Genesis

Summery

Genesis

• Creation

• Man’s Creation, Fall and promise of Salvation

• God’s plan of salvation

Trinity

• Light as the first Creation by God• Jesus declares that He is the light• Man is called to be light• Gen 1:26• 26 Then God said,"Let Us make man in

Our image, according to Our likeness• Hebrew has no majestic meaning a person

is address as singular, more that one person are plural

• Col 1:15-16

• 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

• Eph 1:3-6

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

Jesus• Gen 2:21-23

• 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

• 23 And Adam said:

• "This is now bone of my bones • And flesh of my flesh;• She shall be called Woman,• Because she was taken out of Man."

• Gen 3:8• 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in

the garden in the cool of the day• Gen 3:15• 15 And I will put enmity • Between you and the woman,• And between your seed and her Seed;• He shall bruise your head,• And you shall bruise His heel." • Gen 3:21• 21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made

tunics of skin, and clothed them.

Abel & Cain• Good vs Evil• Sons of God and Sons of man• Gen 5:24• 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.Enoch = "dedicated"• Gen 5:27• all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years;

and he died.• METHUSELAH• ("he dies and it (the flood) is sent"• (from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright

(c)1998 by Biblesoft)

• Gen 6:5-8

• 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah & the Ark

• Noah represent Christ• The Ark = Church• Water = Baptism• New Life new Beginning• Sending the the Dove tree times • The work of the Holy Spirit• Before the written command• Moses and the prophet• The coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost•

• Gen 9:6-7• 6 "Whoever sheds man's blood,• By man his blood shall be shed;• For in the image of God• He made man. • 7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;• Bring forth abundantly in the earth • And multiply in it." • NKJV

• Gen 9:12-15

• 12 And God said:"This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

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• Curse of Canaan And the Blessing of Shem and Japheth.

• The whole earth were populated by this three.• Gen 10:6-10• 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and

Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

• 8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD." 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,

The tower of Babel

• Gen 11:4• Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose

top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

• Gen 11:6-9• 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their

language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Abraham

• John 8:56-58• 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day,

and he saw it and was glad."

• 57 Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"

• 58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

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• Gen 12:1• Get out of your country,From your family • And from your father's house,To a land

that I will show you. • Gen 14:18-19• Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought

out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:

• Gen 15:17-18• 17 And it came to pass, when the sun went

down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying:

• Gen 17:10• 10 This is My covenant which you shall keep,

between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised;

• Gen 18:1-2

• Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,

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• Gen 22:3-5• 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and

saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.

• Phil 3:9-10• 10 that I may know Him and the power of His

resurrection , and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death

• Gen 22:6-8• 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My

father!"

• And he said, "Here I am, my son."

• Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

• 8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.

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A pride for Issac

• The Father betroth to His Son

• The Servant met the wife to be at the well

• He brought her to him

• He Loved her

• He Prayed to her to conceive

The Blessing of Jacob

• Gen 27:15-16• 15 Then Rebekah took the choice clothes of her

elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck

• Gen 27:22• and he felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's

voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.• NKJV

• Gen 28:11-12• And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at

his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. 12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

• Gen 28:17• "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the

house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"

Jacob’e wifes

• Leah = unbeloved = gentile= Judah• Rachel = The beloved= The Jews= Joseph• Gen 32:24-25• 24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man

wrestled with him until the breaking of day. 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him.

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Joseph’s Dreams

• Gen 37:7-8• There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then

behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."

• 8 And his brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

• Gen 37:9• "Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the

sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me." • NKJV

Joseph’s life

• His Brother tried to kill hom• They Sold him• He was in prison with 2 crminals• He came out and became the first man of Egypt• Gen 41:45• And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-

Paaneah.• Savior of the World

• Gen 45:7-8

• 7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Jacob’s Blesses the Sons of Joseph

• Gen 48:14-15

• 14 Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said:

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49:1 Jacob's Last Words to His Sons

• Judah = Christ will decend

• Dan = the AntiChrist

• Joseph= Christ

Chapter 50

• The death of Joseph

• Genesis began with creation and life and end with death.

alter and Sacrifice

• Abel

• Noah

• Abraham

• Isaac

• Jacob

Faith

• Heb 11:13-16

• These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.