Hi friends, How are you? and how do you do? It has been quiet long time that I have been in touch, Our God is great and mighty. He does wonderful things always We have started Bible study on the book of Genesis, How glorious and wonderful it is to study. in short,
Introduction: Genesis means beginning. In Hebrew it is called as “Bereshith” and in Greek it is called as “genesis” in English it is called as “Genesis” meaning beginning of all things. We can see the beginning all things in Genesis. Like days, seas, trees, stars in the sky, fish in the sea, all kind of beast on the earth, men, commandments, marriage, languages, ethnic groups, tribes, nations, prophesies, covenanents, promises. Writer is Moses: God spoke to him face to face. Exo. 33:11 God revealed to him in the wilderness. Ps. 103:7, Acts. 7:37,38. Second school of thought is that Adam lived 168 years in the life of Lemech so Adam might have revealed to lemech about the creation story. Gen. 5:5,31,32. Lemech lived 95 years in the life of Shem – he might have told about the creation story. Shem lived 190 years after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Gen. 11:10-32, 12:4, 21:5, 25:26, 29:20-35, 47:9,28. Exo. 6:16-20 Jacob to Levi and kohath, kohath to Amram and Amram to Moses. Time & Place: BC. 1450 – 1440 in the desert of Moab. Time period of the Book: 2367 years. 1. From Adam to Noah 1656 years from Gen 1 – 8 chapters. 2. From Noah’s flood till the birth of Abraham 350 years. Gen 9 – 11 chapters. 3. From Abraham’s birth to Joseph’s death 361 years. Gen. 12 – 50 chapters. Divisions in the book of Genesis. 1. History of fore fathers. Gen. 1:1 – 11:25 ancient history 2. History of Patriots. Gen, 12:1 – 34 3. History of Esau. Gen. 36 4. History of Judah. Gen. 38 5. About Joseph. Gen. 37- 50 Specially of this book: Judgments in this book. God’s revelation to men Revelation by Voice. Revelation in the form an Angel Special revelation. In the form of a man. There are 12 types of sacrifices and 21 prayers in this book. then you can imagin, what God has instored in this book for you and for me. come along with me to study as I will post every week some insights from our study. |