[Bible Study] Basic Biblical Knowledge Lesson 1

 The Word of Revelation from Heaven

• Main Reference 

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. 

1. The Author of the Bible 

2 Pet 1:21 

For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

 2) The reason God has given us the Bible 

1 Jn 4:1 

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

 3) Two realms in the spiritual world and the physical world

2. The Composition of the Bible

 1) The Holy Bible : a book complied of the Holy Word of God 

 - The Old Testament: 39 books

 - The New Testament: 27 books 

 2) The Old Testament and the New Testament 

 3) The Bible is a covenant 

 4) The Bible index and abbreviations 

 5) How to read the Bible 

3. Content Categorization of the Bible

 1) History: past events 

1 Cor 10:11 

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

 2) Teaching 

2 Tim 3:16-17

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 3) Prophecy 

Jn 14:29 

I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.

 4) Fulfillment : fulfilled according to prophecy

 - The Old Testament : First Coming 

Jn 19:30 

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

- The New Testament : Second Coming 

Rv 21:6 

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

4. How the Prophecies were Written

• Written in parables of historical events, names, etc. 

 1) Parables of historical events 

 Lk 17 The last days: the days of Noah, the days of Lot 

 2) Parables of people 

 Rv 2 Balaam, Balak, Jezebel 

 3) Parables of places 

 Rv 11:8 

Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.

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