Creation: Heaven and Earth / Genesis

Creation: In the Garden / Genesis Tree of LifeTree of Knowledge of Good & Evil 4 RIVERS: Pishon (land of Havilah); gold; bdellium and onyx stone Gihon (land of Cush) Tigris (east of Assyria) Euphrates “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” Creations: Rain = earth Man = dust from ground Beasts and Birds = ground Woman = man’s rib; helper

Forbidden Fruit / Genesis “You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 1.The tree was good for food; 2.It was a delight to the eyes 3.The tree was to be desire to make one wise SHAME Travel on belly; eat dust; hatred for man Painful childbirth; desire husband; servant to husband Eve = mother of all-living Man- to till the ground Cherubim = winged angels

Murder / Genesis Cain brought offered fruit to the Lord with no regard Abel brought firstlings of flock to the Lord with regard “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Punishment: Cain can no longer till the ground & he dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden Any one who kills Cain will be punished, sevenfold JEALOUSY

The Great Flood / Genesis Problem Earth was corrupt in God’s sight; filled with violence Solution “I will destroy them with the earth.” Make an ark of gopher wood Make rooms in the ark Cover it inside and out with pitch 300 cubits length 50 cubits breadth 30 cubits height 1 cubit = 18 inches Make a rook Set the door in its side Make it with lower, second and third decks FLOOD (150 days) Take your sons (Shem, Ham, Japheth), wife, sons’ wives, two of every sort (male/female), & every sort of food Noah = 600 Symbols: Raven Dove Olive leaf Alter Boat Rainbow God’s covenant: “I will never again curse the ground because of man…neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.” “ Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.”

Babel: The City an the Tower / Genesis People of Land of Shinar “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Lord “Only the beginning of what they will do…nothing that they propose will be impossible for them.” “Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” BABEL Tower = Unity

Abraham: A Promise, A Test / Genesis Abram (Abraham)= lived in Haran; 75/100; set off to Canaan Lot = his brother’s son Sarai (Sarah)= Abram’s wife Isaac (means “he laughs”)= Abraham & Sarah’s child Lord’s covenant: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the rive Euphrates,…” Sacrifice: “a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” Sacrifice: “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Theme: Believe in the Lord and “the Lord will provide.”

Joseph: The Dreamer Cast Down / Genesis God’s blessing was passed on to Isaac and to Isaac’s son, Jacob, and to Jacob’s favorite son (of 12), Joseph Joseph = 17, shepherd, favored by father and given robe with sleeves; land of Canaan; handsome Dream #1- his bundle of grain rose and the brother’s bundles bowed down to it JEALOUSY & HATRED Dream #2- sun, moon, 11 stars bowed down to him Conspiracy: KILL HIM Reuben- “Let us not take his life.” Judah- “let us sell him to the Ishmaelites” for 20 shekels of silver ($20) Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt (the Lord was with Joseph); overseer of the house Potiphar, officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, bought him Dipped robe in goat’s blood and presented it to Jacob; mourned Potiphar’s wife lies- Joseph “came in to me to insult me” & Potiphar imprisons Joseph “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, and gave him favor…”