In Genesis 16, we find the story of Abram fathering a son – Ishmael – by Sarai’s Egyptian maidservant Hagar. We also discuss in some detail the phrase “the angel of the LORD” which first appears in this chapter.
Study Type: Adult Lesson
Study intended for sharing in a small fellowship or class of adults
Genesis 15 tells us of God’s appearance to Abram in a vision through which God reiterated His promise to bring forth an innumerable nation from Abram’s own son and to give Abram’s offspring all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates as their inheritance. In Genesis 15:6, we read that Abram believed God and his faith was credited by God to Abram as righteousness.
The first part of Genesis 14 details a series of battles that took place between two alliances of kings in which Abram’s nephew Lot was taken captive. When he returned from rescuing Lot, Abram was met by Melchizedek – King of Salem and priest of God Most High.
Genesis 12 & 13 tell the story of God’s call for Abram to leave his father Terah in Haran and journey to a land that God would show him. When he arrived in Canaan, God promised to give all the land of Canaan to Abram’s descendants.
Genesis 11 brings us into the heart of Genesis – God’s choosing from the peoples of the earth one nation as His own – Israel. We will once more take up the genealogy of Shem, but first we find the famous story of the Tower of Babel.
In this study, we examine the disturbing story of Noah’s curse upon his own grandson Canaan, and then look at the genealogy found in Genesis 10 which has been called “The Table of Nations.”
We examine the details of the flood, and God’s institution of the Noahic covenant afterward.
The story of the great flood and God’s miraculous preservation of Noah and his family inside the ark God directed Noah to build is familiar to most people. Children love this story because of the animals that God told Noah to bring into the ark with him. The full story of the great flood takes up four chapters of Genesis – too much to cover properly in one session. In this first part, we take a look at God’s motivations for bringing a flood upon the earth, His promise to establish His covenant with Noah, and the details of the ark’s construction.
Chapters 4 & 5 of Genesis list the descendants of Adam and Eve down to Noah and his three sons just prior to the great flood. After briefly listing the descendants of their son Cain, these genealogies focus in on the descendants of their son Seth through whose line, Jesus theַ מָשִׁיח māšîaḥ would be … Read more