Genesis 4-9

Genesis 4-9

Chapter 4 Cain murders Abel
• The first birth (children were Cain and Abel)
• Cain and Abel ( Adam’s sons ) brought sacrifices unto the Lord
• Cain was rejected and Abel was accepted
• Cain became angry with Abel and killed him
• Cain became a fugitive on the earth
• God questioned Cain about Abel’s whereabouts
• Cain got offended and answered sarcastically, “Am I my brothers keeper?”
• God cursed Cain saying “A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth”.
• The Lord set a mark on Cain that no one should kill him when come in contact with him
• Seth was born by Adam and Eve to take the place of Abel
• Seth means substitution

Chapter 5 The family of Adam
• Book of genealogy when God called mankind
• Adam lived 930 years then he died
• Enoch walked with God then God took him
• Methuselah the oldest man ever lived was 969 when he died
• Lamech begot Noah
• Noah begot 3 sons called Shem, Ham, Japheth

Chapter 6 The wickedness and judgment of man
• Giants began to sleep with women on earth. They were fallen angels when Satan was cast out of heaven. He took with him 1/3 of the angels. They began to populate the earth like humans. Evil became rampant in the earth
• So God said that His spirit will not strive with men for long because of their evil and wicked ways (God was grieved in His heart)
• God said He will destroy man and all living creatures but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (He pleased God)
• Noah please God (Genesis 6:9-12)
• The ark prepared
• God’s plan to destroy the earth
• God established His covenant with Noah and family. (all together entered the Ark was 8 people
• All animals 2 of each kind male and female
• Noah obeyed and followed the command of God

Chapter 7 The great flood
• Safety in the Ark (Noah was saved from the flood by the Ark. We as Christians were save from death by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ)
• Rained for 40 days and 40 nights on the earth
• The Ark was lifted up in the storm (that is how God will lift us up in the midst of our storm to keep us from drowning. Amen!
• Everything alive died except Noah and his family and the animals that were saved
• Water remained on the earth about 5 months (150 days)

Chapter 8 Noah’s Deliverance
• This is the chapter that God remembered Noah
• After 150 days/5-7 months the Ark rested on the mountain of Ararat
• Raven sent out first then a dove. Then 7 days later the dove was sent out again. The dove came back with an olive leaf in its beak
• The olive leaf was significant for progress and dry land
• Sent out the dove another 7 days later but it did not return. It found dry land
• Noah left the Ark with family and animals. Then God spoke to him saying they must be fruitful and multiply on the earth. The same instruction God gave to Adam when he created Eve.
• God’s made a covenant with Noah after the flood
• Noah built and altar which is giving thanks to God for life and saving them from death
• God said in his covenant that He will never again curse the ground for man’s sake although their heart is evil and wicked from their youth. Read Genesis 8:21-22

Chapter 9 The Rainbow (sign of the covenant)
• Be fruitful and multiply was not new from God. It is a renewal given to Adam and Eve in Gen 1:28
• There was friendly relationship exited between humans and animals before the flood (Gen 2:19, 20)
• Now things changed because animals would fear and dread humans knowing they might be killed for food
• Gen 1:29-31 showed the herb was for food but after the flood God gave permission for animals to become food
• Out of the fearful judgment of the earth by the flood, God saved eight people. He gave the purified earth to these people with ample power to govern it (Gen 9:1-6). He gave them control of every living thing on earth and sea. For the first time God gave people human government. People were to be responsible to govern the world for God. The most solemn responsibility God gave to humans is the taking of a life for a life (Gen 9:6) God established capital punishment for homicide. Man is to avenge the murder of any human’s life. A murderer will pay for his crime by shedding of his own blood meaning death sentence for murderers will become effective.
• The bible wants human to multiply and be fruitful not to kill each other. This is an insult to God because it destroys his purpose for mankind. Therefore the punishment is to hinder man from stopping procreation
• God establish His covenant with Noah’s and his family. Never again will God destroy the earth with a flood
• Sign of the rainbow to establish the covenant between God and earth
• The earth now populate by the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham (father of Canaan), Japheth
• Noah’s drunkenness
• Ham the father of Canaan saw his father’s nakedness and told his brothers
• The brothers respected their father and covered his nakedness by walking backward
• Noah cursed Ham’s offspring Canaan for defiling his integrity
• Noah blessed his other 2 sons for their modesty and respect they showed toward their father’s vulnerability

Life Lessons
The size of Noah’s ark ensured that it could carry tens of thousand of animals. This dramatic event demonstrated God’s wrath toward sin, but also his mercy toward those who seek him. God promised that He would never again destroy the earth with a flood. A rainbow would follow rain as a reminder that God keeps His promises. Man must treat all living creatures well.

In His Word,
Dawn Saunders