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What do you see?
Too often, we modern folk ask Genesis to answer modern questions, like how old is this water-covered ball that spins at 1000 mph in space while orbiting a nuclear-powered fireball?
But Genesis wasn’t written to us.
It was written for us, but not to us.
It was written to people asking ancient questions.
What are those ancient questions?
You probably didn’t realize that the birds and the bees were created on day 1 … but to tell this story, we need to talk about sex.
What do you see?
The phrase “These are the generations of...” as an introduction is used 11 times in Genesis.
Before the Patriarchs: The need for a family of God
2:4 Heaven and earth
5:1 Adam’s line
6:9 Noah
10:1 Shem, Ham, and Japheth
11:10 Shem
The Patriarchs in the Promised Land: Establishing the family of God
11:27 Terah
25:12 Ishmael
25:19 Isaac
36:1 Esau
36:9 Esau
The Patriarchs in Egypt: Incubation for the Covenant People
37:2 Jacob
As we look, let’s ask ourselves . . . is this how we would tell this story?
Chapter 1: God arranges the furniture
Chapter 2: God puts the man in the garden and creates woman—man was incomplete without her
Chapter 3: Woman is “deceived”, both are disobedient.
They experience adolescence.
The serpent and the ground are cursed, but the man and the woman are not.
God is merciful.
God provides for his children as they leave the garden.
The man names his wife “Eve”.
Remember that we are still answering ancient questions.
“Why am I like this?”
Are there cycles of generations?
Do problems pass down in families?
Why is attitude important?
Is this true?
The same word for “sacrifice” is used in Leviticus 2-3.
More of an offering than a sacrifice.
The grain offering has most held back for the priests to eat, but the lamb offering is a bigger sacrifice with more burned up.
Able offers the firstborn, while Cain offers “some of”.
The disobedience is not about blood, but about attitude.
A major theme in Genesis (and the OT) is how the oldest is not God’s chosen one.
This would be shocking to an ancient society.
God’s favor is not automatic.
God’s favor is through the obedience of faith.
Cain’s murder of Abel prevented him from working the ground (his job and his father’s job).
Cain’s family creates nomadic shepherding (Cain was a nomad, not a farmer…chaos).
Cain’s family creates a lot of culture.
Bronze AND Iron.
Israelites would be destroyed by Babylon without entering the Iron Age, which Babylon and Egypt has been in for over 500 years.
Lamech threatens his wives with his song of murder.
He subjugates his wives, wrongfully.
He boasts of his past murder and future murders.
None of the sons of Cain are given years.
They are not the mighty men of old.
Throughout the OT, polygamy always leads to chaos.
We sometimes look for polygamy to be declared a sin in the OT, which has led some to believe that the OT taught it was OK.
Rather, without exception, polygamy leads to chaos.
Would would have thought?
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