Genesis 1: In the beginning God...there is no proven scientific fact that contradicts a word from the bible. The heavens declare His glory. 66 books, 40 different authors, 1600 years in three different languages...not one contradiction. Unified theme..God's glorious, gracious work of redemption.
Genesis 2: love and obedience involve choice...if God did not give us a choice our love would mean nothing. We would be like robots programmed to do His desires.
Eve was deceived, but Adam sinned with eyes wide open. Adam also did not accept responsibility for his sin but blamed Eve and ultimately God for his sin...the woman you gave me...
Sin always makes us hide from the Lord (Genesis 3:8) Tried to cover their sin with fig leaves...this is a picture of our efforts to come to God on our own terms. God gives us what we could never provide for ourselves...grace and infinite mercy which covers us now and for all eternity. Man's sin and nakedness would never be covered by our own efforts, but by the sacrifice of an innocent One, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. This is the first sacrifice in the bible...God had to kill an innocent animal to clothe Adam and Eve...Hebrews...without the shedding of blood, there is no covering and no remission of sins.
1st mention of the gospel in Genesis 3:15. This verse is the first indication that the Messiah would be born of a virgin, because the woman does not possess a seed; rather, she possesses the ovum, which is fertilized by the male's seed. Isaiah 7:14.
end of chapter 3: Tree of life...was protected. If Adam and Eve ate from it they would remain permanently in their fallen state with no possibility of redemption. Here is something beautiful: the picture of the cherubim and a flaming sword are also seen in the tabernacle, for over the mercy seat, sprinkled with sacrificial blood, were cherubim and the bright Shekinah glory of God. It is also seen at the empty tomb where two angels clothed in light sat at either end of a slab stained with the sacrificial blood of the lamb of God. Genesis 3 keeps man away from the tree of life...Jesus invites us to eat of the bread of life. Are you seeing how integrated a message the bible is...are you seeing that it was written outside of time...by someone who knows the end from the beginning.
Genesis 4: Cain tried to come to God on his own terms not God's. Abel came to God on God's terms. God accepted Abel's offering but rejected Cain's. It is only in Christ, in God's Son that we are accepted by God. He clothes us with His righteousness. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and life. No one comes to the father except through me.
Genesis 5
The summary of the New Testament Gospel is found in the genealogy in the Old Testament. Read and be amazed...
Read Genesis 5...it is the genealogy of Adam through till Noah. Chuck Missler dug into the meaning of the Hebrew roots that make up the names...Here is the treasure...the pearl of great price that he found.
Here are the names and their respective meanings.
Adam: (adomah) "man"
Seth: "appointed" (Genesis 4:25 tells us this)
Enosh: (from root anash, "to be incurable") "mortal", "frail", "miserable"
Kenan: "sorrow,:" "dirge," "elegy"
Mahalal'el: "the Blessed God--(mahalal) "blessed", ; (El) the name for God
Jared: (from the verb yaradh) "shall come down"
Enoch: "commencement" or "teaching"
Methusaleh: "his death shall bring:--muth, a root that means "death" ; shalach means "bring" or "send forth"
Lamach: "despairing (from which we get lament or lamentation)
Noah: (derived from nacham) "comfort" or "rest" (Genesis 5:29)
Reading the meaning of those names in order, here is what we get in English:
"Man [is] appointed mortal sorrow; [but] the blessed God shall come down teaching [that His] death shall bring [the] despairing rest."
Wow!!!!! The gospel!
Every detail in the bible is there by design...it is a supernatural book written outside of time. God's plan of redemption was not a knee jerk response reaction to the fall in chapter 3. God had ordained it before the foundation of the world.
Genesis 5 also makes me think of the verse from Romans...the wages of sin is death. All in Adam die. One exception Enoch whom the bible says walked with God...pictures the rapture of the church. (1 thes 4:17)
The ark of God...Jesus Christ is our place of refuge and safety. In Christ we are bulletproof. Notice the invitation of God...He does not say Noah go into the ark...he says Come...the Lord always gives us choice to come to him...never forces himself on us. And He always goes before us. Remember also that Noah preached for 120 years...no one came into the ark but those in his family..8 people. Also notice that it was God who closed the door. Once that door was closed it was too late for anyone else to come in...I am sure when the waters started to rise there was much clamoring...but God had shut the door. We are to take the opportunity to believe and Come while it is offered.
The ark rested on in the seventh month of the seventeenth day...this is the same day on the Jewish calendar that Jesus rose from the dead. The passover takes place on the fourteenth day...Jesus was in the tomb three days and three nights...so on the same day the ark rested.
Genesis 9:27 "The descendants of Japheth are those of us who are of European ancestry. It is interesting to remember this prophecy, May he dwell in the tents of Shem. When the descendants of Shem rejected the Messiah, it was the European nations that picked up Christianity, and we dwell in the covering god gave to Shem, that covering of Jesus Christ. It is primarily the people of Japheth who have embraced the gospel and carried the gospel tot he rest of the world, in fulfillment of the prophecy of Noah thousands of years ago. At the end of chapter 11 we read that Abraham came from Shem.
Genesis 11:3 "asphalt for mortar" The builders of the ziggurat had the bricks for stone and a tarlike substance, asphalt for mortar. This triggered John Rockefeller to think that if there was asphalt there must be oil. Standard oil began exploring for oil over in the area of Iraq. That's when the oil deposits were found in the Middle East...following the bible made Rockefeller a rich man.
Genesis 11:31 Abram was supposed to leave his family in Ur and go to a land God would show him. Here though we see his father Terah leading the way. Abraham disobeyed God. It is interesting that Terah's name means delay... Haran is located halfway between ur and canaan...abram and family stayed here until Haran died. After his death Abram moves forward again.
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