Bible Book: Genesis

The Judgment of the Flood

Date: May 5th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 6:1-14  |  Topics: Cain, Flood, Judgment, Seth

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bContinue Reading


The Waters Cover the Earth

Date: May 12th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 6-8  |  Topics: Ark, Earth, Flood, Geology, Water

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bContinue Reading


The Post-Diluvian Age

Date: May 19th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 9-12  |  Topics: Dispensations, Noah, Pride

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shallContinue Reading


Abraham: Citizen of Ur

Date: May 26th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 12  |  Topics: Abraham, Commitment, Culture, Idolatry, archaeology

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and fiveContinue Reading


Abraham: God’s Pilgrim

Date: June 2nd, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 12  |  Topics: Abraham, Believers, Christianity, Idolatry, Separation

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and fiveContinue Reading


The Covenant Confirmed to Abraham

Date: June 9th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 15:11-17  |  Topics: Atonement, Covenant, Day of Atonement, Faith, Grace, Sacrifice

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 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; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thyContinue Reading


Hagar and Ishmael

Date: June 23rd, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 16  |  Topics: Arab, Hagar, Ishmael, Israel, Promise

Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. And he went in unto Hagar, andContinue Reading


The Offering Up of Isaac

Date: June 30th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 22  |  Topics: Abraham, Children, Faith, Isaac, Obedience

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, andContinue Reading


Tear-Stained Machpelah

Date: July 7th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 23  |  Topics: Abraham, Confession, Faith, Sarah, Tears

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unContinue Reading


The Deep Waters

Date: October 13th, 1957  |  Scripture: Genesis 1:2  |  Topics: Creation, Firmament, Oceans, Typology, Water

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.