Genesis Part 3 (11-18:15) Notes
READ Genesis 11:10-12
God Direct Contact with People: Personal Involvement: Not a “distant” God
Adam
Cain
Enoch
Noah
Tower of Babel
Abram
Pharaoh
The World will Always Need a Savior
Garden of Eden
To the Flood
After the Flood
Noah
Ham
Tower of Babel
Sin is not glossed over in Genesis with the Patriarchs: Connection with the Mosaic Law
The Seed of the Woman Promise Being Fulfilled
Adam- Seth- Enosh- Kenan- Mahalalel- Jared-Enoch-Methuselah- Lamech- Noah- Shem- Eber- Terah- Abram (Abraham)- Issac- Jacob- Judah- Christ
The Covenant Relationship between God and People
Adam- Noah- Abraham
Shem- Terah (Semites)
Three sons of Terah
Haran dies in Ur but has a daughter - Milkah
Nabor marries Milkah and Lot is their son
Abram marries Sarai (Sarai is his half-sister: same father- different mothers)
The Call and Faith to Leave Ur for Canaan
Terah, Abram, Sarai, and Lot, the grandson of Terah and nephew of Abram and Sarai.
Moon god background worshipers in Ur (Joshua 24:2)
Adam created personally by God
Noah called because of his faithful and blameless ways
Not told why God called Abram (Grace)
Settled in Harran (southern mesopotamia) until Terah dies.
Hebrews 11:8ff
Story Line
After Terah dies, Abram resumes journey to Canaan.
In Shechem- altar to God
Famine - Egypt
Abram, to protect life- concocts with Sarai to deceive Pharaoh about Sarai’s relationship.
God intervenes- Abram leaves Egypt with wealth
GENESIS 13-15
Dispute between Lot and Abram
Lot chooses the best land- toward Sodom and eventually ends up as a leader in Sodom.
Abram told by God that everywhere he steps will belong to his descendants. This stepping into the land by faith is a common theme throughout Genesis- Joshua.
Lot is rescued by Abram from the 5 Kings
Abram and Melchizedek:
New name for God - God Almighty
Blesses Abram
Abram tithes Melchizedek (priest of Salem- Salem will later become Jerusalem). Click here to find out more from podcast on Melchizedek from Hebrew series
Abram refuses to accept gifts from King of Sodom.
Covenant expanded and renewed by God and Abram: Visible signs
1. stars in the sky
2. sacriice
Abram believes and God credits it to him as righteousness.
GENESIS 16-18:15
Plan to help God: Hagar
Hagar escapes Sarai’s jealousy by fleeing to the desert
Hagar blessed through Isamel- her son to be born
Hagar returns
Bitterness and Enmity between future Ishmael and Issac descendants.
13 years pass - Abram 99 years old
- God renews covenant: Ishmael is not the promised one.
Three signs:
1. Change of names to Abraham and Sarah
2. Circumcision of all males in Abraham’s household and a permanent mark for all descendants.
3. Three heavenly visitors- one is the Angel of the Lord
Genesis 16:7-11
Genesis 21:17
Genesis 22:11-12
Exodus 3:2
Judges 6:11-22
Laughter by both Abraham and Sarah represented in Isaac’s (mean’s laugh) name.
Is anything to hard for God?
