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God as the God as the CreatorCreator

God as the God as the CreatorCreator

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26)

Genesis 1:28Genesis 1:28God blessed them; and

God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

– In the Image of God

–Stewardship and a basis for Ecology

– Federal Headship

And the LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. (Genesis 2:8).

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.“ (Genesis 2:16-17)

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6)

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

Seed of the WomanSeed of the Serpent

Cain & Abel

And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed him." (Genesis 4:25).

Seed of the WomanSeed of the Serpent

AbelCain

Lamech

Literally, “another SEED”

Seed of the WomanSeed of the Serpent

Abel & SethCain

Lamech

Enoch

Noah

ShemHam

AbrahamCanaan

Genesis 11:29-30Genesis 11:29-30And Abram and Nahor took wives

for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 12:1-2Genesis 12:1-21 Now the LORD said to Abram,

"Go forth from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father's house,

To the land which I will show you;

2 And I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you,

And make your name great;

And so you shall be a blessing;

Genesis 12:3Genesis 12:3And I will bless those who bless you,

And the one who curses you I will curse.

And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

● Ur

Haran ●

And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew…

…and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. (Genesis 12:5).

Genesis 12:7Genesis 12:7And the LORD appeared to Abram

and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Literally,“to your Seed”

Genesis 12:7Genesis 12:7And the LORD appeared to Abram

and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

• Lot, the Nephew of Abram

• Eliezer of Damascus

Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who shall come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.“ (Genesis 15:4).

Genesis 15 &Genesis 15 &The Covenant CeremonyThe Covenant Ceremony

So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. (Genesis 15:9-10).

Genesis 15 &Genesis 15 &The Covenant CeremonyThe Covenant Ceremony

And it came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces.

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram… (Genesis 15:17-18).

Quest for a SonQuest for a Son

• Lot, the Nephew of Abram

• Eliezer of Damascus

• Ishmael

• Isaac – “Laughter”

Abraham’s Abraham’s TestTest

And Abraham called the name of

that place The LORD Will

Provide, as it is said to this day, "In

the mount of the LORD it will be

provided.” (Genesis 22:14).

Seed of the WomanSeed of the Serpent

Ishmael Isaac

Abraham

JacobEsau

12 Sons of Israel