Course Description: Biblical prophecy concerning the Jewish people.

1. A Chosen People - Why?
2. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
3. Abrahamic Covenant
4. Land Covenant
5. Davidic Covenant
6. The New Covenant
7. Satan's Plan to Destroy
8. Worldwide Dispersion - Deuteronomy 28
9. The Holocaust
10. Present day In-gathering
11. The Time of Jacob's Trouble
12. The Kingdom Period

Learning Objective

Know God's plan for the Jewish people in times past, present, and future

Primary Resources

1. King James Bible
2. Interlinear Greek New Testament
3. Interlinear Hebrew Old Testament
4. Strong's Concordance

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Websites

We will list various websites that are useful through the program of study and those that are of specific for the course itself.

Dallas Theological Seminary
http://www.dts.edu/
http://library.dts.edu/

BibleGateway.com
http://www.biblegateway.com/
Online Bible in over 50 versions

Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html

Crosswalk
http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lexicons

Bible Atlas
http://www.painsley.org.uk/re/Atlas/

Biblical Maps
http://www.blueletterbible.org/images_maps.html

About.com: Ancientclassical History
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/biblicalmaps/ig/Biblical-History-Maps/Historical-Maps-of-Israel.htm

Berean Bible Society: Cornelius R. Stam
http://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/history.html

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Reference List

1. Audio/video lectures by Dr. Jimmy DeYoung. Posted below
2. Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology by: J. Dwight Pentecost
3. The Bible Knowledge Commentary by: John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck

Grade: 100%

Weekly Paper 7 percent each = 50%
Final Project 25 = percent
Final Examination = 25 percent
The questions for the final examination will come directly from the study questions. It is to your advantage to answer the study questions each week rather than wait until you begin the final examination.

Deliverables

The Weekly Paper is due at the end of each week.
The Final Project is due at the beginning of the fifteenth week
The Final Examination will be due at the end of the fifteenth week.

LESSON ONE: A Chosen People - Why?

Reading: Deuteronomy 32, Key verse 8; Deuteronomy 7, Key verses 6, 7, 8; Exodus 19, Key verses 5, 6

Lectures online: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. What criteria did the Lord use in setting the nations of the world in place? Deuteronomy 32:8; Ezekiel 5:5; Genesis 11:8; 10:25.
2. What is the basis upon which God chose these people? Deuteronomy 7:6,7,8.
3. What is the purpose He had for choosing these people? Exodus 19:5,6

Deliverable

2. Two page paper: Define God's plan for setting aside a people in order to accomplish His will.

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LESSON TWO: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Reading: Genesis 9 - 50

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Give a brief history from scripture of Abram/Abraham.
2. Give a brief history from scripture of Isaac.
3. Give a brief history from scripture of Jacob.

Deliverable

Two page paper: Define how God used the three Jewish patriarchs to establish His "chosen people" and move His plan forward for human kind.

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LESSON THREE: Abrahamic Covenant

Reading: Genesis 12:1-9; 15:1-21
Sumpplimental Reading: Commentary for explanation of verses
Things to Come pp 65-94

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Define the importance of the Abrahamic covenant
2. Detail the provisions of the Abrahamic covenant.
3. Describe the character of the Abrahamic covenant.
4. Detail the eschatological implications of the Abrahamic covenant.

Deliverable

Two page paper: Based on the study questions above, discuss the Abrahamic Covenant.

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LESSON FOUR: Land Covenant

Reading: Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Supplemental Reading: Commentary
Things to Come pp. 95-99

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Define the importance of the land covenant.
2. Detail the provisions of the land covenant.
3. Describe the character of the land covenant.
4. Detail the eschatological implications of the land covenant

Deliverable

Two page paper: Based on the study questions above, discuss the land Covenant.

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LESSON FIVE: Davidic Covenant

Reading: II Samuel 7:1-17
Commentary
Things to Come pp. 100-115

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Define the importance of the Davidic covenant.
2. Detail the provisions of the Davidic covenant.
3. Describe the character of the Davidic covenant.
4. Detail the eschatological implications of the Davidic covenant

Deliverable

Based on the study questions above, discuss the Davidic covenant.

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LESSON SIX: The New Covenant

Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-37

Supplemental Reading: Commentary
Things to Come pp.116-128

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Define the importance of the new covenant.
2. Detail the provisions of the new covenant.
3. Describe the character of the new covenant.
4. Develop a statement explaining the fulfillment of the new covenant.
5. Detail the eschatological implications of the new covenant.

Deliverable

Two page paper: Based on the study questions above, discuss the New Covenant.

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LESSON SEVEN: Satan's Plan to Destroy

Reading: Genesis 25, 36:12 Exodus 17 ; Jeremiah 30:7; Book of Obadiah, Book of Esther; Zechariah 13:8; Revelation 12:13-17
Supplemental Reading: Commentary Things to come pp. 285-300

Lectures online: Download the audio

Deliverable

Study Questions

1. From Dr DeYoung's lectures and other supplemental readings explain the conflict of the Jews through Biblical history.
2. Detail the prophetic conflict termed "the time of Jacob's troubles."

Two page paper: Explain Satan's plan to destroy the Jews from Biblical history and its Biblical prophetic significance.

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LESSON EIGHT: Worldwide Dispersion

Reading: Deuteronomy 28

Supplemental Reading: Commentary

Lectures online: Download the audio

Study Questions
There are three dispersions.

1. Discuss the first dispersion/return - Egypt. Genesis 46; Joshua 3-5
2. Discuss the second dispersion/return - Babylonian. II Chronicles 36; Ezra 1, 2.
3. Discuss the final/last world-wide dispersion - Deuteronomy 28

Deliverable

Two page paper: Trace the dispersions and returns to the point of Deuteronomy 28.

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LESSON NINE: The Holocaust (Germany)

Supplemental Reading: Go to the internet, or other sources, that discuss the Holocaust.

Deliverable

Two-page paper: Give a history of the Holocaust and how God used it to bring the Jews back into their homeland.

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LESSON TEN: Present Day In-gathering

Reading: Ezekiel 34, 36, 37

Lectures online: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Ezekiel 34, what is the significant of God's 18 "I wills"?
2. Ezekiel 36, what is the significance of the 35 references to the "land"?
3. Ezekiel 37, define the prophecy of the "valley of dry bones."

Deliverable

Two page paper: Explain how and why (using chapters 34, 36, and 37 from Ezekiel) the present day ingathering of the Jewish people is the third and final return to the land.

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LESSON ELEVEN: The Time of Jacob's Trouble

Reading: Jeremiah 30:7; Revelation 8,9,12,13,14,18
Supplemental Reading: Commentary

Lectures on line: Download the audio

Study Questions

1. Describe Satan's plan to destroy the Jewish people during the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation.
2. Define Satan's purpose for trying to destroy the Jewish people in the Tribulation Period.

Deliverable

Discuss the last half of the Tribulation Period, the time of Jacob's trouble, as it relates to Satan's plan to destroy the Jews.

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LESSON TWELVE: The Kingdom Period

Reading: Daniel 7:9-14; Revelation 20:4-6
Supplemental Reading: Commentary; Things to Come

Lectures online: Download the audio

Deliverable

Two-page paper: Explain the relationship of Jewish people to the promise of God in Daniel 7 of a "kingdom to come."

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FINAL PROJECT (25 percent)

Discuss Gods choosing of the Jewish people, the promises he made to them through the covenants, and the conflicts that will precede His ultimate relationship with them. Due at the end of the fourteenth week

FINAL EXAMINATION (25 percent) (Student may be exempt by maintaining an "A" average on deliverables and final project.)

The final examination will be open book and the questions used will be taken directly from the weekly Study Questions. Due at the end of the fifteenth week.

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