January 16

Job 38:1 – 39:30

• About which areas of creation does God question Job?
• What do these questions that God asks Job tell you about God and His relationship with creation?
• List the twelve animals God uses to exhibit His creative genius and providential care.
• What does God’s creation of the animals mentioned teach Job about God?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 5

Job 1:1 – 3:26

• What does Job understand about God? About sin? About burnt offerings?
• Where had Job obtained his knowledge about God?
• Who brings Job’s name up first?
• What is God’s view of Job?
• What does this story reveal about God? (2 Chronicles 16:9)
• What do these opening chapters of Job teach about Satan? His power? His limitations?
• What does Satan think will cause Job to curse God?
• How does Job’s wife response to Job’s afflictions differ from that of Job?
• How do people typically view God when they are in the midst of suffering?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 4

Genesis 10:1-5; 1 Chronicles 1:5-7; Genesis 10: 6-20; 1 chronicles 1:8-16; Genesis 10:21-11:26; 1 Chronicles 1:17-27

• What event took place during the days of Peleg and his brother Joktan?
• Describe the people of Shinar.
• Why does God confuse the language of the people in Shinar?
• What does “sharing a language” do for people?
• How do you see the “sharing of language” and the different languages in America affecting our culture?
• What does the story of Babel teach you about God? About human nature?
• How are life spans affected by the post-flood environment?
• How do you see God working redemptively through Shem’s descendants?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at www.ivamay.com

January 3

Genesis 7:1 – 9:29

• What did a hundred and fifty days of rain do to the earth and all of its inhabitants?
• When was Noah released to leave the ark?
• What was the first thing Noah did after he left the ark? What does this tell you about his view of God?
• What was God’s response to Noah’s offering?
• What are the terms and the sign of the covenant God makes with Noah?
• What purpose does the rainbow serve?
• Why does Noah curse Canaan?
• What does this story teach you about God, about sin and judgment, and about human nature?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at ivamay.com

January 2

Genesis 4:1 – 5:32

• At the end of each day of creation God assesses His creation and then makes an evaluative comment. He continues to do so with
  Adam’s children. How does God respond to the brothers’ offerings? How do Cain and Abel’s offerings differ? (see Matthew 23:34-35; Hebrews 11:4, 12:24)
• How does God confront Cain? What does this tell you about God’s goal in confrontation? (Proverbs 28:13)
• Read 1 John 3:12 and Jude 11 for New Testament commentary regarding Cain. What do these Scriptures tell you about Cain? About the Serpent?
• Make two columns and make a list of the differences between the lineages of Cain and Seth.
• From 5:1-3 describe the difference between Adam and Eve and their son, Seth.
• How had God described the reproduction process in Genesis one? What does this tell you about Seth, Cain, and post-Fall people?
• What was God’s goal for people in Genesis 1:28? How is the world described in Noah’s day in chapter 6:11-13?
• What happens when Seth’s sons began intermarrying with Cain’s daughters?
• When you read of Nephilim think of men of wicked heroic proportion (the Hitler’s of this world). Think also about the number of years men lived upon the earth and extent of a wicked man’s reach.
• Read Hebrews 11:5-7. How does Noah respond to God’s overture? What does God look for from His people? What is the ONE THING that pleases God? What does “faith” look like in people’s lives?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at ivamay.com

January 1

Genesis 1:1 – 3:24

What do you learn about God from….

• God’s creating plant and animal life with the ability to reproduce?
• the days of creation? (God is systematic…is interested in reproduction, etc.)
• God’s garden prohibition?

How does Adam realize that he has no one comparable to himself?

What does God’s making Eve from Adam’s rib instead of forming her from the dust of the ground tell you about God? About woman?

Describe the serpent’s conversation with the woman.

What happens immediately after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit?

What does this tell you about sin?

What are fear, shame, and guilt symptoms of?

How does God respond to their sin?

What was God’s goal in confronting Adam and Eve?

How do guilty sinners typically respond to sin’s confrontation? (see Proverbs 28:13 for an example)

How does God demonstrate His love and mercy to the guilty couple?

What does Adam and Eve’s sin cost them? Cost God? Cost creation?

PRAYER

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at ivamay.com

December 31

Revelation 19:1 – 22:21

• What event causes such an uproar in heaven?
• What three names are written on the rider who is called Faithful and True?
• What prohibits Satan from his continual deceptions?
• What is the purpose of the thousand year period and what takes place at its end?
• How will sinners be judged?
• What is predominant in New Jerusalem?
• What will be noticeably absent in New Jerusalem?
• Compare Genesis 1-3 with Revelation 21-22

Heavens and hearth created (1:1) – New heavens and earth appear (21:1)

Sun created (1:16) – no need of the sun (21:23)

The night established (1:5) – No night there (22:5)

The seas created (1:10) – No more seas (21:1)

The curse announced (3:14-17) – No more curse (22:3)

Death enters History (3:19) – No more death (21:4)

Man driven from the tree and the garden (3:24) – Man restored to paradise (22:14)

Sorrow and pain begin (3:17) – No more tears or pain (21:4)

PRAYER: Ask the Lord to correct your vision, to allow you to realize the eternal in the temporal.

Questions are excerpted from Chronological Bible Discipleship – the CBD Personal Devotional Study by Iva May, Copyright 2010. Devotional may be found at Chronological Bible Teaching.