Studying Genesis

Posted on Wednesday 10 May 2006 at 4:40 AM in Bible - Post Comment

Ok, I've been wanting to study Revelation for quite a while now. But I never got around to it. I always ended up studying other books in the Bible instead. But I've been hearing over and over lately in various sermons that if you really want a good understanding of the book of Revelation, then you have to have a good understanding of the Old Testiment. So here I am starting from the beginning, the very beginning.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

It makes sense. The Apostles didn't have the New Testiment. But as Jews they would have had a good understanding of the Old Testiment. I decided that I just can't go through it on my own so I have been listening to a couple verse by verse Bible teachers online. The first is one of my old favs J. Vernon McGee from Thru The Bible (http://www.thruthebible.org). It's nice because Thru The Bible just started again in Genesis. How cool is that? The second is my new fav Searchlight with Jon Courson (http://www.joncourson.com). His teaching is really in depth and thought provoking.

I have a l-o-n-g way to go since I'm only on chapter 16 of Genesis, but what a fruitful study this is already.


Luke 24:25-27
Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

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Posted by DonnaJoy on Wednesday 10 May 2006 at 1:10 PM - Link

I have been reading J. Vernon McGee for about 20 years now - I started in Genesis with his Bible Commentaries (in print) and now I am in Mark - yes, it has taken me that long - I wasn't always as faithful as I should have been - I love him - I can just hear his voice as I read his comments. I have kept all the books and they are a treasure to me.
Bless...
Donna