Learn the Bible in 24 Hours
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Supplemental Notes: Learn the Bible in 24 Hours compiled by Chuck Missler © 2005 Koinonia House Inc. Audio Listing Hour 1: Introduction Hour 2: The Creation & The Fall of Man (Genesis 1-3) Hour 3: The Prehistorical Period (Genesis 4-11) Acknowledgments These notes have been assembled from speaking notes and related materials which had been compiled from a number of classic and Hour 4: The Patriarchs (Genesis 12-50) contemporary commentaries, as well as other articles and publications of Koinonia House. While we have attempted to include relevant endnotes and other references, we apologize for any errors or over- sights. Hour 5: The Birth of the Nation — The complete recordings of the sessions, as well as supporting dia- (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) grams, maps, etc., are also available in various audiovisual formats from the publisher. Hour 6: In the Land (Joshua, Judges, Ruth) Hour 7: The Monarchy (Samuel, Kings, Chronicles) Hour 8: The Poetical Books — (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Song of Songs) Page 2 Page 3 Audio Listing Audio Listing Hour 9: The Book of Daniel Hour 17: The Book of Acts Hour 18: Paul’s Definitive Doctrinal Summary — Hour 10: Post-Exile History — (Romans) (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther) Hour 19: Paul’s Church and Pastoral Epistles Hour 11: The Major Prophets — (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel) Hour 20: The Hebrew Epistles — Hour 12: The Minor Prophets (Hebrews, James, I & II Peter, I, II, & III John, Jude) Hour 21: Eschatological Summary (Thessalonians) Hour 13: How Sure Can We Be? (Intro to New Test.) Hour 22: The Once and Future Church — Hour 14: The New Testament (How We Got our Bible) (Revelation 1-3) Hour 23: Seals, Trumpets, Bowls, Triumph — Hour 15: The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) (Revelation 4-22) Hour 16: The Final Week Hour 24: Conclusion Page 4 Page 5 Learn the Bible in 24 Hours If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its Hour 1: Introduction instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. No person’s education is complete if they do not know their Bible. Yet, Daniel Webster this essential “completeness” has been outlawed in our government Authority Crises schools…The veneration of the Word of God characterized the earlier leadership which established our precious heritage… •Parental Authority •Marital Authority It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. •Political Authority George Washington •Academic Authority •Ecclesiastical Authority I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this book. Leading cultural indicators over last 30 years: Abe Lincoln •Population increased 41% It is sobering to acknowledge the preciousness of our heritage that is •Gross Domestic Product increased 300% that has come to us at such a high price…How tragically we have fallen! •Social spending increased 500% The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. And yet… Patrick Henry •560% increase in violent crime For most of the past 2,000 years it was a treasure that millions willingly •400% increase in illegitimate births died for. And yet we all take it so for granted. •400% increase in the divorce rate The Bible is no mere book, but it is a Living Creature, with a power that •300% increase in single-parent homes conquers all that oppose it. •200% increase in teenage suicides Napoleon •75% drop in SAT scores Heritage Foundation, 1993 Even “secular” leaders acknowledged its uniqueness. (And he was Since 1963: technically correct: Hebrews 4:12.) •Divorce Rates Escalate Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks •Breakup of family units the ways of the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find •Acceptance of homosexuality its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to •Teenage Pregnancies the heart of man. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and •Murder of inconvenient babies wise men ponder them as parables of life. The wicked and the proud tremble •Crime Rates at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother’s voice. Henry Van Dyke …what happened that year? We outlawed the Bible from our schools! Misquote of Ben Franklin: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” It should read: “Jack of all trades, master of One.” A cultured person is one who What’s Ahead knows something about everything and everything about something. We hope that our brief excursion will result in a practical strategic grasp A Christian’s specialization must be the Bible. of the entire Bible; a perspective from which you will be able to navigate your personal adventure which will enrich a lifetime, and more. Page 6 Page 7 •The Ultimate Literary Adventure Refuted by archaeological discoveries, documentary discoveries, and –The Greatest Drama of all time competent analysis. We have the advantage of modern discoveries and –The Greatest Evils more competent scholarship… –The Greatest Good –The Greatest Romance Some Preliminaries –The Greatest Mysteries –The Biography of a real SuperMan •Shedding the baggage of our misconceptions: It is essential to •The Cosmic War “blindfold our prejudices”; the only sure barrier to truth is the –Extraterrestrial Sources presumption that you already have it… –Trans-dimensional Episodes •20th century science has vindicated the Biblical perspectives of –The Pawns and the Prizes reality: –The Cosmic Questions •The Ultimate Personal Adventure –The Finite Universe: The most profound discovery of –The Miracle of our Origin modern physics is that we live in a finite universe. From a –The Mystery of our Destiny singularity of a beginning… to an ultimate thermodynamic –The Urgency of Participation termination as an ending. • Our Unique Advantage –The Discovery of the nature of Time –Two Basic Discoveries –The realization of Hyperspaces Two Critical Discoveries Spherical (3-D) Trigonometry 1) We have in our possession an Integrated Message System: 66 separate books penned by 40 different individuals over thousands of years... 30 45 60 2) Which provably has its origin from outside our time domain. 45 90 90 180 One Integrated Design 180 The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed; The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed. Augustine A Few Caveats 90 90 •The Word of God is inexhaustible. 24 years would be insufficient… 90 •The truth is in the details. Every detail is connected to every other. ? •Our Goal: A Strategic Grasp of the Total –A conceptual grounding in the major truths –A navigational awareness to fit it all together The rules we learned in school were for a universe of only two dimen- sions, that’s why we call it “plane” geometry; or “plane” trigonometry. Collapse of Skeptical Theories In spherical (3-D) trigonometry, a triangle of more than 180o implies a o •Historicity of Patriarchal accounts convex surface; a triangle of less than 180 implies a concave surface. •Denial of writing in Moses’ day •Gospels and Epistles: 2nd century? Page 8 Page 9 Einstein’s Revolution Hyperdimensions: Beyond Euclid (>3 Dimensions) Special Relativity (1905): Length, mass, velocity and time are relative to June 10, 1854: the most important mathematical lecture ever given…It velocity of the observers took over 60 years for it to be applied…Georg Riemann’s lecture on General Relativity (1915): There is no distinction between time and Metric Tensors. space = a 4-dimensional continuum (confirmed 14 ways to 19 decimals). We have the advantage of modern physics, although few appreciate its 1915: Einstein, Four-Dimensional Space-time: Einstein went to his grave aid to our understanding Biblical insights! frustrated over his inability to reconcile issues which subsequently yielded by applying his previous insights. The Nature of Gravitational Time Dilation 1953: Kaluza-Klein: 4+n Dimensions (Light & Supergravity). 1963: Yang-Mills Fields (Electromagnetic & Both Nuclear Forces). Identical Atomic clocks are located at the National Institute of Standards 1984: Superstrings, 10-Dimensions (The current thinking among quan- and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and the Royal Observatory tum physicists is that our universe consists of one-dimensional in Greenwich, England. The NIST clock ticks 5 seconds/year faster than “superstrings” vibrating in 10 dimensions…). an identical clock at Greenwich. Which is correct? Both are! Boulder, Colorado = 5400 ft altitude; Greenwich, England = 80 ft. Atomic clocks Dimensions of “Reality” are faster by the rate of 10-16 sec/meter elevation. Other demonstrations include the aircraft experiment (1971) where the plane traveling eastward Nachmonides (13th Century): 10 dimensions, only 4 are “knowable” lost 0.059 microseconds and the one flying westward gained 0.273 (Commentary on Genesis, 1263). Particle Physicists (20th Century): 10 microseconds, accounting for the Earth’s rotation, etc., exactly what dimensions, 4 are directly measurable: (3 spatial + time) and the other 6 Einstein’s formula predicted! And a classic is the hypothetical trip to are “curled” into less than 10-33 cm, and thus inferable only by indirect Alpha Centauri by the twin astronauts... means. (We have spent billions of dollars building elaborate particle accelerators to learn what Nachmonides discovered by doing his Time is not uniform: it is a physical property that varies with mass, homework on Genesis One!) There are only two kinds of people who are acceleration and gravity…among other things... We exist in more than able to deal with hyperspaces (spaces of more than 3 dimensions): three dimensions (apparently 10). This physical insight will dissolve mathematicians with special training and small children. But we can gain most theological paradoxes… some useful insights by examining a two-dimensional universe… The Nature of God Mr.