The Very First Great Awakening?

Grasping the Old Testament Series

Leading Up to this Era

The majority of the Old Testament is made up of five multigenerational stories which can be read here.  First, God promises Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that through them both a nation and also a blessing to all the nations would come.  After a 400 gap the story picks up with Moses and Joshua leading the nation out of bondage and into the land of promise.  Another 400 plus years are accounted for in the Book of Judges as the tribes seamed stuck in a cycle of sin, oppression from an enemy, repentance, deliverance, and a period of peace.  Judges ends with a statement of the spiritual condition at the time.  “Everyone was doing what was right in their own eyes.”  Looking at the way things were, no one would have guessed that the next three generations would powerfully transform Jewish society.  Do these three generations provide us a path for us to see transformations today?

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:14