Test Questions

Into what two great divisions is the Bible divided?

Give the theme of the Prelude to the Old Testament.

Give the extent of the first period.

What was its outcome?

Give the extent of the second period.

In what moral condition did its termination find mankind?

From whom to whom did the third period reach?

What change in God's method of revelation did the third period
manifest?

With what family did God begin now to deal more specifically?

Where did family life merge into national life?

What two important phases of divine revelation did this period
include?

Give the limits of the fourth period.

Give the two divisions of period four.

Give the cause of the division of the United Kingdom.

What was the course of history in the Northern Kingdom?

What course did history take in the Southern Kingdom?

Give the two prominent features of period five.

What marked change had come over Judah between the captivity and the
return?

Give the great names that are prominent in the several periods into
which we have divided the Old Testament times.

Lesson 2

From Creation to Abraham

Old Testament Division--Prelude, First Period, Second Period

PRINCIPAL EVENTS

Prelude.

#Account of the Creation.#--The creation days: Light (Gen.
1:3-5); firmament (1:6-8); land and water separated,
vegetation (1:9-13); heavenly bodies--sun, moon, stars
(1:14-19); fish, birds and animals (1:19-25); man (1:26-31).

First Period.

#Creation of Man.#--Man made in God's image (Gen. 1:27);
creation of Eve (Gen. 2:21, 22). Entrance of sin and the fall
(3:1-6); Cain, son of Adam and Eve, killed his brother Abel
(4:3-8).

Second Period.

#The Flood.#--The prevalence of wickedness (Gen. 6:5) caused
God to destroy the population of the world by flood, with the
exception of Noah, his family, and selected animals (Gen.
6-8). God made a covenant with Noah not to destroy the people
again by flood (9:8-17)

#The Tower of Babel.#--The wickedness in the heart of men
found expression in the building of the great tower of Babel,
and the punishment therefor was the confusion of tongues
(11:1-9).

#TIME.#--From an unknown time to 1928 B. C.

#PLACES.#--Garden of Eden, Western Asia, Babylon.

[Illustration]

#SIGNIFICANCE OF EVENTS.#--The creative period marks God as the
supreme author of the universe and of its inhabitants