 | Aug 31, 2009
Daniel 11 - How Prophecy Became History
A while back my family and I undertook to study the book of Daniel. We wanted to do an inductive study so we purchased a Kay Arthur study book on Daniel. That study was the beginning of preparat... |
 | Aug 31, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for the clergy, I believe, in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. I say "I believe" because we cut it out and laminated it and it has nothing on to tell me f... |
 | Aug 29, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for people of influence in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. We cut it out and laminated it. Since that time we have been using it as a guide in praying for ou... |
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Author: Moses
Chapters: 50
Verses: 1533
Bible Division: Pentateuch
Hebrew Arrangement: Torah
Key Word(s): Beginning
Theme: Original sin or man's failure to meet God's conditions and God's provision for man's stupidity.
Date Covered: 4004 BC - 1726BC.
Writing Completed: ~ 1310 BC.
The Hebrew word for "Genesis" is in the very first sentence of the book. Genesis means "in the beginning", so it makes sense to name it Genesis. Genesis is the first book of the Christian Scriptures and the first book of the Torah (the part of the Jewish Scripture written by Moses). The Torah was, in the past, the name given to the first five books, but I've heard lately that the name "Torah" is being extended to other books of the Tanakh. I have no one I know with whom to verified that, so it could be just a rumor or it could even be that some use the name "Torah" more loosely than others.
Genesis gives us the story of the creation of the earth, the universe, the plants and animals of earth, and mankind. It tells us what happened to bring sin into the world and the results of that sin. He also gives God's provision for man's stupidity. (By "stupidity" I mean when one knows not to do something and does it anyway.) It tells us about the growth of sin, the story of Noah and the flood that covered the entire earth about 1656 years after the first man, Adam, was created and about 726 years after Adam died. Six generations after Noah a descendant named Peleg is mentioned. What caught my attention was what was said about what happened during his lifetime. I won't tell you exactly where, but it's in the first quarter of the book. Check it out.
The ancestry of the Hebrew people from Abraham to Joseph is carefully recorded in Genesis, but the beginning of the majority of today's Arab peoples is also recorded here. The interaction between Hebrew patriarchs and God and the interactions between the patriarchs and others are also recorded here. If you read closely you may even notice the initial reasons for much of the problems in the Middle East today.
If you really want to learn answers to such questions as:
Where did I come from?
Why am I here?
How did we get into such a state as we are today?
then read Genesis! You'll need an open mind because this may not match with much of what you've been taught, but this is God's TRUTH!
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