Ministry of Provident Peterson: The Old Testament

By Provident G. Peterson JR

Know your Bible! It is the most important book in the life of a Christian, and yet since its inception centuries ago, not one single Christian has seen in it, the need, or possibility for change that might benefit all who read it. Think of it this way: the people who created the Bible were pressed for time. It was godsend for them to have just the right king at the right time, and knowing that the average life span for most people was short, they wanted to complete their work on the Bible while King James was still alive, because if he were to die before they were finished, his successor might cause them to abandon the project. They chose to concentrate on content, and not so much on order, perhaps hoping that one day in the future, someone would see the possibility of beneficial changes that could be made to their work, and make harmless improvements to the order of the books, and a more thorough investigation of the texts for the uneducated masses to understand. I am here!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647010478

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Lesson 1

Adam and Eve Were Not the First People on Earth

We will begin at Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 to verse 31. You will see that God created man and woman and gave them dominion over everything on the earth, but there is no mention of Adam and Eve because they have not yet been created. These people who God first created were people of evolution. They were wild, heathen people who did not know God and were idol worshippers, and their daughters, who were beautiful and desirable in their pagan ways, would eventually attract and subdue the sons of God who will be the children of Adam and Eve and bring about their downfall. They knew nothing about agriculture but were hunters and gatherers. Adam was not created until Genesis chapter 2 verse 7, and he was the first gardener. He was the first man to till the soil, and his responsibility was to tend to God’s Garden of Eden.

He was all alone until Genesis chapter 2 verse 20. His wife, Eve, was not created until Genesis chapter 2 verse 22. Adam and Eve were isolated in the Garden of Eden, away from evolutionary people because their bloodline would eventually lead to separate people whose bloodline could not be tainted by the people of evolution. Adam and Eve were the first Hebrews, and their bloodline, untainted, would eventually lead to the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Adam was the first son of God, and his male offspring would all be sons of God. It is not that I should be precise in these teachings because the truths are found if you know where to find them. Now skip ahead to Genesis chapter 6 verse 1.

The sons of God are tempted by the daughters of evolutionary man, and they begin to marry and breed with them, and the Hebrew bloodline becomes corrupt. Only one man remains true to the Hebrew bloodline, and his name is Noah. Noah did not mingle with the daughters of evolutionary man (read Genesis chapter 6 verse 9). He and his family maintain their true Hebrew bloodline, and they will be the only ones allowed to carry God’s plan forward. All the rest will be destroyed in a great flood.

Nothing else really matters in the texts, prior to this, except that you can see that God’s plans did not always work out. Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, that was not foreseen. Cain killed Abel, that was not foreseen. The sons of God married the daughters of evolutionary man and tainted the Hebrew bloodline, that was not foreseen, and in each of those three incidents, God had to alter his plans.

Now I would like to test you to see what you have learned from the false prophets who preach to you every Sunday. Remember, my ministry is a ministry of teaching, not preaching, and I intend to teach you things, free of charge, that your false prophets have never told you. I put forth this question to you, and I will give you until the next lesson to answer it. I personally do not think that you or your preacher can answer it correctly.

Here is the question. Why did God accept Abel’s offering and refuse Cain’s offering? God has given the answer to me, has he given it to your preacher?

Lesson 2

All Power and All Praise to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Before I begin with lesson 2, I think that I have given you ample time to answer the question that I put forward to you in lesson 1. The question was why did God accept Abel’s offering and refuse Cain’s offering? The answer can be found in Genesis chapter 3 verse 17. God put a curse upon the ground because of Adam’s sin in eating from the tree of knowledge, and you will read in Genesis chapter 4 verses 2 and 3 that Cain was a tiller of the ground, and his offering came from the cursed ground; therefore, God could not accept it. Abel was a keeper of sheep, and his meat offering was acceptable to God. Not only did God curse the ground for Adam, but he also cursed the ground for Cain in Genesis chapter 4 verses 11 and 12, and the ground would remain cursed until Genesis 8 verse 21 when God lifted the curse and promised never to curse the ground again because he realized that because Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge, all of mankind would be subject to do evil as well as good, and there was nothing that he could do about it. To eat from the tree of life is to live forever. To eat from the tree of knowledge is to eventually know and do all things both good and evil forever.

I will now turn to Noah and his family, but I will not go into the time that they were on the ark because everyone knows about that; instead, I will move forward to the time when they came off the ark and began to populate the earth. Noah had three sons, their names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and they would be the ones to repopulate the earth. Japheth and his offspring were the beginnings of the Gentiles. (Read Genesis chapter 10 verses 2 through 5.) Ham and his offspring were the beginnings of the Canaanites. (Read Genesis chapter 10 verses 6 through 18.) Shem and his offspring were the beginnings of the Hebrews. (Read Genesis chapter 11 verses 10 through 26.) The term Hebrew is not mentioned in those verses, but in verse 24, you will see the name Terah, and in verse 26, you will see where Terah begot Abram, the firstborn of Terah. Abram will be the next main character in the pure bloodline of the Hebrews, and if you move ahead to Genesis 14 verse 13, you will see him mentioned as Abram the Hebrew.

Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and he and his wife would keep those names until later in the texts when God would make his covenant with Abram and change their names to Abraham and Sarah (Genesis chapter 17 verse 5 and Genesis chapter 17 verse 15). Once again, I am not going to be precise in the texts because there is nothing in them that is pertinent to us. I will omit the texts of Sodom and Gomorrah, except to say that Sodom and Gomorrah are examples of what can happen if you let things go too far and let decadence and lust become rampant and uncontrollable. I am going to continue to explain the bloodline of the Hebrews, the characters involved, and the final outcome of God’s plan for them.

Before the time that God changed their names, Sarai, Abram’s wife, was barren and had no children; thus, Abram had no heir to carry the bloodline forward. To try to remedy the situation, Sarai offered her Egyptian handmaiden, whose name was Hagar, to wed and have sex with her husband. Abram agreed to the arrangement, and Hagar became pregnant and had a son by him. (Read Genesis chapter 16 verses 1 through 4.) The child was named Ishmael, and he lived with his father until he was thirteen years old, during which time God made his covenant with Abram, and the ritual of circumcision was established. (Read Genesis chapter 17 verses 10 through 27.) But the child could not be allowed to carry God’s plan forward because he was not of pure Hebrew blood; his mother was an Egyptian. To remedy that problem, God made it possible for Sarah to have a child by her husband, in her old age, and the child was named Isaac. Ishmael was sent away by his father and went on to become the creator of a great nation. Isaac was circumcised when he was eight days old and became the heir to all of Abraham’s possessions. (Read Genesis chapter 21 verses 1 through 18 and Genesis 25 verse 5.)

To ensure that the Hebrew bloodline did not become tainted from outside of the family, Isaac eventually married Rebekah, who was the daughter of his father’s brother’s son, or his cousin (read Genesis chapter 24 verse 15), and Rebekah eventually gave birth to two twin boys who were named Esau and Jacob, but because Abraham’s brother’s wife was a Syrian (read Genesis, chapter 25 verse 20) only one of the boys would be able to carry God’s plan forward, and that would be Jacob. If you read Genesis chapter 25 verse 23, you will read that two nations and two manners of people were in Rebekah’s womb. Jacob was of the Hebrew blood, and Esau was of the Syrian blood, and Esau, who was the oldest brother, would eventually be the servant of Jacob, the youngest brother, their mother, Rebekah, would make that so.

Lesson 3

All Power and All Praise to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

We now turn to Jacob who will not be the final one to continue the pure Hebrew bloodline, but he will eventually be the father of the twelve sons who will be the beginning of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Not only that, but he will be the fourth in a bloodline of forty-two generations of Hebrews that will end with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Read the gospel of St. Matthew chapter 1 verses 1 through 16, and that is really the core purpose of the Old Testament. Little, if any, of the Old Testament applies to us at all. It is really a conglomeration of stories that depict the lives, adventures, trials, and tribulations of Hebrew people. In fact, it is a big mistake to try to apply the moral ethics of the Hebrew people in the Old Testament to ourselves because there were no American people involved, there were no Spanish people involved, there were no Russians, no French, no British, or any other peoples of the earth involved, only Hebrew people. The only part of the Bible that applies to us of the twenty-first century is the New Testament, and the life and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God and the Hebrews are the Old Testament. Only the Hebrews celebrate Passover. Jesus Christ and the world are the New Testament. We are not in God’s hands anymore; we are in the hands of his son. We are not bound to the Ten Commandments and the numerous ordinances given by God to the Hebrew people in the Old Testament; instead, we are bound to his son Jesus Christ and his one commandment that we should love one another because if we obey that one law of Jesus Christ, we fulfill the ten laws of God. In the Old Testament, God had the keys to the kingdoms of heaven and hell, and the fate of all people was in his hands, but in the New Testament, God handed down those keys to his son Jesus Christ, and now the fate of all peoples is in his hands because no one enters into the kingdom of God unless his son uses that key to open the door. Let all who are wise say amen!

I have heard many people say, and I know that many of you have heard it too, and probably believe it, that Jacob stole his brother Esau’s birthright, but that is not true. Esau gave up and despised his birthright for a meal of bread and pottage. (Read Genesis chapter 25 verse 34.) I must, however, in all truth, say that I do not think that Jacob was fair to ask for anything at all from his brother for food to eat, for why should anyone demand payment from their own blood brother for a mere meal? On the other hand, Esau, the eldest brother, should not have been so weak in spirit as to give up his birthright for anything. If he had gone to his mother, Rebekah, instead of his brother, there is no doubt that she would have given him nourishment freely and without requirements. Speaking of Rebekah, no one knows their children better than their mother, not even their father, and Rebekah knew that Esau, being a hunter, and always in the field, would hardly ever be around when she needed him. (Read Genesis chapter 25 verse 27.) Esau cared nothing about tending to the operations of the property and the livestock and the things that had to be done around the house. Jacob was a plain man who dwelt in the tents. He was always around when she needed him, and he knew of the ways of the overseeing of the family estate. Rebekah knew which of her sons was the proper one to receive their father’s blessing, and she was the main character in the plot to deny Esau, the eldest son, of his rightful inheritance. Jacob did not want to abet her in the plan, but being a good and obedient son, he reluctantly did so. Skip Genesis 26 and turn to Genesis 27 verses 1 through 41.

Once again, I am not going to be precise in the texts because everything that follows is very complicated and involves the names and generations of many individuals who are not important to the end result. If you want to read it all word for word, feel free to do so, but in the end it will be of no use to you. I am not trying to make you an expert on everything in the Bible, but I am trying to make you aware of the most important parts.

To make a long story short, Jacob is forced to run away because his brother Esau has vowed to kill him. He flees to his uncle’s house and eventually marries both of his uncle’s daughters, Leah and Rachel (once again keeping the Hebrew bloodline intact). (Read Genesis chapter 29 verses 1 through 35.) He has children by both of them and also their handmaidens, who are also Hebrews. The first sons of Leah are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. In Genesis 30 chapters 1 through 24, Rachel is barren, so she gives her husband her handmaiden Bilhah to marry, and Bilhah has two sons by Jacob, their names are Gad and Asher. Then Jacob goes back to Leah, and she has two more sons by him, their names are Issachar and Zebulun, and one daughter who is named Dinah. Then Jacob goes back to Rachel, and she has two more sons by him, their names are Joseph and Benjamin. Those twelve sons are the beginning of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

In Genesis chapter 33, Jacob and Esau reunite and make their peace. The following story of Joseph starting at Genesis 37 verse 2 and ending at Genesis 50 verse 26 depicts how he was kidnapped by his brethren, carried away into Egypt, eventually becoming head of the house of Pharaoh, and in the end, rejoining with his people and bringing all the Twelve Tribes of Israel into Egypt where they prospered, and the book of Exodus and the story of Moses begins.

Before I go into the book of Exodus, I want to once again test you to see what you have learned from your present religious teacher. I am going to make a statement to you, and I want to see if either of you can deal with it. The statement is as follows, Everything on this planet belongs to Satan. I will explain it to you in my next lesson.

Lesson 4

All Power and All Praise to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Everything on this planet belongs to Satan—that is the statement that I made in my previous lesson, and now I will explain it to you. In the gospel of St. Luke chapter 4 verse 2, you will read that Satan tries to tempt our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You have to understand that Satan tempts all of us in our lifetimes and offers us the things that are precious to us in our hearts, money, fame, property, dominion, and any other thing that is material, but now he is tempting the Son of God, and he knows that if he is successful in tempting Jesus to come over onto his side and to worship him, he will have