NEW TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT

SILENT YEARS

FROM THE CLOSING OF THE OT CANON UNTIL GABRIEL SPEAKS TO ZECHARIAH (LUKE 1:13) IS AROUND 400 YEARS

THE SILENT YEARS DESCRIBES AN INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD WHEN PROPHETIC REVELATION HAD CEASED BETWEEN THE CLOSE OF THE OT AND THE OPENING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

THE BOOK OF DANIEL PROVIDES A ROADMAP TO THE INTERTESTAMENT PERIOD

MAJOR EMPIRES

PERSIA

GREEK

ROME

HERODIANS

LINGUA FRANCA

A SIMPLE VERSION OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE

CALLED KOINE GREEK

HELLENISM

SPREAD OF GREEK CULTURE, LANGUAGE, AND WORLDVIEW THROUGHOUT THE ANCIENT WORLD

JEWISH PARTIES

SADUCCEES

ESSENES

PHARISEES

ZEALOTS

TESTAMENT

ORIGIN IN THE LATIN TERM TESTAMENTUM (COVENANT)

CANON

STANDARD OF MEASURE

PRINCIPLES OF CANONICITY

APOLOSTOLIC AUTHORITY

WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION

ORTHODOXY

GOSPEL

GOOD NEWS

LUKE/ACTS ARE THE SAME AUTHOR

LUKE AUDIENCE

THEOPHILUS

GENTILE AUDIENCE

LUKE DATE

60 AD

LUKE PURPOSE

TO RECORD AN ORDERLY ACCOUNT OF JESUS’ LIFE FOR THEOPHILUS, SO THAT HE MAY HAVE CERTAINTY IN WHAT HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT.

ACTS HAS “WE PASSAGES” INDICATING HE WAS TRAVELING WITH PAUL

WE PASSAGES IN ACTS

16:8-17 TROAS TO PHILIPPI

20:5-15-21:18 PHILLIPI TO JERUSALEM

27:1-28:16 CAESAREA TO ROME

LUKE MAIN IDEA

JESUS IS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

FOR THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST (19:10)

JUDEA

PROLOGUE

1:1-2:52

PRIMARILY GALILEE

PREPERATION OF THE SAVIOR

3:1-4:13

THE SAVIOR’S GALILEAN MINISTRY

4:14-9:50

ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM

THE SAVIOR’S MINISTRY APPROACHING JERUSALEM

9:51-19:27

JERUSALEM

CONCLUDING OF THE SAVIOR'S MINISTRY

19:28-21:38

EPILOGUE

22:1-24:53

JOHN THE BAPTIST’S PURPOSE

TO POINT THE SPOTLIGHT TO JESUS (3:15-18)

JESUS CLAIMS MESSIAHSHIP THROUGH THE QUOTATION OF ISAIAH 61

THE QUOTATION PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR JESUS’ MINISTRY IN GALILEE

PETER’S CORRECT IDENTIFICATION OF JESUS IS THE HINGE OF LUKE’S GOSPEL

PETER’S CONFESSION AND JESUS’ REVELATION OF HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION SET UP THE NEXT MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL SHIFT IN LUKE’S NARRATIVE

TITLE AND FOCUS OF LUKE 9:51-19:27

THE SAVIOR’S MINISTRY APPROACHING JERUSALEM

LUKE’S MAIN CONCERN IS JESUS’ RESOLVE IN THE CLIMAX OF HIS EARTHLY MISSION IN JERUSALEM AND HIS TEAXHING ALONG THE WAY

THREE MAJOR REFERENCES TO JESUS’ JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM

A. WHEN THE DAYS DREW NEAR FOR HIM TO BE TAKEN UP, HE SET HIS FACE TO GO TO JERUSALEM (9:51)

B. HE WENT ON HIS WAY THROUGH TOWNS AND VILLAGES, TEACHING AND JOURNEYING TOWARD JERUSALEM (13:22)

C. ON THE WAY TO JERSALEM HE WAS PASSING ALONG BETWEEN SAMARIA AND GALILEE (LUKE 17:11)

THE THREE PARABLES IN LUKE 13 HIGHLIGHT SINNER’S/OUTCASYS BEING SOUGHT AND FOUND

NEAR TERM PROPHECY: LEADING TO 70 AD (21:1-24B)

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN 70AD IS THE PREMISE OF THE CONVERSATION

BEFORE ALL OF THIS NOTES THE PERSECUTION LEADING UP TO 70AD

LUKE CONCLUDES WITH DETAILS REGARDING THE NATURE OF THE EVENTS IN 70AD

FAR TERM PROPHECY: END-TIMES & SECOND COMING (21:24C-38)

TIME OF THE GENTILES

THE SIGNS OF THE RETURN OF THE SON OF MAN

THE SAVIOR’S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION

CONCLUSION OF LUKE PROVIDES CERTAINITY OF THIS TO THEOPHILUS

CERTAINTY FROM THE ANGELS

CERTAINTY FROM THE ROAD TO EMMAUS

CERTAINTY FROM THE CONVERSATION WITH THE DISCIPLES

THE GREAT COMISSION SOLIDIFIES THE MAIN THRUST OF LUKE, THAT JESUS IS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

MATTHEW AUTHOR

MATTHEW

MATTHEW DATE:

50-60AD

MATTHEW RECIPIENT

JEWS

MATTHEW PURPOSE

PROVE JESUS IS THE MESSIAH

PRESENT THE KINGDOM PLAN OF GOD

MATTHEW MAIN IDEA

JESUS IS THE PROMISED MESSIANIC KING

OFFERING OF THE KING (1-11:1)

INTRODUCTION TO THE KING 1-4:11

DECLARATIONS OF THE KING 4:12-7

AUTHORITY OF THE KING 8-11:1

TEACHING THE PEOPLE AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS

REJECTION OF THE KING (11:2-28)

OPPOSITION TO THE KING 11:2-16:12

PREPARATION OF THE KING’S DISCIPLES 16:13-20

FINAL REJECTION AND RESURRECTION OF THE KING 21-28

TEACHING FOCUSES ON THE TWELVE

MATTHEW’S GENEOLOGY

ESTABLISHES JESUS’ CREDENTIALS AS THE PROMISED KING

IS THEOLOGICAL, NOT MAINLY CHRONOLOGICAL

MATTHEW’S BIRTH NARRATIVE EMPHASIZES THE VIRGIN BIRTH

HOW WOULD THE JEWS HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?

FIRST CENTURY JEWS WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THIS AS THE PROMISED OLD TESTAMENT KINGDOM ESTABLISHED ON EARTH

MAIN POINT OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

JESUS DECLARES THE STANDARD OPF HIS KINGDOM: CONDITIONS TO ENTER IT AND WHAT IT’S CITIZENS LOOK LIKE

JESUS’ MIRACLES AUTHENTICATE HIM AS THE POWERFUL AND AUTHORITATIVE KING WHO IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM IF ISRAEL WILL RECIEVE HIM

THE BRIDGE TO HOW 8-9:34 CONNECT WITH 9:35-11:1

THE KING DEMONSTRATES HIS AUTHORITY —> SEES ISRAEL’S NEED —> DELEGATES HIS AUTHORITY

UNFORGIVABLE SIN: WHY DOES 12:22-32 MATTER?

MARKS THE TURNING POINT OF THE GOSPEL BECAUSE JESUS MOVES FROM A PUBLIC OFFERING OF THE KINGDOM TO TEACHING ABOUT IT IN PARABLES

COMISSIONING OF THE TWELVE

FEAR GOD, NOT MAN

BEING A DISCIPLE OF JESUS WILL COST EVERYTHING, BUT WILL NOT GO UNREWARDED

INTERPRETATION OF “THIS ROCK”

THE CONFESSION OF PETER AS JESUS BEING BOTH THE MESSIAH-KING AND SON OF GOD

THE FOCUS OF THE REMAINING PERIOD PRIOR TO JESUS’ ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM IS ON JESUS’ TEACHING OF HIS DISCIPLES

IN MATTHEW 19:1, JESUS BEGINS HIS GEOGRAPHICAL ROUTE TOWARD JERUSALEM AND CONTINUES TO TEACH HIS DISCIPLES ON THE WAY

JESUS’ ENTRANCE TO JERSALEM WAS INTENTIONALLY BOLD

FULFILLMENT IN THE FUTURE TRIBULATION

MATTHEW 24-25 IS ENTIRELY FUTURE AS DESCRIBES THE TRIBULATION AND CHRIST’S SECOND COMING

DO THE LAST THREE VERSES OF THE BOOK SUGGEST THAT JESUS IS NOW RULING AS KING OVER HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH

NO, THE GREATER CONTEXT PRECLUDES THE INTERPRETATION THAT JESUS’ AUTHORITY SIGNIFIES THAT HE HAS ESTABLISHED HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH AND IS NOW RULING OVER IT FROM HEAVEN