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The Book of Genesis: Key Events and Characters

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

Author

  • Moses
    • How did Moses know the information to write this book?
      • God gave him revelation during the time he spent on Mount Sinai

Date

  • About 1400 B.C.
  • Moses wrote Genesis during the forty years in the wilderness

Theme

  • Beginnings
  • Key Words Create, Covenant, and Genealogy

Purpose 

  • To record God’s creation of the world and His desire to have a familyGod’s desire to have a people set apart to worship HimGod’s desire for relationship

Content

Creation: Genesis 1:1-2:25

Genesis begins with God creating the entire solar system, the preparation of Earth for habitation, and the creation of life on the Earth (Vegetation, Animal Kingdom, Man)

Genesis 1:31(NKJV) Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Fall of Man: Genesis 3:1-24

The devil deceives Eve into eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil

Genesis 3:24(NKJV) So He drove out the man: and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Pre-Flood World Genesis 4:1-5:32

The life and family of Adam is found in Genesis 4:1. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”

Noah and the Flood Genesis 6:1-9:29

Genesis 6:5-8(NKJV) Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

The Nations Genesis 10:1-32

Genesis 10:1(NKJV) Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.

The Confusion of the Languages Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11:6, 7(NKJV) And the LORD said, Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Genealogy Genesis 11:10-32

Abram (Abraham) Genesis 12:1-23:20

Genesis 12:1-3(NKJV) Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, even from your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 1 will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will Curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.“

Isaac

Genesis 24:1-26:35: Abraham waited 25 years after the promise of Isaac.

Jacob: Genesis 27:1-35:39

Esau: Genesis 36:1-43

Joseph: Genesis 37:1-50:26

Christ in Genesis

The Seed of Woman

Genesis 3:15(NKJV) And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.

Melchizedek

Genesis 14:18 (NKJV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.

Hebrews 7:1-3 (NKJV) For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

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