Creation: Heaven and Earth / Genesishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZa45ZXby8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Bjh6_e5pU

Creation: In the Garden / Genesis

Tree of Life Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil

4 RIVERS:Pishon

(land of Havilah); gold; bdellium and onyx stone

Gihon (land of Cush)

Tigris (east of Assyria)

Euphrates

“You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Creations:Rain = earth

Man = dust from groundBeasts and Birds = ground

Woman = man’s rib; helper

Forbidden Fruit / Genesis

“You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

1. The tree was good for food;2. It was a delight to the eyes3. The tree was to be desire to make one wise

SHAME

Travel on belly; eat dust; hatred for man

Painful childbirth; desire husband; servant to husband

Eve = mother of all-living

Man- to till the ground

Cherubim = winged angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drICCe7PN48

Murder / Genesis

Cain brought offered fruit to the Lord with no regard

Abel brought firstlings of flock to the Lord with regard

“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Punishment: Cain can no longer till the ground & hedwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden

Any one who kills Cain will be punished, sevenfold

JEALOUSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdp_caxJfEs

The Great Flood / Genesis

ProblemEarth was corrupt in God’s sight; filled with violence

Solution“I will destroy them with the earth.”•Make an ark of gopher wood•Make rooms in the ark•Cover it inside and out with pitch•300 cubits length•50 cubits breadth•30 cubits height•1 cubit = 18 inches•Make a rook •Set the door in its side•Make it with lower, second and third decks

FLOOD (150 days)•Take your sons (Shem, Ham, Japheth), wife, sons’ wives, two of every sort (male/female), &every sort of food

Noah = 600

Symbols:Raven DoveOlive leafAlter BoatRainbow

God’s covenant: “I will never again curse the ground because of man…neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.”

“ Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4Zttuch1c

Babel: The City an the Tower / Genesis

People of Land of Shinar“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with

its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face

of the whole earth.”

Lord“Only the beginning of what they will do…nothing that they propose will be impossible for them.”“Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

BABELTower = Unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hozXty7HPik

Abraham: A Promise, A Test / Genesis

Abram (Abraham)= lived in Haran; 75/100; set off to CanaanLot = his brother’s sonSarai (Sarah)= Abram’s wifeIsaac (means “he laughs”)= Abraham & Sarah’s child

Lord’s covenant: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the rive Euphrates,…”

Sacrifice: “a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Sacrifice:“Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Theme: Believe in the Lord and “the Lord will provide.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFYf5dU8Do

Joseph: The Dreamer Cast Down / Genesis

God’s blessing was passed on to Isaac and to Isaac’s son, Jacob, and to Jacob’s favorite son (of 12), Joseph

Joseph = 17, shepherd, favored by father and given robe with sleeves; land of Canaan; handsome

Dream #1- his bundle of grain rose and the brother’s bundles bowed down to it

JEALOUSY & HATRED

Dream #2- sun, moon, 11 stars bowed down to him

Conspiracy: KILL HIMReuben- “Let us not take his life.”Judah- “let us sell him to the Ishmaelites” for 20 shekels of silver ($20)

Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt (the Lord was with Joseph); overseer of the housePotiphar, officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, bought him

Dipped robe in goat’s blood and presented it to Jacob; mourned

Potiphar’s wife lies- Joseph “came in to me to insult me” & Potiphar imprisons Joseph

“But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, and gave him favor…”