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GENESIS

GENESIS. PART FIVE book of beginnings god as creator man made in god’s image eden temptationsin the fall and its consequences. GENESIS. PART FIVE Book Of Beginnings God As Creator Man Made in God’s Image Eden  Temptation  Sin The Fall And Its Consequences. GOD’S RESPONSE.

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GENESIS

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  1. GENESIS • PART FIVE • book of beginnings • god as creator • man made in god’s image • edentemptationsin • the fall and its consequences

  2. GENESIS PART FIVE Book Of Beginnings God As Creator Man Made in God’s Image EdenTemptationSin The Fall And Its Consequences

  3. GOD’S RESPONSE PROVIDES A COVERING (CLOTHING) FOR MAN’S SIN PROMISE OF A REDEEMER (ONE OF EVE’S DESCENDANTS) – TRACED IN ALL ANCIENT CULTURES

  4. CAIN and ABEL Biblical Principle: “First the natural, then the spiritual” (1 Cor. 15:46) CAIN KILLS ABEL, A TYPE OF CHRIST. SETH, THE SUBSTITUTE FOR ABEL.

  5. ADAM’S GENEALOGY ENOCH METHUSELAH NOAH “A man in God’s image, a substitute, mortal, an acquisition, none other than God, will descend, teaching, and will bring by his death, destruction, and rest to the weary.”

  6. NOAH • antediluvian climate, lifespan • fallen angels corrupting mankind • the ark • the flood (one year) • arguments for a worldwide flood • ark sightings

  7. NOAH – A TYPE OF CHRISTNoah is a shadow, a picture of the Messiah. What Noah did is symbolic of the work that the Messiah would do one day. NOAH • Name means “rest”. • Was just, righteous and ‘perfect’. • Walked with God (communed and communicated with God). • Prepared the way of salvation for the world. • Obeyed God. • Offered a sacrifice to God. • God established a covenant with Noah. JESUS • Jesus brings us into God’s rest (Hebrews 4:1-9). • Was just, righteous and perfect. • Walked with God (Luke 6:12). • Prepared the way of salvation for the world (John 14:6) • Obeyed God (John 15:10, Phil 2:8). • Offered a sacrifice to God (Eph 5:2). • God established a covenant with Christ (Heb 13:20).

  8. THE ARK – A TYPE OF CHRISTThe Ark, similarly, is a picture of the redemptive work of Christ. THE ARK • Divine provision, not Noah’s idea. • Made of wood. • A refuge from divine judgement. • Only one door. CHRIST • God chose to send His Son; man did not find a way to save himself from sin. • The Cross was made of wood. • Christ saves us from God’s wrath. • Jesus is the only way of salvation (John 10:9, 14:6; Acts 4:12).

  9. GOD’S COVENANT WITH NOAH Noah’s first action upon leaving the Ark was to sacrifice to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, which was a sweet smell and pleasing to God (Genesis 8:20-22). This was most likely fairly high up on the mountain where the Ark had rested.

  10. GOD’S COVENANT WITH NOAH God instituted a covenant “with all living creatures” (Genesis 9:9-10), which has 5 characteristics. • It was instituted solely by God (Genesis 9:9). • The covenant was eternal (Genesis 9:16).

  11. GOD’S COVENANT WITH NOAH • God made certain promises to Noah (Genesis 9:9-17).God will never again use a flood to destroy all life, and a flood will never again cover the whole earth. • The sign of the covenant was a rainbow (Genesis 9:13-16). It is possible that a rainbow had never been seen before if there had been no rain, and a thick, cloudy atmosphere through which the sun could not be seen. Alternatively, it is from this point on that the rainbow takes on the significance of the symbol of God’s covenant. • The unborn children were included in the covenant (Genesis 9:9).

  12. POST-FLOOD CONDITIONS Noah entered a very different world to the one he had left 375 days earlier. • Atmosphere had lost its watery covering. • Land changed dramatically because of volcanic activity (some probably still active for a while after the flood). • Higher sea level. • No cities or people or animals. • Vegetation re-growing – a fresh start.

  13. POST-FLOOD CONDITIONS God issued Noah with a set of instructions (similar to Adam). • Repopulate the earth (Genesis 9:1). • Animals would fear mankind from now on (Genesis 9:2). • Man given permission to eat meat for the first time (Genesis 9:3). • Blood must not be eaten/drunk (Genesis 9:4). Blood represented life and God used blood sacrifices as symbolic of the cost of sin (Leviticus 17:11).

  14. POST-FLOOD CONDITIONS • Capital punishment was instituted for the ultimate crime – killing a person: destroying God’s image (Genesis 9:6). To God, righteousness is more important than life – which is why Christ had to die.

  15. HAM’S SIN First mention of wine in scripture is associated with: Drunkenness Shame Curse

  16. HAM’S SIN Noah plants a vineyard, drinks of the wine it produces, gets drunk and “uncovers” himself – a Hebrew phrase which implies a deliberate act. Ham behaves in a manner which is either disrespectful, mocking or malicious – displeasing to God.

  17. HAM’S SIN After the effects of the wine had worn off, Noah (sober) pronounces a prophecy from God upon his 3 sons (Genesis 9:24-27). NB: This was not an angry father cursing one son and blessing the other two, but the first of many prophesies by a father over his sons.

  18. NOAH’S PROPHECY Ham was cursed in a manner which suited his sin – namely, he sinned as a disrespectful son, and so his son Canaan was cursed. Shem was blessed by a relationship with God (Genesis 9:26). Japheth was blessed by being promised an enlargement – a physical increase in lands and descendants.

  19. NOAH’S PROPHECY All 3 prophecies came true – indicative that Noah was speaking a word from God. All of Canaan’s descendants suffered as servants to the descendants of his uncle’s descendants in the years to come. Japheth was the father of by far the greatest number of “races” or “peoples” covering a large portion of the earth’s surface. Shem was an ancestor of the messiah, so he did indeed have a special covenant relationship with God.

  20. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS Japheth means “extender” or “enlarger”. He is probably the Japetus whom the Greeks thought was the father of the human race. Also possible that the Roman “Jupitor” derives from Japheth. Japheth had 7 sons (Genesis 10:2-5).

  21. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • GOMER (“completion”): Gauls, Celts, Cimmerians.Gomer had 3 sons (Ashkenaz, Riphath, Togarmah):it is generally believed that these 3 sons produced the Germans French Welsh Irish Britons Anglo Saxons

  22. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • MAGOG (“increase”): Scythians, Tartars.Magog is the general name of the country north of the Caucasus mountains, which are between the Black and Caspian Seas. • MADAI (“middle”): Medes and Persians.

  23. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • JAVAN (“supple”): Greeks, Syrians (Asia Minor).Javan had 4 sons: • Elishah • Tarshish (“hard”) • Dodanim – from whom came the Portuguese, Spanish and Italians. • Kittim – representing Cyprus and the Mediterranean coasts.

  24. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • TUBAL (“production”): • Iberians • Georgians • Cappadocians • Other Asiatic and European races

  25. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • MESCHECH (“drawing out”): Muscovites (Russia) • TIRAS (“desire of parents”): Thracians Etruscans (coast of Aegean Sea)

  26. JAPHETH’S DESCENDANTS • MESCHECH (“drawing out”): Muscovites (Russia) • TIRAS (“desire of parents”): Thracians Etruscans (coast of Aegean Sea)

  27. HAM’S DESCENDANTS Ham means “swarthy” or “dark”.He had 4 sons (Genesis 10:6-20). • CUSH (“black”): Ethiopia Cush had 6 sons: • Seba (“old man”) – produced the Sabeans in Yemen/Ethiopia • Havilah • Sabtah • Sabtecher • Raamah • Nimrod (“rebel”)

  28. HAM’S DESCENDANTS • MIZRAIM (“double”): Egypt Mizraim had 7 sons: • Ludim • Anamim • Lehabim • Naphtuhim • Pathrusim • Caphtorim • Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines)

  29. HAM’S DESCENDANTS • PHUT (“bow”): Lybia, North Arica • CANAAN (“low, flat”): Palestine, Phoenicia, Arabia Canaan had 11 sons: • Sidon (Ancient Phoenicia) • Heth (Hittites) • Jebus (Jerusalem) • Amorite • Girgashite • Hivite • Arkite • Sinite • Arvadite • Zemarite • Hamathite

  30. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS Shem means “name” or “renown”. From him all the Semitic (“shem etic”) people trace their line. Shem had 5 sons (Genesis 10:21-31).

  31. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS • ELAM (“youth”): East of Babylon and the Persian Gulf • ASSHUR (“level plain”): Assyrians • LUD (“bending”): Asia Minor

  32. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS • ARAM (“high” or “exalted”): Armenians (called Syrians) Aram had 4 children: • Uz (“firmness”) – Northern Arabia, where Job lived • Hul (“circle”) • Gether (“valley”) • Mach (“drawn”)

  33. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS • ARPHAXAD (“one that releases”): Arphaxad had 8 children: • Israelites • Arabians • Edomites • Moabites • Ammonites • Ishmaelites • Midianites • Other tribes of Asia

  34. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS ARPHAXAD’s line is the one that is followed through the rest of scripture: ARPHAXAD  SELAH (“rock” or “cliff”)  EBER (“shoot”) The word “Hebrew” probably comes from “Heber” (Eber).

  35. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS EBER had 2 sons: • Peleg (“division”) • Joktan (“little”) During Peleg’s time, the Earth was divided. The Hebrew meaning implies a physical division, as occurs during an earthquake. This is possibly some late shifting or resting of the Earth’s crust as a result of settling down after Noah’s flood, during which time the continents as we know them today were shaped.

  36. SHEM’S DESCENDANTS JOKTAN had 13 sons, of whom the most well-known are Sheba and Ophir. (Ophir famous for its gold – 1 Kings 9:28, 10:11). From Peleg we have a family tree (Genesis 11:10-26) leading up to Abram, upon which the rest of the book of Genesis hinges. Peleg  Reu  Serug  Nahor  Terah  Abram

  37. THE TOWER OF BABELBABYLON Records from this ancient city support the following biblical statements: • Story of 2 creations • Flood • Tower of Babel • Three men in a furnace • Cyrus’ decree to rebuild Jerusalem

  38. BABYLON Babylon was the product of civilized people. They had a complex society Highly developed school system Mathematics Astronomy Water systems Building programmes, etc.

  39. BABYLON The main centres of this empire were: UR: centre of Moon worship. BABYLON: centre of Baal worship. HARRAN (“road”): junction of all roads from Babylon, Egypt, Arabia and Palestine: also a centre of Moon worship. MESOPOTAMIA: Greek “between the rivers”Sumerians came from the east (or north-east) to settle here (Genesis 11:1-3).

  40. THE TOWER ZIGGURATS (“mountain of god”) were built as shrines to the Moon god and goddess. They were made of 7 stages of square bases.Around a central tower were a number of chapels or temples dedicated to principal gods, facing the cardinal points.

  41. ZIGGURATS Reasons for building them: • To get nearer to their god (the god of the heavens, and the god of the mountain). • Easier to get god’s attention from high up. • Halfway House for the god to whom it was dedicated. • Continuing the tradition of Noah who sacrificed on a mountain peak (“in a zikkurat sade”) when coming out of the Ark.

  42. ZIGGURATS Genesis 11:4“Let us build a tower whose top … unto heaven” could mean: • “on whose top is the heavens” – various astrological signs have been found decorating the top walls of ziggurats • “whose top is dedicated to the heavens”

  43. BABEL “Gate of God” • It is uncertain as to which of the recently discovered ruins was the biblical tower. • This tower symbolises man’s religion – man’s efforts to reach God. • Men united to make a name for themselves, so God created confusion by changing their language. • Babylon, from Hebrew “balal”, means “confusion”.

  44. BABEL God commands mankind to fill the earth (Genesis 9:1). Man defies this command and builds a base from which to unify themselves (Genesis 11:4). God gives them all a different language (Genesis 11:7). The people scattered because they were confused (Genesis 11:8).

  45. THE CHURCH Note the New Testament parallel: • Jesus commands His disciples to preach the good news in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and all parts of the world (Acts 1:8). • The Holy Spirit is poured out on the church in Jerusalem, giving everyone a new language (Acts 2:4). • The church was scattered by God because of persecution (Acts 8:1).

  46. BABYLONBabylon symbolises an anti-Christ system and is often contrasted with Jerusalem. BABYLON • Built by man (Nimrod). • Built on a plain. • Bricks are mud/slime. • Prostitute/whore. JERUSALEM • Built by God (City of God). • Heavenly city, built above. • Bricks are “living stones” – Christians. • Bride of Christ.

  47. GODS OF BABYLON The early kings of Babylon and Assyria were deified because they were regarded as God’s representatives on earth. Two chief gods were: SIN (or NANNUR) – Moon god MARDUK (or MERODACH) – Sun god

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