Hello, and this is Barry Gray, your professor for Old Testament Survey for King's Bible Baptist College. And my heart and prayer for each of you students out here is what the Hebrew call the Shema. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart. And Christ speaking in Mark 12 31 says, and the second is like, namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. So why should we study the Old Testament? There are multiple reasons why. First, 2 Timothy 3.16 says, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. And likewise, the Old Testament makes up 78% of our Bible, so just by sheer volume alone, it helps us to better understand God�s Word. Here�s what some notable people said. Patrick Henry said, �The Bible is worth more than all other books which have ever been printed.� Daniel Webster said, I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year. And Charles Hodge, who wrote Hodge's Systematic Theology, said, the best evidence for the Bible being the Word of God is found between its covers. And this is what Christ said in the New Testament after his crucifixion and resurrection. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter it into his glory? And notice this, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. And they said one to another, down in verse 32, did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Then later to some of his other disciples, in Luke 24, 44, he says, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me. That phrase, the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, that's a way of saying the whole Hebrew Old Testament. Because they didn't have the New Testament written then. Here's a little interesting diagram I saw. It shows these lines, and you see these little lines at the bottom. Those are the 1,189 chapters in the Bible. Well, two guys, they made this diagram, probably with computers, and they found over 63,779 cross-references from like Genesis to Revelation. And you see that little long white line at the bottom? That's Psalms 118. So it shows just how the Bibles interconnected to one another. Look at our Bible itself Genesis 1 in the beginning God Created the heaven and the earth the middle verse in the Bible is Psalms 118 the two middle words are the Lord and The last verse in the Bible in Revelation 22 21 it says the grace of our Lord, so it's all about God when we look at history we could say truly that it is his story and A British pastor who used to pastor a Spurgeon's church in England and pastored multiple churches around the country and around the world, he said this after he retired, he wrote a book, The Unfolding Drama of Redemption, and he was always talking about the scarlet thread. He writes in this book, Christ is predicted in the Old Testament, presented in the Gospels, proclaimed in Acts, possessed in the Epistles, and predominant in Revelation. Learning the Bible, the Old Testament, also protects us from errors. Look at this example right here. Mark 1, 2, and 3. This is what it says in the King James as it is written in the prophets behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare the way before thee The voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord make his path straight well verse 2 is a quote from Malachi 3 1 verse one verse three is a quote from Isaiah 40 verse three but many the new here's what many the New Testament or the new translation say in the ESV, Mark 1, it says, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, behold, I send my messenger before your face, I will prepare your way. ESV does the same thing, it says, even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet. The problem with this is that verse two, the quote they're doing there is not in Isaiah, it's in Malachi 3.1. An interesting little thing I've done, If you go and Google, what is a cross-reference for Isaiah in Mark 1-2, it keeps taking you to Malachi. It's not Isaiah. Verse 3 is the quote for Isaiah, and commentators like this one says that, well Mark was thinking, basically what they're saying is Mark was thinking Isaiah in his mind. So that's why he said Isaiah. But if I was reading it, I would think, well, that's wrong. Well, it is wrong quoting, saying Isaiah, if you're talking about verse two. Look at this example. Leviticus 12, 7, who shall offer it before the Lord and make an atonement for her? This is talking about when a lady had a baby and she was supposed to make an atonement for herself. It said, this is a law for her that hath born a male or a female. Verse eight, the one for the burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. So she was supposed to give two offerings. And the priest shall make an atonement for her. and she shall be clean. you know again I said it's now this is a quote of Luke chapter 2 verse 22 and when the days of her purification according to the laws of Moses were accomplished they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord brought Jesus to Jerusalem well problem is that most I give an example here of the ESV but most the other versions have the same thing Luke 2.22 says, and when the time came for their purifications according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. Did the Lord need a purification for his sins? If we look back at Leviticus 12.7 and it says it was for her sin, not for their sin. And so the newer translations, if the translators would know their Old Testament better, hopefully they wouldn't have made that mistake. And it's also giving us an example of warning to both a warning and hope. 1 Corinthians 10.6 says, Now these things are examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And that's again talking about when the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness and lusted after the quail and the manna, and God said, hey, God punished them for their evil, for how they provoked the Lord over and over again. So Paul tells us in Corinthians that sometimes God puts things in the Bible for our example so that we won't fall into the same trap or problem they did. Romans 15 to Paul writes, for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of scriptures might have hope. So sometimes it gives us a warning, don't do these things, but other times it helps to encourage us that God, when you trust and put your faith in him, he provides the way. Our study of the Old Testament will be what they call a Christological approach, a Christ-centered approach, that is, a theology that centers on Christ. I heard one pastor say, if you love the Lord, you'll see Him everywhere in the Bible. The Old Testament points to Christ, and it starts way back in Genesis 3.15, right after the fall. And here's what God says in Genesis 3.15, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Even way back then, right after the fall, God provided a solution to man's dilemma Man when they fell they ran and hid from God, but yet God came looking for them and he Killed well probably lambs killed an animal covered their sins covered them and told him that one day The seed of the woman was going to bruise Satan's head, crush his head, while bruised Christ's hill. And that was literally fulfilled when Christ, bruising his hills, pushing up on the cross, said, it is finished. While he was crushing Satan's head, Christ's hill was bruised, but he made a way for us. What are some of the things we'll learn in the Old Testament survey? Well, we're going to learn about authors, the content, important people, places, and events. We're going to see that the Bible, the Old Testament, is talking about real people in real places in real history. And we're going to see how they interact with God and one another. We're going to learn some of the geography and how that plays an important role. We're also going to look at the breakdown of the Bible, our English Bible. We're going to look at the order and how it's broken down. We're going to look at the Hebrew order of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh. That's an acrostic acronym for Torah, Davim, and Ketavim, the law, the prophets, and the writings. We're going to look at genre and the style. We're also going to look at the chronological order and how all the pieces fit together. And we'll do every now and then little Bible tidbits. Like here's the meaning of the different names of some of the pre-flood men. Adam, he means man, literally dust man, red. And sometimes you wonder if he's made out of the same red clay we have near Virginia. I'm part Cherokee, and I was asking my daughters trying to see if maybe he looked like an Indian. But I'll tell that story later, more of it later. Seth means appointed, Enoch. mortal Kanae sorrow Mahalia the blessed God Jarrah shall come down Enoch teaching Methuselah his death shall bring Lamech the despairing and Noah rest so we can look at it man was appointed to sorrow to death, but the blessed God came down teaching and instructing and His you know his death talking about in the future Christ shall answer to the despair of man and give him rest. same way for new 3 and 9 so 3 times 9 is 27 hopefully that will be an easy way to remember how many books we have in the Old and New Testament. Our Old Testament is basically broken down into three different genres, or three different groupings, major groupings anyways. You have the first 17 books are historical, the second are poetical, and the third group is prophetical. So in our historical, we got them broken down two ways. Five books of Moses, the five law, and 12 other history books. Poetry have five books. The prophetic is broken down in two major ways. First, you have five major prophets and 12 minor prophets. So if you want to remember those numbers, 5-12, 5-5-12. And that gives you how many breakdowns of the Old Testament. And actually, the last three books of the history are what they call post-exilic. They came after the exile. And the three last books of the prophets are post-exilic. So they came after the exile. And we'll look at that more later. So there's basically the breakdown. Law, history, poetry, and prophecy. So 512, 5512. The Hebrew order is called the Tanakh. The law, the prophet, and the writings. And you notice they have a lot less. They have like 24 books. But that's because they combine many. They have all the same books that we do, but they're combined and ordered in a different way. And we might look at that a little later, too. And then we're going to look at chronologically. So I gave the basic timelines here, and we'll go through that more later. And here are some maps. You notice on the right side here, it says the Way of the Kings. That's what they call the Transjordan Plain Plateau. That's on the east side of the Jordan River. And it's a lot higher elevation, like 5,000 to 6,000 feet high. And these are the different, you might say, roads or paths that the ancient people traveled through the Middle East. Now, Israel, the Levant, is a crossroad between three continents between Asia, Europe, and Africa. I heard a preacher one time say, if you're in a crossroad, you're bound to get run over. And that's what happened to the people living in Israel. Some of the world powers were always cutting through there. And if you see that little city of Megiddo, Jezreel, the battle of Armageddon, that's where the big battle at the end of the world, at the end of the tribulation period is going to take place. So you had what they call the way of the sea, that's the major route, and that's probably the way that Joseph was taken into slavery when he was sold by his brothers going into Egypt. You had the way of shore, or what they call the patriarchal route, and that's the way that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob usually traveled on the mountain ridges. But Israel's very hilly, so it has a lot of valleys, so instead of going up and down, they would oftentimes cut through valleys or go on the mountain ridges. This is a topographical map, so we'll look at those more later, but you can see just how hilly it is. And there's a more illustrated picture of, you can see why they would want to cut through the valleys instead of going way up and down hills. And it just shows you, there are the mountain range. This is looking from the south, looking north. And you can see how they go from 3,000, 4,000 feet in the Judean hills down to almost 3,000 feet below sea level to the Dead Sea and up to another 4,000 to 6,000. Well, if you count Mount Hermon, you go over 9,000 feet And here is a map of some of the nations surrounding Israel at different times. At one time or another, most of these were enemies. Sometimes they were friendly, sometimes they were enemies. But you see Edom, and that's Esau. Moab and Ammon were from the two children of Lot. And you have Amram, Damascus, or what we call Syria. And on the west side there, you see the red, the Philistines, who probably came from Greece and settled in the plains of the coast. Our Bible is divinely inspired. It covers, well, from Genesis all the way through, it covers over 4,000 years. But from Moses' writing, it covers roughly 1,000 years to the end of the Old Testament period. And again, here's a picture of the Middle East. You see we have Babylon, where Abraham left. And if you want to remember who came out of Babylon, out of Ur, it was Salt, Sarah, Abraham, Lot, and Terah. And they traveled up the Euphrates River, settled in Haran. And there, which means delay, there Terah died. And then after that, God called Abraham to go into the Promised Land, the land he was going to show them. And then they went down in Canaan, they traveled around there, lived there, and he had Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He made a trip into Egypt, came back, and eventually Joseph is sold later into Egypt by his brothers. and then all of Israel move into Egypt and between the book of Genesis and Exodus you have over 400 years of silence so basically their time in Egypt was from 1800 BC to 1400 BC roughly and then they came out in the Exodus traveled in the wilderness for 40 years then they went into the promised land circled around there in the time of the judges and they had ups and downs and eventually they had the United Kingdom with Saul their first king, David their second king, Solomon their third king, and after Rehoboam came along he caused the kingdom to divide and then you had the country split into two, the northern tribe Israel and the southern tribe Judah. And Israel went into captivity by the Assyrians around 722 BC. And Judah lasted longer. And they started going into captivity at 605, but eventually the whole of Judah was taken captive by 586. And then we had the 70 years of captivity in Babylon. And then the Persians came along, defeated the Babylonians, and then Israel started returning back to the land. So Genesis was written by, and now we'll do a little short review of all the books of the Old Testament. So Genesis covers roughly from creation back to 4000 BC to 2165 when Abraham was born all the way down to 1804 to when they were taken into Egypt where they went into Egypt and it was written between 1445 BC to 1405, the first five books of Moses. Genesis we're going to learn about four great events Creation the fall the flood and the Tower of Babel and we're going to learn about four great people And but mostly we're going to focus on Abraham Isaac Jacob and Joseph Exodus is after they came out of the land so from 1845 they traveled in the In the wilderness, remember they left Egypt, they came to Mount Sinai, 50 days later, which is what Pentecost celebrates, were given the law, and then they went to the promised land, to Kadesh Barnea, but because the spies didn't believe they could do it, Israel rebelled and God had them wander in the wilderness for 40 years. And it was after that, in 1405, that after Moses and Aaron and Miriam all died, that Joshua led them into the promised land. Leviticus is a book that if you ever try to read through the Bible, Genesis is great, Exodus is okay, but when you get to Leviticus you have all the sacrifices and all the different rules and laws that God commands His people for leprosy and other sicknesses. Then you had Numbers, and Numbers is named after, because after they rebelled in Kadesh Barnea, God numbered the people on their journey. So they wandered in the wilderness 40 years till that generation died out. And then Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy means Deudo, second, nomos, law, so the second law. And here Moses was giving the law to all those people who were born in the wilderness, the children who weren't slaves in Egypt, that they traveled around, and Moses is repeating one more time, hey, these are the laws, the guidelines, the standards by what God wants you to live. Then Moses passed away. Then we come to Joshua. And Joshua is a book of almost total victory. Joshua gives the details of the Israelites coming in and occupying, you know, winning and occupying the promised land through faith and through obedience to God. And I said, Joshua is a story of conquest and almost complete victory after wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. The next book, Judges, is almost the opposite. It's almost a book of toe-to-the-feet, where the people come in and conquer the land, but now they have to hold the land. And it's a cycle of ups and downs, where they turn away from God, they do that which is right in their own eyes, and then God sends oppression to them, and then they cry out to God, and God sends some judges to help deliver them, and to get them to try to turn back to Him. The Book of Ruth was written during the time of the judges. We see all that failure in the Book of Judges. And the book of Ruth is about a Moabite girl that trusts God and put in God. So here's in the book of Judges, or at the time of the Judges, a little glimmer of hope from a Moabitess woman, Ruth. And God shows here that he's the God of all nations, not just the Jews. And he will save anyone who's willing to trust and put his faith in him. And she even eventually becomes The ancestor of King David and ultimately Jesus Then we have first Samuel. That's the book of the Kings where the Kings start and it's a story of Samuel the last of the prophets and the last of the judge and the first of the prophets and how Saul was made king and The people said we want a king like the rest of the nations and they got him and Saul was a complete disappointment to Samuel He just kept praying for him. Samuel didn't want to give up on God, but Saul gave up on God. And we see how human kings need God's help and we see where he he wasn't a good leader. He Just never trusted God But then we look at 2nd Samuel and that's the story of David and how even though David wasn't perfect He was a man after God's own heart and he increased Israel's Nation to the largest size it had ever contained ever obtained You know David had his faults, but Samuel depicts David as a true though imperfect representative of what God wanted the king to be like and he's a picture of I said incomplete of the upcoming king that one day Jesus the king will sit on the throne and he will be perfect and And the Bible is always looking forward to, hey, there's got to be something better, a better sacrifice, a better king, a better prophet. And God says, one day you'll realize those promises. 2 Kings' story of Solomon started out so well. God gave him so much wisdom and riches and power and might and glory. And yet, because he didn't listen to God, he didn't, he accumulated wives, he accumulated horses, he accumulated money, and eventually, Bible tells us that all his wives turned in heart from God. I think Solomon may be turned back at the end of his life, but it's just a warning to us. Hey, pay attention to what God has and what God tells us to do. and second Kings is the divided kingdom where Rehoboam, Solomon's son listens to the bad counsel of his younger counselors instead of his older counselors and it causes a split in the kingdom and from there on from 931 through 1605 you have 300 years of Judah and Israel as separate nations Israel, all their kings were bad. Judah, most of their kings were bad. And ultimately, because of disobedience and not trusting God, both Israel and Judah were taken into captivity and exile. And Chronicles, you might think, well, why Chronicles? Don't we have everything in the Kings? Well, basically, Chronicles and Kings are like this. Kings were written by the prophets, more interested in the political issues where Chronicles were written by Ezra the priest and was interested in the spiritual issues and Chronicles goes all the way back to Adam. So again it was written by Ezra and it just continues the story till the very end. And then you have the book of Ezra. And he's, he just, uh, I said, he's, uh, post-exilic. He's after the exile and he's, uh, trying to, after the 70 years saying, Hey, go back and build the temple. You had, you know, three returns and you also had, uh, you had three captivities, 605, uh, 597 and 586. And now you have three returns. The first one, Jeroboam and Joshua, goes back. Ezra, he tries to encourage the people to go back and build the temple. Nehemiah is a post-exilic writer, and he tries, where Ezra tells him to rebuild the temple, Nehemiah goes in and tries to tell him to, shows him and helps him rebuild the wall. And Esther, she talks of all the Jews who never came back, who lived in exile in Babylon. And I tell people you have two constructions, the temple and the wall, and you have a ceremony, Esther marrying the queen. And her husband, King Artaxerxes Hasuerus, he eventually destroyed Nineveh, who took Israel captive. And then you have Job during the time of the patriarchs. And he sort of gives the example and shows us, hey, why bad things happen to good people. And it's just, but yet even through all his sorrows and depressions and things, he never cursed God. And God eventually said, you know, though He destroy my flesh, yet, you know, though He destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. He had the hope of the resurrection one day. And then you have the Psalms, the poetic books. And here you have the aspiration of the heart, where you can go from the heights of worship and wonder and glory to the despair of life in the Psalms, covering by, you know, written by, mostly by David, but also there's a song by Moses and Haman and Ethne, Ethan and Solomon and Chorus. You have Proverbs, sort of witty little sayings, the type you would put on a plaque, saying, you know, hey, a penny saved is a penny earned, but here they're giving spiritual plaques you can put on your wall, and it just covers a wide range of topics. And Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes means the Kalev, the teacher, the instructor, and Solomon analyzed life, said, hey, vanity, vanity, all is vanity, but at the end, He says, hey, life is summed up, serve God, love God, honor God. Or other than that, if you don't, life is empty and worthless. Then you have the Song of Solomon, a love story, a Cinderella story, that here this young Shulamite woman eventually marries a king. And this is often read during weddings in Israel. And one day, we will have the bridegroom come back for us and take us home to be with him. Then you have Isaiah, his name means God saved. He was probably the Shakespeare of the Old Testament. There are so many prophecies in Isaiah that often times he's called the Gospel of the Old Testament. And like I said, his name means the Lord saves. And he unveils so many prophecies about Christ that, like I said, again it's called the Gospel of the Old Testament. And you have Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. He said, Jehovah exalts. And he wrote at the end of the divided kingdom, right before they went into captivity of Babylon, he warns them and warns them, and yet the people ignore it and say, oh, nothing can happen to us. And so even yet, even through all that Taken in captivity he gives hope at the end that one day God will make it right Lamentations this was written after by Jeremiah after Israel was taken captivity and he talks about the city who was once a queen Setting in ashes, but yet again. He gives hope at the end of the book And Ezekiel, the priest who was taken into captivity on the second captivity around 597 or so, he was taken captive and he was just turning 30. He was just about to enter his priesthood ministry where he could go into the temple and minister and yet God said, hey, you want to see why the glory departed, why they're in captivity? So I'm going to grab you by the lock of the hair and take you back and show you what's going on in the temple. And we'll get more into that later. And then you have Daniel. Daniel was a nobleman's son. He was in the royal family, and he was taken captive by Babylon in 605 on the first captivity. And Daniel gives us so many prophecies about what's going to happen to Israel more than any other book of the Bible. And he captures the major events and shows that, hey, there is a future for Israel and he speaks so much about prophetic issues. Then you have Hosea a sort of a sad tragic book but his name means salvation and he was he took a wife of Hortum and God used that to illustrate how Israel went away from God and turned from God and went unfaithful to God and just shows how Hosea pursued his wife and loved her and took care of her even in when she was disobedient and turned from him that one day God will love us, well God does love us, but one day God will make it right with us. And how God just continually is faithful to us though we are unfaithful to him. Then you have Joel, he talks about the day of the Lord, the judgment, the big battle that's coming one day. And he warns Judah about God's coming judgment, but he also tells them of the coming restoration and the blessings that will come after they repent. Amos the burden-bearer a prophet from the south from Tekoa that went to the northern tribe and said hey you need to repent you need to turn to God before you're judged and he prophesied during the time of Uzziah and Jeroboam the second of Israel and yet people rejected him and didn't listen to him Then Obadiah, the servant of the Lord, and he demonstrates again God's ongoing protection and talks about judging Edom for how they were indifferent to the Jews when the Babylonians plundered Jerusalem. And he warns the people of Edom that judgment's coming to them. So God warns everybody. He gives more and more warnings. Then you had Jonah, it means dove, which, you know, He didn't show the characteristics of a dove. He was what we call the reluctant prophet. And God said, Jonah, I want you to go and warn them. And if they refuse, I'm going to destroy them. And Jonah had the attitude, great, go ahead. I don't care. So I'm going on a cruise. And we know the story how God had to use a big fish to get him to change his attitude. And God went, or Jonah went and preached in Nineveh, and 120,000 people repented. And what happened? Jonah got mad, and God had to deal with Jonah about his heart attitude. God cares for all nations. Then we have Micah, who is like unto Jehovah. And Micah was the one who told his prophecy quote of, When the wise men came to Herod and said, where is he that is born king of the Jews? And it was Micah that they went to that predicted Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. And then you got Nahum, Comfort. He preached after Jonah, and he preached to Nineveh, too. But it was years later, and he said, God's going to judge Nineveh because of their wickedness and because of their cruelty. Then you have Habakkuk. God answers, you know, he complains about the wickedness and sin of his people. And then when God tells him he's going to use Babylon, then he complains to God about, but Babylon's wickeder than us. And, and God has to show him that he's going to deal with Judah, but he's going to deal with Babylon for their justice. So God is, uh, takes sin seriously and he will judge anyone who doesn't follow him. And then you have Zephaniah, Jehovah Hides. He's written shortly after the fall of Judah to Babylon's conquest. And Zephaniah warns the people and the surrounding nations that the day of the Lord is near. And he talks about the coming judgment in the future. And he was probably maybe of a royalty, of a royal family or something. And the author announced to Judah that God's judgment is coming. Then you have Haggai, my feast, and he was written after the Babylonian exile. And he said, hey, we need to rebuild the temple. We need to go to Jerusalem. Excuse me. And Haggai was a prophet who, with Zachariah, encouraged the people to return from the exile to rebuild the temple. And he also told them and showed that there were consequences for their sin, but yet God would bless them if they obeyed him. Then you have Zechariah, Jehovah remembers. Zechariah, he was near the time of Haggai and he also tried to encourage the people to return and to rebuild the temple. And he tells about the Messiah was going to come into Jerusalem riding in a donkey and betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Then you have Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament. Malachi, who tells the people, hey, God loves you. You're disobedient to God. But he says, the great king will come not only to judge his people, but also to bless and restore them if they don't repent. And what does he say? He said, if you don't repent, if you don't look forward to the Messiah, I'm going to smite the land with a curse. And then we have 400 years of silence. But what do we see here? The Bible is thoroughly united. It's divinely inspired. We see heaven and the earth, Genesis 1.1. I'm going to compare the last three chapters of Genesis with the last three chapters of Revelation. Genesis 1.1 says, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Revelation 21.1 says, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth. There's a darkness, Genesis 1.5, and God called the light day and the darkness he called night. Revelation 21.25 says, and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night. Genesis 1.16, God made two great lights. Revelation 21-23 talking about the New Jerusalem and the city hath no need of the sun, neither the moon. Why? Because God lights it and the Lamb is the light thereof. There's a tree, you know, Satan caused man to fall, a tree to be desired to make one wise, and man fell, there was defilement. But Revelation 21 7, and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defiles. And what happened in Genesis? We lost our fellowship with God. And you see, Adam and Eve hid, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of God amongst the trees of the garden. But what do we see in Revelation 21.3? It says, God himself shall be with them. There was a temporary defeat. Satan had a temporary victory. The serpent beguiled me and I did eat. So Satan had a victory. tempting humans to sin but what do we see in revelation 2010 and a devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and There was a curse put on man or woman I said and I'm all greatly multiplied I sorrow but what is revelation 21 for said neither shall there be any more pain The Genesis 317 the ground was cursed for Adam Revelation 22.3 says, and there shall be no more curse. Man lost his dominion, for thus thou art, and unto thus thou shalt return. He could have lived forever, but Revelation 22.5 says, and they shall reign forever and ever in a new heaven and a new earth. we lost paradise God sent them forth from the Garden of Eden Genesis 3.23 but in Revelation 21.24 says the saved shall walk in the light of it and the tree of life we lost access to the tree of life and God put a cherubim there to keep the way of the tree of life so man wouldn't live forever in their sinful state but Revelation 22.14 says Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have the right to eat, have the right to the tree of life. And man was driven from God's presence, Genesis 3, 24. So he drove them, he drove out the man.