Now, the first nine verses of this chapter are obviously brief, but it is packed it is a stuffed text. It sets the stage for this work of redemption. But before you get to chapter 12, you have the origin essentially of everything else. So, from chapter 12 of Genesis on, it’s God’s redemptive work in the world, through Israel, and through the church. And everything that happens in the New Testament then begins to focus in and through and around the church. And in the place of Israel, God establishes a new chosen people, made up of Jew and Gentile, called the church.
Israel, having failed to fulfill its responsibility to God to be the witness to the world that they were called to be, is temporarily set aside. Everything happens in and through and around that nation. And all of that runs up through the eleventh chapter, so that when you arrive in chapter twelve, you have the origin of the chosen people, through whom the Word of God and the Savior of the world would come.įrom chapter 12 on, through the entire Old Testament, the focus is on Israel, the chosen people of God. There is the origin of culture and civilization and animal husbandry and metallurgy and other enterprises, the origin of poetry, the origin of music. There is the origin of sin, and the origin of guilt, and the origin of redemption, and the origin of forgiveness. There is the origin of the atmosphere, the origin of the hydrosphere. There is here the universe in its origin, the origin of time, action, space, matter.
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And in this book of Genesis, in particular the first 11 chapters, we have a critical revelation of the origin of all things that constitute a full world view. It is an amazing revelation by God, written by the pen of Moses. The book of Genesis, as you know, is the book of origins it’s the book of beginnings. We’ll be looking and reading these nine verses in just a moment a few introductory thoughts first. We turn in our study of the Word of God to the eleventh chapter of Genesis and to what is one of the most well-known portions of the book of Genesis having to do with the Tower of Babel.
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