Day 1
Genesis 1-21
Genesis 1-21
After reading the Bible for an hour (out loud) yesterday - I was able to finish 21 chapters in Genesis. I'm wondering if 70 hours is all it will take? :)
The theme that I found running through these 21 chapters was quite easy for me to discover. God makes several promises in these first 21 chapters of the Old Testament. He starts by promising Adam and Eve a redemptive Saviour. He later promises Noah that He will never again flood the entire earth (using the Rainbow as His symbol of His word). He then promises Abram that He will make the descendants of this man as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the grains of sand on the earth! Finally, God promises Abraham a child to bring about the fulfillment to His earlier promise.
The other theme that I found to connect the stories together is the act of trust. Adam and Eve needed to trust God when He told them His plans for their lives. They didn't listen all the time. Noah needed to trust God when He was told that the earth would be flooded. Fortunately he listened and his life (and his family's life) was spared from death.
Abram/Abraham didn't fully trust God about having a child - and instead had a child through Hagar, a servant. God still blessed this child as well, but it brought about enmity...a clash so strong between Ishmael and Issac (Hagar's kid and Sarah's respectively) that the fights continue to this day in Israel...
Genesis 18:18-19 (NIV): "Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."
Praise God for His word, His promises, and the ability to trust in Him, knowing that He will never let us down!
1168 chapters left!
Shalom,
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The theme that I found running through these 21 chapters was quite easy for me to discover. God makes several promises in these first 21 chapters of the Old Testament. He starts by promising Adam and Eve a redemptive Saviour. He later promises Noah that He will never again flood the entire earth (using the Rainbow as His symbol of His word). He then promises Abram that He will make the descendants of this man as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the grains of sand on the earth! Finally, God promises Abraham a child to bring about the fulfillment to His earlier promise.
The other theme that I found to connect the stories together is the act of trust. Adam and Eve needed to trust God when He told them His plans for their lives. They didn't listen all the time. Noah needed to trust God when He was told that the earth would be flooded. Fortunately he listened and his life (and his family's life) was spared from death.
Abram/Abraham didn't fully trust God about having a child - and instead had a child through Hagar, a servant. God still blessed this child as well, but it brought about enmity...a clash so strong between Ishmael and Issac (Hagar's kid and Sarah's respectively) that the fights continue to this day in Israel...
Genesis 18:18-19 (NIV): "Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."
Praise God for His word, His promises, and the ability to trust in Him, knowing that He will never let us down!
1168 chapters left!
Shalom,
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