Bible Stories for Adults - Grace thru faith

1 Bible Stories FOR ADULTSJACK KELLEYBIBLE Stories FOR ADULTSVOLUMES I & IIOLD & NEW TESTAMENT STORIESJACK 2017 by Grace thru rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed ortransmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or otherelectronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of thepublisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews andcertain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests,write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the thru FaithPO Box 189010-185 Coronado, CA Stories for Adults / Jack Kelley. 2nd 978-1978369962 CONTENTSF orewordviiIntroductionixPART Part 1: In the Part Two: Let There Be and and and the Flood Part and the Flood Part Two: The Big and the Flood Part Three: Hidden in Plain Tower of and Isaac: The Gospel in and Rebecca: The Gospel in Genesis Part and s and His Coat of Many , the Prince of Passover: Exodus the Red 10 the Walls Came Tumblin Gospel in Joshua: The Story of and and on Mount Adversary Part One: The Shining Adversary Part Two.

2 I Will Make Myself Like theMost Boys in the Fiery Handwriting On The in the Lion s and the Whale120 PART Birth of John the Birth Of Three Kings Of Orient Temptation In The Heals a Into Heals a Demon Possessed Heals a Kingdom Calms the the 5, Walks on Unmerciful Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Dead Girl and the Sick Workers in the Sons and a Few Good Rich Man and Wedding Lazarus from the Healing at the the Blind Parable of the Ten Parable of the Last Resurrection and Ascension259 About the Author263 FOREWORDMy husband Jack was an amazing Bible teacher. He had a gift ofmaking complex topics easy to understand, and communicatedGod's heart for His people in ways that profoundly influenced of Jack's most popular series has been his Children s Stories of theBible for Adults , Volume after publishing these Old Testament Stories , we were calledto be missionaries in Mexico.

3 (You can read the whole story on ourAbout page on )From the very beginning, our ministry focused on showing that theGod we serve is real, that He hears our prayers and answers asked the Lord only to provide for our needs and the needs ofthose we served. And He provided abundantly. He is faithful!From Mexico, Jack published two other books, over 8,000 BibleQ&A posts, and over 1,000 Bible Study articles at gracethru He taught and wrote prolifically, while we provided food,housing, medical care, and education for the poor. Jack was puttingthe finishing touches on Volume II, the New Testament Stories ,when he passed away in October the two years since the love of my life went to his eternal home,the Lord continues to prove faithful. Jack's legacy lives on in histeachings on the site, and our outreaches continue to grow.

4 We areable to do more to help those in need now than ever before. Asalways, we offer all of Jack's teachings free of charge. And we blessthose in need with what we're , I am so blessed to present to you Jack's teachings on the chil dren's Stories in the Bible . In this new book, including Volumes Iand II the Old Testament and New Testament you ll discoverhow the language, customs and culture of biblical times will helpyou grow in a more mature understanding of these timeless chil dren s Stories . I m excited for you! The details and symbolism ofthese Stories are about to make the Word of God come alive in yourheart. Prepare to have your faith strengthened as you grow closer tothe the Lord richly bless you,Samantha children s Stories of the Bible are often a child s first glimpse ofGod, and the simple way in which they re told is great for littleminds.

5 Recent surveys show that most Adults who call themselvesChristians still believe these Stories from their childhoods to be most of us have never heard the adult versions with their addi tional detail and background information that not only enhancestheir validity but reveals additional insight into the characterof for non-believers who ve relegated them to the status of fairytales and fables, this additional background provides logical andrational reasons to re-think their decision and look at these chil dren s Stories again. As you ll see, they re actual events that describeGod s earliest revelation of Himself to then, are the adult versions of the Bible s children s Stories ,with detail and background to support the fact that these storiesaren t just a Biblical version of Aesop s Fables.

6 They reallyhappened, and for good reason. Over the decades I ve beenstudying them, I ve uncovered a wealth of information, which I vepieced together into my view of the story behind each story. I hopereading them will prompt more intense study on your part, to see ifthese things are everything that was written in the past was writtento teach us, so that through endurance and theencouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.(Romans 15:4)xINTRODUCTIONPART IThe Old Te s t a m e n t1 CREATION PART 1: IN THEBEGINNINGWHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN GENESIS 1:1 AND 1:2?In the beginning God created the heavens and theearth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darknesswas over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit ofGod was hovering over the God said, Let there be light, and there waslight. God saw that the light was good, and heseparated the light from the darkness.

7 God called thelight day, and the darkness he called night. Andthere was evening, and there was morning thefirst God said, Let there be a vault between thewaters to separate water from water. So God madethe vault and separated the water under the vault fromthe water above it. And it was so. God called the vault sky. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day. (Genesis 1:1-8)THE STORY BEHIND THE STORYA quick lesson in hebrew is helpful to understand verse 1. TheBible uses three hebrew words to describe creation events:1. Bara literally means to create and always refers to a direct work ofGod. It s the word used in verse 1 and means to make something Asah means to make something from something else, and3. Yatsar means to form or fashion something as a sculptor or pottermight do.

8 (Genesis 1:26-27 uses both bara and asah when speaking ofMan s creation, and all three are used together in Isaiah 45:18concerning Earth.)Shamayim, translated heavens in verse one, is what we would callthe sky. The word is plural because it includes both the Earth satmosphere and the vast reaches of space where the stars and othercelestial bodies reside. The Bible distinguishes between theatmosphere and the expanse of space, calling them the first andsecond heavens respectively. The third heaven is, of course, theThrone of the Bible says the firmament separates the waters above fromthose below, the hebrew word is raqiya. This is Earth satmosphere the first the Great Flood, this firmament supported a water vaporcanopy that enveloped the Earth and deflected harmful ultravioletrays preventing them from damaging life on Earth, hence the notionof separating waters above from those the water vapor canopy separated the atmosphere from space the first heaven from the second.

9 It also made for a uniformly sunnysubtropical climate the world over with no variation in weatherpatterns. No rain, storms, floods or even heavy winds would haveoccurred on Earth before the Stories FOR ADULTSV erse 2 is a horse of a different color. Many scholars believe theverse should read, but the Earth became formless and void, an uninhabit able ruin. Apparently, combining a strict use of grammar with clari fying passages elsewhere in the Old Testament leads to a hint ofsome sort of judgment between verses 1 and 2 that left the Earth inshambles, an uninhabitable controversy revolves around two issues:1. Whether the hebrew requires an active (became) rather thanpassive (was) form and2. The hebrew words tohu and bohu, translated formless and words are found only in Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 45:18 andJeremiah 4:23.

10 In the Isaiah passage, the Lord reveals that Hedidn t create the world in vain (the hebrew is tohu) but formed it tobe inhabited, thus supporting the idea that it became an uninhabit able ruin. And in a vision, Jeremiah saw Earth when it was formlessand void (tohu and bohu) in the context of a GAP THEORYV iewed this way, the first two verses of Genesis would go somethinglike this:In the beginning, God created the Heavens and theEarth. As you would expect of God, everything Hecreated was complete, perfect and beautiful, ready forhabitation. But then something caused a judgment thatleft the Earth an uninhabitable ruin for who knowshow long. It was dark and wet and cold, but the Spiritof God never left the scene, and after some extendedperiod of time, God said, Let there be light. And so, what we know as the Creation account actually begins inverse PART 1: IN THE BEGINNING5 This view, known as the Gap Theory, helps solve the so-called oldEarth young civilization problem.