Prayer Intention for the Week

September 2 - 8, 2018


That the Holy Spirit may inspire us to think of, speak about and do the things that would glorify God the Father and cause the salvation of souls. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord and Friend. Amen.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

CIT on the Old Testament - Personalities of the Pentateuch I

The Old Testament of the Christian Bible is the Holy Scriptures of the Jewish people. By making the Jewish Scriptures part of the Christian Bible, calling it the Old Testament, the Church acknowledged the continuity of Divine Revelation which was handed down first to Israel and then passed to the New Israel, the Church. For in the beginning, the believers in Christ did not consider themselves a separate community from the Jews. Christians have been called by that name only in 48 AD, more than a decade after the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Since the Christians believed that the Lord Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets, which corresponds to the Old Testament, they named the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as the New Testament, since He himself has established the New Covenant with His body and blood. Therefore, as Christians, we must have some basic knowledge about the Old Testament also for these give us the background of the life and mission of the Lord Jesus Christ.

THE TORAH.
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Below are Ten Information about important Personalities of the Torah or the Law, also called Pentateuch or the First Five Books of the Old Testament. Name the person being described and supply the specific Biblical passage or passages to each. Please answer by yourself first honestly before checking against available sources especially through the Internet. Blessed day!

[1] He was named after the fact that when God promised that his parents would have a son, his mother laughed.

[2] He was the first man to be taken by God without dying when he was 365 years old. His son was only 31 years short of reaching a millennium. 

[3] He was the first person in the world to have broken all the Ten Commandments at once [as Bishop Fulton J Sheen commented about it].

[4] He disrespected his drunken father and caused a curse to be handed upon his son. 

[5] His descendants were not given a territorial share of the Promised Land for the Lord was their portion.

[6] When asked about the whereabouts of his brother, he evasively responded by saying "Am I my brother's keeper?"

[7] She was her husband's beloved but was the last of four women to bear children for him.

[8] He wanted to save his dreamer-brother so he suggested that instead of killing him they should just throw him into a dried up well. 

[9] He became the first High Priest but was at first his brother's spokesperson.

[10] He earned God's goodwill for his defense of God's honor and dignity with the use of a spear. 



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