10. Here is like a mountain.
Nothing is here.
But I'm here says the
god.
I made this city.
I made this temple.
The channels bring water
to the garden.
This is Sardur's city.
21. /who is your king?
/who is your prophet?
/who is your priest?
/who is your temple?
/who is your covenant
keeper?
Editor's Notes
/Joshua 3:1-5:12
/Genesis 1:1-Joshua 5:12+ff
/old testament
/difficult passages
/perspicuity
/sinful hearts
/necessary work of Holy Spirit
/difficult passages will decrease as we learn to read the Bible
/prayer
/submission
/work of the Holy Spirt
/bible-handling skills…
/meta-narrative…creation/fall/redemption of all things/new creation
/there is a meta-narrative so we should be looking for “plot clues”
/all the scriptures
/literary genres
/“the scriptures…testify about me” [John 5:39]…
/Now a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there. And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:10-14
/mountains viewed from Lake Van
/where of Eden?...sources cited by John Walton
/wherever Eden was the what is different to other ancient Mesopotamian accounts…it is YHWH who lays claim and gives purpose to ALL things
/ancient Mesoptamia is the where of Genesis 1-11
/when is the neolithic period
/Gobleke Tepe…hunter-gatherers building temples before dwellings or agriculture
/more recent [700BC] temple dedication/creation account.
/this one blows my mind!
/seems this practice persisted for at least 10 000 years!
/serpent as a primordial chaos creature
/Tiamat and Marduk
/Gilamesh
/fall in Genesis version different…humans rebel against YHWH rather than an eternal battle of good vs evil amongst the “gods”
/The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.
Genesis 6:4
/human-”god” hybrids / Nephelim
/Goliath
/Saul was like the kings of the nations around Israel, i.e. tall and wicked
/Semites as a minority in Mesopotamia
/YHWH’s heart is with the oppressed
/Ur = Urfa?
/Haran…
/modern-day Harran
/And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to Haran, and they settled there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 11:31-32
/Joseph’s dreams
/9 Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. Genesis 39
/enslaved in Egypt
/exodus is the gospel
/repeatedly referenced by Paul
/Romans 4…Paul goes right back to Abraham and Genesis 17:5 promise that Abraham would be “father of many nations”
/…land world
/crossing the Jordan
/this is the Gospel!
/land grant
/Cananites knew of YHWH and his mighty acts…Rahab believed and it was credited to her as righteousness [James 2:25 AND Hebrews 11:31]
/…presence of YHWH so strong only priests could go within almost 1km of arc
/…camped three days
/…waters divided 15-20 miles [Fred Birkett]
/…example of Rahab make it clear that this was understood as a land grant challenge…the Canaanites only had to repent…other than Rahab they didn’t
/the gospel or our Christian hope is far more fearful…all the world are destroyed and cut off from YHWH for all eternity
/how do you respond…are you a Rahab…will you and your household be saved?
/Saul 👎
/David 👍
/Solomon
/Psalms
/Proverbs
/Song of songs
/Job?
/genre similar to wisdom literature of Egypt and other nearby nations
/will leave this to Pastor Dave…
/is Jesus your king or are you seeking the celebrities of this world?
/is Jesus your prophet and do you desire to read and take into your very being all the scriptures because they all speak of him?
/is Jesus your priest and you are therefore confident in how you stand before God not daring to trust in your own efforts?
/is Jesus your temple and do you recognise your brothers and sister in Christ as Jesus’ body?
/is Jesus your covenant keeper keeping the law for you but also modelling the life of submission to God to you?
