Quiz
Genesis Chapters 1 - 7
Question 1
• In how many days did God create the whole
universe?
Question 2
• How did God create eve?
Question 3
• How did God cloth Adam and Eve after their
sin?
Question 4
• Why did God choose that way to cloth Adam
and Eve, to cover their nakedness?
Question 5
• Who were the three sons of Adam, mentioned
in the Bible?
Question 6
• Who’s Noah’s father?
Question 7
• Who didn’t die because God took him?
Question 8
• Which material did God ask Noah to build the
ark with?
Question 9
• How many days did the flood’s rain continue?
And how many days did the waters prevail on
the earth?
Genesis
Overview
Author
• Moses
• Wrote the first 5 books
– What are the first five books?
Outline
• Chapters 1 – 11: Four major events:
– Chapters 1 – 2: The creation
– Chapters 3 – 5: The fall
– Chapters 6 – 9: The flood
– Chapters 10 – 11: Descendants and Confusion of
the languages at the Tower of Babel
Outline
• Chapters 12 – 50: Four main characters:
– Abraham (12:1-25:18)
– Isaac (25:19 – 26:35)
– Jacob (27 – 36)
– Joseph (37 – 50)
Patriarchs
• Abraham, Father of Israel
– Establish faith that God requires by
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Test of Obedience
Test of Values
Test of love and loyalty
Test of faith
– God’s promise is originated, anchored in him
– Seal of faith and seal of promise
Patriarchs II
• Isaac
– God establishes Isaac’s family (23:1-24:67)
– Distress in transmission of Blessings (25:19-34)
– Test of faith and God’s blessing in Isaac’s family
(26:1-35)
Patriarchs III
• Jacob
– Personal encounter with God and receiving God’s
promise (27:1-28:22)
– Jacob’s marriage (29:1-30:24)
– Jacob’s struggle for blessing (30:25-31:55)
– New Beginning of Jacob’s faith (32:12-33:20)
– Reaffirmation of God’s promise (34-35)
– Esau, a twin without God’s promise(36- 37:1a)
Patriarch IV
• Joseph
– Joseph, a flickering light of God, among sinful
brothers(37:2b-36)
– Judah, a man of sin (38)
– Joseph’s righteousness in distress(39)
– God’s sovereign will in Joseph(40-41:57)
– Saving of Israel(42-50:26)
Noah
And the Ark
Who are the “Sons of God”?
• Genesis 6:1-8
• Background
– Cain and Abel
• Cain killed Abel
– Adam knew his wife and had Seth
– Cain’s seed are the sons of men
– Seth’s seed are the sons of God
• This breakdown is the reason of the flood, when it says
that the son’s of God took the daughters of men to
wife
• Substantial increase in violence and depravity of men.
Nephillim?
• This term is used to refer to the seed of the
sons of God and daughters of men
• In the movie Noah and other literature, The
sons of God is interpreted as fallen Angels and
Nephillim are half angles, half humans
• This is an unacceptable interpretation in
Orthodoxy
Meaning of Genesis 6 to us
• We are in constant battle with the people who
conform to this world:
– For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of
Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is
no great thing if his ministers also be transformed
as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall
be according to their works. (2 Corinthians 11: 13
– 15)
The Flood (Genesis 6:9 – 8:22)
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Reasons: v9-12
Revelation concerning the flood v13-21
The flood was designed to wipe away sin
The ark was designed to save Noah and his family
Noah was a righteous man blameless in his time.
– Righteous: Saddiq: Noah conformed to the divine
standard and met with God’s approval
– Blameless: tamim: means complete
Noah’s Righteousness
• From faith
– By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen
as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving
of his house; by the which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.
• God’s grace saved Noah and his family (not
works)
– But Noah though face obeyed God, exerting effort
(building the ark) that saved.
• NOTE: the concept of grace and works.
The Preservation of Man
• Genesis 5:32 – Noah was 500 years
• Genesis 7:2 – Noah was 600 years when the flood of
waters was upon the earth
• About 100 years spent making the ark.
• Waters from above and from below (maybe tsunamis,
etc)
• 40 days of rain
• Waters prevailed on the earth for a total of 150 days
• Subsided over several months
• Noah and family spent more than a year in the ark.
The Promise
• Noah sacrificed from every clean animal.
• God’s response to the sacrifice is a promise:
– And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing
living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth,
seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Why would God make this commitment?
– Was he sorry for what he has done?
The Commitment
• The flood was only a temporary solution
• Problem is not with the creation, but with the sin.
• Sin was dealt a fatal blow at the coming of the
Messaiah.
– Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
– O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of
sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Ultimate Salvation
• The Ultimate Salvation is renewed because of
Noah’s expression of faith through a sacrificial
offering
• At the end we look forward to everything new
– Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of
God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness (2 Peter 3:12-13)
Meanings
• Difference between Noah and those who
perished is the response to God’s grace.
– Divine indifference
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– An opportunity to enter into an eternal and
intimate relationship with God.
• Noah spent his days walking with God,
building the ark, proclaiming the good word of
God.
The 2nd Coming
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37 But
as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all
away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and
the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord
doth come. (Matthew 24: 37 - 42)
Key Points
• The age of grace has a limit
• We must respond to God’s grace and not
waste time, just as Noah did.
• God’s wrath could be slow, but is certain
• There is a time where the offer for salvation
will be withdrawn.
• God’s way of salvation was restrictive.
– God provided only 1 way to be saved… The ARK
– God provided only 1 door into the ARK (John 14:6)
Typology
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Noah : the one who shall give rest
Noah : righteous in his own generation
Noah : perfect in his generation
Noah : walked with God
Noah : portrayed as the only one who built the
ark
Flood : washes away the sins of many
Ark : saves humans
Ark : had one door
Ark : was the only way to be saved
Questions?