Genesis

Last week I mentioned that some of the material we were going to cover was not actually found in scripture, but rather were theories developed by Christian men who have searched the scriptures and also observed the world around them. I am sure you realize that it is my intention to teach the Word of […]

In our last lesson in Genesis Chapter 6, we found that the construction of Noah’s ark presented us with several types of Jesus Christ, our Ark of safety. Today, before we go on to Chapter 7, I would like to spend a few more moments reviewing these beautiful types. Genesis 6:14  “Make thee an ark of gopher wood;

Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that God’s ways are not our ways, and God’s view of any given situation is not necessarily our view. That’s why He has admonished us in Proverbs  3:5 to “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Also, in 1 Samuel 16: 7,

We ended last week’s lesson outside the garden, and it was there that a young couple raised their first two sons. I’m sure Adam and Eve would have stressed the significance of their coats of skins as their children were growing up. For you see, their covering was much more than just clothing.  It was their

As Paul waited in Athens for Timothy and Silas to arrive, “his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” He had been preaching in the synagogue and in the marketplace, and had caught the attention, not of the Jews, but of the philosophers and stoics of that city.

Last week we discovered another first. In Genesis 2:24, God gave mankind His first revelation. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Adam spoke these words, but he certainly didn’t originate them. In fact, at that particular time, he knew

As we discovered last week, Eve was a very special person. For one thing, unlike the rest of creation, she had been brought into existence after Adam had been created.  And while sea life and animals, and even man himself had been formed from the basic elements of our planet, Eve was created from living

The giving of names seems to have been an important part of the creation process. God named the day and the night, the firmament, the earth, and the sea. In fact, Psalm 147:4 tells us that “He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.” And certainly, it was His right as their Creator

“And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden .” Last week we entered that beautiful garden without a moment to look around. However, this week I would like to look at the first habitation of man through the eyes of John Phillips, a Bible commentator I depend upon a great deal. His description is quite

Well, Genesis 1 certainly has some surprises for us, doesn’t it? We learned, or at least suspected, that the world was once surrounded by a vast canopy of water vapour, and because of that, it enjoyed a universally temperate climate.  Then we found from Genesis 1:29-30 that in the beginning both man and animals were