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02 CREATION – BABEL
THE PENTATEUCH
- The first five books of the Old Testament (and the Bible)
oGenesis
oExodus
oLeviticus
oNumbers
oDeuteronomy
- Also know as:
oThe (the Law)_________
oThe Law of __________
o____________ Books
- Foundational to the entire Bible
- Sets the stage for the rest of the story
- Tells us where we’ve come and where we’re from headed.
Genesis: the Book of BEGINNINGS
- The four major events of Genesis 1-11
1. CREATION
2. FALL
3. FLOOD
4. NATIONS
- The four great people of Genesis 12-50
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1. Abraham
2. Isaac
3. Jacob
4. Joseph
CREATION (GENESIS 1-2)
- In the beginning created the heavens and the earthGod
- The days of creation
1. God separates from the darknesslight
2. God separates the from the skywater
3. God separates the from the sea; God creates plantsearth,
4. God creates moon, and starssun,
5. God creates creatures and sea birds
6. God creates land creatures and humans
7. God and enjoys the work of his creationrests
- The original creation was:
oGOOD
oIdeal
oBeautiful
oInnocent
- How was creation made?
oCreation from (ex nihilo)nothing
oCreation by the Word of God
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- Humans
oHumans were made in the IMAGE OF GOD.
oGod’s representatives
oGenesis 1:27—both are made in God’s imagemale and female
Marriage is instituted in Genesis 2:24
oGiven to take care of creationdominion
oCrown of creation
oApplication for today:
Our as God’s representativesrole
Our toward otherstreatment
Our over creationresponsibility
- Concept of rest:
oInstituted at creation
oEstablished by for us to followGod
THE FALL
- You can eat from the trees of the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good & all
evil, because if you do, you will surely (Gen 2:16-17)die.
- The serpent:
o More subtle than all other creation
oSatan (cf. Rev 12:9)
oDoubt: “did God really say…?”
oDeny: “you shall surely not die and you will be like God”
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oDistort: “neither shall you touch it”
- Eve
oShe listened
oShe lusted
The tree was good for food
A delight to the eyes
Desire to make one wise
oShe ate
oShe shared
“She also gave some to her husband who was with her”
- “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they
sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.” Gen 3:7
- Immediate consequences:
oGuilt
oShame
oFear
oBroken communication
oKnowledge of by experienceevil
- Personal consequences:
oSerpent” “bites the dust”
oWoman: difficulty in and childbearing submission
oMan: and from the landlabor pain
- Ultimate consequences
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oDeath (cf. Rom 5:12)
oPain
oExpulsion from the Garden
REDEMPTION
- “And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed
them.” Genesis 3:21
- The blood sacrifice
oAnimals slain
oBlood shed
oSin covered
- “I will put between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her enmity
offspring; he shall your head, and you shall his heel.” Genesis 3:15bruise bruise
- The triumph!
oThe offspring of the woman will bruise the head of the offspring of the snake, and
the snake will bruise his heel
oThe Messianic promise
oThe (“First Gospel”)Proto-Evangelium
oCf Romans 16:20
THE FLOOD (GENESIS 6-9)
- Ongoing effects of sin in Adam’s family / humanity
oAdam and Eve’s son, kills his brother Cain, Abel
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oGenesis 3-5 shows how sin destroys and people relationships
oIt gets so bad that there is only 1 righteous man left in the world: Noah
- Noah is commanded to build an ark
oIt has never rained before
oGod gives Noah dimensions how to build the arkspecific
oNoah obeys
- A flood comesglobal, universal
oThe flood covers the entire earth
oRains for days 40
oNoah and his family are stuck in the ark for over a year
- In response to the flood and Noah, God makes a God’s promises to: covenant
oNever destroy the earth by flood
oRainbow is a sign of that promise
oCOVENANTS!!
A heightened promise/agreement
God makes with man and asks man to respondcovenants
God himself to these partnerships despite humans’ failures obligates
repeatedly
Jesus fulfills these covenants
THE NATIONS
- Even after the flood, humans behave the way humans do: sinfully
- Humans get together to build the Tower of Babel
Just trusted and obeyed God,
nothing special but recognized who
God was and honored Him
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- “Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand
one another’s speech… And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the
earth.” Genesis 11:7-9
- God scatters the people as a way of them from pursuing this sinful gracefully redirecting
behavior
- This causes the people to establish different and nations languages
Gen 1-11 & Jesus
•Jesus as present at (the Word)creation
•Jesus as the (Romans 16)snake crusher
•Jesus as the Savior of all nations
