek word didakticos which means “A_____ to T____________.”

17. After Paul’s 3-year service, T______________ was sent by Paul for “perhaps a year and a half” to deal with F_________ D_____________ being taught primarily by H______________ and A________________

(I Timothy 1.3, 20) During Timothy’s tenure the congregation was burdened with “F____________ and endless G_______________.”              (I Timothy 1.4)

18. The Ephesians also wrestled with “forbidding of M______________ and A________________ from certain F____________.” (I Timothy 4.3)

19. The letter to the Ephesians has two distinct parts.  The first 3 chapters deal almost exclusively with D_____________ while the last 3 deals almost exclusively with C________________ L____________.

20. These issues came about as these former P______________ and worshippers of A_________________ came into the faith and practice of Christianity.

21. In the ongoing years the congregation O__________________ and became so doctrinally rigid that 36 years later Christ Himself said in Revelation 2 that they had “L__________ their F___________ L___________.”

22. Two key doctrines covered by Paul in this letter are: 1) The M_____________ of the church, and, 2) The B___________ of Jesus Christ.  The book also has much to say about God’s C________________.

Reference: MacArthur, John (The MacArthur Bible Handbook, Thomas Nelson & Co)., 2003, pg. 399 - 402

                                   ANSWER GRID:

1                                                              1.   Stated

2.     2^nd, Will of the Holy Spirit

3.     2^nd, 250,000 / 25,000

4.     Asia

5.     “In wheel”

6.     1656

7.     Read, Copied, Autograph, Autograph

8.     Library

9.     Circuit Rider Preachers

10. Revelation, Entire

11. Prison Epistles

12. Aquilla & Priscilla, Apollos, Paul

13. Seaport, Cayster, Rome, Antioch, Pisidia, Alexandria, Antioch, Syria, Carthage, Corinth

14. Artimes, Diana, Silver, Statuettes

15. Three, Six, Jewish Synagogue, Lecture, Tyrannus

16. Doctrine, Teaching, Apt, Teach

17. Timothy, False Doctrine, Hymenaeus, Alexander, Fables, Geneologies

18. Marriage, Abstinence, Foods

19. Doctrine, Christian Living

20. Pagan, Artimes

21. Overcompensated, Lost, First Love

22. Mystery, Blessings, Character

Does Ezekiel 40 - 48 Teach Premillennialism?

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Ezekiel

Lesson – 52 – Ezekiel 40 - 43 - Archdale church of Christ

 Russ McCullough – 8 November 2017 – “The New Temple” Part 3

“Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone, we are cut off.” – 37.10

1.   Read Ezekiel 40.1 – 4; 43.18 - 27

2.   Prayer

3.   Three kinds of eschatology or “end times.”

A._________________________________

B._________________________________

C._________________________________

4. Millennial is a term for a ___________________________.

5. Premillennialism was a popularly held in the Gnostic Apostasy from the ______ Century to the ___________.

6. I was revived in the ___________ Century Reformation by the H_______________, the A___________________ and some P_________________.

7. It rose again in the late ____________ Century first in E______________ before spreading to A______________________.

8. It then began to be called for a whiled D________________________.

9. It’s current form was popularized first by J_____________ N_______________ D______________ (died 1882).  It was he who first taught of a P__________ T_______________ R___________________.

10. P_________ T____________ are also known as C________________ P______________________ whose most famous is C. I. Scofield.  He taught:

          A. ______________________________________________________________

          B. ______________________________________________________________

          C. ______________________________________________________________

          D. ______________________________________________________________

          E. ______________________________________________________________

          F. ______________________________________________________________

11. The H_____________ P_______________________ teach nearly identical theology

With the exception being that the R______________ takes place after the T__________________ instead of before.

12. These teachings came about by a W__________________ literalism Imposed on Scriptures such as Ezekiel 40 – 48.  This method views all forms of G__________ as if they were all Prophetic N______________________. 

13. “IF” this were to be the case then:

          A. Physical Israel must be R_________________ to the physical L________

          B. Israel would have to be ruled by one literal King D____________ who would have to be re-encarnated.  (37.22 – 24)

          C. The Nation of Israel would dwell in the physical land for all E________________. (37.25)

          D. A new T_________________ would have to be built on the O_________ earth in which G_________ would have to dwell for E_______________ (37.26, 27; 43.7)

          E. The Levitical P___________________ would have to be restored forever.  (43.19; 44.15; Lev. 16.34 with Zadokites ONLY O____________ating.

          F. A________________ would have to be sacrificed for S__________ and to make A______________________ for sin for an eternity.  (43.19, 20, 21,22, 25, 26; 44.27, 29; 45.17)

          G. C______________ would be restored as essential to communion with God in worship (44.9)

REFERENCES:

http://www.theopedia.com/premillennialism

 McGuiggan, Jim, (THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL), (Montex Publishing Company, Lubbock, TX, 1979, 1984), pg. 332

Ezekiel

Lesson – 52 – Ezekiel 40 - 43 - Archdale church of Christ

 Russ McCullough – 8 November 2017 – “The New Temple” Part 3

“Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone, we are cut off.” – 37.10

1.   Read Ezekiel 40.1 – 4; 43.18 - 27

2.   Prayer

3.   Three kinds of eschatology or “end times.”

A._________________________________

          A: PRE-millennialism – Christ comes before a “7-year great tribulation” just prior to a 1,000 year earthly reign.

B._________________________________

          A: POST – Millennialism – Christ comes after a “7-year great tribulation” just after a 1,000 year earthly reign.

C._________________________________

          A: A – Millennialism – The biblical view, there is no earthly millennial reign.  Christ comes without warning.

4.   Millennial is a term for a ___________________________.

A: 1,000-year time frame

5.   Premillennialism was a popularly held in the Gnostic Apostasy from the ______ Century to the ___________.

A: 2^nd / 5^th

6.   I was revived in the ___________ Century Reformation by the H_______________, the A___________________ and some P_________________.

A: 16^th, Huguenots, Anabaptists, Puritans

7.   It rose again in the late ____________ Century first in E______________ before spreading to A______________________.

A: 19^th, England, America

8.   It then began to be called for a while D________________________.

A: Dispensationalism

9.   Its current form was popularized first by J_____________ D______________ (died 1882).  It was he who first taught of a P__________ T_______________ R___________________.

A: John Darby, Pre-Tribulation Rapture

10.                P_________ T____________ are also known as C________________ P______________________ whose most famous is C. I. Scofield.  He taught:

A: Pre-Tribulationists, Classic Premillennialists

A.   ______________________________________________________________

A: The 2^nd coming comes in 2 stages separated by a 7 year long “Great Tribulation”

B.   ______________________________________________________________

A: The 1^st coming will be an “air rescue of the church rapture”

C.   ______________________________________________________________

A: During the 7-year “great tribulation” the anti-Christ will conquer the world and kill anyone who will not worship him.

D.  ______________________________________________________________

A: At the far end of the 7 years, 144,000 “witnesses” will go out and convert all the Jews living in Israel so that “all Israel might be saved”

E.   ______________________________________________________________

A: At the end of the 7 years, Christ returns for the 2^nd time, destroys the anti-Christ and rescues Israel

11. The H_____________ P_______________________ teaches nearly identical theology with the exception being that the R______________ takes place after the T__________________ instead of before.

                             A: Historic Premillennialist, Rapture, Tribulation

12.These teachings came about by a W__________________ literalism Imposed on Scriptures such as Ezekiel 40 – 48.  This method views all forms of G__________ as if they were all Prophetic N______________________. 

A: Woodenized, genres, Narrative

13. “IF” this were to be the case then:

          A. Physical Israel must be R_________________ to the physical L________

A: Returned, Land (Egypt to the Euphrates, and down the West Bank, which would mean that Israel would absorb parts of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan)

B. Israel would have to be ruled by one literal King D____________ who would have to be re-incarnated.  (37.22 – 24)

                   A: David

C. The Nation of Israel would dwell in the physical land for all E________________. (37.25)

                   A: Eternity

D. A new T_________________ would have to be built on the O_________ earth in which G_________ would have to dwell for E_______________ (37.26, 27; 43.7)

                   A: Temple, Old, God, Eternity

F.   The Levitical P___________________ would have to be restored forever.  (43.19; 44.15; Lev. 16.34 with Zadokites ONLY O____________ating.

A: Priesthood, Officiating

G.  A________________ would have to be sacrificed for S__________ and to make A______________________ for sin for an eternity.  (43.19, 20, 21,22, 25, 26; 44.27, 29; 45.17)

A: Animals, Sin, Atonement

H.  C______________ would be restored as essential to communion with God in worship (44.9)

A: Circumcision

REFERENCES:

http://www.theopedia.com/premillennialism

 McGuiggan, Jim, (THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL), (Montex Publishing Company, Lubbock, TX, 1979, 1984), pg. 332