Bible Summery

- The Bible is the greatest History book ever written
- If you ca believe the 1st four words “in the beginning God” you have made the greatest step in faith
Genesis
· The Bible begins with the creation of all things
· Man, Adam, was created on the 6th day and was made in the image of God
· A short time later Woman, Eve, was made from the rib of man
· All things were made perfectly good, Sin and death did not exist.
· But this did not last long, the devil came in the form of a snake and tempted Eve to eat from the tree that God had commanded them not to eat from.
· The devil called God a liar and told Eve that if she ate from this tree she would become like God.
· Eve ate from this tree and persuaded her husband Adam to eat with her.
· Sin and disobedience has now entered the world.
· There fore now death and pain is part of everyday life
· Adam and Eve were sent out of the Garden of Paradise.
· All men and woman are now born and defiled with sin.
· The justice of God requires that sin must be justified, man is now in debt to God and this debt can only be paid for, by living in everlasting agony in hell after he dies.
· But God in his love has given a way of escape.
· He promised Adam and Eve that He would send One who could pay for the sins of the whole world.

· Adam and Eve gave birth to a son named Cain
· Another son was born named Abel
· Cain kills his godly brother out of jealousy
· Adam and Eve have a 3rd son whom they called Seth
· All ready in the 1st few chapters of the Bible we see the vast difference between those who hate God and those who love him.
· We are given a brief tour down the wicked line of Cain
· And another down the more godly line of Seth.

· As time goes on, sin expounds and man turns more and more away from God
· We read that the Lord is sorry that he had made man and decides that He will destroy the people He had created.
· There however is one man with his family who still loved the Lord.
· God decided that He would start over through him.
· God told Noah to build a large boat called an ‘ark’
· The dimensions of this ark were to be 450ft x 75ft x 45ft
· It took Noah approximately 120 years to build this ark.
· While building it he prophesied the coming of a flood. But nobody believed him and heartlessly mocked him. (remember at this time there had never been a rainfall. The earth was watered from dew that came up from the ground)
· When the ark was finished animals came from all ends of he earth in 2’s or 7’s depending on their kind.
· Finally everything has been prepared and we read in Genesis 7 that Noah and his family enter the ark and God shuts the door.
· For 40 days water fell from above and the earth opened up and springs and fountains of water came up from beneath.
· The entire earth was covered in a great mass of water. Even to the tips of the mountains.
· All living creatures that were not inside the ark drowned and died.
· The water covered the earth for 150 days
· And it was over a year later before Noah and his family could leave the ark.
· God placed a rainbow in the sky as a promise that he would never destroy the whole earth with a flood again.

· A genealogy of Noah’s family is given in Chapter 10
· We then can read the story of the Tower of Babel
· God had asked the people to spread out and cover the earth but the refused to do so and began building a tower “whose top may reach into the heavens” “and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad the face of the whole earth”
· The Lord came down and brought upon confusion amongst the people by “confounding their language”
· Now that the different families could not understand each other they were forced to spread out claim their own land.

· The Lord chooses a people for himself
· He takes out man named Abram to be the Father of a Great Nation
· Abram who’s name is changed to Abraham bears a son, Isaac
· Isaac gives birth to two sons, Esau and Jacob.
· Esau sells his birthright and blessing to his brother Jacob
· Jacob gives birth of 12 sons and the blessing is given to Judah
· Jacob’s name is changed to Israel.
· Jacob had a son named Joseph whom his brothers hated.
· They sold his as a slave to Egypt and told their father that he had died.
· God with Joseph and through the interpreting of Pharaoh’s dream Joseph becomes 2nd in command of all of Egypt.
· God promised that the area would receive 7 years of very good crop followed by 7 years of famine.
· Joseph had the people store and save much of the good crop so that there would be enough to feed every one during the time of famine.
· Joseph’s brothers come to him begging for food. They do not know that this overseer who is in charge of food rations is their own brother.
· After placing his brother through many tests to see if they have changed, Joseph reveals himself and invites his family to live with him in Egypt where food is plentiful.