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Genesis 4-11

Genesis 4-11. Genesis 4:1-2 First Son ? Genesis 4:17 talks about Cain’s wife. The Moses account makes it clear that many children were born before Cain and, therefore, his finding himself a wife would not have been a problem. What do we know about Abel ?.

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Genesis 4-11

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  1. Genesis 4-11 Genesis 4:1-2First Son? Genesis 4:17 talks about Cain’s wife. The Moses account makes it clear that many children were born before Cain and, therefore, his finding himself a wife would not have been a problem.

  2. What do we know about Abel? D&C 138:40 Teaching in the Spirit World! Hebrews 11:4 His offering was in faith and showed his righteousness. He magnified the Priesthood which was conferred upon him, and died a righteous man, and therefore has become an angel of God by receiving his body from the dead, holding still the keys of his dispensation; and was sent down from heaven unto Paul to minister consoling words, and to commit unto him a knowledge of the mysteries of godliness. “And if this was not the case, I would ask, how did Paul know so much about Abel, and why should he talk about his speaking after he was dead? Hence, that he spoke after he was dead must be by being sent down out of heaven to administer” (Teachings, 168-69).

  3. Genesis 4:5 Cain’s offering/ no respect! Cain offered the fruit of the ground, and was not accepted, because he could not do it in faith. Whatsoever is not of faith, is sin. Three reasons why: 1. He did not do it in faith 2. Satan asked him to do it 3. It needed to be a blood sacrifice

  4. Cain began to communicate directly with Satan, who suggested the means whereby he could kill Abel (Moses 5:28-31). Step by step Satan engineered Cain’s downfall until he reached the point where “he gloried in his wickedness” (Moses 5:31). It was at this point where he killed his brother. The “Reed Peck manuscript” found in the archives of the Church states that Reed Peck heard Joseph Smith teach that Cain killed Abel in Far West, Missouri. Genesis 4:9 “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” The Hebrew word which is translated as “keeper’ is shomer and means “a guard or custodian.”

  5. What do we know about Enoch? Genesis 5:22-24 The teachings of Enoch cover some seven major categories and embrace some information found nowhere else in the scripture: 1. The Fall of Man and its results. 2. The nature of salvation and the means of achieving it.

  6. 3. Sin, as seen in the evils of his times, in contrast to the righteousness of the godly who were his followers. 4. The cause, purpose, and effects of the anticipated flood of Noah. 5. The scope of Satan’s triumph and the resultant sorrows of God. 6. The first advent of the Messiah. 7. The second advent of the Messiah and his peaceful, millennial reign.

  7. Genesis 5:21, 27 Did Methuselah die in the flood? Moses 8:3 records that Methuselah was not taken with the city of Enoch so that the line could be continued. Once his work was done he may have been translated. For during the nearly 700 years from the time the city of Enoch was translated until the time of the flood the righteous Saints were translated and joined Enoch’s people (Moses 7:27, McConkie, MD, 804).

  8. Genesis 6 Three keys to the last days: 1. v. 2 No temple marriages 2. v. 5 Evil continually 3. v. 11 The earth filled with violence

  9. Genesis 6:3 Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Scholars without the help of the Book of Moses thought it was a reference to how long man would live after the flood. Moses 8:17 teaches that Noah began preaching in 120 years to try and save the world prior to the flood. Noah, who is Gabriel; he stands next in authority to Adam in the Priesthood; he was called of God to this office, and was the father of all living in his day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on the earth, and then in heaven…’ (Teachings, 157-58). “Luke reveals the coming of the angel Gabriel to Zacharias to inform him that his wife would bear a son. He also appeared to Mary and announced the birth of our Lord and Savior.

  10. Genesis 6:14-16The Ark Verse 14 is where Moses 1-8 in the Pearl of Great Price ends. This ark was vast, designed to float, not sail --- and there were no launching problems. Verse 15: An 18-inch cubit gives the measurements as 450 x 76 x 45 feet or 137 x 23 x 14 meters” (Alexander and Alexander, eds., Eerdmans’ Handbook to the Bible, 132). Verse 16: “Window” Hebrew tsohar; some rabbis believed it was a precious stone that shone in the dark. (Ether 2:23-24, this might have influenced the Brother of Jared). Genesis 8:6 tells of Noah opening the window of the ark which he had made.

  11. Genesis 6:22 Do it! “All that God commanded him, so did he” Genesis 7:2-3 Clean beast = Seven’s Unclean beast = Two’s Fowls of the air = Seven’s

  12. Genesis 7:21-22 All flesh died, all who had the breath of life. (Cain included) Genesis 7:24An act of love? And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. It prevented further acts of wickedness and children to be born into such wickedness.

  13. Genesis 8:4 The mountains of Ararat After five full months of travel, the location is not given. The traditional site is a mountain found in Northeastern Turkey near the border of Russia. Genesis 8:11 “the Olive leaf” God is again at peace with the world. D&C 88 The Olive leaf plucked from the tree of Paradise. It is one of the few sections that have a title.

  14. Genesis 9:2-6 What is the Law of God Regarding the Shedding of Blood? D&C 49:18-21 says that the animals are to be used for food, but concludes with this warning: “And wo be unto man that sheddeth blood or that wasteth flesh and hath no need.” President Spencer W. Kimball spoke at some length in a general priesthood meeting on the idea of killing animals simply for sport (“Fundamental Principles to Live and Ponder” Ensign, Nov. 1978, 44-45).

  15. Genesis 9:16-17 “The Bow” When the rainbow stops appearing, the coming of the Son of God in not far distant (Teachings, 305).

  16. The Noah story takes on new and deeper significance when we see how Noah’s story is also the Savior’s story: • He preached tirelessly to people who largely rejected him (Moses 8:19-21, 23). • He was grieved by the sins of the people (Moses 8:25). • He was just and perfect in is generation (Moses 8:27, Genesis 6:9). • He was mocked by the people (Moses 8:21). • He did all that the Lord commanded him (Genesis 6:22; 7:5). • People sought to kill him (Moses 8:18).

  17. 7. He constructed the means of saving all mankind (Genesis 6:18). • Those who followed him were saved from death (Genesis 6:18). • Only those who were his family were saved (Genesis 7:1, 7). The ark is a similitude of the Lord’s Atonement!

  18. When we see that the ark is a similitude of the Lord’s Atonement, our views of the ark and the Atonement are forever enriched. We understand in a clear way the absolute necessity, for example, of being born again in Christ and taking his name upon us --- for his family will be saved. And we see in the flood not only the end of a sinful generation but the predicament of spiritual death that we all face unless we accept the invitation to board the ark --- leaving behind whatever else might have seemed important or enticing, and submitting to every requirement of passage.

  19. Genesis 9:20-27Noah drunken and uncovered? This is simply a puzzling story. We are to understand that Ham took the garment of his father while he was sleeping and showed it to his brethren, Shem and Japheth, who took a pattern or copy of it or else a woven garment like it which they put upon their shoulders, returning the skin garment to their father. Upon awaking, Noah recognized the priesthood of the two sons but cursed the son who tried to rob him of his garment (Lehi in the Desert and the World of the Jaredites, 160-62). Therefore, although Ham himself had the right to the priesthood, Canaan, his son, did not. Ham had married Egyptus, a descendant of Cain (Abraham 1:21-24), and thus his sons were denied the priesthood. The idea of a garment made of skins that signified that one had power in the priesthood is found in several ancient writings including the Talmud.

  20. Genesis 10:5 “Nimrod” A mighty hunter before the Lord. JST Genesis 10:5 reads “he rebelled against the Lord. He was the founder of Babylon. Very likely he was a very bad man. He was a hunter of men to get them to depart from true religion and cleave unto the institutes of Nimrod (Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, 154-64). Genesis 10:25 “Peleg” For in his days was the earth divided. Dividing the land mass, creating the eastern and western hemisphere. The time will come when it will return to one land mass as it originally was (D&C 133:18-20, 23-24).

  21. Genesis 11:1-9“The Tower of Babel” “Three reasons the tower was built” 1. To reach heaven 2. To make a name for themselves 3. So they would not be scattered upon the face of the whole earth The Book of Mormon shows that the actual confounding of the languages may not have been an instantaneous thing, but happened over a period of time. The Brother of Jared asked the Lord not to confound their languages (Ether 1:33-38). Hugh Nibley taught that the Tower of Babel was nothing more than a false temple they taught could get the people into heaven but lacked the proper authority (a Babylonian Temple).

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