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 […]
April 20, 2020 Genesis 9:16-17 “The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me […]
April 19, 2020 Genesis 9:8-9, 12-13 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you….And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature […]
April 18, 2020 Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” There are several issues we could address based on what is revealed in this verse but today, we’ll start with this — God’s purposes are forever. In fact, we could […]
