This week we will be reading Genesis 1–21 at the rate of 3 chapters per day. Genesis is a fairly easy read. There aren’t even too many sections of hard-to-pronounce names. The most important thing to remember is to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in your reading and understanding of His written Word.
Key people this week:
- Adam and Eve – first humans
- Cain, Abel and Seth – first siblings
- Enoch – walked with God and did not die – God took him
- Methuselah – lived to be 969 years old, longest living human
- Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth and their descendants
- Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah
- Lot, his wife and daughters
- Melchizedek – priest of God Most High and King of Salem (Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek – see Psalm 110:4 and Hebrews 7:17)
- Hagar and Ishmael
Key events this week:
- Creation – two versions in Genesis 1 and 2
- Fall – the first sin and its effect on the serpent (Satan), men and women, and the earth as well as a promise of a redeemer
- The first murder
- The Flood and God’s covenant with Noah
- The Tower of Babel
- God’s call of Abraham
- God’s unconditional promise to Abraham that is still in effect today: “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 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 shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:2-3)
- A son promised to Abraham
- Birth of Ishmael
- Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed
- Birth of Isaac
Bibliography
Life Application Study Bible: New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan and Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2019.
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