Why Study The Old Testament?

This lesson is the first in a series of lessons that survey the entire Old Testament. We have entitled this series Kingdom, Covenants and Canon of the Old Testament. As this series title suggests, in these lessons we will focus on three crucial dimensions of the Old Testament. We will see that the Old Testament is a book unified around the central theme of God’s kingdom, that this kingdom was administered historically through covenants God made with his people and that through the Old Testament canon, these covenants were applied to the specific needs of God’s people at particular times and places.