How We Got the Bible, Part Two – Old Testament, Part 2

• How We Got the Bible
• Part 2 – Old Testament
• “How did you get your Bible?”
• Given to you for your birthday?
• Bought it in a bookstore?
• How do you know it is the real thing?
• God Took Special Care of It
• “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will not pass away…”
• “The word of the Lord endures forever…”
• God taught His people to preserve His Word
• Keeping a Copy of the Law
• Deuteronomy 31:26 "Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;
• THE LOST BOOK FOUND IN THE TEMPLE
• 2 Kings 22:8-11 Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe,"I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it….Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes.
• God Preserved His Word
• The Old Testament scriptures were in danger of being destroyed during the Babylonian captivity in 586 B.C. and the attack by Antiochus Epiphanes in 168 B.C.
• Hebrew language
• 22 letters in its alphabet
– Psalm 119, Lamentations
• No vowels in written Hebrew
• Format of letters changed around 200 BC
• Most of OT is written in Hebrew
• How We Got the Bible
• Part 2 – Old Testament