Day Eleven - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 41 - 45 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Eleven 

90 Day Bible Reading Challenge 

Genesis 41 - 45 

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection

The good that God can bring from evil comes out clearly in the readings today.  Joseph, sold into slavery, is destined to become the savior of Egypt and the surrounding nations -  not to mention of those who handed him over.  Watch how this forerunner of our Lord reconciles his brothers to their father in the process.

Today’s Reading
Genesis 41 – 45 

Today’s Question
Do you see any change in Judah’s character by the end of Genesis 44?  How has he grown?  

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New

“In the Genesis narrative both Joseph and Judah prefigure Jesus’ redeeming work of salvation.  Joseph, the beloved son of his father, was sent to his brother.  His brothers rejected him and sought his death.  They got rid of him through the agency of a third party (the slave traders), but God took their evil intention and through His grace brought about the means of the brothers’ salvation and the restoration of Jacob’s family through Joseph’s sufferings and elevation to the Vizier of Egypt.  In the same way Jesus, the beloved Son of God the Father, was sent to His “brothers” who rejected Him and sought His death, using the Roman governor.  What was a great evil in crucifying God the Son became, through God’s grace, a great act of redemption for mankind in Jesus’ atoning death and Resurrection which resulted in the gift of salvation being offered to His “brothers” and all “brothers” and “sisters” in the human family.

Judah’s willingness to sacrifice his life for Benjamin prefigured the willing sacrifice of his descendant, Jesus of Nazareth, for His “brothers” in the family of man.  Judah was the first person in Sacred Scripture who willing offered his own life to preserve the life of another; an act of self-sacrifice that healed the breach caused by the sin against Joseph and healed the disunity within his own family.  His unselfish love for his father and brother and his willingness to sacrifice his own life prefigures Christ’s freely offered atoning death on the altar of the Cross which healed the breach sin caused between God and man in the human family.” Agape Catholic Bible Study Lesson 17 Genesis 41:1 – 43:14   

Commentary 
Discussion Boards for Day Eleven 
Catholic Scripture Study Supplementary Notes Genesis 42 - 43
Catholic Scripture Study Supplementary Notes Genesis 44 - 45
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary Genesis 41:1 -43:14
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary Genesis 43:15 - 45:28

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Day Ten - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 37 - 40- The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Ten 

90 Day Bible Reading Challenge 

Genesis 37- 40 

By Sarah Christmyer 

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection

The remainder of Genesis is taken up with the story of Jacob’s son Joseph:  not his firstborn son, but his first son with his favorite wife, Rachel.  This is wonderful storytelling, easy to read and imagine, full of truths about God and the way he relates to his children.  The readings today cover Joseph’s early years and imprisonment in Egypt.

Today’s Reading
Genesis 37 – 40

Today’s Question
The flow of the story is interrupted in Chapter 38 with an incident involving Joseph’s older brother Judah.  Both men will play key roles in the history of Israel, so it is worth taking note.  What is Judah like?  How is he different from Joseph? 

Commentary 
Discussion Boards for Day Ten
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental notes Genesis 37
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental notes Genesis 38 - 39
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis 37:2 -40:23
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Day Nine - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 33 - 36- The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Nine 

90 Day Bible Reading Challenge 

Genesis 33-36 

By Sarah Christmyer 

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

ReflectionThe events of Genesis 34 are a shocking interlude in the story. We do not expect such behavior from God’s people.  As you read, take note of who is responsible; they will reap the consequences later on.

Today's Reading 
Genesis 33-36 
Today's Question
Jacob and his family return to Bethel in Chapter 35.  What happens there?

Commentary
Discussion Boards Day Nine
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental Notes The Story of Dinah 
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental Notes Genesis 35 -36
Agape Catholic Study Bible Commentary on Genesis 33:18-37:1

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Day Eight - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 29-32 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Eight 

90 Day Bible Reading Challenge 

Genesis 29-32 

By Sarah Christmyer 

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection
Today’s readings cover a lot of ground:  Jacob is married and has children, outwits his father-in-law before getting out of town, prepares to meet the brother he tricked out of the blessing, and gets caught up in an all-night wrestling match with God.

From now on, Jacob (“deceiver” or “he grasps”) will also be known as “Israel” (“he struggles with God”). The one who grasped with his own power birthright and blessing had learned to struggle with God and be blessed.  The nation that comes to bear his name will exhibit the characteristics of both of these names.

Today's Reading 
Genesis 29 - 32 

Today's Question
How does Jacob get back what he dished out to his brother Esau?

Commentary 
Discussion Boards Day Eight
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary Genesis 27:46 - 30:24
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary Genesis 30:25 - 33:17

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Day Seven - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 25-28 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Seven

90 Day Bible Reading Challenge 

Genesis 25-28 

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection

The generations pass, but God’s faithfulness continues even as the blessing he promised to Abraham is passed down.  Get a feel as you read for the people of this family that God is rearing.  It’s easy to relate to Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau.  The Bible doesn’t whitewash their character but “tells it like it is” as God meets each one where he or she is.

Today's Reading 
Genesis 25-28

Today's QuestionWhat does chapter 25 tell you about Isaac and Rebekah’s children, even before they boys are born? How does this play out as the story goes on?

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New

The fathers of the Church saw Jacob’s ladder (Gen 28:11-16) as a foreshadowing of the Cross of Christ, a Theophany, a supernatural manifestation of God in the world.  In the year 400, in his Sermon 1.6 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia wrote, “Through the resurrection of Christ the way was opened.  Therefore with good reason the patriarch Jacob relates that he had seen in that place a ladder whose end reached heaven and that the Lord leaned on it.  The ladder fixed to the ground and reaching the heaven is the cross of Christ, through which the access to heaven is granted to us, because it actually leads us to heaven. On this ladder different steps of virtue are set, through which we rise toward heaven:  faith, justice, chastity, holiness, patience, piety and all the other virtues are the steps of this ladder.  If we faithfully climb them, we will undoubtedly reach heaven. And therefore we know well that the ladder is the symbol of the cross of Christ.  As, in fact, the steps are set between two uprights, so the cross of Christ is placed between the two Testaments and keeps in itself the steps of the heavenly precepts, through which we climb to heaven.” 

Commentary 
Discussion Boards Day Seven
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Jacob the Younger 
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis 25:1 - 27:45

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Day Six - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 21 -24 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Six
90 Day Bible Study Challenge

by Sarah Christmyer 

Genesis 21-24

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs 
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection
Have you ever waited a long time for something? Today’s reading begins with a long-awaited birth: “The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.”  The promised son, Isaac, arrives, and Abraham passes a dramatic test. 

Notice the paradox:  It is only by giving up his son that Abraham can become the father of the nation that will bless the world.

The promises that God makes to Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, 17, and 22 and that He confirms by means of a binding covenant can be summarized as follows:
1.  God will give Abraham many descendants and the land of Canaan to live in
2.  God will build from them a royal nation (kingdom)
3.  Abraham’s descendants will be the source of blessing to the entire world. The rest of the Bible is in essence the unfolding of these promises under God’s faithful and loving care.

Today's Reading 
Genesis 21 -24 

Today's Question Name some of the things people trust God for in these chapters.  Can you trust God? How do you know?


The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New
Hidden in the Old Testament account of the Binding of Isaac (Gen 22:1 -18) is a foreshadowing of the sacrifice Jesus would make for each one of us.  In this story, God tests Abraham by asking him to “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah.  There you shall offer him up as a holocaust.”  (Gen 22:2)  Jesus is God’s one and only son (Matt 3:17, John 1:14) The trip to Moriah took three days during which Abraham mourned what he thought would be the eventual loss of his son. Jesus was in the tomb 3 days after which he resurrected.   Mount Moriah is in Jerusalem where Solomon built the Temple for the Ark of the Covenant. (2 Chronicles 3:1, 1Kings 2:26) and near where Jesus was crucified on an elevation of Mt. Moriah below the Temple Mount, just outside the gates of Jerusalem.  (Matt 16:21) Both Isaac and Jesus carried the wood of their sacrifice (Gen 22:6, John 19:17).  In the case of Isaac, the Lord’s messenger stopped him from sacrificing his only son and provided a “ram caught by its horns in the thicket” for the sacrifice. (Gen 22:11-13) In the New Testament Jesus would be the perfect lamb of God identified by his cousin John the Baptist. (John 1:29)


Commentary 
Discussion Boards Day Six
Catholic Bible Dictionary, General Editor, Scott Hahn - Issac - p. 396
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Binding of Issac
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis Chapter 21:15-24:67

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Day Five - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 17-20 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Five
90 Day Bible Reading Challenge

by Sarah Christmyer 

Genesis 17 -20

Bible Time Period:  Patriarchs
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection

“The infamous account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and of Lot’s wife turning into a pillar of salt, is related in Genesis 19.  Don’t miss verses leading up to it in chapter 18, which show Abraham pleading with God to spare the city for the sake of those righteous inside it.  These verses are a beautiful example of the mercy of God and effective prayer, and they also give insight into the character of Abraham.” (The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation p.15)  

Today’s Reading
Genesis 17-20

Today’s Question
Notice in chapter 18 the reason God says He chose Abraham.  For what has God chosen you? 

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New
Faithful men in ancient times submitted to God through the covenant rite of circumcision, an external sign that signified an interior condition of obedience to God’s covenant with Abraham (Genesis 17:10). Moses (Deut 30:6) and Jeremiah (Jer 31:31-34) prophesied though that this would not always be the case.  In the New Covenant in Christ, God’s covenant would be written on the heart of his people, administered through the waters of baptism.  In a sense we receive a spiritual circumcision at baptism, when the Holy Spirit writes the Law of the New Covenant on our hearts. (Colossians 2:11-12)

Commentary
Discussion Boards Day Five
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental Notes of Genesis Chapter 17-18
Catholic Scripture Study Supplemental Notes on Genesis Chapter 19-20
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis 18:1 - 21:14
Catholic Bible Dictionary, General Editor Scott Hahn - Sodom and Gomorrah p 860-861

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Lot and His Daughters Fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah - Raphael 

Day Four - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 12-16 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Four
90 Day Bible Challenge 

by Sarah Christmyer 

Genesis 12-16 

Bible Time Period: Patriarchs
In the time of the Patriarchs, you called Abraham and promised his children land, a royal kingdom, and worldwide blessing:  Help me to trust in your promises today.

Reflection
The second period of salvation history, the “Patriarchs,” is told in the remaining chapters of Genesis.  These chapters leave poetry behind and provide a historical account of the beginnings of the people of Israel, focusing on the forefathers or “Patriarchs” of the nation:  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – and also Jacob’s son Joseph.

As you read about Abram (later called Abraham), focus on the promise God makes to him and his descendants.  Pay particular attention to mentions of blessings that go along with that promise.  God is establishing a covenant with Abraham:  a solemn oath that makes Abraham’s family, God’s family.  That covenant forms the backbone of the rest of the story of the Bible.  In fact, our word “Testament” comes from a Greek word that translates the Hebrew for “Covenant.”  The Old Testament is about the “old covenant” – the covenant God makes with the people of Israel – and the New Testament is about the “new covenant” in Jesus Christ that the “old covenant” was a preparation for.  So pay attention:  all this promise-making is important to understanding what you’ll read in the rest of the Bible.

Today’s Reading
Genesis 12-16

Today’s Question
Abraham is called our “Father in Faith.”  What evidence of Abraham’s faith do you see in chapters 12 and 15? 

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the NewMelchizedek, the king of Salem, and “priest of God Most High” met with Abraham after he defeated the warrior kings and freed his nephew Lot. Melchizedek, who brings out bread and wine and offers a blessing over Abraham, appears out of nowhere. He has no genealogy and his capital, "Salem" isn't mentioned before in Genesis. The Church Fathers see in the gesture of the king-priest Melchizedeck, who “brought out bread and wine,” a foreshadowing of the Eucharist. At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ’s Body and Blood. (#1333 Catechism of the Catholic Church)

Commentary
Discussion Boards Day Four
Saint Paul Center For Biblical Theology - Our Father Abraham
Catholic Bible Dictionary, General Editor Scott Hahn - Abrahamic Covenant p. 13-14
Saint Paul Center For Biblical Theology - Melchizedek Priest of the Most High 
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis 15:1 - 17:27

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Day Three - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 9 - 11 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Three
90 Day Bible Challenge

by Sarah Christmyer 

Genesis 9-11

Bible Time Period:  Early World
In the Early World, you created the heavens and Earth and tested Adam and Eve in the garden.  Help me today to choose the life you offer. 

Reflection
Today we read about God’s covenant with Noah and the growth of the nations after the flood and the building of the Tower of Babel.  This ends the time of “prehistory” as a curtain is drawn on the Early world. 

Key verses to remember from the period of the Early World
-“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1)
-“The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,…I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed, he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel”  (Gen 3:14-15)

Today’s Reading
Genesis 9-11

Today’s Question
This is the close of the Early World period.  What kind of a world is it?

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New
The gift of language was a blessing from God given only to mankind.  At the time of the Tower of Babel the "whole world spoke the same language."  In southern Mesopotamia a group of people decided to build a temple "to make a name for themselves."  God's punishment for their pride was to confuse their tongues putting an end to the one universal language.  (Gen 11:1,4,9)  In the New Testament, Pentecost is the reversal of Babel.  At the time, the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles as "tongues of fire."  After this, when the Apostles preached the crowd heard them speaking in their own native language, the universal language of salvation in Jesus Christ.  (Acts 2:5-11) 

Commentary
Discussion Boards Day Three
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Ham's Sin
Catholic Bible Dictionary General Editor Scott Hahn - Ham  - page 339
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Tower of Babel
Agape Catholic Study Bible Commentary on Genesis 9:18 - 12:9

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Day Two - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge Genesis 5 - 8 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day Two 90
  Day Bible Challenge
by Sarah Christmyer 

Genesis 5 - 8 

Bible Time Period:  Early World 
In the Early World, you created the heavens and Earth and tested Adam and Eve in the garden.  Help me today to choose the life you offer. 

Reflection 
Yesterday you read about the fall from grace of our first parents.  Adam and Eve’s sin had a permanent effect on all future people in that their fallen nature was passed on to their children, and theirs, and so on down to you and me.  As a result, we are born lacking supernatural life in our souls. “Original sin” is not something we do, it is something we are: it is a state of being.  Our souls are wounded.  Our wills are weakened.  We are subject to pain and death.  We are inclined to sin.  Watch how this plays out in the world as you read about life after the Fall. 

Today’s Reading 
Genesis 5 -8 

Today’s Question 
Look for differences in the pattern used in the genealogy in Chapter 5 to describe each new generation.  Who stands out and why? 

The New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the NewAt the end of the Flood Noah releases a dove which returns with an olive branch in its beak, a sign that the earth is again habitable.  (Gen 8:11)  When Christ comes up from the water of his baptism, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove comes down upon him. (Matt 3:16)  In a sense the story of the Flood was a foreshadowing of Christian baptism established by Christ, where sin is washed away, and the Spirit comes down and remains in the purified hearts of the baptized.   

Commentary
Discussion Boards for Day Two
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Before the Flood
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology - Saved through Water
Agape Catholic Study Bible Commentary on Genesis 4:1-6:8 
Agape Catholic Study Bible Commentary on Genesis 6:9 - 9:17
Catholic Bible Dictionary General Editor, Scott Hahn - The Flood  page 290 - 292

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90 Day Bible Reading Challenge Index - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

The New Testament lies hidden in the Old. 

The Old Testament is revealed in the New.
Join me on a Great Adventure.

The 90-Day Bible Challenge is based on the Bible Timeline study system. It will take us through 14 books of the bible in three months, giving us a very good biblical foundation. 

To get the most out of our ten minute study period, and make God our partner in this, start with a prayer. I like the prayer to the Holy Spirit below.  But there are others which you will find here. 

Come Holy  Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful and en-kindle in them the fire of Your love.  Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Each day below is excerpted in its entirety from the Great Adventure Bible Study for Catholics 10 Minute Study The 90-Day Bible Ready Challenge.

Since I always have questions as I read the bible, I like to have commentaries at my fingertips. So I provided links to Catholic commentaries at the end of each post. 

Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology  and Catholic Scripture Study give short commentaries, whereas the Agape Catholic Bible Study commentary is very detailed. 

I will be the first to admit this will probably take longer than 90 days, but with God's help I am willing to try.  

Bible Study Index

Month One
Day One Early World Genesis 1-4 
Day Two Early World Genesis 5-8 
Day Three Early World Genesis 9-11 
Day Four Patriarchs Genesis 12-16 
Day Five Patriarchs Genesis 17-20 
Day Six Patriarchs Genesis 21-24 
Day Seven Patriarchs Genesis 25-28 
Day Eight Patriarchs Genesis 29-32 
Day Nine Patriarchs Genesis 33-36 
Day 10 Patriarchs Genesis 37 -40
Day 11 Patriarchs Genesis 41 - 45
Day 12 Patriarchs Genesis 46 - 50 
Day 13 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 1-4 
Day 14 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 5 - 8 
Day 15 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 9 - 12 
Day 16 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 13 - 16
Day 17 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 17 - 20
Day 18 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 21 - 24
Day 19 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 25 - 28
Day 20 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 29 - 32
Day 21 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 33 - 36
Day 22 Egypt and Exodus - Exodus 37 - 40
Day 23 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 1-4
Day 24 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 5 - 8
Day 25 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 9 - 12
Day 26 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 13 - 16
Day 27 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 17 - 20
Day 28 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 21-24
Day 29 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 25 - 28
Day 30 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 29 - 32
Day 31 Desert Wanderings - Numbers 33 - 36

Month Two
Day 32 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 1 -4
Day 33 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 5 - 8
Day 34 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 9 - 12
Day 35 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 13 - 16
Day 36 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 17 - 20
Day 37 Conquest and Judges - Joshua 21 - 24
Day 38 Conquest and Judges - Judges 1 - 4
Day 39 Conquest and Judges - Judges 5 - 8
Day 40 Conquest and Judges - Judges 9 - 12
Day 41 Conquest and Judges - Judges 13 - 16
Day 42 Conquest and Judges - Judges 17 - 21
Day 43 Conquest and Judges - 1 Samuel 1 - 4
Day 44 Conquest and Judges - 1 Samuel 5 - 8
Day 45 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 9-12
Day 46 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 13 - 16
Day 47 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 17 - 20
Day 48 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 21 - 24
Day 49 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 25 - 28
Day 50 Royal Kingdom - 1 Samuel 29 - 31
Day 51 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 1 - 4
Day 52 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 5 - 8
Day 53 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 9 - 12
Day 54 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 13 - 16
Day 55 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 17 - 20
Day 56 Royal Kingdom - II Samuel 21 - 24
Day 57 Royal Kingdom - 1 Kings 1-4
Day 58 Royal Kingdom - 1 Kings 5 - 8
Day 59 Royal Kingdom - 1 Kings 9 - 11

Month Three
Day 60 Divided Kingdom - 1 Kings 12 -15
Day 61 Divided Kingdom - 1 Kings 16 - 19
Day 62 Divided Kingdom - 1 Kings 20 - 22
Day 63 Divided Kingdom - 2 Kings 1 - 4
Day 64 Divided Kingdom - 2 Kings 5 - 8
Day 65 Divided Kingdom - 2 Kings 9 - 12
Day 66 Divided Kingdom - 2 Kings 13 - 16 
Day 67 Exile - 2 Kings 17 - 20
Day 68 Exile - 2 Kings 21 - 25
Day 69 Return - Ezra 1 - 5
Day 70 Return - Ezra 6 - 10
Day 71 Return - Nehemiah 1 - 4
Day 72 Return - Nehemiah 5 - 8
Day 73 Return - Nehemiah 9 - 13
Day 74 Maccabean Revolt - 1 Maccabees 1-4
Day 75 Maccabean Revolt - 1 Maccabees 5 - 8
Day 76 Maccabean Revolt - 1 Maccabees 9 - 12
Day 77 Maccabean Revolt - 1 Maccabees 13 - 16
Day 78 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 1 - 4
Day 79 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 5 - 8
Day 80 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 9 - 12
Day 81 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 13 - 16
Day 82 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 17 - 20
Day 83 Messianic Fulfillment - Luke 21 - 24
Day 84 Church - Acts 1 - 4
Day 85 Church - Acts 5 - 8
Day 86 Church - Acts 9 - 12
Day 87 Church - Acts 13 - 16
Day 88 Church - Acts 17 - 20
Day 89 Church - Acts 21 - 24
Day 90 Church - Acts 25 - 28 
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The Lamb of God - Ghent Altarpiece 

Day One - 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge - Genesis 1 - 4 - The Great Adventure A Journey Through the Bible

Day One 90-Day Bible Challenge
by Sarah Christmyer
Genesis 1 - 4

Bible Time Period:  Early World
In the Early World, you created the heavens and the Earth and tested Adam and Eve in the garden,  Help me today to choose the life you offer.

Reflection
Our journey begins in the “Early World” time period described in Genesis 1-11:  “pre-history,” it’s sometimes called.  These chapters contain some of the best-known stories in the Bible - Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, the Tower of Babel.  It is here that the Bible story starts and where it finds its roots: “in the beginning,” with God creating the heavens and the Earth.  The Early World sets the stage for the rest of the story, and the rest doesn't make sense without it. 

The stories you read today and tomorrow were written to get across Truth, not fact.  They were never intended to be a scientific record of creation and our beginning but to help us understand important things about ourselves, our relationship to God, the problem of sin, and the hope of salvation.  They are the way God has given us to think about our beginnings.

Today’s Reading
Genesis 1-4

Today’s Question
Soak in the poetry of Genesis 1-2.  What truths does it teach you about creation?  About God?

Commentary 
The Church does not require Christians to believe either that the universe came to be in six literal days or that it did not; Christians are free to interpret the scientific evidence for themselves.  What we are to believe is though Genesis may use poetic and figurative language, "the first three chapters of Genesis occupy a unique place...the inspired authors have placed them at the beginning of Scripture to express in their solemn language the truths of creation - its origin and its end in God, its order and goodness, the vocation of man, and finally the drama of sin, and the hope of salvation."  (#289 Catechism of the Catholic Church)  

Discussion Boards for Day One
Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology Lessons on Genesis 1 - 3 
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis Chapter 1
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis Chapter 2
Agape Catholic Bible Study Commentary on Genesis Chapter 3

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The Creation of the Sun and the Moon - Michelangelo Sistine Chapel