PARTIAL NOTES
Early World Con’t
Gen 4-11
Turquoise = Color of the Earth - First Bible Time Period
Review where we are:
_____ Time Periods
_________, _______, __________
God restores our relation with him by way of _____________.
Man made in God’s Image
◦ Likeness = the life of the Trinity in us.
Preter-natural gifts
Consequences of the Fall
Loss of preter-natural gifts & Likeness
Concupiscence
They became dis____________
“Boring” sections of Scriptue
_____________– “The generations of….”
◦ Hebrew word – ____________
◦ A literary tool – it yells, ____________!!!
◦ They are meant to help us focus on certain individuals – like a _____________ that ____________ in on particular areas.
◦ Speaks of family – zoom in on certain __________
◦ Example – Mt 1 & Lk 3
What are we to focus on?
By Genesis 12 we are focused on one man…____________.
The beginning of the NT gets the focus directly on __________ via ____________
◦ Matthew takes us from Abram to Jesus & Luke takes us from Adam to Jesus
◦ This shows a new beginning in Christ
Since Genesis 3:15 we are looking for the _________ of the ___________who will crush the head of the serpent…The Toledoths get us to focus on the seed line
◦ *Jesus is a descendant of _____________
A&E have fallen from grace
They are __________out of Eden (East)
◦ __________ usually means going away from the Lord
God is not being mean…He is being ___________
◦ He fashions ____________for them
◦ If they would have eaten from the tree of life in their sinful state they would have been eternally ___________ & eternally ____________ from God
Hint for finding items of importance in Scripture
◦ Look for
_____________
_____________
__________ Strips
Eve conceives & has _________
Cain – Farmer – Does not give God his best
__________ – Shepherd –he was pleasing to the Lord
Cain’s _______________ falls = first instance of ____________ - many times this is a result of _________.
“If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, __________ is couching at the door; its desire is for __________, but you must master it" (4:7).
Cain ___________ his brother Abel
“we should love one another, and not be like ___________ who was of the evil one and ____________ his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous” (1 Jn 3:11-12).
God _____________ marks Cain so no one would kill him.
God is merciful in his _____________
The God of the OT is the same as the God of the NT – GOD is Merciful
____________ = loving kindness, compassion, and forbearance shown to one who offends.
“Adam ____________ his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name S__________, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him.“ 4:25
___________ in the Image of God…___________ in the Image of Adam…therefore… Seth is in the image of __________aka a son of God.
“This is the book of the ______________ of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth” (5:1-3)
Two lines = _________ & _________
___________ = the fallen ones
-angels cannot reproduce w/ humans.
Sons of _________(from the line of Cain)
the Sons of _________ (from the line of Seth)
Daughters of men
“took for their wives as many of them as they chose” (6:2)
◦ Implies more ___________
________________ is a problem (and will continue to be through out the story)
◦ One line worships _________ while the other worships _____________.
The __________ of Genesis 5 takes us down the Sethite line to Noah, who found “favor with God”
“Noah was a ____________ man, blameless in his generation” Gen6:9
A Re-Creation
“The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great…and the Lord was sorry that He had made man…it ___________ Him to his heart” (6:5-6).
Noah walked ______ _________ (6:9)
The Lord God walked in the Garden…(3:8)
Christ makes all things __________
The one who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new“ (Rev 21:5).
One Holy Couple --> One Holy Family
“I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish” 6:17
“But I will establish my _____________ with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you” 6:18
Every covenant has a __________
The Flood - Typology
The Flood is a type of _____________
◦ It washes away the _________ on earth – sin dies in the flood
Noah is a type of _________
◦ Noah, a righteous man, obeys God’s command to build the ark & he ____________his family by bringing them into the ark.
The ark is a type of the ___________
Shem, Ham, & Japheth
God saves his human family Noah, his three sons, and their wives.
We are still looking for the ___________ & her __________ who will crush the head of the serpent.
Noah’s grandson is ___________
◦ Ham saw his father’s nakedness.
◦ Your “father’s nakedness” is an ____________ for incest with your father’s wife, your mother. (See Lv 18:8; 20:17-21).
◦ This is a move for ___________ by Ham. Other biblical characters will use similar tactics to advance their standing and increase their political power.
◦ Canaan is cursed while Shem is blessed! (9:25-26)
Gen 10 – The table of Nations
◦ ___________ - populates the middle east (Semites)
◦ _________ - Populates Africa & Egypt
◦ __________- Populates Europe & the North
Tower of Babel
Descendants of Ham try to make a “___________” for themselves. (11:4)
Shem in Hebrew means “Name” – Shem received the blessing.
The tower is an attempt to make a ____________(name) for themselves i.e. become powerful and reach heaven apart from __________.
They are jealous of Shem
“Come let us go down and confuse their language” 11:7
God ___________them and _________ their language
_____________ heals the wound of Babel
God will _____________ his family and give them one common _______________of worship when He sends His Holy Spirit & gives Birth to the Church