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Genesis

Title:

Ge,nesij (Genesis)

tyviÞarEB. (In the beginning)

Author: Moses

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the OT

1 Kings 2:3 Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies,

according to what is written in the Law of Moses.

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the OT

Ezra 6:18 Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their orders for the service of God in

Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the OT

Malachi 4:4 Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the NT

Matthew 8:4 And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the

offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the NT

John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the Law?

Mosaic Authorship: The Testimony of the NT

Romans 10:19 But I say, surely Israel did

not know, did they? First Moses says, "I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU." (a quotation from Deut. 32:21)

Date of Writing

Two Options:

1. The Early Date – 1446 BC

2. The Late Date – 1290 BC

Theme

The Origins of the World Through God’s Power

The Universe

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Humanity

Genesis 1:27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Marriage

Genesis 2:22-24 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they Shall become one flesh.

Sin

Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Family

Genesis 4:1-2 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD." Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel.

Civilization

Genesis 4:20-21 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

Government

Genesis 9:5-6 And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.

Languages and Nations

Genesis 11:7-8 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth.

Israel

Genesis 12:1-3 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

Theme

God’s sovereign choice of Abraham and his

decedents to be his elect people.

Purpose of Writing

To demonstrate to the Israelites that the God they worshiped was the God who created the entire world, the only true God, and to show them that they were his chosen people.

Purpose of Writing

Their status as his chosen people was based entirely upon God’s own sovereign will, not on any merit of their own.

Purpose of Writing

Romans 9:10-13 but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad- in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call- she was told, "The older will serve the younger." As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." [ESV]

Seeing Christ in Genesis

Genesis 3:14-15 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."

Seeing Christ in Genesis

Genesis 9:27 May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

Seeing Christ in Genesis

Genesis 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Types of Christ in Genesis

Adam1. Son of God2. Sinless3. “Federal

Head”

Romans 5:14-15 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Types of Christ in Genesis

Melchizedek1. “King of Righteousness”

2. King of Salem (“Peace”)3. No genealogy 4. The Priest of God5. Serves the sacrament (bread and wine)

Genesis 14:18-20 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. He blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." He gave him a tenth of all.

Hebrews 7:1-3 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

Types of Christ in Genesis

Joseph1. Loved by his father

2. Hated by his brothers3. Betrayed for money4. Unjustly condemned5. Vindicated by God

Place in the Canon of Scripture

Genesis is the foundation for the rest of the Bible. It provides us with crucial context for what is said elsewhere.

Place in the Canon of Scripture

Genesis shows us the ultimate Biblical theme of God glorifying himself by redeeming his people. It is also crucial to understanding Revelation, which is in many ways a parallel and bookend to Genesis.

A Suggested Outline for Genesis

I. Four Major Events (1:1-11:9)A. The Creation (1:1-2:25)B. The Fall (3:1-5:32)C. The Flood (6:1-9:29)D. The Scattering of the Nations (10:1-11:9)

 

II. Four Major Characters (11:10-50:26)

A. Abraham (11:10-25:18)B. Isaac (25:19-26:35)C. Jacob (27:1-36:43)D. Joseph (37:1-50:26)