Sunday 122924
Don’t let me or my writings influence or scare you in any way, instead, allow me to be used as a vessel to open the Word, just a little bit, and hopefully, together we are going to read and study His Word, and let God teach us what He wants us to hear.
Since the beginning of this study, our vision has been that we are ONLY going to follow what is found in the Holy Bible, that pertains to us, and we realize that it’s ONLY from our own effort that we put into this study, that we’re going to take anything away for our own use.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
Genesis 3:22-24, 4:3-7, 4:16, 4:25-26, 5:32, 6:1-2, 6:3-4, 6:13, 7:7-9, 8:13-14, 9:28-29, 11:1-4, 11:7.
Genesis 3 begins with the fall of man. The serpent lied to Eve and got her to try the forbidden fruit and Adam was also fooled.
Genesis 3
vs22 ‘…Then the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever…’
vs23 ‘…therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken…’
vs24 ‘…So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Man has been kicked out of the Garden and up through today, we have had to endure the temptations of Satan. He is still trying to defeat God and take the position that he is ruler of this world.
In Genesis 4, Adam and Eve are raising their children. Mentioned in the Bible is Cain and Abel.
Genesis 4
vs3 ‘…One day, it was time for the harvest. Cain brought to the Lord some of his crops as an offering…’
vs4 ‘…But Abel brought to God some of the first lambs that his sheep had given birth to. He brought pieces of fat from the best of his lambs to offer them to God. Abel and his gift pleased the Lord…’
vs5 ‘…But God was not pleased with Cain and his gift. So, Cain became very angry. His face looked sad…’
vs6 ‘…Then the Lord said to Cain, why are you angry? Why do you look sad…’
vs7 ‘…If you do what is right, I will accept you. But if you do not do the right thing, sin will be very near to you. It will be like a wild animal at your door that is ready to eat you. But you must become its master…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
I think I have found the reason why God had a problem with Cain’s sacrifice. In the past, I always thought it was vs5, it was the sacrifice that Cain had offered, but from doing this study and taking the time and actually reading the verses, I feel confident to now voice that it was vs7.
Genesis 4:7
‘…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….’ KJV (King James Version)
‘…If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
‘…If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling; but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door. It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it…’ GNT (Good News Translation)
It was ‘sin’ that kept God from accepting Cain’s sacrifice. It wasn’t the sacrifice itself; it wasn’t because it was grain and not an animal sacrifice, in the past, I always thought it was all about the sacrifice.
Cain didn’t kill Abel until vs8, so it had to be every day, ordinary sin that kept God from accepting Cain’s sacrifice.
And as I just said in vs8, Cail kills his brother Abel.
Genesis 4:16 ‘…Then Cain left the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
In vs16, after Cain had killed his brother, he was sent away from the presence of God, he was on his own.
Genesis 4
vs25 ‘…Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, God has appointed me another child in place of Abel, because Cain killed him…’
vs26 ‘…To Seth also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then people began to call upon the name of the Lord…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
We now go into Genesis chapter 5 and the family tree of Adam to Noah is given.
Adam – — — —
Seth – Genesis 5:3
Enosh – Genesis 5:6
Kenan – Genesis 5:9
Mahalalel – Genesis 5:12
Jared – Genesis 5:15
Enoch – Genesis 5:18
Methuselah – Genesis 5:21
Lamech – Genesis 5:25
Noah – Genesis 5:29
The purpose of this genealogy is to take the reader to the days preceding the flood, and that means the days of Noah.
Genesis 5:32 ‘…Now after Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Genesis 5 ends in vs32 naming the sons of Noah which would be on the ark with him during the flood.
Genesis 6 begins the chapter stating the corruption of mankind.
Genesis 6
vs1 ‘…Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them…’
vs2 ‘…that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose…’
In other versions, it is written as ‘the daughters of men’ and the ‘sons of God.’ Again, by doing this study this time, I have found different interpretations of just who the ‘sons of God’ are.
In the past, I have always been steered in the direction that these ‘sons of God’ are the fallen angels from heaven. The offspring from these sexual relations between a fallen angel and a daughter of man, produced the ‘Nephilim’ talked about in vs4.
The Nephilim are mysterious beings or people in the Bible traditionally imagined as being of great size and strength. The origins of Nephilim are disputed. Some, including the author of the Book of Enoch, view them as the offspring of fallen angels and female human beings.
Genesis 6
vs3 ‘…Then the Lord said, My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless, his days shall be 120 years…’
vs4 ‘…The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Corruption had run rampant on the face of the earth. God had finally had enough.
Genesis 6:13 ‘…God said to Noah, I will destroy everyone. That is what I have decided to do. Everywhere on the earth, people are attacking each other. Now I will destroy the people and also the earth…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
God had had enough.
Of all the creation that covered the earth and all mankind, God saved two, male and female of every animal and eight humans, Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives.
Genesis 7
vs7 ‘…Noah and his wife went into the ship. His sons and their wives also went in. They all went into the ship to be safe from the deep water…’
vs8 ‘…Pairs of clean animals and unclean animals came to Noah in the ship. Also, pairs of birds and pairs of all the living things that move across the ground came to him…’
vs9 ‘…Each pair was one male and one female. They all came to Noah in the ship. Everything happened as God had said to Noah…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
Genesis 7:24 ‘…The deep water covered the earth for 150 days…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
God had everything on the face of the earth destroyed.
Genesis 8
vs13 ‘…Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the first month, the water that had covered the earth was now gone. The ground had become dry. Noah made a hole in the roof of the ship, and he looked around. He saw that the top of the ground was dry…’
vs14 ‘…By the 27th day of the second month, the earth had become completely dry…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
Noah and his three sons along with their wives re-populated the land.
Genesis 9
vs28 ‘…Noah lived for 350 years after God covered the earth with deep water…’
vs29 ‘…In his whole life, Noah lived for 950 years. Then he died…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
The next big event in Genesis is going to close tonight’s lesson. The tower of Babel begins in chapter 11 of Genesis.
Genesis 11
vs1 ‘…At this time, everyone who lived on the earth spoke one language. They used the same words…’
vs2 ‘…People moved to the east. They reached a large flat piece of land called Shinar. They stayed there to live…’
vs3 ‘…They said to each other, We should make bricks and cook them until they are hard. These people used bricks instead of stones to build houses. They used tar to hold the bricks together, instead of cement…’
vs4 ‘… They said, ‘Let us build a city to live in. We should also build a very tall tower. The tower will go up into the heavens. Then we will always be famous. If we do that, we will not have to separate and go to live in different places on the earth…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
When God seen what man was doing, He blamed it all on the use of the same language.
Genesis 11:7 ‘… Now we must go down to them. We must make their language become confused. Then they will not be able to understand each other…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
Man had determined for themselves what they were going to do … in a way, it is like our churches today preaching messages that man wants to hear. Man is writing their own books to guide a church through a service and man is getting away from what God wanted done.
History shows us that this is probably a very poor choice in judgement.
Keep your Bibles open and study the Word that God has given us.
I love y’all. The day is coming when we will hear Jesus Himself telling us how much He loves us. We will soon one day actually learn what the word LOVE really means.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>