if he be once fully aroused what power will he put forth when he shall spring upon his adversaries ? Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Gen 7:4. 49. What Eve said was true; but it was not a sufficient reason for her sin. Sometimes alighting on the ark; then flying away again. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the kings dale. Christ is the Head of the one seed, and Satan is the head of the other; and our Lord Jesus Christ has had his heel bruised, and he suffered in that bruising of his heel; but he has broken the head of the dragon, he has crushed the power of evil, he has put his potent foot upon the old serpents head. Gen 32:17-19. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Chapter 6 begins with the context that accentuates his faithfulness. 72.] I suppose that this was a very drying wind, so the waters began to turn to vapor, and gradually to disappear. All the details are mentioned, for true obedience is very careful of detail. The ark, roughly the shape of a shoebox, was plenty large enough (about the size of the Titanic), and had a cubit-wide opening (18 inches, one-half meter) all the way around the top. Sermon Bible Commentary. John Bunyan truly says, , When one troubles gone another doth him seize., Certainly it was so with Jacob; for, after he had escaped from Laban, he knew that he had to meet his brother Esau, whom he had so greatly wronged so many years before. 2 Thessalonians And every one of our sins is essentially of the same nature, and has in it, substantially, the same mischief. Gen 15:4-5. It is a blessed thing to be such a fool that you do not know anyone to trust in except your God. Gen 3:22. Gen 22:6-8. Gen 3:16-18. Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: Judah . Perhaps they were all one steamy conglomeration before, but now they are separated. Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. You may except that some great blessing is coming nigh to you when a horror of great darkness falls upon you. He was nearly five hundred years old when he began to preach about the flood, a good old age to take up such a subject. In 275 b.c., Berosus, a Babylonian historian, wrote: But of this ship that grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off.. JOHN MACARTHUR DISCUSSES GENESIS 6 & THE NEPHILIM. It seemed essential to this end that Abraham should come right out from his fellow-countrymen, and be separate unto Jehovah, so the Lord said to him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee.. Light be. Light was. God had but to speak the word, and the great wonder was accomplished. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. Here was the first proclamation of the gospel. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saying my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) Gen 1:31. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: No doubt, when they had heard the voice of the Lord before, they had run to meet him, as children do to a father when he comes home in the cool of the day. But now, how different is their action! Each part of his character, like every part of his armour, is put to the proof; and it is the proof that tests, after all, the. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. Gen 24:3. Gen 14:17. This was true Oriental policy, and crafty Jacob always had more than enough of something and planning even when it was not done with wisdom; but, in this case, I think it was a wise arrangement, for which he is to be commended. 2 Timothy And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. It looks as if the deluge must have been universal when we read that not only did the waters prevail exceedingly upon the earth, but that all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven; that is, all beneath the canopy of the sky, were covered. What could be more plain and clear than that? And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt-. And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. He was trembling under a dark cloud that was to pass over his head without bursting. God will also use Noah to save a remnant of each animal so the earth could be populated with people and animals after the flood. (4-5) Satan's direct challenge to God's Word. Jacob was the prince with the disjointed limb, and that is exactly what a Christian is. So a man may have great opportunities, and yet lose them. Gen 32:3. If you are willing to suffer for Christs sake, it may be that you shall not be caused to suffer and if you are willing to be a martyr for the truth, you may be permitted to wear the martyrs crown even though you are never called to stand at the stake, the scaffold or the block. Because of this mention of pitch (a petroleum product) in what most people think is the Middle East, it is said that John D. Rockefeller looked for (and found) oil in that region based on this verse. Genesis 22:1 It is by trial that the character of a Christian is formed. Gen 22:1. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. Gen 24:6. I have known him very strangely with his people, and when they thought they were quite forgotten, he has proved that he remembered them, and both the winds of heaven and the waters of the sea have had to work their good. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; and said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. What an encouragement the visit of these angels must have been to Jacob after the strife which he had had with Laban! Pray as well as plan, and if your plans be numerous, let your prayers be all the more fervent, lest the natural tendency of your constitution should degenerate into reliance upon the arm of flesh, and dependence upon your own wisdom, instead of absolute reliance upon God. Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice just now. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, Jacob uses that August name Jehovah the Lord . He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. If you want the Lord to confide in you, and to trust you with his secrets, you must see that he is able to say of you what he said of Abraham, he will command his children and his household after him.. a. Rokovitsky told his commanding officer and an expedition was dispatched to find the ark and photograph it. Gen 8:15-21. Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. If it was said, concerning somebody in this place, That individual , Thorns and Thistles The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him: . And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. ii. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; Just as it had been foretold, for Gods providence always tallies with his promises or with his threats. Then it was that the angels of God met him. Go on your way in peace and safety, beloved believer, for Gods hosts are all around you. and my soul shall live. Gen 15:7-8. He speaks, and it is done. And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake; for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Gen 8:20. He gave it a name to commemorate Gods having sent the angels, and called it two camps or two hosts., The angels of God are always round about his people. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Genesis vii.1 and 7. 2 Corinthians Had there been one more, there would have been no hand to lay hold of the fifth person; but these two angels, with their four hands, could just lead these four persons outside the doomed city. Gen 49:8. According to an old tradition, not only Genesis (also called the first book of Moses), but the whole Pentateuch (from Greek pente - five and teuchos - container for scrolls) were written by Moses. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. Here is no human passion, but divine dignity: And he said, . I do not know that he is to be imitated in setting a sign to God; perhaps not, but he did his best; he left the matter with God, and a thing is always in good hands when it is left with him. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that, which grew upon the ground. There is not an angel in heaven but God will make him to be a servant to you if you need him; there is not a wind in any quarter of the globe but God will guide it to you if it is necessary; and there are no waves of the sea but shall obey the Lords will concerning you. ii. And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees the folly and stubbornness of a rebellious and disobedient child, which not only angers him, but grieves him, and makes him wish he had been written childless. Gen 45:10. This does not mean that creation was out of control, nor does it mean that God hoped for something better but was unable to achieve it. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Gen 32:28. Note those four words, and it was so. Whatever God ordains always comes. And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Notice that the angel says, Now I know that thou fearest God. I do not think that the gracious use of godly fear has ever been sufficiently estimated by the most of us; here, the stress is not laid upon the faith, but upon the filial fear of Abraham. Chapter 6:9: This is the history of Noah, 4. 18. Uncontrolled passions may make him very little who otherwise might have been great. He spoke like a prophet of God when he was really speaking to his son in the anguish of his spirit, and in his prophetic utterance we find the sum end substance of the gospel: My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He is the great Provider, and he provides the offering, not only for us, but for himself, for the sacrifice was necessary to God as well as to man. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.". God had been very gracious to him, and all his fears were gone, so he met Esau as a brother, not as an enemy, and the four hundred men were willing to become his protectors. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. The worship of snakes, which was, and still is, spread in many idolatrous cultures in the whole world, is another example of how Satan succeeded in getting people to turn away from worshipping the one true God and draw them after himself (compare Genesis 3:1, Revelation 12:9). Gods gracious interposition had delivered him out of the hand of the angry Laban, Laban the churl, who cared for Jacob only for what he could get out of him. Terms of Use I believe that much of the theology which is tinged with free will is true, and I know that the teaching which fully proclaims electing love and sovereign grace is also true; and you may find much of both these truths in the Scriptures. THE chapter from which the text is taken bristles with points. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I wilt not overthrow this city, for thou hast spoken. For therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. How obliquely fell the curse! How faithfully God fulfils his covenant with the earth! And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden;of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 7:15-16. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; It was to be a long while before the nation should enter upon its inheritance. Chapter 29:1-31:55 Jacob's stay with Laban, Chapter 32 Jacob's fight with God and new name (Israel), Chapter 35 Jacob goes to Bethel; birth of Benjamin and death of Rachel, Chapter 36:1-37:1 Esau and his descendants; final word, 4. In the infinite sovereignty of his grace, he chose Abraham,passing by all the rest of mankind,and elected him to be the depository of the heavenly light, that through him it might be preserved in the world until the days when it should be more widely scattered. Oh, that at any time when we have sinned, God would ask each one of us the question, What is it that thou hast done?, Still, you see, there is no confession of guilt, but only the attempt to push the blame off upon somebody else. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. THIS was not the penalty which might have been pronounced upon Adam. The breath of life ( Genesis 2:7; Psalms 104:29-30) remains his to give and to recall." [Note: Brueggemann, Genesis, p. They convey to us the great lesson that the word of God is sure to be followed by the deed of God. Jacob was about to enter upon a great trial, and therefore he received a great comfort in preparation for it. It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other Man with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 3 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; Thou shalt get thy life out of the ground till thou thyself shalt go into the ground.. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. Deuteronomy StudyLght.org. I have always felt pleased to think that there were just hands enough to lead out these four people, Lot, and his wife, and their two daughters. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from of the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. Some touch of human weakness must always accompany the divine strength that God may give to us. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Chapter 11:10: These are the generations of Shem, 6. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen 8:6-7. Gen 22:3. Gen 32:25. To be great, you must be little. Gen 49:1-2. What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Perhaps the world was in its prime, when the trees were in bloom, and the birds were singing in their branches, and the flowers were blooming on the earth, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.. It might do some men great good if they would not persistently shut their eyes to the doom of the wicked. And the answer would be, It was by his weakness that he won his princedom, he became Israel, a prince of God, when his thigh was put out of joint. How pleased would you and I be to go halting all our days with such weakness as Jacob had, if we might also have the blessing that he thus won! The mention of seven days, and the resting in between seems to look like it. So they went both of them together. Twice we are told this, for this incident is a type of the Father going with the Son and the Son going with the Father up to the great sacrifice on Calvary. It was true then, and it is true today: But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more (Romans 5:20). How often God takes the will for the deed with his people! Gen 3:9-11. That is, in the days before the sons of God took the daughters of men for wives, in such a general manner as before declared, or before the declension and apostasy became so universal; even in the times of Jared, as the Arabic writers . He has not made all these creatures in order to starve them, but he has supplied them with great variety and abundance of food, that their wants may be satisfied. We should even be willing to humiliate ourselves in order to make peace. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Gen 45:2-3. Gen 9:16. It is a good thing also to know the names of truths, and the names of other things that are right. Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him, and so proved that he was righteous before God. And Abraham gat up early in. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Are any of you labouring under a very serious disadvantage? And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. Well, even that was better than planning, and not praying at all; so there is something commendable in his action, though not without considerable qualification. Genesis 46. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him; and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. He went no farther than to plead that Sodom might be spared if ten righteous persons could be found in it. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.. And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, And the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: This holy man was careful of the purity of his family; he knew what an ill-effect a Canaanitish wife might have upon his son, and also upon his offspring. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 8 9. And he urged him, and he took it. Genesis describes the creation of the world, the fall of the first men into sin and its consequences, but not only the curse but also the first clear pointer to the redeemer.We see God's righteousness in the judgment of the great flood, but also election of grace and the life of faith in Abraham.In the story of Isaac we see the beloved son of the God will always have agents enough to save his elect; there shall be sufficient gospel preaching, even in the darkest and deadest times, to bring his redeemed out of the City of Destruction. They are all here, Jacob. He himself was to address her first, and then she must be ready, with all cheerfulness, to do far more than he asks. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Gen 8:21. Abraham had endured the supreme test of his faith, and had, in full intent, offered up his son Isaac at the command of God, his hand being withheld from the actual sacrifice only by an angelic voice. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him: every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. Gen 8:15-16. You did very wrong, but I say nothing about that, for I want you to notice how God has over-ruled your action, how your sin has been made to be the means of your preservation and the preservation of many besides: God did send me before you to preserve life.. Commentary on Genesis 6:8-11 (Read Genesis 6:8-11) Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world: but he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this made him more truly honourable than the men of renown. Here is another type of our Saviours great sacrifice on Calvary,-the ram offered in the place of Jesus. iii. Gen 32:11-13. It is a very sweet thing to die with a blessing on your lips, and it is equally good to live in the same spirit. God always speaks comfortable words to those who bring an acceptable sacrifice. Gen 3:19-21. Genre This passage is narrative. For example we read in Genesis 7:16, after Noah entered the ark: ".. As God had commanded him.And Jehovah shut him in.". Thus Noah did: When given this staggering job to do, Noah did it. He will have everything ready against the time when it will be needed. That must mean mischief to me, and my company. There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded by controversy. Sermons by Spurgeon - Bible Hub Gen 49:11-12. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. c. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD: While God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution, He found one man with whom to begin again: Noah, who found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later. Apparently, Adam was not forbidden to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, though, after his fail, he was cast out of Eden, as God said, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. He might freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except one: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. It was a slight prohibition, yet the test was more than man, even in a state of innocence, was able to endure, and, alas! All they had gained by their sin was a discovery of their nakedness. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro. Whose branches run over the wall: He does more than he is expected to do; nothing seems to content him, his branches run over the wall., Gen 49:23-24. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. If you deny his truth, trample on the doctrine of atonement, and reject his love, you will rouse him up. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his brother shall be unto Zidon. Gen 22:4. God told Noah to cover it with pitch inside and outside, which makes it possible that the ark was preserved for a long time. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Go up to my father, and say unto him, Come down unto me. See how great love turns pleader again; he who said to his brethren, Come near to me, sends to his father the message, Come down unto me.. By her action, and her husbands, the flood-gates had been pulled up, and the flood of sin had been let loose upon the world. Gen 27:19-20. In a.d. 180, Theophilus of Antioch wrote: the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen in the mountains.. ii. This time the patriarch has advanced by ten; before, it was by fives. And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. Gen 3:6. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Chapter 10:1: These are the generations of the sons of Noah, 5. Gen 19:22-28. Where the column of the leg supports the body, and if that be disjointed, a man has lost all his strength. For out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Moreover, nothing in the context of Genesis 6 indicates that the "sons of God" should be understood as angels (this makes this passage unlike Job 1-2, for example, where the context of a heavenly council makes it clear to the reader that angels are being referred to).
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