Pgs. 1-30
-In the first book of God's Word, Genesis, we find that the world was not always the way it is now. When God first created it, everything was absolutely perfect.
-But God has an enemy who hates Him, a fallen angel named Satan.
-After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, God cursed Satan and told him that one day a Savior would be born Who would crush Satan's head and destroy his evil works.
-D-Day: in Normandy, France. was the turning point in WWII. the war was basically over, but some people kept fighting because they didn't know that the war was over.
-Analogy to: Jesus won a while ago, but there are still little rebellions going on. The redemption will fix all that.
-Genesis 3 - protoevangelium - first good message

-in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth in perfect harmony.
-On the 6th day God completed His creation. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Genesis 1:31
-it took God 6 days to complete His creation
-God made a condition. He told Adam and Eve, His first image-bearers, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
-As long as Adam and Eve obeyed God's command, they would live forever in harmony with God, with themselves, with each other, and with the earth.
-The Bible doesn't tell us when it happened, but sometime after God completed His creation, His enemy Satan entered the garden as a serpent. Satan spoke to the woman, Eve, and tempted her to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by saying, "You will not surely die...you will be like God..." Eve believed Satan's lie.
-Adam and Eve were in disharmony with God, with themselves, with each other, and with the earth.

-God never makes a mistake, and nothing can destroy His good plans.
-God told Satan, "I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. Her child will crush your head, and you will bite his heel." (Genesis 3:15)
-"The reason the Son of God was born on earth was to destroy the devil's work." (1 John 3:8)
-Isaiah 53 - "But it was the Lord who decided to crush him.." (Jesus is described as a lamb like in Psalm 23)
-the word redeem means to pay something in order to free a person from a debt or a punishment.
-God wanted to create a special nation from some of the people who would fill the earth. After many years, Jesus would be born into God's special nation.

-God made a covenant (a special agreement or promise) with Noah to bless him and never again to destroy the earth with a flood. God put a rainbow in the sky as a sign that He would keep His promise.
-Before the fall, God commanded Adam and Eve, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it" (Genesis 1:28 - the Cultural Mandate)
-But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you - God did save people; He saved 8 people.
-It rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
-Quotes from Genesis 9: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth" (sounds like Cultural Mandate); "I establish my covenant with you...This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you...I have set my rainbow in the clouds..."'
-Genesis 10: table of nations
-Noah's sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
-Semitic (people who come from Shem): Jewish people, Arabs
-Dore - made engravings for books...especially he made a good one of when Noah came off the ark...his engraved version has dead bodies.

-God promised (made a covenant with) Abraham that his family would become very large and that all people of the earth would be blessed through Abraham's family.
-God created the nation of Israel from the family of one man who was born almost 500 years after the flood.
-Abraham lived in a place called Ur
-The land God showed Abraham was called Canaan.
-Abraham married a woman named Sarah.
-Later God told Abraham: "Look up at the heavens and count the stars---if indeed you can count them...So shall your offspring be."
-Jesus was not born until almost 2,000 years after God made His covenant with Abraham.

-Abraham and Sarah named their son Isaac.
-God said to Isaac" "I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky...through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed."

-God has chosen Jacob as the son He would bless like He had blessed Abraham and Isaac.
-Romans 9: God passed over Esau and gave the blessing to Jacob.
-Jacob means deceiver
-God said to Jacob: your descendants will be like the dust of the earth.

-Jesus and David came from Judah - who came from Jacob.

-Patriarch: founding father
-Matriarch: founding mother
-Jacob had 12 sons. One of his sons was named Joseph. Joseph lived with his father and brothers in Canaan. Jacob favored Joseph above all his brothers. This special treatment made Joseph’s brothers jealous of him. Because the brothers hated Joseph, they sold him as a slave to be taken to Egypt. But God was with Joseph, and some time later he would become the highest ruler in Egypt, 2nd to the Pharaoh or king.
-What his brothers had meant for Joseph's harm many years before, God used for good. (Some things that are evil, God uses for good.)

-When Jacob was grown, he married 4 wives. Together they had 12 sons.
-One night God appeared to Jacob in the form of a man. The man wrestled with Jacob all night. Jacob limped for the rest of his life. The man said: "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel." This was a blessing to Jacob.

-God is already redeeming things but they are not yet fully redeemed; things are partially redeemed.

-Exodus 1 says "but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so the land was filled with them." (Sounds like Cultural Mandate)

~ALSO STUDY PAGES 24 AND 29~

Pg. 24:
1. Of which of Noah's sons was Abraham a descendant? Shem
2. Where did Abraham live before God called him? Ur
3. What did God ask Abraham to leave? his country, people, and father's household
4. To what land did God lead Abraham? Canaan
5. What did God make with Abraham? a covenant
6. Into what did God promise to make Abraham? a great nation
7. Who would one day be blessed through Abraham? all people on Earth
8. Who was Abraham's wife? Sarah
9. Who was Abraham and Sarah's son to whom God made the same covenant? Isaac
10. Whom did Isaac marry? Rebekah
11. To which of Isaac's sons did God make the same covenant He had made with Abraham and Isaac? Jacob
12. Who was born many years later from the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob through Whom all people on earth are blessed? Jesus

Pg. 29:
1. What new name did God give Jacob? Israel
2. How many sons did Jacob and his wives have? 12
3. In what country did Jacob's family live? Canaan
4. Who was Jacob's favorite son? Joseph
5. Who was jealous of Jacob's favorite son? Joseph's brothers
6. Into what country was Joseph sold as a slave? Egypt
7. What did Joseph become after many years in Egypt? second in command to the Pharaoh
8. Why did Jacob send his sons to Egypt? to buy grain
9. Why did God allow Joseph's brothers to sell him as a slave in Egypt? to save lives
10. Where did Joseph invite his brothers and father to live? Goshen
11. After Joseph and his brothers died, where did their descendants live? Egypt
12. What name was given to the descendants of Jacob's sons as they multiplied in Egypt? Israelites