Genesis Episodes - Page 2

March 5, 2021

0016 - No salvation can be earned

The disappointment in realizing that we have any part to play in our salvation apart from simply trusting in God without boasting is expounded from the understanding given in this episode about the meaning of the Hebrew names, Cain and Abel. Genesis...

March 6, 2021

0017 - Cains lack of faith

Genesis 4:11-16 17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methusha...

March 7, 2021

0018 - The line of Cain

While we’re pondering the life of Cain and his generations that were swept away in the flood, we should take to heart that God remembers those who meditate on His name. Throughout the Bible, when a name is mentioned, it’s because it’s relevant to the...

March 8, 2021

0019 - The generations of Adam

Genesis 5:1-17 5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.[a] 3 Adam lived one h...

March 9, 2021

0020 - The gospel in the Jewish text

Genesis 5:18-32 18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch. 19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 20 All of the days of Jared were n...

March 10, 2021

0021 - The Nephilim

Genesis 6:1-4 When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives. 3 Yahweh said, “My Spirit will n...

March 11, 2021

0022 - Grace in the eyes of the Lord

Genesis 6:5-13 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. 6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart....

March 12, 2021

0023 - The building of the ark

Genesis 6:14-22 14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. 15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits,[a] its width fifty cubits, and i...

March 13, 2021

0024 - The flood of Noah

We can also infer that Noah was considered righteous by faith. And we can infer that the grace he received was because of this faith. Noah built an ark by faith, without ever having seen a flood. Genesis 7:1-12 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of ...

March 14, 2021

0025 - God remembered Noah

Genesis 8:1-5 8 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. 2 The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain ...

March 15, 2021

0026 - Brave new world

Genesis 8:6-19 6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were ...

March 16, 2021

0027 - A new beginning

Genesis 8:20-9:1 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground a...

March 17, 2021

0028 - A new dispensation – government

Genesis 9:2-7 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that live...

March 18, 2021

0029 - A rainbow and a blessing

Genesis 9:8-17 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every ...

March 19, 2021

0030 - A vineyard and a curse

Genesis 9:18-29 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a v...