MAY 6, 2020 Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.” At some point in his early life, God had instructed Abram to leave everything behind and go to a place that was undisclosed in the […]
MAY 5, 2020 Genesis 11:27-28 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. Among the descendants of Shem was a man called Terah who fathered Abraham, a man destined to be the “father of many nations.” Before […]
MAY 4, 2020 Genesis 11:8-9 So, the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore, its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. The word Babel is said to mean, “confusion” […]
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 […]
