Exegetical Lessons 1–100 on Genesis

[Pages:575]Exegetical Lessons 1?100 on Genesis

When I exegete a book, I tend to get very bogged down in the details and so, I decided to develop a series of a few short lessons on various chapters of the Bible, where I attempt to simply deal with the primary points of each verse without getting too detail-oriented. Each lesson is 2?5 pages long and designed to be read at one sitting. Although it is always nice to have a Bible open when studying this, I have, in almost all cases, included the actual Scripture within the text.

I began this study with a general introduction, followed by introductory lessons to studying the Bible, followed by some introductory lessons to the book of Genesis. These 21 lessons precede the lessons below.

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Doctrines

Lesson 1: Genesis 1 Introduction Lesson 2: Genesis 1:1 Lesson 3: Genesis 1:2a Lesson 4?5: Genesis 1:2a Lesson 6: Genesis 1:2b Lesson 7: Genesis 1:3 Lesson 8: Genesis 1:4?5

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Creation, Science and the Genesis Account The Creation of the Heavens and Earth The Earth in Darkness (the Ice Age) The Angelic Conflict Day One of the Restoration of the Earth

Day One of the Restoration of the Earth (continued) Day One of the Restoration of the Earth (continued)

Lesson 9: Genesis 1:6?13

Days 2?3 of the Restoration of the Earth

Lesson 10: Genesis 1

Evolution, Creationism and Divine Design

Lesson 11: Genesis 1:14?18

Day 4 of the Restoration of the Earth

Lesson 12: Genesis 1:14?15

Creation Theories and Day 4 continued

Lesson 13: Genesis 1:14?19

Day 4 of the Restoration of the Earth continued

Lesson 14: Genesis 1:20?23

A Summary of Creation and Restoration and Day 5

Lesson 15: Genesis 1:24?1:27

Day 6 of the Restoration

Lesson 16: Genesis 1:26?1:31

Day 6 of the Restoration (continued)

Lesson 17: The Bible

Creation Throughout the Bible

Lesson 18: Genesis 2:1?2:3

Day 7--the Sabbath

Lesson 19: Genesis 2:4?6

Genealogies and Plant Life

Lesson 20: Genesis 2:7?9

God Makes Adam/God's Name

Lesson 21: Genesis 2:8?14

The Garden of Eden (Part I)

Lesson 22: Genesis 2:15

The Garden of Eden (Part II)

Lesson 23: Genesis 2:16?17

The Garden of Eden (Part III)

Lesson 24: Genesis 2:18?25

God Makes Adam's Partner

Lesson 25: Genesis 3:1

Satan

Lesson 26: Genesis 3:1?4

The Temptation of Eve--Part I

Lesson 27: Genesis 3:1?6a

The Temptation of Eve--Part II

Lesson 28: Genesis 3:1?7a

The Fall of Man

Lesson 29: Genesis 3:4?7

Human Good and Morality

Lesson 30: Genesis 3:6?7

How the Spiritual Impacts a Nation

Lesson 31: Genesis 3:6?11

God Comes into the Garden after the Fall of Man

Lesson 32: Genesis 3:8?11

God Speaks to Adam after the Fall

Lesson 33: Genesis 3

The Truth of the Bible

Lesson 34: Genesis 3:6?13

Adam and the Woman Offer up Excuses

Lesson 35: Genesis 3:14?15

God Judges Satan/the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Lesson 36: Genesis 3:14?15

The Seed of the Woman

Lesson 37: Genesis 3:14?16

The Woman's Desire for Her Man

Lesson 38: Genesis 3:14?20

God Judges Adam, the Woman and Satan

Lesson 39: Genesis 3:21

The Sacrificial Death of Christ for our Sins

Lesson 40: Genesis 3:22?24

Expelled from the Garden

Lesson 41: Genesis 4:1?5

The Offerings of Cain and Abel

Lesson 42: Genesis 4:1?7

Cain's Human Good and Mental Attitude Sins

Lesson 43: Genesis 4:1?8 1John 3:12

Cain Murders Abel

Lesson 44: Genesis 4:9?14a

God Punishes Cain

Lesson 45: Genesis 4:9?15

God's Agenda in His Punishment of Cain

Lesson 46: Genesis 4:16?24

The Line of Cain

Lesson 47: Genesis 4:25?26

The Line of Seth

Lesson 48: Genesis 5:1?2

"These are the Generations of..."

Lesson 49: Genesis 5:3?31

The Gospel of Jesus Christ Hidden in Adam's Line

Lesson 50: Genesis 5:3?32

Adam and his Descendants

Lesson 51: Genesis 6:1?2

Mankind Becomes Corrupted by Angelic Beings

Lesson 52: Genesis 6

Testimony to the Historical Accuracy of the Old Testament

Lesson 53: Genesis 6

The Historical Accuracy of the Bible Part II

Lesson 54: Genesis 6:1?3

Mankind Becomes Corrupted by Angelic Beings

Lesson 55: Genesis 6:1?3

Grace Before Judgment

Lesson 56: Genesis 6:1?3

Satan's Counterfeits

Lesson 57: Genesis 6:1?5

Hebrew Structure and Ancient Mythology

Lesson 58: Genesis 6:1?5

Righteousness, Justice and the Thinking of Man

Lesson 59: Genesis 6:1?7

Civilizations/God Changes His Mind

Lesson 60: Genesis 6:6?9

Old Testament Sanctification

Lesson 61: Genesis 6:6?9

Basic Mechanics of the Spiritual Life

Lesson 62: Genesis 6:9?14

As in the Days of Noah

Lesson 63: Genesis 6:13?16

The Doctrine of the Ark

Lesson 64: Genesis 6:13?17

God Instructs Noah in How to Build the Ark

Lesson 65: Genesis 6:14?17

The Miracles of God

Lesson 66: Genesis 6:13?21

God's Covenant with Noah and with us

Lesson 67: Genesis 6:19?21

God's Instructions and Noah's Creativity

Lesson 68: Genesis 6:13?22

Personal Faith and Action

Lesson 69: Genesis 7:1?5

Noah and Company Enter the Ark

Lesson 70: Genesis 7:6?16

Noah, his Family, the Animals and the Flood

Lesson 71: Genesis 7:6?16

The Deluge Begins/The Organization of Genesis 7

Lesson 72: Genesis 7:17?20 Genesis 1:3?8

The Great Deluge

Lesson 73: Genesis 7:17?20

The Worldwide Deluge

Lesson 74: Genesis 7:17?24

Worldwide Destruction/Lessons from the Deluge

Lesson 75: Genesis 7

The Deluge Compared to Ancient Myths and Traditions

Lesson 76: Genesis 8:1?3

The Flood Subsides/The Omniscience of God

Lesson 77: Genesis 8:4?14

The Flood Subsides/The Flood Timeline

Lesson 78: Genesis 8:15?22

Noah and Company Exit the Ark

Lesson 79: Genesis 8:1a, 22

The Cyclical Nature of the Earth

Lesson 80: Genesis 6?8 and 8:1a

The Organization of Genesis 6?8

Lesson 81: Genesis 9:1?7

God's Commandments to Noah and Company

Lesson 82: Genesis 9:8

Covenant Theology versus Dispensations

Lesson 83: Genesis 9:8?11

The Noahic Covenant

Lesson 84: Genesis 9:8?17

The Noahic Covenant

Lesson 85: Genesis 9:18?29

The Progeny of Noah

Lesson 86: Genesis 10:1?5

The Founding Nations Descended from Japheth

Lesson 87: Genesis 10:6?20

The Founding Nations Descended from Ham

Lesson 88: Genesis 10:21?32

The Founding Nations Descended from Shem

Lesson 89: Genesis 10:1, 32 11:1?2

The Movement of Noah's Family

Lesson 90: Genesis 10:5, 20, 31?32 11:1?4

The Tower of Babel

Lesson 91 Genesis 11:1?4

The Tower of Babel

Lesson 92: Genesis 11:1?9

God Confuses the Languages

Lesson 93: Genesis 11

Archaeology, Primitive Man and Evolution

Lesson 94: Genesis 11

Traditional Archaeological Views

Lesson 95:

Archaeological Assumptions, C-14 Dating and Ancient Technology

Lesson 96: Genesis 11:10?26

The Straight-Line Genealogy of Shem

Lesson 97: Genesis 11

Ancient Biblical Texts

Lesson 98: Genesis 11:10?26

The Line of Shem

Lesson 99: Genesis 11:27?28

Population Growth; Abram's Line

Lesson 100: Genesis 11:27?32

Abram's Line

Doctrines in Genesis Lessons 1?100

Ancient Creation Myths

The Creation Verbs of Genesis

The Order of Creation

Why Gen. 1:2a is Translated

But the earth became a wasteland and empty...

God and Light and Darkness

The Angelic Conflict

How Light Illustrates the Light on Day One/the Sun

Genesis Creation Theories

Trinity

on Day Four

The Doctrine of Light

How Long is a Day?

Some of the Arguments Against Evolution

A New Theory of Creation and Restoration

Creation Theories

The Sun Theories

How the Sun is Analogous What is God Teaching the Summary of Creation and

to God

Angels?

the Days of Restoration

Man, the Shadow Image of God

The Sabbath

Ten Amazing Statements from Genesis 1:1?2:7

The Pronunciation of Jehovah

The Tree of Life

The Garden of Eden in Scripture

Timelines of the Creation of Man and the Woman

What God will Make for Adam

Satan

The Basis of Satan's Appeals

The Shifting Authority

The Doctrine of Human Good

The Doctrine of Truth and The Doctrine of Morality

Lies

What Does the Bible Claim for Itself?

The Historicity of Adam, the Woman and the Fall

The Seed of the Woman as Found in the Bible

Genesis 3:14?15

Genesis 3:14?16

Genesis 3:14?19

The Doctrine of Atonement

How We Stand Corrupted and Condemned before

God

Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God

Cainian Parallels

Why I Believe that Man

The Genealogy of Jesus

What Eve's Words Tell Us

Had Tools Early On

Christ

"These are the generations of..."

Adam, Created in the Likeness of God

The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Genealogy of

Adam to Noah

The Explanation of Jude 1:14?15

A More Accurate Chart of the Lifespans of Noah's

Ancestors

Enoch, Noah and Jesus

Amazing Things in Gen. Biblical States of the Earth

1?6

The Testimony of Jesus Concerning the Old Testament

Why the Sons of God in Gen. 6 are Angels

Satan's Counterfeits

The Structure of Gen. 6:1?5

Definition of an Bits and Pieces of Ancient

Anthropomorphism and an Mythology

Anthropopathism

Civilizations

The Doctrine of Sanctification

The Basic Mechanics of The Parallel of the Days of

the Christian Life

Noah

The Organization of Genesis 6:1?13

What the Ark of Noah Represents

The Doctrine of Ark in the Bible

The Dimensions of the Ark Miracles in the Bible

The Organization of Genesis 7

The Changing Conditions of the Earth

Theoretical Changing Conditions of the Earth

Robert Dean on Why the Noahic Flood was Worldwide

Fossil Evidence for Massive Animal Graveyards

Dean's Lessons from the The Principal Features of

Deluge

the Biblical Record

Similarities between Genesis and Gilgamesh

In both the Genesis and Galgamesh stories

Significant Differences Between Genesis and

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Omniscience of God

Map of Armenia

The Deluge Time Frame

The Priesthoods

Associating Continental Drift, the Tilting of the Earth's Axis and the Flood

Axis-Shift Addendum

The Organization of Genesis 6?8 (from Robert

Dean)

Galatians 2:15?17a as a Chiasmos

God Blesses Adam and the Woman

God Blesses Noah and his Sons

The [Short] Doctrine of A Review of Dispensations

Murder

Covenant Theology

Problems with Covenant Dispensationalism versus

Theology

Covenant Theology

Additional Reading on Dispensations and Covenant Theology

Points on Covenants

God's Omniscience

Summary Points on the Noahic Covenant

Additional References to

What is the Purpose of the The Sons of Japheth and

Antediluvian

Bible?

their Ancestors

Meteorological Conditions

Hamite Descendants by Tim Osterholm

Ham and his Descendants (who Primarily Occupy Southwest Asia and Africa)

The Descendants of Shem who Occupy the Middle East

Noah's Descendants

The Map of Noah's Son's Noah, His Descendants,

Sons

and their Distribution

A Modern Map of Iraq and Iran (which includes the journey of Noah's Family)

The 5 Divine Institutions

Attacks Against the Divine Institutions

What is the problem with this tower?

Philology from Bible Believers . Org

Traditional View of the Ages

The Assumptions of Archaeology and Paleontology

C-14 Accuracy

Scientific Achievements of When did the flood occur?

Ancient Hamitic Peoples

The Biblical Chronology of Ancient Manuscripts of the

Genesis 11

Bible

Transitional Point in the Book of Genesis

The Genealogies of the book of Genesis

an exponential decay curve

The Meaning of the Names in Abram's Line

A Map of Abraham's Journey

Lesson 1: Genesis 1 Introduction Creation, Science and the Genesis Account

We live in an amazing universe. It is so vast that, it is beyond our ability to grasp its hugeness. The sizes of the various stars, the variety of the planets and their atmospheres, are the stuff which grabs the imagination of a young child as well as that of an old astronomer. One of the few emails which I forwarded, I also posted on my website called the Perspective of the Universe. It is just a succession of groups of planets and nearby stars, so that we can get a feel for their relative sizes. Not only is it difficult (if not impossible) for man to have some grasp of the size of the earth, the size of Jupiter and then of the sun are even further outside our mind's ability to perceive. But then to find that there are stars whose size dwarfs that our own sun, is completely mind-boggling.

If we go in the other direction, toward the actual molecular makeup of all that is, we come to molecules, which can be broken down into individual atoms, which are made up of just 3 things: protons, neutrons and electrons. It appears as though these might be further broken down into even smaller component parts. We could take the tiniest speck of dust from around our house and examine it and, for all intents and purposes, write a doctoral thesis on this tiny speck, examining its molecular makeup, its structure, and its origins. If we were to take any living organism within our house, choosing one which is too small to see, not only could we easily write a doctoral's thesis on this living thing, but we would never begin to plumb the depths of the mystery of it and all of its myriad functions.

Whether we attempt to examine that which is infinite (the universe) or that which is seemingly infinite (all that is microscopic), we inevitably find it to be complex beyond our ability to fully comprehend it; strangely beautiful; and subject to a whole host of laws, all of which interact in a manner which, in itself, is strangely beautiful. Even more amazing, all that we see is made up of 3 essential building blocks: protons, neutrons and electrons, which are too small for us to see with the most powerful of microscopes, yet virtually every person reading this believes in these three.

All of this came from somewhere, and the first couple chapters of Genesis give us a primer in the creation of the earth, the universe and man.

With regards to the title of the first book of the Bible, the name Genesis does not come from the Greek or the Hebrew of the first couple verses of the book of Genesis, but from the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of the New Testament, Matt. 1:1, which

begins: The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the Son of David, the son of Abraham. The first two words in that verse are Biblos genese?s (?????? ????????), accurately translated the Book of [the] genealogy. The Greek word Genesis (???????) [pronounced GHEHN-ehs-iss] means source, origin; genealogy. Strong's #1078. Quite obviously, the first word is from whence we get the name Bible.

We find these same two Greek words in Gen. 2:4 5:1 in the Septuagint (also known as the LXX, which is a Greek translation made of the Hebrew Old Testament a few centuries prior to the incarnation of Jesus Christ). We find the word Genesis by itself in the Greek of Gen. 6:9 10:1, 32 11:10, 27 25:19 36:1, 9 37:2.

There are all kinds of creation myths in existence, but the Genesis account is clear, concise, and lacks weirdness. It is very similar, at the first, to what science calls the "Big Bang Theory" where all the universe was created suddenly and from a single point (the theory behind the Big Bang Theory is simpler than you may realize--since the universe is expanding, going out in all directions, then, if you reverse this process, you come to a certain point from which all the universe emanated).

When it comes to the creation of the earth, there is a great majesty, understatement and reasonableness in the first two chapters of Genesis. In order to appreciate this, let's first see how other ancient peoples viewed the beginning of the world. I chose two examples from the same time period:

Ancient Creation Myths

Civilization

Creation Myth

Chaldean

The "All" consisted of darkness and water, filled with monstrous creatures, and ruled by a woman, Markaya. Bel divided the darkness, and cut the woman into two halves, from which he formed the heaven and the earth. He then cut off his own head, and from the drops of blood men were formed.

Phoenician

The beginning of the All was a movement of dark air, and a dark, turbid chaos. By the union of the spirit with the All, a slime was formed, from which every seed of creation and the universe was developed; and the heavens were made in the form of an egg, from which the sun and moon, the stars and constellations, sprang up. By the heating of the earth and sea there arose winds, clouds and rain, lightning and thunder, the roaring of which wakened up sensitive beings, so that living creatures of both sexes moved in the waters and upon the earth.

These are 2 examples of the dozens which exist. There are, interestingly enough, some creation stories which are very similar to what we find in the Bible.

Taken from Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament; from e-Sword; Genesis 1 introduction.

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