Current Resources

At present our church, Occoquan Bible Church, is working through the Minor Prophets in its first-hour Sunday School. What follows are the notes that you may find helpful in studying the Minor Prophets. Credit goes to Paul Barany, one of our church’s faithful teachers, for culling and organizing most of these notes on the Minor Prophets.

Notes on the Minor Prophets

• Book of the 12 — Introduction

Charts from Via Emmaus

• Timeline of the Prophets (organized by Paul Barany)
• Overlapping Themes (organized by Paul Barany)
• Problems, Judgments, and Mercy in the Twelve (organized by Paul Barany)

Charts from other resources

• Book-by-Book Topics in the Twelve (chart synthesizing Paul House, Old Testament Theology, pp. 346–401)
• Themes and Key Words at the Beginnings and Ends of the Books of the Twelve (chart from Jim Hamilton, God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, p. 230)
• Themes and Key Words in the Minor Prophets (chart from Jim Hamilton, God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, p. 232)

Previous Resources

In 2010, I taught through the whole Bible in a year. You can see my reflections on that endeavor here. What follows are the notes from that study.

Introduction: An Overview of the Bible (January 6, 2010)

Pentateuch
Genesis 1-11: The Beginning of It All (January 13, 2010)
Genesis 12-50: Four Families Under the Faithfulness of God (January 20, 2010)
Exodus 1-15: Salvation Through Substitution & Conquest (January 27, 2010)
Exodus 16-40: Moving Into the Presence of God (February 3, 2010)
Leviticus: Sinners in the Presence of a Holy God: (February 17, 2010)
Numbers: In the Wilderness (February 24, 2010)
Deuteronomy: God’s Royal Covenant with Israel (March 3, 2010)

History
Joshua: Into the Land (March 10, 2010)
Judges: A People in Need of a King (March 17, 2010)
Ruth: A Painful & Pleasant Providence (March 24, 2010)
1 Samuel: The Good, The Bad, and the Ruddy (March 31, 2010)
2 Samuel: The Rise and Fall of King David (April 7, 2010)
1 Kings: Redemptive History is a Royal Mess–Part 1 (April 14, 2010)
2 Kings: Redemptive History is a Royal Mess–Part 2 (April 21, 2010)
Ezra: Return, Rebuild, Renew, Repent (May 5, 2010)
Nehemiah: Rebuilding God’s City and Reforming God’s People (May 12, 2010)
Esther: Seed Warfare (May 19, 2010)

Wisdom
Job: Knowing God In The Crucible Of Satanic Suffering (May 26, 2010)
Psalms: Redemption in the Key of D(avid) (June 3, 2010)
Proverbs: Wisdom is the Way to the Obedient Son (June 10, 2010)
Ecclesiastes: To Work Wisely is Futile, To Fear Faithfully is Wise (June 17, 2010)
Song of Songs: More Than Just an Old Fashioned Love Song (June 24, 2010)

Prophets
The Prophets (1): Hearing the Spirit of Christ in the Days of Elijah (June 31, 2010)
The Prophets (2): Putting the Prophets in their Place: Before the Exile (July 7, 2010)
The Prophets (3): Putting the Prophets in their Place: During and After the Exile (July 14, 2010)
Isaiah: The Servant-King Will Lead His People Into a New Creation (August 18, 2010)
Jeremiah: A New Heart For An Idolatrous People (August 25, 2010)
Ezekiel: That You Might Know the Lord (September 1, 2010)
Daniel: Keep the Faith! The Sovereign LORD Reigns In History (September 8, 2010)
The Twelve: Judgment and Salvation is a Major Theme in the Minor Prophets (September 15, 2010)

Gospels-Acts
Matthew: The King and His Kingdom (September 22, 2010)
Mark: Seeing the Christ of the Cross (September 29, 2010)
Luke: The Messiah Must Go To Mount Zion (October 6, 2010)
Acts: Taking the Gospel From Zion to Zimbabwe (October 13, 2010)
John: Jesus, The Son of God, The Messiah of Israel, and The Savior of the World (October 20 & 27, 2010)

The Letters and Revelation
Paul (1): The Apostle to the Gentiles (November 3 & 10, 2010)
Paul (2): The Prison Epistles and Philemon (November 17, 2010) — compiled by David Crater
Hebrews: Believe and Draw Near, For Jesus Christ is Greater Still (December 8, 2010)
General Epistles: James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude (December 15, 2010)
Revelation: The Revelation of Jesus Christ (December 22, 2010)

OTHER HANDOUTS

A Canonical Reading of the Psalter.  Here is my attempt in one page to outline the Psalter in a way that moves from the historical David to the eschatological David to come.  It depends heavily on John Walton’s JETS article (1991), “Psalms: A Cantata About the Davidic Covenant” and Paul House’s Old Testament Theology.

The Imprecatory Psalms: An Interpretive Guide.  This is a short article based on a Sunday School lesson from Dr. Wellum’s Sunday School class in 2008 (audio).

Exodus 30-31: Miscellaneous Instructions That Shadow The Messiah From . Here is a handout I developed to help us find our way from the Law through the Prophets to Christ and the gospel. (October 2011)