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Lesson OneWhat Is Geography?8 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoWhy Is There Geography in My Bible?7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeNow What?7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourHow Can I Grow My Geographical Literacy?7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveThe Fertile Crescent and the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixKey Geographical Characteristics of the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenTraveling to the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightRoutes in and through the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineWater Realities of the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenWeather of the Promised Land7 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion2 Activities
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Share Your Thoughts
Share your response to the following question.
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Give an example from the Bible, other than the ones used in this lesson, that demonstrates the biblical authors use of geography to convey biblical wisdom.
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When the people came to the Red Sea, or the Jordan River in exodus, then in Joshua. How about going to Samaria, or to Sychar, or Shechem. What about the Mount of Transfiguration. There are so many, and we’ve read the stories, but tying.the geography and the lay of the land will help us to understand many points in the Bible.
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Abraham pitched his tents near the great trees of Mamre. It is where God spoke with him before he sent two angels into Sodom. Abraham could see dense smoke from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah from where his tents were.
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The multiple events in the great story of Moses, including the Parting of the Red Sea.
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Physical geography: to understand the significance of God parting the Red Sea, to understand about the cedars of Lebanon that were required to restore the City gates of Jerusalem, to understand the places that were important in the life of Christ during passion week. To understand when the disciples set across the lake, when Jesus walked on the water to them- the distances that they had to row. To understand the mission journeys of Paul that the distances he traveled … and so many more.
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Physical geography: 1 Samuel 23:26, “Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul.” This was the geography of the terrain at En Gedi.
Human geography: Matthew 3:12, “His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Natural history: Proverbs 30:26, “hyraxes (rock badgers) are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags.”
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