ORP Bible Reading Log

Genesis:

1. This is essentially about the creation of Earth and the animals on it.

2. This is about the creation of mankind.

3. Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of life, and they become aware that they are naked. They get
punished for eating it by creating sins, which still hurt us today.

4. Cain becomes jealous of his brother Abel, so he kills him. They were both the sons of Adam and Eve. It
then details the progression of his sons.

6. God punishes Man for their sins by killing everyone except for Noah's bloodline. He commands him to
build an ark with a male and female animal of the same breed.

7. God puts Noah and the Ark thought 150 days of water.

8. God stops the water by making the wind blow the water away. The ark stopped on a mountain.

9. God blesses Noah and his sons, and he forgives Man because they are all now relatives of Noah, and
he carried out God's orders.

Overall, Genesis is about the creation of Earth, and how things came to be. It explains why things are, and
it helps us to understand what God is like.

Exodus:

Chapters 1-7 of Exodus shows the relationship of the Israelites and the pharaoh. God saves Moses when
he is a baby, and has Moses adopted by the Pharaohs daughter and grows up with the Egyptians. God
signals Moses with a burning bush that tells him that he should free God's people in Egypt. Moses does
this and demands Pharaoh to let the people free, but Pharaoh disagrees.

In Chapters 7-13, Moses (who is actually God controlling him) releases 10 horrible plagues on Egypt.
Finally, the death of every first-born son.

Chapters 14-18 talk about how the Pharaoh can't stand the plagues that God cursed Egypt with, so he
lets the people leave. Moses and the Israelites escape making it to the Red Sea. However, Pharaoh
changes his mind and chases after them. This is when Moses parts the sea, and then let's it go back
together and closes it on the army.

Judges:

Basically God is looking for a way to punish the Phillistines, so he makes Samson fall in love with a
woman from there, and he wants to marry her. He works to take her as wife, but they eventually turn on
him, gouge out his eyes, and cut his hair, causing him to lose his power. He then kills a lot of them when
he pushes a temple over on the,.

Job:

Job talks about the misfortunes of Job, and he stays loyal to God even when he is testing his faith. Satan
appears to him and instigates him, but he stays true to his faith.

Jonah:

Jonah flees from the lord, and he gets on a ship. The conditions get really bad, so the crew tries to figure
out who God is angry at. They figure out that it is Jonah, so they throw him overboard, where he gets
eaten by a fish, and stays there for 3 days and nights. Then God spares him because of his prayers from
inside the stomach, and he gets spit out onto the shore.

Matthew:

Matthew talks about the rising of Jesus, and how he was born to Mary. It discusses his significant and
seemingly impossible deeds. He directs his 12 apostles to spread their message, and gives them
directions. They aren't allowed to do many things, including committing adultery, divorce, and taking
oaths. They are instructed to be peaceful and never fight back. Also, they are told to do everything in
private, where only God can see, for doing that in public is asking for attention, which is frowned upon.
Next, Jesus hears that John the Baptist was beheaded, causing him to go there to figure it out. He healed
all the sick people, and fed over 5,000 people. He then stated that someone would betray him, one of his
disciples. He recited a prophecy, and that prophecy came through when his disciples turned on him, and
he was crucified. He then rose again, to the disbelief of everyone, and went up to heaven.