Monday, August 16, 2010

the books in The book: part II

So tonight we looked at the rest of the books in the Bible. After the wisdom literature comes :

Major Prophets
Isaiah - lots and lots of prophecy - foretold the birth of Jesus
Jeremiah - a young prophet while the Israelites were in exile
Lamentations - funeral poems - lament = to tell how bad something you did makes you feel
Ezequiel - saw the bones grow flesh
Daniel - the lion guy, handwriting interpreter guy, and friend to the fire guys

Minor Prophets:

For more information on each of the prophets, you can read it at http://bible.org/seriespage/minor-prophets

Hosea - God told him to marry an unfaithful women
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah - the fish good guy
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zacharia
Malachi


Then comes the New Testament:

The Gospels (gospel means good news)
Mathew
Mark
Luke
John

Church History
Acts

Epistles (Letters written by apostles to churches and servants of the body)
Romans
I & II Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
I & II Thessalonians
I & II Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
I & II Peter
I, II, & III John
Jude

Apocalyptic literature (Writings about the end times)
Revelations

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