Sketch of Genesis Bible

1.1 to 2, 3 - Creation of the universe, the Earth and the man.
2.4-25 - Detailing of the creation of the man and the woman.
3.1-24 - The sin of the man and its expulsion of the Eden.
4.1-26 - Cain and Abel. The first homicide. The descent of Cain.
5.1-32 - The genealogy of Adam until Noah. Enoch walked with God.
6.1-22 - The corruption of the humanity. The announcement of the Diluvium.
7.1-24 - The Diluvium.
8.1-22 - Noah leaves the Ark
9.1-19 - Alliance of God with Noah.
9.20-29 - The drunkenness of Noah and the sin of Ham
10.1-32 - The genealogy of Noah.
11.1-9 - The tower of Babel
11.10-32 - The genealogy of Shem until Abraham.
12.1-20 - The call of Abraham. His descending to Egypt.
13.1-18 - The separation of Abraham and Lo
14.1-17 - The war of the kings.
14.18-24 - The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek.
15.1-20 - The alliance of God with Abraham.
16.1-16 - The birth of Ishmael.
17.1-27-The circumcision - confirmation of the Alliance. God changes the name of Abram and Sarai.
18.1-16 - three celestial beings visit Abraham
18.17-33 - the announcement of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
19.1-38 - the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
20.1-18 – Abraham lives in Producing and deny what Recovers be his wife.
21.1-8 - the birth of Isaac.
21.9-21 - the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael.
21.22-34 - the alliance between Abraham and Abimelech.
22.1-24 - on trial of Abraham – to sacrifice Isaac.
23.1-20 - the death of Sarah
24.1-67 - The union of Isaac and Rebeca.
25.1-11 - The death of Abraham.
25.12-18 - The Decendents of Ishmael.
25.19-25 - The birth of Esau and Jacob.
25.26-34 – Esau sales his primogeniture.
26.1-11 - Isaac inhabits in Gerar and denies that Rebekah is his wife.
26.12-25 - The disputes of Isaac for the wells.
26.26-25 - The alliance between Isaac and Abimelech.
27.1-46 - Jacob is blessed in the place of Esau
28.1-22 - The trip of Jacob for Padan – Aram and the dream of the stairs for the Heavens
29.1-14 – Jacob establishes in the house of Laban.
29.15-31 – Jacob marries Leah and Raquel.
29.32 To 30.24 - the birth of the children of Jacob.
30.25-43 - The prosperity of Jacob in Padan –Aram.
31.1-55 – Jacob runs away from Laban.
32.1-32 – Jacob prepares to meet Esau and fight with God.
33.1-20 – Jacob meets with Esau.
34.1-31 - The rape of Dinah and the revenge of Simeon and Levi.
35.1-29 - Jacob comes back the Beth-el. The birth of Benjamin. The death of Isaac.
36.1-43 - The genealogy of Esau .
37.1-11 - The dreams of Joseph and the envy of his brothers.
37.12-36 – Joseph is sold with slave.
38.1-30 – Judah and Tamar.
39.1-23 – Joseph in the house of Potiphar.
40.1-23 – Joseph in the prison. The interpretation of the dreams of the butler and the baker.
41.1-57 - Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh and becomes governor of Egypt.
42.1-38 - The brothers of Jose go down to Egypt.
43.1-34 - The second trip of the brothers of Joseph to Egypt.
44.1-34 - The cup of Joseph in the bag of Benjamin.
45.1-28 - Joseph discloses to his brothers.
46.1-34 - Trip of Jacob to Egypt.
47.1-12 - Jacob and his family are established in Egypt.
47.13-31- Joseph and the sale of foods.
48.1-22 – Jacob become ill and blesses Joseph and his children.
49.1-33 - Jacob blesses his children and dies.
50.1-14 - The burial of Jacob.
50.15-26 – Joseph encourages his brothers and dies.



Curiosities

  • Adam and Eva had been created in the same day (sixth day) Genesis 1:26-31
  • Between the 1st and 2nd versicle, existed perhaps thousands of years
  • Adam had sons and daughters (many… several…) Cap. 5:4
  • The sin of Adam was disobedience
  • Cain got married with a very close relative.
  • In the beginning of civilization it was not a sin to get married with a relative since there was no Law.
  • Adam died in the same day in which he sinned (one day is like a thousand years)
  • The Bible does not describe what fruit it was that Adam and Eva ate.
  • The beginning of the versicle 1 is not in the same time as Versicle 2.
  • Adam and Eva were not children but God’s creatures (He created)
  • God only created Adam and Eva after the land was habitable.
  • The man before the sin could enjoy God’s paradise

Generations Genesis- Chapter 5
1. Adam was 130 years old when Seven was born
2. Adam was 235 years old when Enos was born
3. Adam was of the age of 325 years old when Cainan was born
4. Adam was of the age of 395 years old when Mahalaleel was born
5. Adam was of the age of 460 years old when Jared was born
6. Adam was of the age of 622 years old when Enoch was born
7. Adam was of the age of 687 years old when Methuselah was born
8. Adam was of the age of 874 years old when Lamech was born

Lamech was of the age of 56 years when Adam died. Methuselah and Lamech could receive the history of the creation straightly from Adam. Lamech was the father of Noah. Noah was the tenth generation since Adam.
The diluvium occurred in year 600 of the life of Noah. The creation of Adam until the diluvium, had passed 1656 years. Noah lived 350 years after the diluvium. Abraham was of the age of 56 years when Noah died.
Genesis, without a doubt, is the book of the origins. In Genesis we have the origin of the universe, of our solar system, of life, of humanity, of sin, of marriage, of languages, of industry, of government, of religion and of the nation of Israel.

Ten times in the book of Genesis are given facts of the history of several generations. The word “generation” basically means origin, or in the context, the history of the origin.

Notice the following generations:
1. Generations of the Universe — Genesis 2:4.
2. Generations of Adam — Genesis 5:1.
3. Generations of Noah — Genesis 6:9
4. Generations of the children of Noah — Genesis 10:1.
5. Generations of Shem — Genesis 11:10.
6. Generations of Terah — Genesis 11:27.
7. Generations of Ishmael — Genesis 25:12.
8. Generations of Isaac — Genesis 25:19.
9. Generations of Esau — Genesis 36:1, 9.



Genesis as a Revelation

Three things can be said regarding Genesis as a revelation of God:

A- It is a great revelation - Genesis discloses that man never could learn for himself. Genesis is the only book of the history of the creation.

B. It is a part of a progressive revelation - The remain of the Bible completes what Genesis begins. Genesis makes the first promise of redemption, and ends with the apparent victory of the sin [Genesis 50:26].

Example: Genesis 3:15 - In This first evangelical promise, we have the seeds of all the history of redemption.

C. It is a revelation of the history of salvation - Notice that in Genesis there are only two chapters describing the history of the universe, and only nine chapters reporting the history of the nations. The book is constantly narrow in his purpose. Thirty nine chapters deal with the history of Abraham, Isaque and Jacob. The book finishes with the children of Jacob in Egypt. These men were “Father’s” of the tribes of Israel. In Egypt they had become a great nation. It is clear that the book of Genesis leads us to the person of Christ. This is not only one mere history of humanity, but God’s plan of salvation in the history.

The study in the book of Genesis will help us to understand more of the unity of the Bible.



Vision overview of Genesis

The Book of Genesis tells the origins of Skies and the Earth, the beginning of human life in a perfect world and the entrance of sin. It speaks also about the plan of salvation and the judgment about sin and sinners. Genesis begins with the narrative sublime one of a symmetrical and perfect creation from the hands of the Creator. God not only creates, but shares with humans the creations he attributes. By creating human beings in his image, God granted humans the creation of the gift of procreating and commissioned them in the care and preservation of it.

After the two first chapters describing a perfect creation, we are confronted with the story of the temptation and fall of our first parents. The tragic consequences of the fall, however, were not limited to the expulsion of the garden. Soon after that, the first homicide occurred, when Cain killed his brother Abel. Some genealogies are followed that, with monotonous repetition, inform the reader that the antediluvian patriarchs, for more long they lived , had finally died - Unquestionable evidence of the final consequence of the sin. The natural death of each living being, however, was not sufficient for stopping of the propagation of sin. The corruption of the s human species was reached so deep that the proper Creator was sad for having created the human being and, finally, sent The Big Flood to punish the rebellion of the creatures The history of the Diluvium, follows the story of the Tower of Babel, demonstrating that the Diluvium did not extinguish sin. The Ark that also preserved the life of animals and human beings preserved the sin in the heart of these last ones. And, by coming across with the patriarchal narratives of Abraham, Isaque, Jacob and his children, we perceive weaknesses in the character of these patriarchs demonstrated in acts of incredulity, jealousy and lies.

However, amid this confusion of problems, reveals a God of love, that in each moment of infringement shows his grace upon mitigating the consequences of the sin with a promise or act. To the first couple, God promised the “seed of the woman” that would crush the head of the snake. Amid the inexorable refrain of that everybody died, there is a marvelous exception: “walked Enoch with God and God took him” (Gn 5:22). Amid the decadence and of corruption world antediluvian, God finds a good and fair man and, through Him , makes a universal concert with the race of human beings, promising that the land never more will be destroyed by water.

After the diluvium, God chooses Abraham for, through him, and blesses all the families of the earth. Although Abraham and his descendants manifested serious weaknesses of character, God graciously led them and preserved their lives, to the point of making in good the evil that they intended to do (Gen 50:20). So, the God who called Abraham and preserved the life of his descendants was not a local divinity, but the Creator of the Universe. The succession of catastrophes, what humanity had suffered previously explains why the choice of Abraham was necessary. After all, he will be subject to the promises made to Abraham and his descendants that will comply the purposes of God with humanity.



Study of The Genesis Bible

The first two parts

The Genesis Bible is divided into two main parts: The first, which runs from Gen 1:1 to 1:11, narrates the formation symbolic of the world. The second extends from Gen. 12-50, which deals with the history of patriarchs.

The End of Genesis

All the end of Genesis, and more precisely chapters 37 to 50, with the exception of 38 to 49, are a biography of Joseph, one of 12 children of Jacob), and assume a connotation of education, in the sense of a lesson: The Virtue of the wise man is redeemed and the Divine Providence converts into good and the sins of men.

The program of the study of Genesis

Introduction -The Creation of Babel : The seven days of the Creation, the serpent and the Tree of the Knowledge, the Lost Paradise, Caim and Abel, Enoch and the Book of the Secrets.

Continuation of the Creation of Babel: Noah and the Atlantis, the Tower of Babel. Abraham : The Life of Abraham, the seven promises of Elohims, the journey to Egypt, the war of Abraham against the Kings, The King of Salem, The first son of Abraham- Ishmael, the vibratory power of the names
Continuation of Abraham : The Messengers, After the birth of Isaac, The evolution through Abraham.

Jacob: The two children of Isaac, The exile of Jacob, The past comes back, The four women of Jacob
Continuation of Jacob: The children of Jacob, the Stairs of Jacob and the Cabbala.

Jose: Jose in Canaan, Jose and Tamar. José in Egypt, The reunion, The burial of Jacob and the death of José, The interpretation of the dreams. Summary of personages and teachings



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