1. Genesis Week 4 – DOWNWARD The Spiral of Sin “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Gen 4:7 Text: Gen 4:1 – 11:26

2. Agenda  Cain and Abel – Gen 4:1-26  Noah – Gen 6:1-22  Noah and His Sons – Gen 9:18-29  The Tower of Babel – 11:1-9 QUIZ

3. Cain & Abel

4. Cain/Able and Seth  Gen 4:1-16  Sacrifice  Murder  Consequence – Banishment  Mercy  v17-24 Genealogy of Cain  V25-26 – 5:32 – Genealogy of Seth  Gen 4:26 – And the people began to call on the name of the Lord.

5. Compare/Contrast Lamech - 7 th Generation was 1 st Polygamist and destroyed in the Flood. Bragged about how violent he was. Enoch - 7 th Generation Taken by God 10 th Generation Saved in the Flood 7 th From Cain significant EnochLamech Adam Jabal (Lyre & Pipe) Jubal (Livestock) Tubal- Cain (Metals) Namaah Noah CainSeth

6. Genealogy  These are the generations of…(2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:19; 36:1; 37:2)  Emphasis on family and connections  Why the emphasis?  It cements that this accounting is REAL.  Mechanism to demonstrate origin of nations  Provides lineage of Israel  Gen 3:15 - Provides lineage of Jesus

7. Noah

8.  Gen 5 – Seth to Noah, the “righteous line”  Gen 6 – the spiral  His life shall be120 years  Sons of God & Daughters of Man  Nephilim, giants?  Physical stature, genetically taller?  Politically powerful  Numbers 13:33 – report of the spies  Earth filled with corruption & violence  Build an ark, Noah!

9. The Ark Was Big! 50 cubits (75 feet or 23 meters) 30 cubits (45 feet or 13.7 meters 70 feet or 21.5 meters)

10. …Real Big! 300 cubits (450 feet or 137 meters) 300 feet (91.5 meters) Football or Soccer Field

11. Really, It was Huge!

12. Johan Huibers’ Ark

13. Ark Life – Gen 6  Animals came to Noah and entered the ark  Noah entered Ark on the day it began to rain  Water Water Everywhere  Rained 40 days 40 nights. Vapor canopy collapse  Fountains of the deep burst upward  Covered the highest mountains  Water starts to abate after 150 days = 5 months  7 th month and 17 th day (2 months later) - ark rested on mountains of Ararat  10 th month – began to see the tops of mountains  11 th month (+ 40 days) = Noah opens a portal and sends forth birds  13 th month (2 months later) God tells Noah to leave the ark

14. Mount Ararat Dr. Don Patton - Gospel Preacher - 70 minutes on Noah's Ark

15. After Ark Life  Gen 8:22 – the earth will live!  Gen 9:1 – Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth  Today, Is the earth full?  Do we need to worry about:  God destroying the earth again with water?  Killing the earth?  Overpopulating the earth?  Gen 9:25 – Cursed be Canaan, what about Ham?

16. Table of the Nations  Genesis 10

17. Ararat Nations – Genesis 10

18. Decreasing Life Span

19. Tower of Babel

20.  Gen 9:1 – fill the earth…  Gen 11  Man organized and rebelled  Make a name  Resist dispersion  Languages  God’s will was done. They were dispersed anyway! Tower of Babel Lucas van Valckenborch, (1594)

21. Consequences Quiz  Adam & Eve: Eating = Expelled from Garden  Cain & Abel: Murder = Exile  Noah’s Generation: Rebellion = Destruction  Babel: Pride & Defiance = Scattering What theme or pattern do you see?

22. Sin/Grace Cycle Cain & Able Gen 4:1-26 Noah Gen 6:1-22 Noah’s Sons Gen 9:18-29 Tower of Babel Gen 11:1-9 Temptation and Sin Envy, arrogance, anger Every intention was evil, violence Ham took advantage of Noah, Mocking Arrogance, Defiance, Ambition Punishment Fugitive, Wanderer, Ground no longer fruitful Decimation of land dwelling life Servant of servants to brothers Confusion, dispersion Grace Mark of protection 8 Saved through Water & Ark, Rainbow Ham was reduced, but not eliminated God acts on his Promise to Noah, to fill the earth

23. What About Us?  “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Gen 4:7  What are some ways we can “do well?”

24. Toward Next Week  Summary  Week 5 – Abraham and the Nations QUESTIONS