Gen 33:6-10. No! I suppose that, until we get to heaven, there will be both darkness and light in us; and as to Gods providential dealings, we must expect darkness as well as light. Titus Genesis 6:6 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary - Bible Study Tools Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noahs Ark. Gen 32:29. Perhaps the old mans legs trembled under him; he felt that he could not run so far; and, beside, the mountain seemed so bleak and dreary, he could not quite quit the abodes of men. Eve had begun to feel the fascination of the evil one, for she softened down the word of God. Apparently, Adam was not forbidden to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, though, after his fail, he was cast out of Eden, as God said, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. He might freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except one: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. It was a slight prohibition, yet the test was more than man, even in a state of innocence, was able to endure, and, alas! And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. The memorial of his weakness was to be with him as long as he lived. Nahum We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Noah didnt earn grace; he found it. If Moses had meant to describe a partial deluge upon only a small part of the earth, he used very misleading language; but if he meant to teach was that the deluge was universal, he used the very word which we might have expected that he would use. Gen 22:5. Gen 19:15-16. Which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred and I will deal well with thee; I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. Genesis 6 Commentary - John Gill's Exposition of the Bible The words, so he did cover an awful lot of material and years; yet Noah did not shrink from what God told him to do. Gen 7:18-19. It is the strong who can afford to be quiet; as you go across the village green, a goose will hiss at you, while the strong ox lies down calmly, and takes no notice of you: His bow abode in strength, , Not only his hands, but the arms of his hands . How he must have trembled to think that he had the daring perhaps his fears made him call it the presumption actually to wrestle with God himself, for he was conscious now that it was no mere angel, but the Angel of the covenant, the Lord himself, with whom he had wrestled. I believe that, often, the worst thing that can happen to Christian men is really the best thing, for, while nature would cry out, The clouds are to be dreaded, grace can reply, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Study Guide for Genesis 6 by David Guzik - Blue Letter Bible son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: Let me bid every Christian man to look about him, among all his kith and kin, to see which of them yet remain unconverted. They are all gone out of the way.. If Jacob had been true to his faith in God, he would have dispensed with these very prudent preparations; for, after all, the faithfulness of God was Jacobs best defense; it was from God that his safety came, and not from his own plotting, and planning, and scheming. Matthew What should be the meditations of every godly man as he looks towards Sodom, and sees the smoke of its destruction? That was a grand argument for him to use: Thou saidst, I will surely do thee good. This is one of the mightiest pleas that we can urge in praying to God: Do as thou hast said. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. It is in Christ that all the nations of the earth are to be blessed. The Lord had said concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: And Esau, altogether a man of the world, one very like the sons of other families around about, took care to adorn himself in goodly raiment. In the infinite sovereignty of his grace, he chose Abraham,passing by all the rest of mankind,and elected him to be the depository of the heavenly light, that through him it might be preserved in the world until the days when it should be more widely scattered. He is the true center, and we gather unto him. Not only in Genesis, but in the whole Old Testament occur mainly two names of God: God (Hebrew: Elohim) and Jehovah (Hebrew JHWH: The Eternal One, probably to be pronounced Yahweh). And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. While that was true of Judah, it is still more true of him who sprang out of Judah, even our Lord and King, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Jude What fools they were to think that they could hide themselves from God! Gen 7:5. Gen 3:8. What must Abrahams meditations have been! And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. Gen 3:1. Gen 7:17. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Still, I think that Noah must have been very pleased when he felt the ark grating at last on the mountains of Ararat. It was necessary that they should be , FAMILY REFORMATION; OR, JACOBS SECOND VISIT 19. Jacob knows this, so he lets Esaus anger have an opportunity to cool down while he watches drove following drove. Gen 7:14. Does the Bible Condemn Using Tarot Cards? In the early part of this century, a Russian aviator named Vladimire Rokovitsky claimed the discovery of Noahs ark. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there. Gen 3:19. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. But the first one saw that the sun was going down, so he turned to seek his friend, that he might say to him, Friend so-and-so, I was wrong in being angry today. Half-way between their two houses, they met, and each of them said, I was just coming to say that I was wrong. There is no need of any arbitrator when each of the disputants is willing to say, I was wrong, and the trouble is soon over when that point is reached. So they went both of them together. Twice we are told this, for this incident is a type of the Father going with the Son and the Son going with the Father up to the great sacrifice on Calvary. Shall we personally gain anything by this association? And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. I blame him not for this, yet, methinks, he is to be blamed that he did not pray first. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. Nearly two months Noah waited for the complete drying of the earth. Gen 3:7. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. According to all that God commanded him, so he did: The Bible presents Noah as a great hero of God. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. But God is not dependent upon his own creation. Gen 22:19. Uncontrolled passions may make him very little who otherwise might have been great. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. On the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. Gen 1:2. Gen 8:22. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2012 in Current Issues, Features. Gen 32:28. Genesis 6 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. And saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. No. Oh, how foolish are they who harbour it in their own bosoms, for it will bring destruction to them if they keep it there! Oh, that the day might soon come when there would be more of clean men and women than of unclean, when there would be fewer sinners than godly people in the world, though even then there would be the ungodly by two like the unclean beasts. The greater our troubles, the louder our song at the last. 1 Peter Blessed be the name of Jehovah-jireh! O thou who art striving against sin, or seeking to win souls for Christ, after many disappointments may you be able to clutch this sweet assurance, He shall overcome at the last.. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. The passage is the conclusion of the tol e doth section that begin in 5:1. Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: Judah . What a wise and prudent Lord is ours! And he gave him tithes of all. 2 Kings This fear and distress were sad proofs of want of faith on Jacobs part; for where there is strong faith, there may be a measure of human fear, but it will not go to the length of being greatly afraid and distressed, as he was. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy fathers children shall bow down before thee. As soon as ever the earth appeared, then came the herb, and the tree, and the grass. The serpent insinuated that God selfishly kept them back from the tree, lest they should grow too wise, and become like God himself. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. C.H. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. They were all there, yet he could remember the time when he had said, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. Ah! Leviticus No tempest of wrath was to break out of it upon him. If it had not been on record in the page of inspiration, we might almost have doubted whether a man could speak so impudently when , Eyes Opened And he said unto him, What is thy name? He cannot even stand up any longer in the great wrestling match; what can he do? Strange to say, while God pronounces a curse upon the enemy of mankind, he is uttering a blessing upon the whole of those who belong to Christ, for HE is that seed of the woman, and all that belong to him are a simple-minded, child-like people, children of the woman. My God will send his angel. Oh! Here is, I. God's resentment of man's wickedness. It may be that it will bring you something worth bringing one of these days, as Noahs dove brought to him. Gen 9:17. If you want the Lord to confide in you, and to trust you with his secrets, you must see that he is able to say of you what he said of Abraham, he will command his children and his household after him.. And he said, I will not destroy it for tens sake. When did the dominion depart from Judah till the Lord Jesus came as the Seat One? And he said, I will not do it for fortys sake. This process is pictured in Genesis 6:1-8, which describes the world just prior to God's judgment in the flood. Those who are friends of God like to be much in their Lords company. Numbers He wins, he conquers, when his weakness becomes supreme, and he is conscious of it. And the answer would be, It was by his weakness that he won his princedom, he became Israel, a prince of God, when his thigh was put out of joint. How pleased would you and I be to go halting all our days with such weakness as Jacob had, if we might also have the blessing that he thus won! It seemed essential to this end that Abraham should come right out from his fellow-countrymen, and be separate unto Jehovah, so the Lord said to him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee.. Oh, that you and I might possess the Abrahamic faith which thus practically obeys the Lord, and brings a blessing to all the nations of the earth! In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters). Gen 32:1. Chapter 15:1-21:34Abraham's experiences with God, Chapter 15 The promise of the son and the inheritance, Chapter 16 Hagar and Ishmael: Law and the flesh (Galatians 4:21-31), Chapter 17 Renewal of the promise and institution of circumcision; change of name (Abraham and Sarah), Chapter 18 Fellowship with God and prayer for Sodom, Chapter 19 Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Lot's salvation; origin of Moab and Ammon, Chapter 20 Abraham's failure with Abimelech, Chapter 21 Birth of Isaac and separation from Hagar and Ishmael, 2. It is a good thing to have the right names for things. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. So, if you lift up your eyes, and look the right, ay, you will see the great sacrifice close by you held fast for you, even as this ram was caught to die instead of Isaac. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Oh, that it might be so today! Commentary on Genesis 4. And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. James The earth also was corrupt and the earth was filled with violence: Because of the corruption and violence on the earth, and the extent of the corruption, God told Noah that He would judge the wicked along with the earth. God is not unfeeling in the face of human sin and rebellion. He had put it away from him as a foul thing, drowned beneath the flood; but after the offering of Noahs sacrifice, the Lord smelled a savour of rest.. True emblems of the Church of God with her smoke and her light, her trying affliction, yet the grace by which she still keeps burning and shining in the world. God is very particular in the Scripture about giving people their right names. No, speaking popularly, and as the Scripture often speaks, we may say that Noahs character was a righteous one. Give Jehovah his due. I have often admired that widow of Sarepta. Jacobs eyes were dim, but he could see a very long way; he could see to the coming of Christ, the Shiloh, the Pacificator, the Peace-maker; he could see that day when the Jews would cry, We have no king but Caesar, for the Shiloh would have come, and the scepter would have departed from Judahs tribe. Is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The Hebrew puts it, Joseph is a son of fruits, even a son of fruits by a well; whose daughters run over the wall., Gen 49:22. 9. There are some of you, dear brethren, who have minds that are naturally given to inventions, and devices, and plans, and plots, and I believe that, where this is the case, you have more to battle against than those have who are of an ample mind, and who cast themselves more entirely upon the Lord. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh in the sinew that shrank. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. This was the first act of God in preparing this planet to be the abode of man, and the first act of grace in the soul is for the Spirit of God to move within it. God always lets his people know what is practically for their good. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. And the Canaanite was then in the land. Not Yet a Member? Hath he said, and shall he not do it?. Genesis 6:1-8 | Preaching Source And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: See how love attracts; Joseph must have his brothers near him, now he wants to have his father also near. The well was there already, but for all practical purposes it , Jacob's Model Prayer Romans Lots petition is only like an ounce of prayer. It was brave of Jacob thus to wrestle, but there was too much of self about it all. Look, look, I pray you, upon that place of darkness and woe where every impenitent and unbelieving spirit must be banished for ever from the presence of the Lord! The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Naphtali was a tribe notable for those that could speak freely, helped of God with a holy freedom in bearing testimony to his truth. Fierce and powerful nations possessed the country; it did not seem a very likely place to be the heritage of a peace-loving man like Abraham. A prince of God.. Gen 1:29-30. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. Oh, that question! He knew that she had found a proper resting-place, and that the earth was clear of the flood. Gen 22:19. Widespread corruption and violence (Genesis 6:11). And ye sons of Jacob, learn to say the same. A prayer most humble, most direct in its petitions, and also full of faith. Gen 15:6. We will read two or three passages in the Book of Genesis concerning God blessing his servant Abraham. Gen 49:18. Observe the remarkable fact that, no sooner had God made the dry land appear, than it seemed as if he could not bear the sight of it in its nakedness. Habakkuk It was an olive leaf, that is all. It becomes evident from two passages in the New Testament that the term "law" or "law of Moses" includes Genesis: 1 Corinthians 14:34 can only refer to the divine order in Genesis 2:18 ff; Genesis 3:16, since the law of Sinai lacks an explicit command for women to be subject, and in Galatians 4:21 ff Paul talks of the story of Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 16; Genesis 21).In both cases he speaks of the law. ii. Gen 33:3-4. The covenant Angel will give thee what thou wilt if it be needful for thee; but he will not answer thine idle questions. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Online Bible And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. Those that swear too readily they know not what, will ere long swear till they care not what. God had been very gracious to him, and all his fears were gone, so he met Esau as a brother, not as an enemy, and the four hundred men were willing to become his protectors.