Week 2: Tobit
Objective:
-
Historical Context of the Story of Tobit
- Faithfulness to the Lord
- The guardian angel and their protection
Resources:
Fr Luka Maher Series:
- https://youtu.be/qSoNKojpmEQ?si=TvBKR-26iL10YDVT
Body:
- The events of the Book of Tobit happened during the Assyrian Exile (Northern Kingdom)
- This shows how righteous Tobit is
- Sennacherib went to take over the Southern kingdom
- At the time, Hezekiah and Isaiah prayed and fasted that God wouldn't allow that to happen
- An angel went down and killed 185 k from the army
- He got so mad and killed all the jews and left their bodies in the street
- Tobit used to go burry them
- Both families are from the tribe of Naphtali (Tobit, Hanna, and Tobias) & (Raguel, Hanna, and Sara) - Both loved the Lord
- Both families are faced with tribulation
Reading: *** From the Orthodox Study Bible***
- Read chapter 1&2& 3:7-11, 16-17 as an intro
- Read chapter 4: Tobit commandments to Tobias
- Read chapter 5" The meeting with Raphael
Key verse(s):
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Comments:
Review/recap questions:
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