#1. THE BEGINNING OF MAN – FOUR HISTORIC EVENTS

(Genesis 1 - 11)

CREATION ... GENESIS 1 - 2. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the creation of the heavens, earth, and man. God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” 1:26. Chapter 2 details the creation of man on the sixth day. God created a man of dust from the ground and placed him in the Garden of Eden. Then God created a woman from the rib that He had taken from the man to be his partner. "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good." 1:31.

FALL ... GENESIS 3 - 5. Chapter 3 begins with the serpent's tempting Eve to doubt the truth of God's Word and to disobey His command. She ate the forbidden fruit and then offered it to her husband, who also ate of it. This broke their open fellowship with God. The result was God's curse on the serpent, woman, man, and the earth, 3:14-19. Then God drove them out of the Garden of Eden. Chapter 4 details the birth of Cain and Abel, Cain's murder of Abel, and the birth of Seth to continue the godly line. Chapter 5 gives the family tree from Adam to Noah and the birth of his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

FLOOD ... GENESIS 6 - 9. In the days of Noah, man was very wicked, and God judged the world by a flood. At His instruction, Noah had built an ark to save himself, his wife, their three sons and their three wives, and a representative sample of animals. Chapters 7 and 8 outline the yearlong flood. God promised never again to destroy man by a flood and placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign of His covenant with Noah. The sin of Ham and Noah's curse of Ham's son Canaan completes Chapter 9.

CONFUSION OF LANGUAGE ... GENESIS 10 - 11. The generations that followed Noah all spoke the same language. At Babel man decided to build a city and a tower to prevent them from being scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. This was in direct disobedience of God's command to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth." 9:1. They rebelliously said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 11:3. God judged them by confusing their language ... scattering them over the face of the whole earth. The family line can be traced from Noah's sons to Abram (Abraham).

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