SEARCH FOR TRUTH HOME BIBLE STUDY PROGRAM STUDY SHEET
THEME: "Open your heart when you open your Bible."
LESSON NO. 1

Coverage: Creation through the Flood
Page 1. General View of the Old Testament
    1. Number of books - 39
    2. Theme of Old Testament-expectation and longing, Job 23:3
    3. Period of writing-1400 years by 32 different writers, II Pet 1:21
    4. Books of Bible
        a. Law-5 books
        b. History-12 books
        c. Poetry-5 books
        d. Prophecy-5 major-12 minor

Page 2. The Creation
    1. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." Gen.l:l; Heb. 11:3; Job 38:1-7
    2. Genesis is a book of beginnings

Page 3. The Creation of the Earth
    1. First day, light appears, Gen. 1:3-5
    2. Second day, water above divided from waters below, Gen. 1:6-8
    3. Third day, earth and sea divided, grass and trees, Gen. 1:9-13
    4. Fourth day, sun and moon given for light, time, and seasons, Gen. 1:14-19
    5. Fifth day, sea creatures, fowls of the air created, Gen. l:20-23
    6. Sixth day, cattle, beasts, and first man Adam, Gen. 1:24-31
    7. Seventh day, God rested from all that He had made, Gen. 2:1-3

Page 4. First Dispensation - Innocence
    1. Adam and Eve warned of consequence of sin, Gen. 2:15-17
    2. The serpent deceives Eve, Gen. 3:1
    3. Adam and Eve eat of forbidden fruit, Gen. 3:6-7
    4. Sin breaks communion with God, Gen. 2:15-17
    5. God sought Adam, Rom. 3:11; John 15:16

Page 5. Innocence ends in Judgment
    1. The curse, Gen. 3:14-19
    2. The promise, Gen. 3:15; Rom.5:19
    3. Adam and Eve are sent from the garden, Gen. 3:23-24

Page 6. Second Dispensation - Conscience
    1. Birth of Cain and Abel, Gen. 4:1-2
    2. Cain kills Abel, Gen. 4:8
    3. Seth begins blood line of promised Redeemer, Gen. 4:25-26
    4. World became very wicked, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen. 6:1-8

Page 7. Noah Builds the Ark
    1. Noah builds an ark of gopher wood, Gen. 6:14-16
    2. Noah warns of coming judgment by the flood, II Pet. 2:5
    3. Conscience Dispensation ends in judgment by the flood

Page 8. The Ark that Noah Built
    1. Size: 600 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 60 ft. high
    2. Would hold 1,310 Boxcars, or 100 Barnum circuses

Page 9. Days of Noah - Coming of Christ, Matt. 24:37-44, II Pet. 3:3-7
    1. Wickedness great in the earth, II Tim. 3:13
    2. Large number of unholy marriages, Matt. 24:38-39
    3. Many men of renown, Dan. 12:4
    4. World unaware of approaching disaster, Luke 21:35
    5. All the earth corrupt, II Tim. 3:2
    6. Noah's family enters ark for safety, I Thess. 4:17
    7. Noah returns to earth after flood, Jude 14-15