May 3, 2020 Genesis 11:5-7 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let us go down and there confuse […]
May 2, 2020 Genesis 11:4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” The first person on record to build a city is Cain, a rebel. In fact, he built […]
May 1, 2020 Genesis 11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. Babylon was made entirely of brick. Why is that important? Because Jerusalem was made of stone. These two cities epitomize the two opposing forces in the world […]
APRIL 30, 2020 Genesis 11:2 “And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.” Jewish commentators believe that this event took place 1,996 years after creation or just 340 years after the flood. That sounds like a long time […]
APRIL 29, 2020 Genesis 11:1-2 “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.” With so many nations and so many languages extant in the earth today, it is difficult for people to comprehend that we all came from three brothers who spoke the same language. In Genesis 11, the Bible describes how we got […]
APRIL 28, 2020 Genesis 10:32 “These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.” A good portion of Genesis 10 describes the different families (nations) that descended from the three sons of Noah — Japheth, Ham and Shem […]
APRIL 27, 2020 Genesis 10:9-10 “He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.’ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.” That the beginning of Nimrod’s kingdom was Babel is quite appropriate. First, the word Babel means “confusion” or […]
APRIL 26, 2020 Genesis 10:9-10 “He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore, it is said, ‘Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.’ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.” The rebel, Nimrod, opposed the Almighty in order to build his kingdom, starting it in a place called […]
APRIL 25, 2020 Genesis 10:8-9 Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore, it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” Before Nimrod, there were no kings or kingdoms, only judges and other such leaders. Nimrod changed that by being the first to […]
APRIL 24, 2020 Genesis 9:24-27 So, Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.” And he said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in […]
APRIL 23, 2020 Genesis 9:21-23 “Then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their […]
APRIL 22, 2020 Genesis 9:20 “And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.” In Hebrew, the word for “farmer” (or “husbandman” depending on version of Bible) is ish ha’adamah – “man of the ground.” This is interesting for a couple of reasons; first of all, the first thing that God did […]
