JUDAISM

HEBREWS  ORIGINATED IN BABYLON  AND WERE LED INTO PALESTINE BY ABRAHAM

GENESIS 12:1-3  “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great so that you will be a blessing.”

ABRAHAM  2000 B.C. WENT TO CANAAN OR THE PROMISED LAND  HIS SON ISAAC AND ISAAC’S SONS ESAU AND JACOB

ABRAHAM CONTINUED  JACOB HAD 12 SONS (12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL)  HIS YOUNGEST SON WAS JOSEPH WHO WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY

SLAVERY IN EGYPT  1800 – 1650 B.C. DROUGHT FORCED SOME HEBREWS TO MIGRATE INTO EGYPT  FORCED INTO SLAVERY

THE BOOK OF EXODUS  TELL OF MOSES LEADING THE HEBREWS OUT OF EGYPT  10 PLAGUES

Active Participation  Name 2 of the Plagues of Egypt

MOSES 1300 c. – 1220 B.C.  MOSES LED THE HEBREWS OUT AND CROSSED THE RED SEA  WANDERED ON THE SINAI PENINSULA 40 YEARS.

10 COMMANDMENTS.  MT. SINAI AROUND 1250 B.C. MOSES WAS GIVEN THE 10 COMMAND- MENTS  CIVIL & RELIGIOUS LAW

10 COMMANDMENTS  ONE LORD, NO IDOLS, 1 DAY SABBATH, NO VAIN WORDS, HONOR MOTHER AND FATHER,

10 COMMANDMENTS  DO NOT: KILL, COMMIT ADULTERY, STEAL, BEAR FALSE WITNESS, COVET NEIGHBORS THINGS

COVENANT  GOD MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM  “CHOSEN PEOPLE” AS LONG AS OBEYED THE 10 COMMAND- MENTS

YAHWEH  YAHWEH IS THE JEWISH GOD

MOSES  HE LED HIS PEOPLE TO THE “PROMISED LAND”

12 TRIBES  DIVIDED INTO 12 TRIBES HEADED BY JUDGES CHOSEN BY GOD – ONE WAS A WOMAN DEBORAH

Twelve Tribes Banners

SAUL  SAMUEL WAS THE LAST OF THE JUDGES AND CHOSE SAUL 1 ST KING OF ISRAELITES 1025 B.C.

DAVID  SAUL’S SON-IN-LAW  RULE ISRAEL FOR 33 YEARS  DROVE THE PHILISTINES OUT  POPULAR ESTABLISHED CAPITAL - JERUSALEM

SOLOMON  SON OF DAVID  RULED FOR 40 YEARS BUILT TEMPLE – ARK OF THE COVENANT  SPENT A LOT OF MONEY

KINGDOM DIVIDED  AFTER SOLOMON’S DEATH THE KINGDOM DIVIDED INTO TWO KINGDOMS

2 KINGDOMS  ISRAEL – NORTH INCLUDED 10 TRIBES  JUDAH – SOUTH – INCLUDED 2 TRIBES AND JERUSALEM

NEBUCHANEZZAR – BABYLONIAN CAPITIVITY  BABYLONIAN KING  HE SEIZED JUDAH IN 586 B.C.  MADE HEBREWS SLAVES  SOLOMONS TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED

ASSYRIANS  722 B.C. CONQUER ISRAEL SENT JEWS TO DISTANT PLACES  10 LOST TRIBES

PERSIANS  UNDER CYRUS THE GREAT THE HEBREWS WERE FREED  515 B.C. 2 ND TEMPLE COMPLETED

JEWISH RELIGION  GOD IS NOT PHYSICAL  NO PHYSICAL IMAGES

EHTICAL MONOTHEISM  MORALS  ONE GOD  AT FIRST FIERCE AND REVENGFUL GOD

JEWISH RELIGION  TORAH – FIRST 5 BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT  10 COMMAND.  NO ONE ABOVE THE LAW

PROPHETS  MESSENGERS SENT FROM GOD TO SPEAK HIS WILL  JESUS – A PROPHET  STILL WAITING ON MESSIAH

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