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As you know, weird and I've been working our way through the Old Testament scriptures and last time I kind of came to the conclusion of the Old Testament books and this morning what I wanted to do is is just to show you how the 39 books of the Old Testament that we have in our bibles are compiled together and how they related to even the time when Christ came to this earth.

And so I put on your outline there about seven different reasons why we can be confident in the 39 books that we have in our Bible to live by to understand how this was also filled in Christ.

And and so we're going to look at these individually.

So as we start out, of course, the first point talks about Are they were organized as such under ezra-nehemiah and other leaders in at by the end of 400 BC.

And my last time we we noted how the last few books of the Old Testament came together.

There were azra Nehemiah, there was then you can get into after then Hagee.

I am Zachariah and Malachi, were prophets that both during that time.

And now they are all written there already to be compiled together and because of Ezra's.

Credentials.

You might say and if you want to turn to answer a chapter 7 answer a chapter 7, it gives this kind of the background of who is Ezra was and how he would have had the credentials then to bring together all the writings of the Old Testament and a and have them ready available for the people of Israel to know and to have and will see you again how this all works together as we get into some of the other point.

But in 7:10, it says that Ezra had set his heart to study the law, God, and to practice it, and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel, and your back up earlier in this, and it tells us that he was a priest.

I, he was a levite And we know that how God chose the Levites to be the spiritual leaders of the people of Israel and now I have two are they?

The Exile that they had been in and many of them?

Now, have been brought back to the land and the number things have taken place to the temple.

Had been rebuilt.

When's the rubber Bowl brought about fifty thousand people back to the land and they were given the responsibility to build the Temple.

And so by 5:15 5:16, it tells us that the temple was rebuilt and being used again.

But now they needed the spiritual leaders to come back to the nation of Israel, to lead the people in the worship of God in and now it's kind of answers responsibility.

It seems like as indicated through his writing of the book of Ezra and the closing out of the second chronicles and tell him.

It's a little bit of But they returned their so so we have that going on with Ezra and so that's why we believe that Ezra could have used nehemiah's leadership as well as he came back and kind of what is the governor of the nation of Israel even though they were still in its objection to the medes and Persians yet.

They were able to have that freedom again given to them by the kings of the medes and Persians to rebuild the Temple.

And then when me and my came about 12 years after Ezra came to the land then me and Maya was given the responsibility of building the walls of Jerusalem up and we know that in about 50 days with all the divisions of how the different parts of the wall was to be built.

It came to a conclusion and then when you turn over to Nehemiah, we find in chapter 8 that the wall have been built.

Are they had a dedication?

On the wall.

And the way they dedicated was they had Ezra take and read the word of God to them and I just remembered it.

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Now I got my mic going.

All right, so now I can wander a little bit if I want to but it tells us that that they had the scriptures read and as you go through into chapters 9 and 10 it tells us that that there was a a prayer that was mentioned and the prayer kind of traced what God has done for the nation of Israel down through the years from the time of Moses, right on down to the time when they are now in captivity.

And now, some of them have returned to the land as God had promised that they would.

And it tells us that in chapter 10, The people all made a commitment to the lord and there were seven things in the chapter 10 that are given of their commitment to wanting to follow the word of God.

And so, as we see, all the things that have happened to the nation of Israel, they're going into Exile because they turned away from God and follow the idle gods of the people that were in the land as well as the other nations around them.

And so God brought judgement, chastisement upon them, sending them into captivity and now what's happened?

They have returned to the land, not all of them.

There were still many of them that were scattered throughout the out the Empire's as than the syrians and the Babylonians came and they took the people from them, and scatter them out into other cities in other countries, but a number of them have now returned to the land.

Now, it's already set up, the temple was rebuilt.

All the walls of Jerusalem.

I rebuilt Ezra and the Levites that came back with Ezra, they have now set up again, the worship of the true and living God through the the people's coming to Jerusalem to offer their sacrifices as Moses, gave them in the law to follow.

And now also all the books of the Old Testament have been written Malachi Road, his books.

We believe when when Nehemiah was in the land for built the walls and then he left for about 12 years, it indicates to us.

And during that time, Malachi was talking and gave his prophecy to the people, their importance of following the true and living God.

And then me and my comes back to the land to help continue to solidify the the government and the following of a through Ezra in the Levites.

Worship of the true and living God.

So by 400 BC, all of this was back in place, the religious set up and had been given through Moses for the people of Israel to follow was Now, set back up for them to follow the true and living God.

But you know what?

The tells us that it took another 400 years before God actually fulfilled, the coming of the Messiah.

What do you know during that four hundred years?

We find that another thing took place, we understand that the medes and Persians, the grecians came in about 3:31 and and took over control of the, the world in the sense that were in the Middle East there and so forth.

And of course, under Alexander, the Great.

Matthew know, it was pretty well set up.

And one of the things that happened during that period of time, it tells us about

Sorry about that.

But it is tells us that about 285 BC.

One of the things that was given to us in history was that they wanted to set up an alexandrian library in the land of Egypt and it tells us and indicates to us how that God shows or know God was involved in it in order that for it to happen.

And so they wanted some people from Israel to come and kind of give some of their religious books and writings to the, the people to translate into the Greek.

And so it tells us they were about seventy-two men.

From Israel that were sent to do this responsibility and of course, the books that they translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic was the Old Testament scripture.

The 39 books that we have in our Bible.

These were translated that that time into the Greek language.

So the people would have the Old Testament to be able to read, and it would be in the library as literature from the old are from the Jewish people.

Along with that time.

Also, there were some other books, they are called the apocryphal books and it tells us that there and there's several different Numbers that are given to how many apocryphal books there were.

And I think John just help me out here.

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And so did these apocryphal books?

They were translated as well as being literature of Israel.

But one of the things we understand from that is even though they were in existence, they were not accepted into what we would call the canonicity of the Old Testament.

Scriptures, the Jews Jewish religious leaders did not accept them as being authoritative as the other 39 books of the Bible was, even though they were still being translated and join with the.

Even when I got to the Vulgate translation of the of the Bible and some of them were included in that description.

But they were accepted even by the church's as being authentic.

And Being the word of God and so even though some of those fourteen books were in existence in our aim in existence you can find them and read them but as you read them I've read some of them.

I haven't read all 14 of them, but there is kind of interesting that you got to be very careful with him because some of them have some really things that are far off to the out, in the Do Not line up with the other teachings and things of the scriptures.

And so you got to be very careful with him that you don't think that those things are from God in them.

But the Protestant churches have never accepted those as being authentic and being on the same power as what the scriptures of the 39 books of the Old Testament are.

So that's just a little sidetracked with the 285 BC then We have now translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic into the Greek language.

And of course as we come closer to the time of Christ, we know that the Roman Empire came up and they took control of the ruling, over the land of Israel and all that happened in 1:46, BC that the Romans took over charge of that and now they were in control of the people of Israel.

But just think now it's been authenticated 39 books, we're being accepted.

Now, one of the things that you might find, if you read any historians from back in that time from like Josephus and and some of the others, they will say that.

Well, there were some of the list, only 22 books, Somewhat list, 24 books of the Old Testament.

The reason why is because they have compiled together.

Some of the books that we call a like 1st 2nd, Samuel 1st and 2nd Kings 1st and 2nd Chronicles, instead of counting them as two books, they caught him as one.

And so that gives you a little diversity and then when you get into some of the other books of the Old Testament, one of the things is that they took the 12 Minor Prophets, that we call him the 12 Minor Prophets and they compiled them all in one, just one book.

So, there you have 12 books, include it into that groupie, and then some of them will to get down to 22 books.

Like Josephus, did you have to combine judges and Ruth together as one book because Ruth have took place during the time of the judges, so sometimes they will compile them together and then of course we know Solomon Road.

Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon.

Sometimes, Ecclesiastes in the Song of Solomon are joined together in one book or something along that line.

So that's how they get it down to 22 books are 24 bucks, depending on how you want to compile together.

Some of them into one book, but anyways, I'll just give you a little background of how still we had the 39 books of the Old Testament.

By the time Jesus came to this earth, then we find that he kind of concluded in the three divisions of the Old Testament, we divide the Old Testament in the Bible Vision, they divided into three for the Jewish division of the Old Testament.

And of course, what are the three divisions the law and the prophets and the Psalms?

And we divide them into the of the law of Moses.

The history books, the poetry books are the major prophets in the Minor Prophets.

So we get Five divisions of of the Old Testament, but but they still include the same books.

They just have a little bit and division of how they look at them.

And if you want to look up, you can find the Jewish list of them and you can find the, the what we have in our Bibles.

But anyways, when you come to Jesus, say, you know, one of the things we find was that Jesus authenticated.

The Old Testament scriptures as well.