How it all Began



The Book of Genesis, Part I(from Adam to Abram).By Darren JohnsonA Commentary on Genesis Chapters 1-11.Publisher’s Note:The Scripture quotations found herein are from the text of the Old King James, 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible.Any deviations there from are not intentional.The publisher owns the copyright and hereby gives anyone permission to reproduce or transmit in any form and any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage, retrieval system, multimedia, or Internet system, any part or all of this publication. However, he may not sell any of it for profit. Matt. 10:8 “…freely ye have received, freely give. The Book of Genesis, Part I. ?Darren Johnson 2020.Table of ContentsIntroduction …………..…..………….…4I. Genesis 1: ….…..….………….5-11II. Genesis 2: …….…..…………12-15III. Genesis 3: …..……….………16-19IV. Genesis 4: …..…….……….…20-23V. Genesis 5: ……….......……....24-26VI. Genesis 6: ……………………27-31VII. Genesis 7: …….……………..32-34VIII. Genesis 8: …….……………..35-37IX. Genesis 9: …….……………..38-41X. Genesis 10: ...….……………..42-45XI. Genesis 11: ..….……………..46-49XII. Salvation Message ……..…..50-51Introduction In the Bible the first eleven chapters of Genesis gives a foundation for the rest of the Bible. It covers the creation of the universe(Genesis 1:), the Age of Innocence(Gen. 2:-3:), the Age of Conscience(Genesis 4:-7) and the Age of Human Government(Gen.8:11:). The creation of the universe covers the first week of God’s creation and application to the Christian walk. The age of Innocence begins with the creation of man and ends with the fall of man and his expulsion from the garden of Eden. The Age of Conscience consists of the history and chronology(Gen. 4:-5:) and the reason and result of the judgment on the age through the worldwide flood(Gen. 6:-7:). The age of Human Government begins with the flood waters stopping and Noah’s descendants leaving the ark(Gen. 8:). The commision for the Age of Human Government is given(Gen. 9:). The geneologies of Japheth, Ham and Shem are given(Gen. 10:). The judgment of man on the Age of Human Government and the geneology from Shem to Abram is given. The first eleven chapters of Genesis spans the first twenty generations(Adam to Abram) of the physical lineage of Christ. It covers the first 2083 years of human history. If you understand how it all begins, it will help you understand how mankind is where they are today and how it is all going to end. It will end where it started, in paradise with God for those that believe(Gen. 2:, Rev. 22:). Now the material presented in this book is not exhaustive. It just provides the reader with a brief verse by verse commentary of the first eleven chapters of Genesis on what is going on in the Bible as well as making a few applications to Christian living today. I pray you will get a blessing out of it and it will encourage you to serve the Lord Jesus more. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Before the creation of the universe, God was there before the beginning, because He has no beginning(Rev. 1:8). The Bible says that there are three persons yet one God known as the Godhead(I John 5:7). Therefore, we have three perfect persons who have perfect eternal fellowship that have no need of anything else. The reason why God created man and the universe was to show his glory(Ps. 19:1-3) and to share his fellowship with man forever. God didn’t make man a robot, but created him with the ability to chose God. God created the world in six literal days about 6000 years ago(Exod. 20:11). By the way, universe “uni-verse”, “one verse” means a spoken sentence(because God spoke and it happened, Heb. 11:3). There was no evolution, theistic evolution, or gap theory. The world wasn’t around for billions and billions of years. God did it a certain way for a reason, so beware of false science(I Tim. 6:20). Evolution says that in the beginning there was darkness and then there was a big bang. The Bible says that in the beginning there was God and He spoke the universe into being. Both can’t be right. Take your pick, God or something from nothing which has never been observed by anyone anywhere. Since God was the creator, it implies that communism and atheism are of the Devil (Ps. 14:1). You can believe what God said. If modern science disagrees, then it is wrong. Remember that the Devil perverts what God creates. Before the creation there was total darkness which is what you would expect with the absence of God. On day one God created the heaven, which is God’s throne and now called the third heaven, and the earth. The stars and the galaxies were not created until day four. Also on day one, the creatures of heaven are created(Job 38:1-7). This would include the angels, archangels, seraphims and cherubims. Remember that for a Christian to be a son of God you had to be born again through God(John 1:12). This indwelling Spirit did not occur until after Jesus arose from the dead. Also, only Adam and Jesus were called sons of God because they were born of God directly(Lu. 3:38). Hence Job 38: shows us that the angels are called the sons of God since they saw the creation of the earth. Hence, what we have here is the heaven where God dwells, the subjects of heaven, a massive space of darkness and the earth. Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The earth was made of water and was created without form and was void or vacant. The earth resembles a lost person. He has no godly purpose, he doesn’t have the Spirit of God in him and his life is spiritually empty. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. This is a picture of the conviction of God on a man. The Spirit of God will convict the lost person of sin(John 16:8, Rom. 3:23), of judgment(Mark 9:43-44), and righteousness(Rom. 10:13). Sin is breaking God’s commandments, judgment is hell and the lake of fire forever and righteousness is the righteousness of Christ(the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world). God knows the future and had a plan all along. Whether or not you choose him is up to you.Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. On the same day there was darkness there was also light. The same day a person is lost, is the same day they can get saved(John 1:8). Salvation is not a process but an instant of time. It is not something you earn(Tit. 3:5). Light never disappears, hence salvation is eternal or the believer has eternal security. You either have the light or you don’t(I John 5:12). Salvation is like a birth. I was born on 9/28/66 through the blood of my father Richard Johnson. That is why my last name is Johnson, because I have the Johnson blood. On 4/23/87 I was born again through the blood of Jesus. That is why I am a son of God, because I have God’s blood on me as well as the indwelling Holy Ghost. It is forever. There is nothing I can do to change my blood type, since it is based on a birth and not a work or works. If you must work to get saved or stay saved, you got a false gospel and you just need to get saved God’s way.Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. On the first day of creation, God created the light and separated it from the darkness.God teaches that the saved Christian should be sanctified or set apart from the darkness of sin(Luke 16:8). He called the light day and the darkness He called night(Gen. 1:5). In the Bible you have the saved or the children of light as well as the lost or the children of darkness. Jesus is the spiritual light of the world(John 1:8) as well as the source of all light(Gen. 1:3).Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. God called the light day and the darkness He called night. When you are lost you are called a child of the Devil, but when you are saved you are called a son of God(John 1:12). Hence, the first day of creation is a picture of a lost person getting saved. He goes from being hell bound to heaven bound.Genesis 1:6-8 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. :7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. :8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. On the second day, God created a firmament or the space between the ground and outer space(This is called the first heaven). Here is where the ice canopy around the earth came from, which remained up until Noah’s flood. There was a greenhouse effect. The earth was watered through rivers as well as an underground sprinkling system since there was no rain(Genesis 2:). From the fossil record they have found oxygen trapped in the rocks that had 50% more oxygen in its contents than in the atmosphere today. Hence, the environment was like a hyper barrack chamber where things healed faster as well as grew bigger(this would explain the huge plants, animals and humans found in the fossil record, e.g. 8 foot beaver, 3 foot dragon fly, 10-12 foot human skeletons, 300 foot iguanas or other large reptiles that go by the name of dinosaur today). For more good information on biblical science go to . The firmament divided the waters on the earth from the water above the earth or in heaven. The point here is that God wants the Christian to be separated from the ways of the world. The Bible says that the word of God is like water(It is the heavenly water that is above the spiritual darkness of the earth). It cleanses you from sin(Eph. 5:26). Just like water is used in cleaning the dishes, God’s word is used to make you spiritually clean. The waters of the world will make you spiritually dirty. We need to be separated(II Cor. 6:14). The word of God divides(Heb. 4:12) and is in heaven(Ps. 119:89). This is why we have standards(Ps. 19:7). This is why we ought to separate from the world’s music(E.g. country, rock, rap, Christian country, Christian rock, Christian rap, etc.). Beware of music that moves your flesh to sin and not your heart to serve the Lord.Beware of clothes that draws attention to your body and not your Christian character.This is why Christian men have short hair and Christian women have long hair(I Cor. 11:14). This is why you should spend your money on godly things like missions, church ministry needs, kids who have financial needs in Bible college, not worldly things like a bigger house, a bigger car, a longer vacation, worldly entertainment, etc.. We should go to places that promote godliness like revivals, church, fellowships, prayer meetings, soul winning, etc. instead of going to bar rooms, ball games, etc.. God didn’t save the Christian to do nothing. Separate from the world in everything (music, dress, speech, holiness, fellowship, habits(drink, smoke, pornography), worldly sports, new bible translations, bad behavior, etc.). You should raise your kids for God, obey God’s word in everything, get baptized, join a New Testament church and give money, time, and energy to church activities, etc..Genesis 1:9-13 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. :10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. :11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. :12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. :13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. On the third day the land brings forth grass and herbs. It has growth and reproduces itself. In verses nine and ten we see the earth being organized(I Cor. 14:40) and in verses eleven and twelve we see the earth bearing fruit. God wants the Christian to be spiritually organized so he can bear fruit in his life and reproduce himself into another Christian. Organization involves discipline and character. The old question goes, which came first the chicken or the egg? The answer is God created a reproducing chicken. Just like God created plants and animals to reproduce, God wants the Christians to spiritually reproduce. Christian growth begins with milk for the baby(I Pet. 2:2) and ends with meat for the full grown(Heb. 5:13-14). God wants the Christian to grow so he can have peace of mind, financial blessings, joy, excitement, answered prayer, knowledge, wisdom, understand more Bible, be happy, be friendly, have a good Christian testimony, etc..Genesis 1:14-15 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: :15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. On day four the second heaven is created. God creates the stars, like the sun. The purpose of the stars is to give light to the earth. The Christian is to be a witness to the lost on how to go to heaven(Matt. 5:16). Note that the firmament(Gen. 1:8) refers to a space referred to as heaven. The stars also were for seasons. Before Genesis 8:22, the seasons had constant temperature. By the way, to see the latest known mapped universe, go to . It is a great learning tool to view the heavens from your computer for the glory of God.Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Jesus is the sun(the source of the earth’s light) and the Christian is the moon(he reflects the sun’s light on the earth, yet he has no light of his own)(Ps. 136:7-9). Lunar eclipse: We have no light to reflect because our light is blocked by the world(carnality Rom. 8:6). Be careful what you listen to, look at, walk to, touch etc., because carnality or worldliness will kill your light reflection for God. Solar eclipse: We get in the way of God’s light and produce a small patch of darkness on the earth(Do God’s will in own strength or knowledge, ex. Moses killing the Egyptian). By the way, the moon was not a result of an asteroid hitting the earth millions and millions of years ago. This is the evolutionist’s way of getting rid of God out of the creation, etc.. The stars also would include the supernovas, red dwarfs, other galaxies etc..Genesis 1:17-19 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, :18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. :19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. By the way, the Christian does not get any light from the earth(Col. 2:8). Rudiment is the foundation(God’s word), traditions are rules, knowledge is based on God’s word and philosophy is spiritual thinking and the application of God’s word(Col. 2:8). Beware of what you watch on T.V., read in books or magazines, learn in the public schools, and internet etc.. The world may teach you how to make a living(trade or skill), but they can not teach you how to live spiritually(serve God).Genesis 1:20-21 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. :21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. On day five we see that the animals of the earth are multiplying abundantly. Also, we see that the fowls are flying in the firmament and have victory over gravity. God wants the Christian to have victory over the gravity of the sinful world(I Cor. 15:57). God wants us to have victory in all areas of our Christian life(II Cor. 7:1).Genesis 1:22-23 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. :23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. God wants the Christian to multiply spiritually in great abundance(II Tim. 2:2). Paul taught Timothy to train people who could train others. This means that the Christian should be able to train someone to train two more generations. This is how truth is passed on. God wants us to teach others how to go to heaven, baptize by immersion the new converts in water, and teach them about all spiritual things(Matt. 28:19-20). God wants the Christians to train soul winners and preachers at all levels. That is why the Christian should support worldwide New testament church missions. We need to get the gospel of salvation multiplied and fruitful throughout the whole world. The New Testament Church is established for the education and training of Christians. That is why in my ministry I like to use the T.V. and internet. It’s a fast way of getting the word of God out to the lost and saved. Do you have victory over personal sin like pride, lust, lying, cursing, anger, stealing, gossip, etc.? Do you have victory over the world(others)? Do others influence you or visa-versa? One victory in the Christian life leads to another until you multiply with victories.Genesis 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. :25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Notice that animals produce after their kind. That means dogs produce dogs, cats produce cats, but dogs don’t produce cats, etc.. There may be variation amongst species (the gene pool of the cats produce different strains of cats), but there is no evolution(a dog produces a homo sapien which produces a human, etc.). Each animals DNA has limitations where it can’t produce another species. In the world you have plants that have no soul and spirit, animals that have a spirit and not a soul and humans who have both body and spirit. Also, angels, cherubims, seraphims, etc. are created with an eternal body. God exists as a Spirit. Evolution is a ridiculous theory because not only is there the DNA limitation, but the spiritual differences as well between plants, animals and humans(not to mention spiritual creatures like angels, etc.). By the way, carnal Christians don’t produce spiritually Christians. Carnal Christians or lost people produce carnal or worldly Christians. You know why some Christian kids and church members are going carnal and worldly? They are hanging around the wrong people doing the wrong activities. They call them bullies and troublemakers at school for a reason, because they are worldly and wicked.Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Man was made in God’s image, not a homo sapiens’ image nor an ameba’s image.Notice “our image” is referring to the plural and not the singular. God consists of three persons known as the Godhead(I John 5:7). God wants the Christian to have dominion or continual victory in all areas of our Christian life(II Sam. 23:8). Who does the Christian have dominion over? The fish of the sea(over people in this world, Hab. 1:14), the fowl of the air(the Devil and the devils, Eph. 2:2), and the creeping thing(you know the things that bug you, like your sinful flesh, Rom. 7:20). By the way, if you have dominion over sin, it won’t easily control you, but you will easily control it.Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Man was originally created a sinless creature. He did not know the difference between good and evil. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God opposes homosexuality or sodomy(Lev. 18:22). Since the Christian is created in God’s image he should have a Christ-like life(Phil. 1:21). Man did not evolve over millions and millions of years. He was created in God’s image. Adam, the first man, was created as a full-grown man with the ability to reproduce. Mrs. Adam, called Eve after the fall, was the first woman who was created from Adam’s rib with the ability to reproduce. God created man with a purpose. His job was to have dominion over all the earth.Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Man was created to replenish or fill the earth again. It was first filled with animals, now God wants it filled with people. Adam was created to eat of the tree of life and live forever. He was to procreate and fill the earth with a sinless race that ate of the tree of life and would live forever. However, because of the fall, Adam failed. The second Adam Jesus Christ lived a perfect life and died on the cross of Calvary to give eternal life to those who put their faith in his blood for forgiveness of all their sins in the past, present and future. When a person gets saved, he is born again through the sinless seed of the Holy Ghost which is the Spirit of Christ. One day at the rapture, all the saved will get an eternal body and at the second coming of Christ will rule on earth with Christ as King. This will fulfill what the first Adam was supposed to do. The anti-Christ or false Messiah will try to imitate this in the seven year tribulation period in the future, but will fail(Rev. 4:-19:). Every Christian generation has the commission of God to fill the earth again with born again Christians. People are not born spiritual but unspiritual(Ps. 51:5). God wants us to subdue the sinful world into holiness. He wants us to saturate this world with God’s righteousness. By the way, there was no pre-Adamitic race and gap theory between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The world was not recreated, etc., Rev. 22:18-19). Stick with the Bible. Man was to reproduce and fill the earth with people and control it. He is over the animal kingdom. He did not come from an animal.Genesis 1:29-30 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. :30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. God gave man everything on earth that was good. God wants to give the Christian the desires of his heart(Ps. 37:4). Before Noah’s flood everyone on earth was a vegetarian (Gen. 9:3). There was no sin before the fall of Adam, because sin produces death(Jam. 1:15). Animals have life(Eccl. 3:21), but they don’t have souls like man does.Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. God didn’t make any mistakes. God creates and the Devil perverts what God has created. Genesis 1:26-3:23 is the dispensation or time period in the Bible called the Age of Innocence. There was no death in the age of innocence, because there was no sin in the world. God made everything good. Man was perfect, but he had a freewill that was untested. Genesis 2:1-2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. :2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. On day seven, God rested from his labors. Now rest is a result of dominion. When the Christian is fulfilling God’s will for his life he will have spiritual rest(II Tim. 4:7). One day we will have rest with Christ in heaven(Rev. 21:4). The seventh day of the week was the Sabbath day that looked forward to Christ dying on the cross(Col. 2:16-17). The first day of the week which is the day Christ resurrected from the dead, looks back at Christ dying on the cross.Genesis 2:3-4 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. :4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, The seventh day is the Sabbath day or the last day of the week. Remember that in the Bible, the days start in the evening, about 6 PM. Roman time that is used today starts at 12 AM or midnight. In Exodus 20:11 it reaffirms that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. That is why it is good for people to work six days every week and rest one. This way you will get the most out of your week. That is why you should get at least four hours of sleep every night(recommended 7-8 hours). Man needs to rest. The Sabbath day was created for man so he could rest from his labors in the Old Testament. The Sabbath day pointed to the future rest in Christ. That is why Christians go to church on the resurrection day or the first day of the week. It points back to the rest in Christ. Now verse four goes on to give more details about the creation. Verse seven and after is obviously giving more details on what happened on day six.Genesis 2:5-6 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. :6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The conditions of the earth were like a greenhouse. There was a protective ice firmament around the earth. Water came up from the ground, like a sprinkling system.There were seasons, but the temperature was constant all year round. There was no sickness or pain, for sin had not entered the world.Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. We see that God created man full grown, with a body(dust), spirit(breath of life), and a soul. Here we see instant creation. The strong didn’t survive according to evolution.To God every person is important and has a soul that is either going to heaven or hell. Although Adam was zero years old at birth, he looked like a full-grown man of about 30 years. This shows that when God created the universe, it was created fully developed and hence looks old. However, the universe was created about 6080(2020) years ago and about 4400 years ago there was a worldwide flood. The idea of evolution taking billions and billions of years is pure nonsense.Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. :9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God created two trees. With the tree of life, if you ate of it, you would get eternal life, and live forever. With the tree of knowledge of good and evil, if you ate of it, you would lose your innocence, die spiritually and fall into condemnation.Genesis 2:10-14 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. :11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; :12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. :13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. :14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. In Genesis 2:10-14, four rivers flow from Eden. The Euphrates river is in the Middle east. The Hiddekel river is today called the Tigris river and it is related to the nation of Assyria. The river Gihon probably refers to the Nile river which today is approximately 4,000 miles from East Africa to the Mediterranean. The Pison river probably refers to the river Jordan(Genesis 13:10, 20:28) since Havilah is around northern Arabia or southern Palestine(Genesis 10:7, 29, I Sam. 15:7) where there is gold(around southern Arabia). The garden of Eden was planted by God in an area called Eden. This is where Mr. and Mrs. Adam started out in before the fall. This triangular piece of land has sides about 1000 miles long and it was known as the Fertile Crescent in secular history. The left southwest corner would be the Nile the river whereas the southeast corner would be the top of the Persian Gulf(Genesis 13:10, Amos 1:5, Isa. 51:3, II Kings 19:12). The top part of the corner would be Mt. Ararat, where Noah’s ark landed after the flood. By the way, civilizations grow from gardens and rivers. Cities are supported by farms for their food source, etc.. In Revelations 22:1-2 we see the river of water of life flow out of the throne of God and the tree of life growing in the middle and the sides of it. Hence, in the Bible, the way it begins is the way it ends.Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Man was given a job to do: take care of God’s garden. Christians today our given a job to do: take care of God’s commission(Matt. 28:18-20) to reach the people in the world’s garden(Isa. 5:). The Christian is to preach the gospel, baptize converts, and teach others how to live godly as well as live godly.Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: :17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Adam had a choice. He either had to do what God says to get eternal life(eat of the tree of life) or reject it and die spiritually(eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil). Today people have two choices. Either they will accept Christ as their Savior and get eternal life, or reject Christ and die and go to the lake of fire(I John 5:12).Genesis 2:18-20 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. :19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. :20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Adam names all of the animals. Adam was created highly intelligent. By the way, get sin out of your life and you will become highly intelligent. God can bless you with wisdom when you are living godly. Adam got to see God create one of each animal individually. This was done so Adam could see God as the Creator and would choose a help meet or a suitable wife from the animals. However, it was not meant for man to marry an animal. That’s why beastiality is a sin. Remember that all the plants were created on day 3, birds on day 5 and land animals on day 6. The garden of Eden which was a specific garden for man wasn’t planted until day 6. The individual creation of one of each animal that could fly or walk was also done on day 6.Genesis 2:21-23 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; :22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 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. Adam was put under, like they do today in modern anesthesia and God took a rib from his side and made a woman, Mrs. Adam(later called Eve). Note: when the fifth rib is removed from a person, it has been proved medically that it will grow back, just like your fingernails grow back after you cut them. Mrs. Adam was taken from the side of man because she was to compliment the man. She was not taken from the head of man(not the boss) nor the foot of man(a slave you walk over and abuse), but the side of man to be a suitable help and companion. Before the fall both Mr. and Mrs. Adam were sinless, that is why they were equal spiritually in God’s sight. After the fall, man was put over the woman because the woman was deceived by the Devil(Gen. 3:13, 16).Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. It was ordained from the beginning of time, that a man should marry a woman. Not a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. That is why sodomy or homosexuality is a sin(Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:26, Matt. 19:4-6). Man and woman become one flesh. That is why fornication and adultery are sins. Sex is for the marriage bed (Hebrews 13:4).Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Like a newborn baby that comes out of the womb naked, he knows not between good and evil. He is innocent and not ashamed. Why are we ashamed if we would walk outside naked? Because we have knowledge of good and evil. We are now accountable for what we know about right or wrong. We have sinned and are condemned for what we have done wrong. Hence, we need a Savior. That is why a baby or small child goes to heaven when they die because they haven’t reached the age of accountability of what is right or wrong.Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The Devil is called a serpent or beast of the field. The Devil and his devils are spiritual creatures that were created for the world(Eph. 2:2, II Cor. 4:4). That is why they were created on day six. The Bible says that Satan was an old serpent(Rev. 20:3). He was a liar from the beginning(I John 3:8) and the beginning refers to the first six days of creation(Matt. 19:4-6). He didn’t abide in the truth because there is no truth in him(John 8:44). Hence, Satan is not a fallen angel. All fallen angels are in hell right now(Jude: 6). I will give you a little Bible background before I proceed. The fallen cherub (Isa. 14:, Ezek. 28:) or Lucifer is the second part of the false trinity(Rev. 16:13) and is called the antichrist or beast. The Devil is the first part of the false trinity and is called a dragon. The fallen cherub of Isa. 14: refers to a future prophecy on the king of Babylon which is fulfilled in the tribulation(Rev. 17:-18:). The fallen cherub will possess a man and be the false Messiah incarnate that will rule the world. The Devil will give him his power, seat and authority. Hence Satan is not Lucifer. Anyways, God created the perfect adversary called the Devil or the serpent, who only perverts what is right. Man has a free will and a choice between the Father of truth, God the Father, or the Father of lies(Satan). When man rejects Jesus Christ as his Savior, he is rejecting God the Father(I John 5:12). Notice that the first thing the serpent does is cast doubt on what God says. Beware of people, priests, or preachers who don’t believe God’s word, the A.V. 1611 Old King James literally and try to cast doubt. Notice that this serpent talks and is later condemned after the fall to eat dust. There are no serpents or snakes today who can talk and eat dust or dirt for food.Genesis 3:2-3 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: :3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Doubting God’s perfect word, leads to changing God’s word. God said nothing about touching it. Beware of these copyrighted modern versions(NIV, NASV, NKJV, NEB, ESV, etc. or any other of the 200+ modern translations since 1887). If you don’t believe it, you will doubt it. Doubting it leads to changing it(that is where the Devil gets you). However, the Bible is not translated in pencil. God said it and that settles it(Ps. 119:89).Genesis 3:4-5 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: :5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Satan always shows you the pleasures of sin, but not the punishment of sin(I John 2:15-17). Although you will be smart, you will die. It’s the same way today. He will show you the front side of the billboard, e.g. promoting smoking cigarettes, drinking beer or liquor, or gambling. It looks like the thing to do. But he doesn’t show you the harmful effects it will have on your life. That is the other side of the billboard: cancer or bad lungs from smoking, liver problems from drinking, and bankruptcy or losing a lot of money from gambling. Also, all three are addicting(they will start controlling you and put you into bondage). And what about the strain these addictions will put on your family, finances and health in general. Another deception is making witchcraft look good, like in the Harry Potter books and movies. Witchcraft is always evil(Exod. 22:18). There is no such thing as good and bad witchcraft or good and bad sins, all are sins. There is a reason why God said, thou shalt not. He created you and everything. He is smarter than you. Why not listen to God’s word and be blessed. Satan tries to convince you God is holding back on you and that you are missing out on the fun. He will lie to you and say this is the 21st century, you have evolved and you know better than the God of the Bible. Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Beware of the lusts of the flesh(good for food), and the lust of the eyes(pleasant), and the pride of life(be worldly wise, I John 2:15-17). God says no for a reason, which is for your own good. In life parents are just grown up kids who have been there. That is why God put parents over kids as a good role model and teacher. Usually, good Christian adults will produce good Christian kids and rebellious adults will produce rebellious kids.Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Adam and Mrs. Adam fail Gods test. In an environment where man with has no knowledge of sin and a perfect environment, will he choose what God says? The answer is no. As a result of rejecting God’s word, judgment follows. Notice that Mr. and Mrs. Adam covered their nakedness with sewn fig leaves or their own good works(Tit. 3:5-6). However God covered their nakedness with a skin of an animal(Genesis 3:21). In other words, an animal had to be sacrificed to pay for sin. This is why the bible says that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world(Col. 1:14). That is why the Old Testament sacrifices were a picture pointing forward to Jesus dying on the cross(Hebr. 9:22). This is why communion(unfermented grape juice, the pure blood of the grape) is a picture pointing back to Jesus dying on the cross.Genesis 3:8-11 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. :9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? :10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. :11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? When you sin you can’t stand in God’s presence. God here asks Adam three questions. God obviously knew the answers, but he asked Adam to expose his sin. Because Adam ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil(disobeyed God’s word), his nakedness was exposed(sinful act) and he was hiding amongst the trees of the garden (picture of the world, Ezek. 31:). Notice that God walks and talks and wanted to walk and talk with Mr. and Mrs. Adam. God wants the Christian to walk with God or have a relationship with the Savior Jesus Christ. The way the Christian walks with God is by keeping the commandments of God in the power of the Holy Ghost. The commandments of God are the Old King James Bible for the English speaking people. Genesis 3:12-13 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. :13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. When Adam’s sin is exposed, rather then taking responsibility for his sin, he plays the blame transference game and blames his wife for his sin. The woman goes on and blames the serpent. In life every person is personally accountable for their sin before God(II Cor. 5:10, Rev. 20:12,15). All are without excuse before God. Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: God judges Satan for his sin. As a result, he is cursed above all cattle, must drag his belly when he walks like a lizard and eats dust for food. By the way, humans are made of dust. When you believe the Devil’s lie in life, he will spiritually eat you alive as the old saying goes(I Pet. 5:8). If you die lost and go to hell, then you will experience eternal death in hell and the lake of fire. This is a result of the deception of the serpent.Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. There will be trouble between those who follow Satan(the serpent’s spiritual seed) and those who follow God(the woman’s spiritual seed, Gal. 4:29). All through the Bible you see the conflict between the children of God and the children of the Devil. The genealogies in the bible are important because they link the lineage of Adam to Christ (Luke 3:, Matt. 1:) or the spiritual seed. If Satan could have destroyed the link(Esther 1:-10:) he could have nullified the word of God and would have won. However, God always wins in the end.Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. The woman gets pain in childbirth and is under the rule of her husband as a result of her sin. In life, sin has consequences. Sin never pays no matter how big or small. By the way, had she not fallen, there would be no pain in childbirth. Here sinless birth would have been joyous. This is why the sinless birth of being born again by the Holy Ghost through the second Adam is joyous and not painless.Genesis 3:17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; :18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; :19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Because of sin, Adam works with sweat and sorrow to get food and his garden will also produce thorns and thistles. Before the fall they didn’t sweat. Hence, they didn’t have to take a shower or worry about sleeping outside because it was paradise. As a result, humans have to wear clothes, live in houses, have pest control, air conditioning, heat, etc.. It is stated that Adam came from the dust, which Satan is now cursed to eat. By the way in eternity, we will work for the Lord, but without the sweat and sorrow. Hence, we won’t need to take a shower. We will be clothed with fine linen(Rev. 19:8). Getting and eating food will be a joy, etc.. We will also fellowship with the Lord (hallelujah!!!).Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Mrs. Adam’s name is now changed to Eve and is under the rule of her husband. Eve is the mother of all living and not an amoeba from evolution. Your great, great,…,,great ancestor was not a result of lightening hitting a rock(I Tim. 6:20, sin makes you stupid). Genesis 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. God kills an animal and sheds his blood so Adam and now Eve can be covered from their sinful nakedness. That’s why Jesus(the lamb of God) shed his blood for us on the cross so we can have our sins covered or forgiven forever. Genesis 3:22-24 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: :23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. :24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Man is cast out of paradise. This is what sin will produce. However, paradise can be restored through confessing your sins to God if you are saved(I John 1:9, Prov. 28:13) and getting saved if you are lost(Rom. 10:13). Notice that God does not permit man to eat of the tree of life. He doesn’t want man living forever in an eternal fallen state on His earth. This is what elitists of our day want: to live forever without God. This is the fountain of youth that people searched for in the past and today. However the fountain of youth is only found in the tree of life which can only be obtained through repentance toward God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:20-21). Notice that Satan told Adam a half truth. He got knowledge of good and evil, but he died spiritually. However since Adam and Eve accepted God’s sacrifice(Genesis 3:21), they got saved. This is how someone in the Old Testament gets saved looking forward to Christ dying on the cross. The Cherubims guarded the way back to the garden of Eden. Cherubims carry the throne of God(Ezek. 1:, 10:). One cherub was flying over the throne(Ezek 28:), which was the cherub that later fell, called Lucifer(who was not Satan). The argument that Satan was a fallen cherub was made because they thought that only Mr. and Mrs. Adam and Satan were the only ones in the garden of Eden. But they forget about the cherubims. Always remember that scripture always interprets itself when establishing correct doctrine(II Pet. 1:20-21).Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. :2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. In Genesis 4:-8:, we see the dispensation called the Age of Conscience. A dispensation is just a time period where God dealt with man in a different scenario in a different way. After the fall, Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden of Eden. They know have perfect knowledge of good and evil. They are perfectly educated. Hence there is still no need for a written Bible. Their conscience has not been defiled. All they need to do is follow their conscience of what is perfectly right. Adam and Eve have the first two kids. Abel was a shepherd. From the sheep they could make clothing from the wool and get milk. Cain was a farmer. From the field they got food as well as materials for clothes(like cotton). The earth is still a constant temperature like a greenhouse. There is only one family on the earth and there is no corrupt government, crime, disease, bad weather, etc.. The test becomes that if man has a perfect knowledge of right and wrong, will he choose to serve the Lord? Genesis 4:3-5 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. :4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: :5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Adam and Eve taught their kids that to be forgiven, they had to bring an offering unto the Lord. The first offering is a picture of salvation. Throughout the Old Testament, they are looking forward to Christ dying on the cross for their sins. To be forgiven, they must repent of their sins and put their faith in Jesus’s blood(the lamb of God). As a symbolic picture of salvation, they had to bring a sacrifice or an offering to the altar of God. This offering had no part in their salvation. It is like water baptism and communion. They picture what saved us, but have no part in our salvation. Anyways, Cain brings the wrong offering. He brings the fruit of the ground from his farming. He brings his good works. Abel, brings the right offering, a sacrificial lamb, a symbol of his forgiveness. Like today, there are two types of religions. One that trusts in Jesus by faith alone and the other that adds good works(Tit. 3:5-6).Genesis 4:6-7 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? :7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. Here, Cain doesn’t repent. He could have gone to his brother and traded his fruit for a lamb, but he didn’t. He wanted to serve God his own way and not God‘s way(John 14:15). Hence, sin desires man, because man has a sin nature. However, man rules over his sin nature. He chooses whether to sin or not. When sin gets full grown it can become an addiction, and then sin will control man(e.g. drug, alcohol and gambling addictions). Yet man can still get help for these things if he chooses(i.e., he still rules over sin).Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Here we see the first murder in the Bible. It was a result of a lost man killing a saved man because of his testimony for Jesus. Abel was the first Christian martyr.Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? :10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Once again, God asks a question that he knows the answer to(Genesis 3:6-7,9). In this case one sin leads to another and Cain lies to God to his face. However God saw everything and Cain’s rebellion was against God.Genesis 4:11-12 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; :12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. Cain is cursed like Adam as a result of willfully sinning against God. The difference here is that Cain doesn’t repent and bring the right sacrifice. The ground is cursed more than before where Cain farms. A good example of this today is where the nation of Haiti has made Satan their official God. When you look at the Dominican Republic and Haitian border from a distance, you can see where the desolate land of Haiti begins and ends. When America served God, the land gave plenty. Hence the land of plenty. That is why countries who reject God are poorer than those who accept Him. That is why over the decades it has been the Protestant Christian countries who were feeding the poor Catholic countries with their food. God blesses the countries who serve and honor Him (Ps. 9:17).Genesis 4:13-15 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. :14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. :15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. When a person lives an unrepentant life, sin will destroy him. Here Cain has worldly repentance(II Cor. 7:10). He is just sorry he got caught and doesn’t want to suffer. He is driven from the Lord’s presence(face of the earth). A fugitive is a runaway criminal condemned to death in today‘s society. Cain was a marked man for destruction in hell and the lake of fire. However, God did not give other men permission to kill him. Remember that vengeance is of the Lord and not man(Rom. 12:19). Genesis 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Cain kills Abel and is sent out from God’s presence. By the way, Cain was raised in a Christian home with no outside interference. This was a result of bad child upbringing (Prov. 22:6). When the Christian home produces a lost or carnal kid, the best thing a husband and wife can do is to repent and take responsibility. Unfortunately because of pride, they will deny any wrong doing or claim the Bible doesn’t make any guarantees that kids will come out right if trained properly(Prov. 22:6).Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Cain’s line is the unspiritual line that serves the Devil and not God. Now the only place where Cain could get his wife from would be a girl born to Adam and Eve. By the way, before the flood of Noah, it wasn’t a sin to marry your sister. In a hyperbaric chamber, you wouldn’t have the chromosome deficiencies, from marrying your sister etc.(). For Cain to marry his sister, the daughter of Adam and Eve also would have had to rebel against God. Adam and Eve fail once again in child rearing. If Adam and Eve would have just followed their consciences, all of their kids would have come out right. Cain was smart enough to build a city. So much for the cavemen and the evolution story. Before the flood, people lived hundreds of years. I imagine after being a brick layer, farmer, shepherd, or whatever occupation you had for a couple hundred years, that you would be pretty smart in what every you were doing, etc.. Genesis 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. So, Cain has kids, and grandkids etc.. He teaches them contrary to God’s word or a good conscience.Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. Here is the first occurrence of polygamy(having more than one wife). In the beginning it was God’s plan to have a home to consist of one man and one woman(Matt. 19:4-6, Gen. 2:). By the way in paradise, Adam didn’t get 72 virgins like the hell-bound religion of Islam would tell you. Adam got one wife. Genesis 4:20-22 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. :21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. :22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Jubal was a musician and Tubalcain was a skilled craftsman. The concept that man evolved from cavemen is foreign to the Bible. The fact that man is born with an ability to reproduce with innate talents is just the way it has been since the garden of Eden. Although we may have better technology than 100 years ago, human intelligence hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past 4000 years. I believe they were smarter before the flood. After all, they were alive about ten times longer in a healthier environment where Adam who knew God personally was around for 930 years. Back then you didn’t need a Bible. You just followed your conscience. If you still weren’t sure, you could still ask Adam yourself if he was still living. In the fossil record(pre-flood, age of conscience era), they found fossilized bells, hammers, etc. as well as fossilized footprints of man and dinosaur living together. You can believe what the Creator said or you can believe what some God-hating evolutionist said.Genesis 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. :24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. Here we see the next record of murder. Lamech kills two people. Cain’s sin has multiplied through his lineage.Genesis 4:25-26 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. :26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. Seth is born and he replaces Abel in the lineage that Christ came from. From Seth comes Enos. As a result, people started getting saved(Rom. 10:13) and serving the Lord(Eccl. 12:13). What follows in Genesis 5 is Adam’s lineage through the birth of Noah.Genesis 5:1-2 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; :2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Here we see the lineage of Adam. In verse two we see that both the male and the female were called Adam before the fall. Notice, it said God created man(no evolution, I Tim. 6:20). God created them male and female(no LGBT, I was born this way, gender neutral, blah, blah, blah, Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:27). God blessed them both.Genesis 5:3-8 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: :4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: :5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. :6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos::7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: :8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. In the age of conscience before Noah’s flood, they lived longer(930, 912 & 905 years). Can you imagine how smart you would be if you did the same trade for 500 years in a row. Nevertheless, not too many dummies before the flood of Noah. So much for the idea of evolution. For more information go to and download, The Bible Timeline, Part I and see how Adam's genealogy lived in time, etc.. Adam, Seth and Enos all begat many sons and daughters that married one another. These sons and daughters did the same and as a result, the world was filling up with people. Genesis 5:9-20 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: :10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: :11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. :12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: :13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: :14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. :15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: :16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: :17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. :18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: :19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: :20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. If one were to draw out a chart with the fall of Adam at time 0, you would get Adam 0-930, Seth 130-937, Enos 235-1147, Cainan 325-1235, Mahalaleel 395-1290. Jared 460-1422. Enoch 622-987(taken up alive into heaven without seeing death), Methusaleh 687-1656, Lamech 874-1651 and Noah 1056-2006. Some observations would show that everyone was alive when Noah’s father Lamech was alive(excluding Abel). There are 126 years between the death of Adam and the birth of Noah. Abraham in Genesis 11: was 58 years old when Noah died. There are 1948 years from the fall of Adam to the birth of Abraham. Notice in chapter four that Cain’s lineage has no ages attached, probably because his lineage is destroyed by the flood. If you wanted to know the truth, just follow your good conscience, ask Adam who personally walked with God in a sinless state himself, or someone who asked Adam. Hence, no need for a written Bible. The spoken Bible would be good enough if you wanted to know the truth. Remember that everyone was a member of Adam’s family and that there were no nations formed until after the flood of Noah. Genesis 5:21-24 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: :22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: :23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: :24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Enoch walked with God. This is what God wants us to do. That’s what Adam and Eve did with God before the fall. God wants us to be totally sold out to him in all our ways (I Pet. 1:15-16). Holiness is keeping God’s commandments in the power of the Holy Ghost. When you walk with someone, you are in agreement(Amos 3:3), talking to them, right next to them and fellowshipping with them. Note that Enoch is the seventh generation from Adam whereas Noah is the tenth generation from Adam. Enoch is a picture of the rapture of the living saved people on earth(as well as is Elijah in the Old Testament). Jesus is coming back(I Th. 4:17-28). When the trumpet is blown, we will meet the Lord in the air and go to heaven. By the way, Enoch prophesied the second coming of Jesus(Jude 1:14-15). Genesis 5:25-32 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: :26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: :27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. :28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: :29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. :30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: :31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. :32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The lineage of Adam ends with Noah being the tenth generation. In verse 29 we see that children are supposed to be a blessing to their parents. This will be the case if you raise them right. If your kids are a shame or a curse to you because of their ungodly behavior, it’s because they weren’t raised right(Prov. 22:6). Finally we see that Noah has triplets. We know that Japheth came out first because he is called Japheth the elder(Gen. 10:21). Remember that when Esau and Jacob were born that they were twins(Gen. 25:23). Esau came out first and was considered the firstborn. These facts might seem trivial, but if you didn’t know that you might think that the bible has a contradiction in it. This is how the Devil deceives people into not believing God’s word literally or making a new updated modern perversion or version of God’s perfect word, the Old King James Bible for the English speaking people(Ps. 12:6-7).Genesis 6:1-3 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, :2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. :3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. The sons of God in the Old Testament are referring either to Adam(Luke 3:38) or the angels(Job 38:1-7)[see comments under Gen. 1:1]. We see the intermarriage of angels and women. These are the fallen angels of Jude :6, that left their heavenly state for the earth. Remember on earth that there are no wars or disease. There is no form of government other than the home or the knowledge of good and evil. In Greek mythology, we see the gods of heaven come down to earth to marry the women of the earth and have kids that would be both angel and man with superhuman powers and sizes. Now we know where their ideas come from as well as those who make comic books(e.g. Fantastic Four, Superman, Spiderman, etc.). Because of the sins of man of not following their good conscience, the judgment of God is passed. In 120 years of the proclamation, God destroyed the world with a worldwide flood.Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. As a result of an angel(who is a male, son of God) and a woman marrying, we see giants are born who are both angelic and human(remember that the seed goes through the male) with superhuman powers(they were mighty and men of renown). In the Bible, angels had the power to fly to the third heaven and back quickly. Angels are created to live forever and have superhuman powers(e.g. Isa. 38:36, Rev. 16:1, 20:1, etc.). Because of sin, the earth is going to be run by fallen angels who will fill the earth with their superior seed. This was not God’s plan, which was to fill the earth with a godly seed. By sending the flood, these angelic and human creatures would be destroyed. This is why the angels that sinned were put in hell(Jude :6). Otherwise after the flood, they could just do it again. A good Christian application here is that saved people shouldn’t marry lost people(II Cor. 6:14-17). In the new testament, God commands saved people to marry saved people. By the way, it doesn’t matter what race they are, how much money they have, and/or their age, etc., but that they are saved. The point here is that if you marry a lost person who doesn’t want to serve the Lord, it will bring a double spiritual standard in your home. It will affect how your kids are raised, whether a godly and/or ungodly influence. Usually in a compromised environment, sin always wins and the kids will come out lost or carnal(not wanting to serve the Lord wholeheartedly, Jud. 3:5-8). By the way, beware of ungodly influences in the world. That is why all my close friends are good Christians. Sure, I have dealings with lost and carnal people everyday.However, I don’t fellowship with them, because I don’t want their sinful desires rubbing off on me. I will be nice to them, witness to them, and encourage them to go to church.However, beyond that I will do nothing(II Cor. 6:14-17). If you start fellowshipping with lost people, your kids will eventually do it. Before you know it, they will want to marry someone who is lost(I Cor. 15:33).Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Because of the mixing, compromise takes over and eventually the spiritual line is completely corrupted. Every imagination is evil. Everyone is choosing evil, even though their conscience says it is wrong. So, given a perfect knowledge of good and evil, man chooses evil and not to serve the Lord. Hence, when you reject the Lord, judgment follows. Notice that a superior education in a superior environment(compared to today's standards) didn't help. Without God, you will go downhill(Pr. 1:7, 9:10, 21:30). Genesis 6:6-7 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. :7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. God pronounces that he will destroy man and all land animals, including the insects (creeping thing). However, God will not destroy the water animals, since all He has to do is leave them in the water. Note that some water animals got killed in the flood as evidenced in the fossil record, but not all of them. Here is the first time repent is used in the Bible. Repentance is a change of mind about something that leads to a change of action(fruit of repentance). God did not repent of sin, because God is sinless. God changes his mind about blessing or cursing a person and/or nation based on their behavior. God commands the lost sinner to repent or change his mind about his sin against God. This will lead a man to put his faith in God’s shed blood for the forgiveness of his past, present and future sins. The evidence of salvation today is the indwelling Holy Spirit(See Salvation Message at the end of the book). By the way, God has a heart. He is a person(Gen. 1:26). God has a soul and a spirit. That is why God has all the emotions of man, because He is a person. He is not an electrical force, a consciousness, just a spirit, etc.. For more information download, God, at .Genesis 6:8-9 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. This is how you escape God’s judgment or get grace. Get saved(escape hell) and walk with God(escape a curse in life). Grace is unmerited favor. Salvation is not earned, kept, nor maintained(Eph. 2:8-9). Noah was a saved man who was a preacher of righteousness(II Pet. 2:5). Noah was just or righteous before God(I Pet. 15-16) and Noah walked with God or had fellowship with God. Like in any dispensation, God wants man to get saved, live right, preach to others(evangelizing, teaching and/or preaching) and fellowship with God. Fellowship means you share the same interests, ideals, and/or experiences with another. It means you hang around and enjoy your time with someone. Genesis 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. As mentioned in Genesis 5:32, the three boys are triplets. Also in the Bible we see that truths are often repeated. This is done to emphasize a truth(Ex. 20:11, I Chr. 1:1, Acts 7:, etc.). Just like in school, when a truth is repeated or emphasized, it is important and probably will end up on your test and/ or it will serve as a foundational truth for something later in life. Biblical emphasized truths are foundational on which further truth is built. It is the same way with Christian living(Isa. 28:13, Heb. 5:13-14). Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. This is what sin produces, corruption and violence(Jam. 1:14-15). As a result, God commands Noah to build an ark and take seven of every clean animal(some will be sacrificed, Gen. 7:2-3] and two of every unclean animal and put them on the ark. Genesis 6:12-13 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. :13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. In Luke 17:26-27, 30, the Bible talks how the flood took the world by surprise, except for the eight people that boarded the ark. Not a how lot has changed today. We have scoffers of the Bible as well as multitudes of people who don’t take what God says seriously. They are just living their lives(eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage, planting and building, buying and selling) instead of preparing for Jesus’ return at the rapture of the new testament church. If you know that Jesus is returning, you would get saved and then live for Jesus. Sadly to say when Jesus returns, most won’t be ready. Many will end up in hell who are lost. Christians will be embarrassed at the judgment seat of Christ, when they have few or no rewards(II Cor. 5:10). However in Noah’s day, they were given the 120 year warning: Judgment is coming, repent or perish. They were told to believe on the Savior slain before the foundation of the world who will later die on the cross for their sins. They were told that if they got saved, they would go to Abraham’s bosom after death and after the future crucifixion they would be taken up to heaven. They were told that God would reward their good works for serving him here on earth. However, the world didn’t listen and God judged them. By the way, all of the coal and oil reserves are a result of humans, plants and animals under extreme pressure(See for more info.). Coal and oil was a result of a worldwide flood or the judgment of God. Today the world uses coal and oil for everyday fuel usage. The moral of the story is that God wanted to use man for his glory. Since man rejected him, He found another use for them. Likewise, if you don’t get saved and die lost, you will be used as firewood for hell and then the lake of fire forever. When you sin against an infinite God, it requires an infinite punishment. Don’t let this happen to you or anyone you come in contact with. Believe the gospel and preach the gospel to the lost. Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Pitch is a resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines. Pitch can refer to any of various thick, dark, sticky substances obtained from the distillation residue of coal tar, wood tar, or petroleum. Pitch is used for waterproofing, roofing, caulking and paving. We see that the gopher wood was waterproofed with pitch so it wouldn’t sink or get water in it. Noah’s ark was sealed with pitch and those on board were saved from destruction. Likewise the Christian is sealed with the Holy Ghost when he gets saved from hell or is born again(Eph. 1:13).Genesis 6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. Today, for a six foot man, a cubit is about eighteen inches. According to the fossil record, human skeletons were between ten to twelve feet long. Therefore a cubit would be between thirty to thirty six inches. However if we go with an eighteen inch cubit, the ark would be 450’ long, 75’ wide and 45’ high. A thirty six cubit is 900’x 150’x 90’.For those who are given to worldly entertainment, 450 feet is one and a half football fields long. The ark is three stories tall and would look more like an ocean liner than a houseboat. Given an eighteen inch cubit gives the ark over 1.5 million cubic feet. A thirty six inch cubit gives over 12 million cubic feet. If Noah had two of every animal(the babies or the young and small ones) and food for everyone for 370 days, there would be enough room on the ark for everyone with space left over. The space left over could have been for other souls that could have gotten saved. However, they rejected God(II Pet. 3:9) and missed the trip. As always, God is sufficient and knows what He is doing. Genesis 6:16-17 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. :17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. A window at the top of the ark was one cubit. Opening the window would let the smell of the ark out. After all you have the odor of every animal and eight humans for 370 days. I am sure they had soap and shower system on board like they do on most ships today, but it would still stink some. By the way, they could have brought clean water on the ark along with a bathtub, etc.. Also, you have a window to look out of to see that the rain has stopped, the water has receded and land has reappeared. There was also a covering on the upper deck of the ark(Gen. 8:13) above the third floor that one could look out of. Once again, God repeats a truth that He will destroy every land breathing inhabitant whether human or animal(Gen. 6:7, and notes under Gen. 6:10). The bible is written so man can review and learn something new. You only miss the truth because you don't read and study your bible(II Tim. 2:15). Genesis 6:18-20 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. :19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. :20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. Here is the first occurrence of the word covenant which means a solemn agreement that is binding on all parties. The covenant is between Noah and God, which is often referred to as the Noahic covenant. God started His spiritual lineage with Adam and now he will continue it through Noah(Genesis 3:15). By the way, this lineage goes through Abraham, through David and through Christ. Hence, prophecy is fulfilled. God preserves His creation by bring two of every land dwelling creature, male and female, into the ark. This is how God started His creation, by making two of every creature, to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. God is destroying the world and starting over with Noah and his wife, along with his sons and their wives, to repopulate the world for God. Notice that God said male and female for the animals. It was never God’s intention for homosexuality to be practiced or to prosper with man(Lev. 18:22. Rom. 1:27). If everyone became a homosexual and only practiced it, there would be no reproduction. Mankind would go extinct in one generation. Genesis 6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Noah made all the preparations for the preservation of life, including food for 370 days for everyone on board the ark(Gen. 8:14-16). Noah gathered food for the animals as well. Noah took care of God's creation. Although I am not an environment far left whacko, Christians should take care of God's environment, animals and ecosystem. This by the way leads to clean water and no air pollution, etc.. Also, the animals don't go extinct and reproduce accordingly. Certain animals are needed for food(chicken, cow, etc.) and clothing(sheep), etc..Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. This is God’s will for every Christian alive. To obey God in everything as well as find God’s will for your life and do it(Eccl. 12:13). Noah’s walk with God saved his life, his families lives, the animals on board and all the future generations of animals and humans born thereafter. Also, Noah inherited the whole world with all its possessions without the corruption that went with it. Furthermore, Noah lived another 350 years after the flood so he could tell the generations after about the blessings and the need to do all that God commands you.Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. The Bible says “come thou” not go in. This implies that Noah and his family are going into the ark where God is. Like the Christian, God through the indwelling Holy Spirit goes everywhere we go. When God leads, we go everywhere He goes. Noah is righteous or he practices right. Christians have a right to do righteousness. They don’t have a right to do wrong. This is why the “right to choose” crowd in America for abortion are perverted murderers(Ex. 20:13). God only gives Christians the freedom to do right, he never gives them freedom to do wrong. Genesis 7:2-3 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. :3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. Noah is commanded to take seven of every clean animal and bird(which would be used for animal sacrifices to the Lord) and two of every unclean animal to keep animal life alive on the earth. Seed refers to the future births of these animals.Genesis 7:4-5 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. :5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. There is a seven day waiting period between the time Noah enters the ark and the rain falling. God reiterates what He said before. Noah continues to obey God in everything. The way the Christian has continual spiritual victory is to continually obey God in everything.Genesis 7:6-9 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. :7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. :8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, :9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. Noah is 600 years old when he enters the ark and his sons are each 100 years old. At this point there is 1656 years that passed since the time of Adam’s fall in the garden. Noah was the first generation in Adam’s lineage that did not get to talk to Adam personally. However, Noah lived by faith and believed what God said and that was enough(Heb. 11:39, 12:6). Noah brought the animals in two pairs at a time in an organized manner(I Cor. 14:40). They all went into the ark on the same day(Genesis 7:13) and then waited six more days for the rain to start.Genesis 7:10-12 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. :12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The ice canopy or the water above the firmament(Gen. 1:7) or first heaven came down in the form of rain. Up to that time in history, it had not rained(Gen. 2:5). Note that the waters that provided the sprinkling system(Gen. 2:6) came up(a reference for an underground ocean under Asia the size of the Artic ocean about 400-800 miles beneath the surface, ). The underground oceans in the earth burst open and came up while the water from the ice canopy came down at God’s command, thus flooding the earth in 40 days. By the way it says the windows of heaven, implying that you could see through it. According to it made astronomy a whole lot easier. Noah was probably thought of as the lunatic fringe in his day. No rain for 1536 years and Noah preached to the world: God is going to send rain and flood the earth in judgment. It wasn’t until 120 years later that the rain came. What a laughing stock they must have made of Noah everywhere he went. He builds an ocean liner sized boat to float in water and he is in the middle of a dry land locked region where it hasn’t rained for 1656 years. However, Noah was right and the world who rejected his message were wrong(I Cor. 1:18). Genesis 7:13-16 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; :14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. :15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. :16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. Eight humans and two of every land animals including insects and seven of every clean animals went into the ark. Notice that the Bible says that the Lord shut Noah in. God commanded them to go into the ark where God was and God shut the door after they entered. There was only one door and one way into the ark and once you are in, you are in(John 10:9). Genesis 7:17-20 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. :18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. :19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. :20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. God spoke his word and 120 years later it came to pass. By the way, Noah would have been 480 years old when he got the word of judgment from God or sometime thereafter. He had 120 years to build an ark, have kids and raise a family that would live godly. His future generations would populate the world that is today. For the Christian, God starts you out with nothing and has you build a Christian work or ministry for Him(your ark). Afterward, you raise a godly generation of believers(Matt. 28:18-20) that will be the spiritual salt of the earth in today’s generation and the generation to come.Genesis 7:21-23 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: :22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. :23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. The judgment of God comes to pass and only eight humans survive. The flood waters are a picture of water baptism today. Water baptism is a picture of a lost person’s sins being buried under water(dying to sin) and being raised up a new creature through the blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Ghost(II Cor. 5:17). The protective ice canopy falls on the earth and the waters from beneath are broken up. The greenhouse effect on the earth with no rain and perfect weather is no more. The earth will have good weather and bad weather, cold seasons and hot seasons. Since the environment has changed for the worse, the average lifespan on earth drops off.Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. After 40 days of rain, we have the earth under water for 150 days, before the water receded. This explains why we have sea salt deposits on the top of the mountains, why we have a worldwide fossil record and places like Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon(, for more in depth scientific evidence for Noah’s flood and the creation of the universe). The flood left evidence of the mighty judgment of God on a sinful world. When you sin against God, judgment in the end will prevail. You will reap what you sow, you will reap more than you sow and you will reap later than you sow. It’s amazing how one sin in the garden of Eden by Mr. and Mrs. Adam, when full grown, resulted in the destruction of the planet by water(Rom. 14:7, Jam. 1:15).Genesis 8:1-3 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; :2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; :3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. God had a covenant or agreement with Noah(Gen. 6:18). God always keeps His side of the bargain. God sends a wind over the earth and causes the water level to drop. Also, the waters from above and below were stopped. After 150 days, the waters dropped enough for the ark to rest upon the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Noah’s ark is still found on the mountains of Ararat(around 150 miles northeast of the Tigris river, about 14,000 plus feet high), although it has broken into two pieces according to some explorers. The flood left evidence of the mighty judgment of God in this world. In Noah’s days, no one thought that God would destroy them instantly. Today there is much controversy over whether Noah’s ark exists or has been found. However, it isn’t a science problem but a moral one. It’s the same when you find scientific evidence to prove a young earth or creation. If it is true, then the Bible is right and evolution and every false religion on the planet is wrong(John 14:16). If Noah’s ark was a mere ancient artifact with no spiritual implications, it would have been proven legitimate a long time ago. It’s nice to know in God’s wisdom that He left an ark the size of an ocean linear 14,000 feet up so no one could destroy it. Also, over 4400 years later, He put it in a spot where you could see it. Isn’t it rather peculiar that every time evidence for the Bible shows up, it is covered up, ignored, or quickly debunked, even though it is obviously correct. Yet, when supposed evidence for evolution shows up, it is quickly publicized and promoted, even though it is obviously false(I Tim. 6:20). The same can be said for the phony gay gene and global warming, etc.. Science has been hijacked to discriminate against the bible(Gal. 4:28-31).Genesis 8:5-9 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. :6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: :7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. :8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; :9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. The first day of the tenth month is 224 days after the rain started and one could see the mountain tops from the ark. Forty days later or at day 264, Noah opened the window of the ark(Gen. 6:16) and sent forth a raven and a dove. The raven is an unclean bird whereas a dove is a clean bird. The dove returns whereas the raven does not(I John 2:19-20). This is a picture of a false Christian who claimed to know Christ and later departs from the faith. He was never saved to begin with. Genesis 8:10-12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; :11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. :12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. At day 271 after the flood started Noah sends out the dove again and it returns with a piece of olive leaf. By the way, the dove was used as a sacrifice(Luke 2:23-24) after a birth. Under the Age of Law and in the New Testament, the dove is a picture of the Holy Ghost(Matt. 3:16). The old world was buried and then made alive again or reborn or born again. This is a picture of baptism(I Pet. 3:20-21) which illustrates salvation(II Cor. 5:17). The dove is a picture of the saved person(John 1:12) who through obedience to God’s word bears fruit (olive leaf, John 15:8). The dove pictures the saved person who gives a witness to the whole world(those on the ark, Matt. 28:18-20), who are from the old world(walking in sin), of the change that has occurred as a result hanging out in the new world(walking with Christ). In the Bible God allows things to happen for a reason. Not only is it factual, but it has a spiritual application to the Christian’s life. Seven days later at day 278, the dove takes off and does not return. The dove has a place to rest her foot(Gen. 8:9), thus signifying that the world is inhabitable again. By the way, here is an example for using animals in science and medicine for the benefit of humanity. God gave man dominion over the animals for the benefit of mankind. Animals don’t have souls, so if they die during the experiment, it’s not the end of the world. If a human dies, he either dies lost or has no more opportunity to serve the Lord.For Noah, if it’s safe for the bird then it will be safe for the human. Man should not be cruel to animals(Pr. 12:10), but he should also not be deceived by the animal rights crowd.Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. At day 314, since the flood rains started, the waters were dried up from the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark that led to the top deck on top of the third floor ceiling. Even though the ground was dry, God waited another 8 weeks before Noah left the ark. This happened so that the plants would have a chance to start growing normally again and the landscape returning to a state of normalcy, etc.. Genesis 8:14-16 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. :15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, :16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. At day 370, God gives Noah and his family the command to leave the ark and go into the new world of today. This would be the beginning of the Age of Human Government. It spans the Bible from Genesis 8:-11:. The test here is with man in charge of man, otherwise known as human government, will he serve the Lord? Before the flood, there was just one race and one family. Hence, the family was the form of government. Now with the races and nations created(Gen. 10:), there is a need for a more broad form of government or a human government over a nation. Since there are several nations, each nation would have to choose to serve God and be ruled by God’s laws as a nation. The family institution is still valid, but now the members of a family are subject to national laws like we are today.Genesis 8:17-19 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. :18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: :19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. Once again, man, animal and insect is given the command to breed abundantly and be fruitful and multiply on the earth(just like in Genesis chapter one). The difference now is that the environment has changed and the life spans of man, animal and insect will drop off as well as the size of man, animal and insect(Compare the sizes of fossilized human, animal and insects caused by the worldwide flood to the sizes of today). E.g. A ten foot iguana under the pre-flood conditions could grow up to 300 feet long. What we would call dinosaurs were just reptiles of today that grew with respect to their surrounding environment(Biologists call this the reptiles indeterminate growth cycle). Given a smaller worldwide food supply and a less friendly environment to animals, God gave man permission now to eat the animals. Also, with the change in oxygen content, it would be harder for some animals to breathe. E.g. Notice how small the noses are for some of the extinct dinosaurs(reptiles). All these factors would contribute to why certain animals have gone extinct over the years. Genesis 8:20-21 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. :21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Noah builds an altar and sacrifices some clean animals to the Lord(This is why they took seven of each clean animal). As a result, God promises not to curse the ground anymore(E.g. results from the fall of Adam and change in environment after the flood) and not to destroy the world by a worldwide flood again.Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The world with a perfect environment is destroyed. The earth has seasons of hot and cold, where before it was a constant temperature all around the globe. One can only plant and harvest at certain times of the year, where before you could plant and harvest all year round.Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Noah gets the commission to replenish or fill the earth again with people. This was the same commission Adam was given(Genesis 1:28). Spiritually this is the commission that God has given to Christians(Matt. 28:19-20), to multiply and fill the earth with a bunch of born again Christians who live godly for Jesus after the commandments in the Bible. Every generation has this commission: Preach, save, baptize and teach. Remember that living godly means keeping the commandments of God in the power of the Holy Ghost. The bible is the Old King James version for the English speaking people.Genesis 9:2-3 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. :3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. In the Age of Human Government, animals now have the fear of man in them. Also, it is now okay for man to eat animals for food. Before the flood, one didn’t have to worry about out of control wildlife, etc.(Large reptiles(now called dinosaurs) walking around wouldn’t cause man trouble because they were friendly and all plant eaters). According to , under a hyperbaric chamber environment, poisonous snakes venom would not be poisonous if bitten. Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. All through the Bible, the eating of blood is forbidden(Lev. 17:11, Acts 15:20). That is why the Catholic mass isn’t of the Bible. They believe they are eating Christ’s literal blood. If so, they are sinning against God(Acts 15:20) because it is forbidden.Genesis 9:5-6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. :6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. If a beast or a man killed a man, he was to be killed or executed. It didn’t matter whose brother did it. If you were a high ranking leader in the human government and your brother murdered someone, you couldn’t get your brother a lighter sentence or a pardon because of who you were or how much money you had. Your brother was put to death. Here we see corporal punishment being instituted. Man is responsible for judging another man if he kills someone else unjustly(which is called murder, the act of killing someone when you don’t have the authority to do so). In the Bible, war killing, police killing, etc. are not murder because they are acting under the powers of a government, whether, county, state, federal, etc.. Accidental killings are not murder either(like on the job accidents). However, abortion is murder because it is a pre-meditated act that is carried out by a doctor(Gen. 25:23) with the consent of the woman. Once again, the test of man in the Age of Human Government is with man in charge of man under a form of national government, will he serve the Lord? Sadly to say, we see that man fails again(Rom. 3:4). Genesis 9:7-11 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. :8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, :9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; :10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. :11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. This is a repeat of Genesis 6:18-20, 8:17(see comments there). Just like in the New Testament Church, it is always review and something new, etc..Genesis 9:12-14 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: :13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. :14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: The token of the covenant or agreement between God and the earth, Noah and future generations of Noah is the rainbow, which from the earth or ground looks like a bow of a bow and arrow. 35,000 feet up in the air in an airplane it actual makes a full circle (personally observation). That is why you can never find the end of a rainbow and the mythical pot of gold. Sadly to say, the sodomites of West Hollywood, CA and other places have decided to use the rainbow as a symbol. They take the American flag with red and white stripes and replace it with the colors of the rainbow. Like I said earlier in the book, the Devil is a pervert who only perverts what God made. He creates nothing good on his own. The true meaning of the colors of the American flag are that red means hardiness and valor. White signifies purity and innocence. Blue is the color of the Chief. The star symbolizes heaven and the goal all men have been striving for. The stripe is a ray of light from the sun() Genesis 9:15-17 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. :16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth The rainbow is a symbol or token that God will not destroy the earth again by water. It is an everlasting covenant between the land breathing animals and the humans on the earth.Genesis 9:18-19 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. :19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. We see that there are three lines of people who will fill the earth. The sons of Shem, Japheth, and Ham. From these all the nations can be traced. Genesis chapter 10 goes in a more detailed description on who came from who and where they went afterward into the world, etc.. Ham’s first son is called Canaan and is emphasized for what is about to take place.Genesis 9:20-21 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: :21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Here we see that getting drunk on the fermented wine(alcohol) and nakedness go hand in hand. That’s why the Bible forbids the drinking of fermented wine(Prov. 23:31). If you are not supposed to look at it, you certainly are not supposed to drink it. Christians are commanded to be filled with the Spirit, not with fermented wine or alcohol(Eph. 5:18). Drinking the fermented wine or any other alcoholic beverage that is not used for medical purposes(I Tim. 5:23) leads to drunkenness, nakedness and fornication. It’s no different today. Any barroom on any college campus on any weekend that school is in session will prove that to be true.Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. Noah’s nakedness is for his wife, not anyone else including his son(Lev. 18:7).Nakedness is only for the married couple(Lev. 18:, Heb. 13:4), where marriage is only between one man and one woman(Matt. 19:4-6, Lev. 18:22). A man’s nakedness is never for another man. By the way, God promises to punish homosexuals for their abominable practice in this lifetime(Rom. 1:27). Genesis 9:24-27 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. :25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. :26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. :27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Because of Ham’s sin, the line of Canaan his son is cursed to serve his brethren. When looking at the nations in chapter 10 and where they went, it can be traced through history up until today. The nations that came from Canaan ended up serving or being of a lesser national power than the nations that came from Shem or Japheth. E.g. world powers through history, like Spain and England came from the line of Japheth. They conquered the American Indians who can be traced from Shem and dwelt in their lands or tents. We know that when Israel went into the promised land or the land of Canaan(Book of Joshua), they either killed their enemies or put them to servitude. The practical application for today is that if parents don’t live for the Lord in everything, it might bring a curse on one of their kids family tree. Usually, there is a kid in the family that will copy your sin and take it to the next level. However, if you do right, he won’t have a bad example to follow. The line of Japheth will get bigger and occupy the countries of Shem. The line of Shem is blessed(by the way, this is the line that Jesus is born out of). The line of Canaan is cursed to serve the lines of Shem and Japheth.Genesis 9:28-29 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. :29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. Noah lived in the age of conscience, where they had a perfect knowledge of good and evil. Noah’s daddy(Lamech) was alive when Adam was alive. Noah lived 350 years after the flood. Abram, later Abraham, the father of the Jews was alive the final 58 years of Noah’s life. Therefore, perfect truth was passed down word of mouth and no written Bible was needed. All you had to do was ask Noah, etc.. Genesis 10:1-2 "Now these are the generations of the Sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. What follows in Genesis 10: is the family lines of Ham, Shem, and Japheth. They can also be found in I Chronicles 1:. The following information in Genesis chapter ten about what each name means and where they initially settled after the Tower of Babel will be listed. This brief summary was taken from chapter ten(about 10% of it) of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman’s book on Genesis(1-800-477-8812). The information in chapter ten alone is worth ten times the price of the book). Gomer(Ezek. 38:6) means completion. His descendents settled in North Germany and Wales. Magog means to dread or to fear. His descendents settled in Turkey and the Ukraine. The Bible talks about the land of Magog(Ezek. 38:2). People calling lands or cities still happens today(e.g. Stalingrad was named after the Russian leader Joseph Stalin). Madai means middle. His descendants settled in Assyria. Javan means bubbling up or fermenting. His descendants settled in Western Turkey, Thrace and Macedonia. Elishah’s descendants settled in Sicily. Tarshish means hard. His descendants settled in Western Italy and Spain. Kittim means to hide away or to soil or to stain. His descendants went to Cyprus, Italy and Greece. Dodanim means love or beloved. His descendants settled in Greece and South Italy. Tubal means to profane. His descendants went to Armenia and Turkey. Meshech means oil or mixture. His descendants went to Northern Armenia and Asia Minor. Tiras means severe or austere. His descendants went to Thracia..Genesis 10:3-4 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. :4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Ashkenaz’s descendents settled in Germany or Turkey. Riphath’s decendents went to Turkey and the Balkans. Togarmah’s decendents went to Northern Armenia. Genesis 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. The nations were after their tongue. We will see that at the tower of Babel, all the languages were made. The races came from or started at birth. The most obvious Bible reference for this is that of the birth of Jacob and Esau(Genesis 25:23). The Bible says that two nations and two people were in the womb of Isaac’s wife. Their skin was different(smooth vs. hairy), their color was different(red vs. light brown-color of the people of Israel of today) and they represented two nations or peoples(Israel and Edom).Notice that verse five says ‘after their families, in their nations’. Nations of people were being born within the family. Other obvious examples are the Ammonites(Gen. 19:38) and the Moabites(Gen. 19:37). Today, in the last ten years or so there was a statistic that recorded ten million births where four of the births had either two blacks giving birth to a white child or two whites giving birth to a black child. This just shows you that in the human DNA code, any color or characteristic is ordained by God from birth. In Genesis 34:16, 21 we see the Hivites trying to make a deal with the future nation of Israel(Jacob) to become one people. This is done by mixing the two races together through marriages. This is how other nations and peoples came about on earth by the mixing of two nations or peoples. However, they were all one language and speech up to the tower of Babel(Gen. 11:). The tower of Babel can be traced to when Peleg was alive(in his days the earth was divided in their lands and nations, after their tongue or language, etc.. Remember that the commission to Noah was to fill the earth, not stay in one place and build a tower to heaven to make a name for mankind. God made the nations through birth and then changed the languages because He knew that this would cause the people of the earth to separate into nations. Notice the word isles which means islands. The human race back then had the technology to sail or migrate to islands(e.g. England, Ireland, Australia, Japan, Hawaii, Taiwan, or wherever there is a country surrounded by water. By the way, the people could have easily traveled to most of the globe by foot or small boat. Remember that a few miles in the Bering Strait separates Russia from Alaska. North and South America are connected. Other than Antarctica where basically no one lives today, the whole earth was and is covered by people and separated into nations. The first time the word Gentile appears in the Bible refers to Japheth’s descendants. In the New Testament it refers to a non-Jew(Rom. 11:7-13). The world was divided in the days of Peleg which occurred during the years 1757-1996 after the fall of Adam. This would be the confusing of the languages at the tower of Babel(Gen. 11:). Remember that Abraham received the promise of God(Gen. 12:) at age 75 or 2023 years after the fall of Adam. This is when the Age of Promise begins, so the tower of Babel and the division of the nations probably occurred closer to year 1996. After they were divided, everyone migrated to a different place on earth and formed a nation. There was continual migrations until the whole world was filled with nations (with the exception of Antarctica). This would be also true for the descendants of Ham and Shen. Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. Ham means burnt or heat. Cush means black or Ethiopian. Cush’s descendants went to Ethiopia and Arabia. Mizraim means Egypt or distresses. His descendants went to Egypt. Phut means bow. His descendants went to Libya. Canaan’s descendants went to Sodom and Gomorrah(Gen. 10:19). His other descendants are the Amorites and Jebusites. Genesis 10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. Seba means sucking up or absorbing. His descendants went to the North of Ethiopia. Havilah and Sabtah’s descendants went to Arabia. Rasmah means trembling. His descendants went to the Southeast end of Arabia by the Persian Gulf. Sabtecha’s descendants went to the East coast of Arabia near the Raamahites. Sheba means an oath or seven. His descendants went to Arabia. Dedan’s descendants went to the Persian Gulf (Isa. 21:13).Genesis 10:8-10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Nimrod means rebel or panther. From Nimrod came the tower of Babel. He was responsible for the people rebelling against God. The descendants of Nimrod(Mic. 5:6) settle next to the land or Assyria and thus would be the country of Babylon. Nimrod was the first king of Babylon and the first worldwide power. Other worldwide powers in the Bible are Egypt(Gen. 41:47), Assyria(Isa. 37:11) Babylon (Dan. 2:37-38), Media-Persia(Dan. 5:31), Greece(Dan. 8), Rome(Acts 25:21) and Babylon the Great, mother of harlots(Rev. 17:1-6). All the cities Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh are all within 200 miles of Babylon, thus identifying the area as Shinar. Genesis 10:11-12 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, :12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. Asshur is a son of Shem(Gen. 11:22). He leaves and founds Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah and Resen. The cities of Resen and Calah are within 80 miles of Nineveh(Jon. 3:3, Nah. 1:-3:).Genesis 10:13-14 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, :14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. Ludim’s descendants went to Mauritania in West Africa. Anamim means the rock men. His descendants probably went to North or Northwest Egypt. Lehabim are the Lubims of North Africa, west of Egypt(II Chr. 12: 3, Nah 3:9). Naphtuhim means flamed colored or red. His descendants went to Central Egypt. Pathrusim, means the Pathros in upper Egypt(Isa. 11:11; Jer. 44: 1). Casluhim settled in Egypt and their descendants are the Philistines. Caphtorim descendants probably went to Crete where the Philistines first settled(Jer. 47:4, Amos 9:7). Genesis 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, Sidon has a city named after him(Josh 11:8), located on the sea coast North of Caesarea and Tyre. Heth means terrible. The descendants of Heth are found in Genesis 23:3,5,7. Gen 10:16-20 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, :17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, :18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. :19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. The list of people and nations here are all found in the land of Canaan or the promised land before Joshua led the children of Israel in the book of Joshua. Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities that were destroyed because of their homosexual practices(Gen. 19:24).Once again, each family was used of God to multiply into the countries and nations of the world. Genesis 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. Eber means beyond the river or a shoot or sprout. Japheth the elder implies that Japheth was the firstborn of triplets. Jacob and Esau were twins, but Esau came out first, hence the older brother(Gen. 25:23).Genesis 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Elam means youth. His descendents settled in Iraq. Asshur means level plain. His descendents went to Assyria. Arphaxad’s descendants went to Assyria. Lud’s descendants went to Eastern Asia Minor. Aram means the high land and his descendants went to Syria.Genesis 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. Uz means firmness. Uz descendants went to Jordan. Uz is the founder of the land of Uz(Job 1: 1). The book of Job occurred after the tower of Babel since the Sabeans and Chaldeans are two separate nations(Job 1:15, 19). Also, the book of Job occurred before Moses because Job was still offering personal sacrifices to God(No tabernacle or temple). Hul means circle. Hul’s descendants went to Armenia and Syria. Gether and Mash are currently unlocated.Genesis 10:24-25 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. :25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan." Salah means extension and is currently unlocated. Eber is the father of Abraham who is the father of the Hebrew nation. Peleg means division. In the days of Peleg(1757-1996 after the fall of Adam) the confusing of the languages occurred(Gen. 11:) and the people of the earth divided into several peoples or countries. Joktan means little. His descendants went to Arabia.Genesis 10:26-29 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, :27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, :29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. All the sons of Joktan are Arabians. Ophir is where Solomon bought a lot of gold(1Ki. 9:28).Genesis 10:30-31 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. :31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. Mesha to Sephar is the seaport of Muza, at the mouth of the Tigris River. By the way, the lineage of Jesus goes through Shem. Genesis 10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. We see that Genesis ten gives us the history where all the nations came after the flood. Hence the term was coined the Age of Human Government or National Government. This is how the earth is governed still today. It will stay this way until after the rapture of the New Testament church, where the antichrist sets up a one world government.Genesis 11:1-2 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. :2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. God told Noah, that he and his descendents were to fill the earth, not gather together in one place. In the land of Shinar, Nimrod’s kingdom, you see man rebelling against God’s commission. The whole earth of people is gathered into one place.Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. Now notice, brick and slime are man-made, whereas stone and mortar are God-made.By the way, religion is man-made whereas the Bible is God-made(Ps. 138:2, 19:7, 12:6-7). The Pharisee makes up and keeps rules of man that contradict God’s rules, while the Sadducee ignores the clear teachings of God. Both claim to be spiritual and of God. Religions today will either add to the gospel(e.g. you have to have faith in Jesus plus do good works to be saved or to stay saved, Tit. 3:5). Other religions will subtract from the gospel and say things like have faith in Jesus, but Jesus was the Son of God, but not God[I John 5:20-says Jesus is God and the Son of God]. They may claim that Jesus didn’t have a bodily resurrection, just a spiritual resurrection[Acts 1:1-11), etc.. Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. The people of the earth are using the wrong materials to build the wrong work for the wrong purpose. Sounds like a great application to the phony Christian religions of today (like Catholicism, Methodist, Episcopal, Church of Christ, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, etc.) or phony non-Christian religions of today(like Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.). Anyways, God did not tell them to build a city and a tower whose top reaches up to heaven so they could be famous. He told them to fill the face of the whole earth. Now the solution to the world’s problems is not that everyone unites and there is one language, one nation and one world government. The solution is to do what God says and have several sovereign nations who rule themselves. That is why the United Nations and any other world uniting organization is destined to fail. It is not God’s plan. God knows that man is a sinner. Too much power with one man will lead to a dictatorship and much corruption. He will try to make a name for himself rather than make a name for the Lord. People will start following him over the Bible. That is why I believe every nation should be sovereign with independent states. This way not one person or a group of persons won’t get too much power and try to control the rest of the country for their own benefit(typical in a dictatorship). The founding fathers who believed in the Old King James Bible had it right. Independent states should rule themselves and be united as one nation under God. The independent states were under a Constitution. This is known as a republic. For a practical application for today, God and the Bible in America used to be first, the people under the Constitution was second and public officials who worked to keep order were third. Today we have a democracy under one federal government. When the south lost the civil war, some states rights were centralized under a federal government. It has gotten worse and worse over time and as a result, America is more of a democracy than a republic. Now, I am not teaching you to rebel and hate the U.S. government. All I am saying is that God’s way of human government is the best. This will lead to a republic and not a democracy, which can lead to an absolute democracy which becomes a dictatorship. That is why God made the New Testament churches to be independent and self governing. You put one church or one person in charge with too much power, it will lead to corruption. He will try to make a name for himself rather than make a name for the Lord. People will start following him over the Bible. That is why I am against the doctrine of unlimited pastoral authority(go to and download, Proper Authority). Beyond the direction and purity of the church, the pastor has no authority. That is why I don’t believe in churches uniting under a denomination with an overall leader. E.g. Catholics, Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, etc.. The result turns out that over time, church tradition or one man’s popular teachings will overrule the final authority of the Bible. I challenge you, ask your religious leader if he believes that the Bible is preserved perfect without error in English(The Old King James Bible for the English speaking people). If so, ask him which one it is(All modern Bibles are either based on known corrupted manuscripts(NIV, ESV, NASB, NEB, ESV, etc. or have alternate readings from corrupt manuscripts in them(e.g. NKJV). You know your in the wrong church when people will fear and reverence the man and his teachings more than God. Every church has its own personal needs, with people with individual needs. God made unique individual creations, not a bunch of clones. It is okay for independent churches to work together as one group under God. However, that is as far as it goes. They are still independently governed.Genesis 11:5-6 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. :6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. God sees the rebellion of man. Man fails the test of human government. With man in charge of man, will he not serve God. As a result, judgment follows.Genesis 11:7-9 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. :8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. :9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. God scatters all the people across the face of the earth. He changes their languages so that people of the same nationality have the same language. Hence, the people could not communicate as one. Those who could communicate banded together and went to their own lands. Over time people started learning other people’s languages, but by then the scatter across the globe was complete.Genesis 11:10-26 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood::11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah::13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber::15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg::17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu::19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug::21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor::23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah::25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Shem lived from 1556-2158. Arphaxad lived from 1658-2096, Selah lived from 1693-2126, Eber lived from 1723-2187, Peleg lived from 1757-1996, Reu lived from 1787-2026, Serug lived from 1819-2049, Nahor lived from 1849-1997, Terah lived from 1878-2083(Genesis 10:32) and Abram lived from 1948-2123(Gen. 25:7). All these ages are the number of years after the fall of Adam. Download, The Bible Timeline, Part II at ) to see how their lifespans fall with respect to each other, etc.. The ages of man after the flood are shorter than before the flood. When the protective ice canopy came down, the environment of the earth changed, which had an adverse effect on the age of man(). There is hot and cold weather, hurricanes, diseases, etc. that were not there before the flood, not to mention that the world was just wrecked by a worldwide disaster. It is seen that the Age of Human Government ends(starting at 1996 and officialy at 2023), whereas the Age of Promise begins at 2023(Gen. 12:4). Noah and Shem both saw the failure in the Age of Conscience(1656) as well as the Age of Human Government. Noah didn’t learn his lesson from Adam in the failures of multiplying his spirituality into future generations(I Tim. 2:2). In today’s Christianity, there are some people who know how to serve God and have great knowledge of the scriptures, but their ability to teach it isn’t very good. E.g. when I was in graduate school at U.S.L(now called U.L.L.), I taught pre-college Algebra and introduction to Statistics. I knew my Algebra and Statistics backwards and forwards, but getting the point across to incoming freshmen and/or undergraduates was a lot harder than I thought. It’s easy as a teacher to blame your teaching failures on the students( although blame can go both ways or the other way). However, when you have newborn Christians that have a zeal for God or Christians who decide to sell out, you must be patient and work with them. Some will have carnal baggage and/or their understanding of the scriptures aren’t as advanced as yours. Remember that it took Jesus three years to train the apostles(some were just unlearned fishermen). You can’t teach three years of Christianity in three weeks or on your learning schedule. It is seen that Abram is the 20th generation since Adam was created, with Adam being the first. So much for creation and unscientific evolution(I Tim. 6:20) being in agreement. Creationism(God created the world in six literal days and over 4400 years ago there was a worldwide flood) is not religion(like evolution), but a fact. You can believe God now or believe him at the day of your judgment(II Cor. 5:10-saved or Rev. 20:12-13-lost). It is also seen that Shem and Arphaxad outlive Abram. This shows you that God isn’t interested in the one who is the oldest, wisest, richest, and/or strongest, etc.. God is interested in the one who will believe and obey God by faith(Heb. 12:6). This is why God chose Abram(Gen. 15:6) over everyone else to begin the Age of Promise. The test in the Age of Promise is if God speaks to a man, will man follow what that man says. The Age of Promise ends with Moses(Ex. 19:18). Also, Shem, Arphaxad, Selah and Eber are alive when Isaac(2048, Abram’s son) and Jacob and Esau(shortly after 2088, Isaac’s sons) are born. During 2023-2034 Abram sees Jesus as an Angel of the Lord(Gen. 14:18-20, John 8:56-58, Heb. 7:1-4). Remember that Noah and Shem saw Jesus as an Angel of the Lord in the ark(Gen. 7:1). Adam saw God(Gen. 2:-3:) just like Moses(Age of Law) saw God (Ex. 33:20-23). The point here is that regardless of the Age, God always shows himself to those that believe. Today in the Age of Grace, we have the indwelling Holy Ghost (John 1:12). In the Age of the Kingdom, they will see Jesus on the throne(Rev. 20:).Genesis 11:27-32 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Ha'-ran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. Abram, Nahor and Haran are triplets. Lot is the son of Haran and the grandchild of Terah. Abram marries Sarai. Nahor marries Milcah or his niece(the daughter of Haran). Sarai doesn’t have a son until Isaac is born(2048 years after the fall of Adam). Note that Sarai is Terah’s daughter in law, not his daughter. Abram married Terah’s daughter in law. Terah dies in year 2083. Remember that it isn’t a sin to marry your niece or daughter in law until the Age of Law(Lev. 18:). When God calls Abram in the Age of Promise, he leaves Haran in the year 2023 and goes to the land of Canaan(Gen. 12:4-5).Salvation Message Because of sin we got to see the judgment of God on mankind in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. However, there is another judgment of God. That is when a person dies without Christ and being forgiven of his sin and wakes up in hell. I don’t want that to happen to you. If you would like to be 100% sure you are going to heaven, please read carefully the salvation message below. All verses can be found in the King James Bible. There are two places where a person can go when they die, either heaven(Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.) or the lake of fire(Rev. 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.). Now nobody really wants to go to the lake of fire when they die. However, people go to the lake of fire because of sin(Rom. 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;). Now sin is when you break God’s law. Have you ever made a foolish thought?(Prov. 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.). Have you ever lied before?(Exod. 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.). Have you ever gotten punished as a kid for being bad (Exod. 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.). Plain and simply we all have sinned. God will punish your sin. Do parents have a right to punish kids if they are bad? Sure they do. Well doesn’t God have a right to punish us? Yes he does, and that is why there is a hell and a lake of fire. We all deserve it, but God doesn’t want us to go there (Mark 9:43-44 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.). We must be sorry that we have sinned against God and repent(II Cor. 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.). Repentance means to turn to God from our sins (we want to change, not just sorry we got caught). It is a change of heart toward God. Our desires toward God changes. Our ‘want to’ changes. We must understand that Jesus was God in the flesh (I John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.). Jesus is God, he is man(the Son of God), and he is eternal life. Also we must believe that Jesus died on the cross, was buried, and rose again the third day in an eternal resurrected body(I Cor. 15:2-3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures). We must put our trust or faith in the blood of Jesus who is God to have all of our sins forgiven. That is the past, present, and future sins, from the time we are born to the time we die, once for all(I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.). Once we are forgiven we are born again into God’s family (Eph. 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,). Once you are in a family would that ever change? In the same way, once you are in God’s family it is forever and you get eternal life. Understand that though God wants you to be good, like doing good works, getting baptized, and going to church etc., being good can’t save you(Tit. 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;). Only the blood alone, once for all can save you. If you would like to have all your sins forgiven, this is what you must do. Pray to God in your heart to be saved. You can use your own words or the sample prayer below. Now praying this prayer won’t forgive you unless you understand it and mean it in your heart. Otherwise God can’t forgive you. THE SALVATION PRAYERLord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, and I deserve the lake of fire, but I want to change, please forgive me, for all of my sins, by your blood, once for all, so I can go to heaven. Amen. ................
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