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Creation: Heaven and Earth (Genesis 1) |
Throughout 7 days god created Heaven, Earth and its creatures. |
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Creation of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2) |
God made man and put him in Eden.God told man that he can eat from any tree but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No suitable helper was found for man so God made women from the rib he had taken out of the man.
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The Fall of Men (Genesis 3:1-24) |
In the garden of Eden lied two of GOD’s creations which were also the first human beings. The serpent, which was Satan proposed that GOD was concealing a greater power from her and Adam, she disobeyed GOD’s order and ate fruit from the tree while also sharing some with Adam. GOD banished them from the garden. |
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Book of Daniel, Chapter 3 |
A gold statue is constructed, and if you don’t bow down to it you will be thrown in a flaming furnace. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to bow down. King orders for them to be burned. He see's 4 people, one being the sun of god burning and turns off the furnace. They all come out unharmed. |
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Noah’s Ark (Genesis 5) |
God was angry with mankind and wanted to kill anything that breathes because of it. He told Noah to build him an ark that will hold his family and a male and female version of every animal on the world. God said Earth will flood since it will rain 40 days and 40 nights. |
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Jonah 1:17- The Story of Jonah and the Whale |
God tells Jonah to spread the word of the Lord to the city. Jonah ignores God’s wish. Jonah goes onto a boat, where a storm is created. Jonah then sacrifices himself and jumps into the ocean, where a large whale eats him. After three days and three nights, God makes the whale throw Jonah up. |
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Tower of Babel, (Genesis 11) |
The world had one language & common speech. People found a plain. They decided to build a tower. The Lord then scattered the people, and the construction of the tower. The tower was called Babel because of confused the language throughout the world. |
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The Call of Abram (Genesis 12) |
Abraham obeys the commands of god. God tells Abraham to leave his country, & to go to a “promised land.” He promises that he will make his land a great nation, & a haven for all of his descendants. Abraham goes & his descendants eventually wind up in Israel. They are rewarded with a great empire. |
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Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 16 and 21) |
Sarai gave her maid, Hagar, to Abram to have children because Sarai couldn't. He slept with Hagar and she conceived a child. Hagar fled due to Sarai’s brutality toward her. An angel told Hagar to go back and apologize to her. She will soon have a son named Ishmael. At the age of 86, Abram became a father to Ishmael.
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The Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) |
Abraham was told by God to offer his only son Isaac. Isaac went with Abraham to a mountain. Just as Abraham was about to burn his son, God stopped him and praised him for fearing Him. Then, a ram came to take Isaac’s place. Abraham was called to the heavens and was told by an angel his entire lineage would be blessed.
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Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25) |
Isaac asked God to make his wife pregnant, she gave birth to twins,oldest being Esau, and the younger, Jacob. Esau preferred to be outdoors, and Jacob indoors. One day, Jacob was cooking and Esau comes starving to death. He begs for food. Jacob will feed him if Esau gives him the birthright that he is older. Esau agrees, and their lives move on. |
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Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors/Sold into Slavery (Genesis 37) |
Joseph is the favorite son of Israel. This makes his brothers jealous.One day, Joseph recites a dream about how everything began bowing to him.This angers the brothers, and they plot to kill him, but feel bad afterwards and make him a slave to keep him alive.They take his robe soak it in goat blood and give it back to his father, letting him think his son killed. |
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Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams (Genesis 41) |
The Pharaoh calls for Joseph because he had a dream. In his dream 7 large, cows are coming out of the river. The 7 cows then devour the healthy ones. Joseph tells the Pharaoh that his dreams are warnings about a horrible famine. He is told to store one fifth of the harvest each year so that they won’t all perish. |
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Moses in the Basket // Pharaoh’s Daughter |
The Pharaoh's daughter took a walk to bathe and cleanse herself she finds a baby boy floating in a basket.She then keeps and takes care of the baby, calling him Moses. Moses means “‘to pull/draw out’ [of water]” according to the Torah, which is how the woman got Moses. |
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Moses flees to Midian (Exodus 2) |
Moses is an Egyptian leader but a Hebrew. He sees a Hebrew killed by an Egyptian so later on tries to secretly kill him. People find out and he is scared so Moses ends up fleeing to Midian. There he helps the daughters of Jethro near a well and so he stays with them to later on marry Jethro’s daughter Zipporah. |
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The 10 Plagues and the Story of Passover (Exodus 8 - 12) |
The Israelite were slaves in Egypt for 400 years until Moses was directed by God to lead them to the promised land. After several attempts, God began to send plagues. The story of Passover is that God commanded the Israelite to put lamb's blood on their doors to make sure that the hand of god would pass over their homes and not smite their children. |
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The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) |
God called Moses to Mt. Sinai and gave him the first part of the 10 Commandments. God gave stone tablets to Moses that had the Commandments. When Moses came down from the Mt., he destroyed the tablets out of rage of the people. God and Moses disciplined them. God then Instructed Moses to carve them again. |
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Moses and the Golden Calf, (Exodus 32) |
The Jewish people saw that Moses was not returning from the Mt., so they asked Aaron to make them Gods in the fear that Moses would not return. Aaron told everyone to give him gold that they owned. Aaron created a golden calf using all of the gold. Aaron then created an a festival to the Lord. The next day people sacrificed items/presented offerings.
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Joshua and the Gates of Jericho (Joshua 6) |
Joshua was assisted by the Lord for the undertaking of Jericho.The Lord told Joshua to take 7 priests and all his men to walk around the city once. On the seventh day, Joshua did as he was told and the gates of Jericho collapses on the seventh day. Joshua took all the treasury and put it in the Lord’s house and killed everyone.
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The Writing on the Wall (Daniel 5) |
The king of Babylon had a banquet where he brought out gold he had stole. A message was mysteriously written on the wall, Belshazzar send for a man who could interpret the message for him. The message says that his reign has come to an end and the kingdom will be broken into two.
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Daniel in the Lion’s Den (Daniel 6) |
King Darius appointed governors to oversee the kingdom, one of whom was Daniel. The other officials wanted to remove Daniel so they decree that their would be no worship to any god or man except him the king. He was arrested for praying to God. Daniel was sent to the lion’s den. God answered Daniel's prayers. Daniel was saved, and lived prosperously.
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Job (The Book of Job) |
Job was very wealthy, yet he believed that acceptance from God is important. Satan believed Job only worshiped God because it was profitable. God and Satan decided to test his faith. Job was caught between God and Satan’s dispute. At the end God is pleased and gives back Job's possessions.
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David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17) |
Goliath, challenged anyone to fight him to see who would be who’s slave. The opposing side sent David, the future king of Israel to go. At first glance anyone would believe that the giant was going to mush little David. In the end David, beat Goliath by throwing a stone at him, David had god's help and nothing is impossible for god.
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David and Jonathan (1 Samuel 20) |
Saul, Jonathan’s father, wants to kill David. Jonathan promises to help out David, so they come up with a plan. Jonathan lies to his father and Saul threatens him with a spear. Jonathan flees and warns him about his father. David thanks Jonathan and flees.
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David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11) |
David stayed in Jerusalem instead of going to war, and sent Joab in his place. David sleeps with Bathsheba and she gets pregnant. David sends for her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to convince him to go home but he doesn't. David plans for him to die in war and succeeds. Bathsheba mourns his death, and becomes David’s wife and gives birth to a son. |
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“Absalom! Absalom! My son! My son!” (2 Samuel 15) |
King David turned a day of celebration, for his victorious army, into a day of mourning after his son Absalom died. His men and him were ready to go back to Jerusalem and reclaim the throne, so they won over the people of Judah to get it back. King David reclaimed his throne and vowed to save the man that tried to end him when he had no power. |
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Solomon Asks For Wisdom (1 Kings 3: 1-15) |
King Solomon went to Gideon to offer a thousand burnt offerings on the altar of God. In Solomon’s dream, God asked what he would want. Solomon asks for wisdom on how to rule Jerusalem for he is young and the city is large.God gives Solomon wisdom, but also long life and wealth because it was not asked. |
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Solomon as Judge: Two women and a baby (1 Kings 3: 16-28) |
Two mothers live in a house together. One mother finds she has smothered her baby in her sleep. She switches the babies, but the other mother knows the dead baby is not hers. They go see King Solomon and he says he will cut the baby in half only to see who the real mother is. The real mother begged not to kill the baby and the other mother didn't. |
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 |
Summary of the 4 seasons and how there is a time and season to everything on Earth. There is a time to die, to fall, to give up, to throw, to hate, and to separate. But there's also a time to give birth, to rise, to search, to gather, to love, and to mend. This is because God has given men these times so they can be able to stay busy. |
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Samson and Delilah (Judges 16) |
Samson was set apart by god and given great strength/power at birth. When he fell for Delilah she was offered great compensation for finding his weakness that would rob him of his gift. Delilah discovers when his hair is cut he loses his gift. After being taken as a prisoner, his hair regrows and he kills all who wronged him and himself. |
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Psalm 23 |
A psalm of David uses an analogy to portray King David as a sheep and Jesus Christ as a shepherd. David relies on the protection by the Lord, entrusting his safety with the Lord. David uses the analogy to portray how we should follow in Christ’s path like sheep follow a shepherd. |
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Ruth (Ruth 1-2) |
With famine becoming a serious issue, Naomi sets out on a journey to the land of Moab in search of food, hoping that what others have said about the Lord feeding his people, is true. Naomi commands her two daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth, to return home to their mothers, reminding them that they have youth on their side and many other things. |
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Ruth (Ruth 3-4) |
Ruth's mother-in-law, tells Ruth to go to Boaz’s, a potential husband, and lie at his feet at night. Boaz agrees to marry her, but tells her that there’s another potential bachelor. Boaz talks to the bachelor about buying Ruth’s late husband’s land. The bachelor turns down the deal. Boaz and Ruth have a child who turned out to be the grandfather of King David. |
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Esther (Esther 1-7) |
Xerxes invites Queen Vashti to the feast, but she declines. Esther was chosen as the queen and Mordecai tells her of a plot against Xerxes. Mordecai asks Esther to help him by begging for mercy and pleading with him to the king. King Xerxes orders for Haman to be impaled against the pole. |
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The Birth of Jesus (Luke 2) |
Joseph and Mary went to Judea. Mary was expecting a child, although she is still a virgin. When they arrived to Bethlehem, Mary gave birth in a stable. Shepherds nearby were notified of the “Messiah’s” birth by an angel. Eight days after his birth, the child circumcised and was named Jesus. |
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The Magi Visit the Messiah (Matthew 2) |
Three wise Magi in Bethlehem saw a shining star rise, signifying the birth of Jesus, the Messiah asked King Herod for location of Jesus, he sent the Magi to follow the star and came upon Jesus, praised and worshipped him, giving him gifts of gold, frankincense. |
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Jesus Changes Water into Wine (John 2) |
Jesus, his mother, and disciples are at a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The wine ran out and Jesus told the servants to take six stone water jars and fill it up with water. A servant brought some “water” to the master of the banquet, and the water turned to wine when he drank it. |
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Jesus Makes The Disciples “Fishers of Men” (Mark 1) |
While Jesus was passing through the Sea of Galilee, he sees Simon and Andrew (disciples) both fishermen. He tells them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” Simon and Andrew left their nets to follow Jesus. "Fishers of men” means that instead of attracting and catching fish, you should attract men (to Christianity) and “catch them.”
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The Sermon On Mount (Matthew 5) |
Jesus stands upon a mountain (so he can be heard better) and begins by naming all those blessed by God (the Beatitudes). He then continues by describing how to be Christian. This Sermon concludes by encouraging good choices. |
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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand (Mark 6: 30-43) |
Jesus was preaching to a group of 5000 people. Once evening came, the people grew hungry. Jesus and his disciples only had fives loaves of bread and two fish to feed them with, but he performed a miracle so that they had a surplus of food to feed the crowd. |
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Zacchaeus the Tax Collector (Luke 19) |
Zacchaeus a messenger who is a wealthy man in Jericho. He was a short man so when Jesus came into the town, he had to climb up a tree so he could see over the crowd. Jesus then sees him and laughs and then asks to live in his house. The people make negative remarks about him but he proceeds to say that he is the son of Abraham. |
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Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead (John 11) |
When Jesus arrived, Lazarus has been dead for four days, but Jesus still has a plan. After the stone to the tomb is removed, Jesus prays to God and then howls, “Lazarus, come out!” Lazarus then proceeds to awaken and come out of his tomb. Jesus tells the audience of his miracle to remove Lazarus’s “grave clothes” when he exits. |
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The Decapitation of John the Baptist (Matthew 14) |
The person who was king at the time, Herod, gave a woman “The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” a promise for him to get her anything that she wanted. So the woman named Salome wanted John’s head. Of course Herod knew that John was a good man and he felt bad for having him beheaded. |
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The Widow’s Mite (Luke 21) |
People are all donating to a temple treasury, and a poor widow gives two small mites (coins) while rich people give much money. Jesus tells his disciples that God values what the widow gave more than what the wealthy people gave because she gave all she had, while the wealthy people only gave a small amount of the large amount they already have.
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The Last Supper (Matthew 26) |
Jesus and his disciples have one last supper before he is crucified. Jesus then tells them “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” Sadly they asks him if they will betray him and Jesus says the one to dip his hand in the bowl with him will betray him. Then Judas asks if it is he who betrays him, and Jesus responds by saying, “You have said so.” |
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Judas and the Thirty Pieces of Silver / Potter’s Field (Matthew 27) |
Judas was a greedy disciple and agreed to deliver Jesus to the chief priests, in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. Judas later brings back the pieces of silver and throws them into the temple. The money was used to purchase Potter’s Field or "Field of Blood" a cemetery for poor, non local Jews. Judas couldn’t commits suicide by hanging himself. |
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Jesus before Pilate (Matthew 27: 11-26) |
Tradition for the governor to let a prisoner go that was chosen by the people. Pontius Pilate asked the people who he should let free: Jesus Barabbas (a criminal) or Jesus of Nazareth. The people chose Jesus Barabbas to be released. Pilate asked them what he should do with Jesus of Nazareth, who had not committed any crime, and the people said to crucify him. |
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The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus (Matthew 27: 32-55) |
Roman soldiers forced Simon of Cyrene to carry a cross to Golgotha to which Jesus was to be crucified. They nailed Jesus to the cross as punishment for claiming to be the son of God. When he died, the curtain on the temple tore in half, there was a great earthquake, and saints were raised from the dead, frightening the Roman soldiers. |
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Two Thieves on the Cross (Luke 23: 32-43) |
Jesus and two criminals were led to a place called the Skull to be executed. One of the criminals mocked Jesus and told him to save them. The other criminal told him that everyone is punished justly and he asked Jesus to remember him. Jesus said that he will be with him in paradise. |
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Easter: Jesus Returns From the Dead (Matthew 28) |
After Jesus had been crucified he laid in the tomb for three days, Mary Magdalene came to check on the tomb when she saw that the stone had been rolled back and that an angel was in Jesus’s place. The angel said that Jesus had risen from the dead and she was told to tell Jesus’s other followers. |
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Pentecost (“tongues of fire” Acts 2) |
When the day of Pentecost came, the people were all at one place. All of the sudden a windy-storm sound came from heavens and filled the entire area where they were sitting. They saw something that looked like tongues of fire that hovered above each of them. All of them had the Holy Spirit within them and began to talk in other languages. |
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Matthew 25: 31-46 |
The King helps the people on his right by giving them food and water and visiting them. But curses those to his left and gives them nothing. The Lord tells the King, whatever you did for the people you did for me or whatever you didn’t do for them you didn’t do for me. God describes the people on the right the shepherds and the sheep are one the left side. |
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Saul Becomes Paul (Acts 9) |
Paul, a man who was against the growth of Christianity. He went on a journey to the city of Damascus to imprison the Christians. He encountered Jesus and was baptized. He was told by Jesus to spread the word of their encounter. After he was baptized, he was referred to as Paul which was his Roman name, and appealed more to Christians. |
