Sara: Lesson 1 Video notes

We will be reading Genesis this week.  (1/10 - 1/14)

**These are for my notes from the lesson 1 video.  They are not meant for use by anyone else.  You are more than welcome however to use them. :)**

Genesis - "Beginning"
Author - Moses
Starts with a Prologue: "In the beginning"
      - followed by 10 sections: known as generations/origins/ lineage

Prologue: Chapters 1.1 - 2.4
Day 1: Light
Day 4: sun, moon, and stars (those things that create light for us)

Day 2: skies and seas (creation of "space")
Day 5: Fish and birds (animals of the seas and skies)

Day 3: Dry land and plant life
Day 6: Animals for land
         - LAST: Humans

Day 7: God rested
        - reminds humans that there is a need for rest
        - sets an example for us

Discusses days as "chunks of time" - not the idea of the rise and the setting of the sun and moon

Section 1: Garden of Eden (Ch. 2.4 - 4)
- Tree of knowledge
- Good vs. Evil (EVERYTHING)
       - Satan temps Adam and Eve into eating from the tree and learning (or knowing) EVERYTHING - to be "like God"
       - Entrance of SIN AND MORTALITY into our world
       - "We know more than we can handle"
       - Points the way to the need for a Savior

Section 2: Adam (Ch. 5,6 and part of 7)
      Also includes sons Cain and Abel
- Sons carry on the sin started by Adam and Eve

Section 3: Noah (Ch. 6,7,8,9)
- Earth became largelt populated
- God finds Earth's wickedness to be so great, he decides to destroy it (using water= FLOOD)
- One man was good: Noah
      - live righteously no matter what
- Builds an ARK - preserves human and animal life
     - all current ppl descend from Noah (Noah, his sons and their wives)
- Noah, however, falls from grace (gets drunk)
       - SIN = displeasing God

Section 4: Shem, Ham and Japheth (Ch. 10 - 11) "Table of Nations"
        - Sons of Noah
        - World becoming increasingly PAGAN

Section 5: Shem (Ch. 11)
  - Lineage of Shem
  - introduction of Abraham

Section 6: Terah (Ch. 12)
TERAH - father of Abraham
Ch. 1 - 11 : rapid coverage of beginning
***Story of God's ppl begins with ABRAHAM
         - Abraham is covered in Ch. 11 - 25
              - Ch. 12 : Covenant?
              - Abraham wasn't perfect: afraid, lies (Sarah)
                   ----->   Issac does it too in Ch. 26
FAITH ISN'T PERFECT!!

Section 7: Ishmael (Ch. 25)
     Father of the Arabs

Section 8: Issac (Ch. 25 - 35)
       father of the Jews
-Includes Jacob and his 12 sons
----------> the 12 tribes of Israel

Section 9 : Esau (Ch. 36)
       Jacob's brother = father of the Eclomites
- Shoes God's concern for ALL people (through Moses)
- God of All People

Section 10 : Jacob and Joseph (Ch. 37 - 50{End})
"God is with Joseph"

At the end of Genesis:
         "Now God has a people"
                  - cares for
                  - protects