Great Adventure Catholic Bible Study

Early World – 1:

• Genesis 1:1-3:24 | Creation, Adam and Eve / the Fall

Early World – 2:

• Genesis 4:1-26 | Cain and Abel / Descendants
• Genesis 5:1-32 | Adam to Noah
• Genesis 6:1-9:29 | Noah and the Flood
• Genesis 10:1-32 | Table of Nations
• Genesis 11:1-9 | The Tower of Babel
• Genesis 11:10-32 | Shem to Abraham
• * 1 Peter 3:18-22; Acts 2:1-13
• ** CCC 73-104, 356-358, 362-373, 345-349

Patriarchs – 1:

• Genesis 12:1-9 | Abraham’s Call and Migration
• Genesis 12:10-20 | Abram and Sarai in Egypt
• Genesis 13:1-18 | Abram and Lot Part
• Genesis 14:1-24 | The Four Kings
• Genesis 15:1-21 | God’s Covenant with Abraham
• Genesis 16:1-16 | Birth of Ishmael
• Genesis 17:1-27 | Covenant of Circumcision
• Genesis 18:1-15 | Abraham’s Visitors
• Genesis 18:16-33 | Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
• Genesis 22:1-24 | The Testing of Abraham
• * Jeremiah 34:17-20; Colossians 2:11-12; James 2:13-23
• ** CCC 143-147; CCC 154-155; CCC 2572

Patriarchs – 2:

• Genesis 25:1-6 | Abraham’s Sons by Keturah
• Genesis 25:7-11 | Death of Abraham
• Genesis 25:12-18 | Descendants of Ishmael
• Genesis 25:19-34 | Jacob and Esau
• Genesis 28:1-22 | Jacob’s Dream
• Genesis 29:1-35 | Jacob gets married; Jacob’s children
• Genesis 32:1-32 | Jacob wrestles with God and gets a new name
• Genesis 37:1-50:26 | Joseph and his brothers: to get just the gist of the story, focus on chapters 37 and 41-44
• * Romans 9:10-13
• ** CCC218

Egypt and Exodus – 1:

• Exodus 3:1-5:23 | Moses
• Exodus 7:1-29
• Exodus 11:1-12:51
• Exodus 14:1-31
• Exodus 16:1-36
• Exodus 17:1-16

Egypt and Exodus – 2:

• Exodus 19:1-20:26
• Exodus 23:1-25:40
• Exodus 32:1-34:35 | The golden calf
• Exodus 40:1-38 |

Desert Wanderings:

• Numbers 1:1-2:34 |
• Numbers 10:1-12:16 |
• Numbers 13:1-14:45 | Rebellion and forty years of wandering
• Numbers 16:1-17:28 |
• Numbers 20:1-29 |
• Numbers 22:1-24:25 |
• Numbers 25:1-18 | Israel’s apostasy with the Baal of Peor

Conquest and Judges – 1

• Joshua 1:1-4:24 | Rahab and the spies
• Joshua 6:1-8:35 | The fall of Jericho
• Joshua 23:1-24:33 |

Conquest and Judges – 2:

• Judges 1:1-3:6 | Conquest; overview of sin cycle
• Judges 6:1-7:25 |
• Judges 17:1-21:25 |

Royal Kingdom -1:

• 1 Samuel 1:-4:22 |
• 1 Samuel 7:1-12:25 | Israel asks for a king
• 1 Samuel 15:1-16:23 |
• 1 Samuel 26:1-25 |

Royal Kingdom – 2:

• 2 Samuel 5:1-7:23 |
• 2 Samuel 11:1-12:25 |
• 1 Kings 2:1-12 |
• 1 Kings 3:1-28 |
• 1 Kings 6:1-7:19 |
• 1 Kings 10:23-29 |
• 1 Kings 11:1-43

Royal Kingdom – 2:

Divided Kingdom – 1:

• 1 Kings 12:1-14:20 |
• 1 Kings 15:25-16:34 |
• 1 Kings 18:16-39 |
• 1 Kings 21:1-29 |
• 2 Kings 2:1-25 |
• 2 Kings 4:1-44 |
• 2 Kings 5:1-27 |
• * 1 Kings17:1-19:
• * Hosea 1:1-3:
• * Jonah 1:1-3:11 |
• ** CCC2582-2584

Divided Kingdom – 2:

• 1 Kings 14:21-15:8 |
• 2 Kings 8:16-29 |
• 2 Kings 11:1-12:22 |
• 2 Kings 18:1-21:18
• 2 Kings 20:16-18 |
• * Deuteronomy 30:15-20
• * Isaiah 5:1-6
• * Isaiah 22:14-24
• * Micah 6:1-8
• ** CCC552-553

Exile:

• 2 Kings 17: | Exile of the North (Israel)
• 2 Kings 25:1-21 | Exile of the South (Judah)

Return:

• Ezra 1, 3 | Cyrus foretold; Return; Foundations of the Temple laid
• Ezra 4-6 | Samaritan opposition
• Nehemiah 1, 2, 6 | Nehemiah’s return; rebuilding of Jerusalem walls

Maccabean Revolt:

• 1 Maccabees 1, 2 | Maccabean revolt
• 2 Maccabees 7 | Seven martyrs and their mother

Messianic Fulfillment – 1:

• Luke 1-4 | The announcement and birth and temptation of the Messiah
• Luke 6:12-36 | The Twelve Apostles; “Sermon on the Plain”

Messianic Fulfillment – 2:

• Luke 9:1-36 | Sending out the Twelve; feeding the 5,000; Peter’s confession of Christ; the Transconfiguration

Messianic Fulfillment – 3:

• Luke 22-24 | Last Supper, Passion, Resurrection

The Church -1:

• Acts 2 | Pentecost
• Acts 7-8 | Stephen’s martyrdom; the message begins to spread

The Church – 2:

• Acts 8:5-15:35

The Church – 3:

• Acts 15:36-28:31

You are done! Try following the 90-day Reading Plan:

• Ge, Ex, Nu, Jos, Jdg, 1 Sa, 2 Sa, 1 Ki, 2 Ki, Ezr, Ne, 1 Mac, Lk, Ac