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Flight GEN01
Genesis 1-11
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Genesis 1 (NKJV™)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
15 "and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."
21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
30 "Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2 (NKJV™)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23 And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3 (NKJV™)
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
3 "but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
5 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"
10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"
12 Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
13 And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
16 To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."
17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"--
23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4 (NKJV™)
1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the LORD."
2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD.
4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
6 So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."
8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
10 And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.
11 "So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
12 "When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."
13 And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear!
14 "Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me."
15 And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son--Enoch.
18 To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.
19 Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
20 And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
21 His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.
22 And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
23 Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for hurting me.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, "For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed."
26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 5 (NKJV™)
1 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
6 Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
7 After he begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters.
8 So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
9 Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
10 After he begot Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters.
11 So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
12 Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.
13 After he begot Mahalalel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters.
14 So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
16 After he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters.
17 So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
18 Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
19 After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.
22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25 Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
26 After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters.
27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son.
29 And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
30 After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters.
31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6 (NKJV™)
1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 "Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.
15 "And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 "You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
17 "And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark--you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19 "And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 "Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
21 "And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."
22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 7 (NKJV™)
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
2 "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;
3 "also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.
4 "For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark--
14 they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16 So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
18 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8 (NKJV™)
1 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7 Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.
9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.
10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 "Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."
Genesis 9 (NKJV™)
1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
3 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
4 "But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5 "Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it."
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:
9 "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
10 "and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
11 "Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 "I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14 "It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
15 "and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 "The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25 Then he said: "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."
26 And he said: "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant."
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.
Genesis 10 (NKJV™)
1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD."
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite;
18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
21 And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24 Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber.
25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11 (NKJV™)
1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3 Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6 And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.
13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

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We're going back to the beginning in this first flight. Written by Moses and inspired by God Himself, Genesis means origin. From the formation of all created things and the fall of man to the flood and the fallout of man's rebellion, Genesis 1-11 chronicles the beginning of everything. It all starts here.

Take your knowledge of the full scope of Scripture to soaring heights with The Bible from 30,000 Feet. In this series, Skip Heitzig pilots you through all sixty-six books of the Bible, revealing major themes, principles, people, and events from Genesis to Revelation. Fasten your seatbelt and open your Bible for this sweeping panorama of Scripture that will increase your faith in God's plan for the world-and for you.

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Flight GEN01 - Genesis 1-11 - Skip Heitzig

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The Bible from 30,000 feet, soaring through the scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

Turned in your Bible, turned in the book of books to the first book, the book of Genesis, where we are going to look at the first 11 chapters in this first flight. We're about to embark on a very special journey, a fast-paced journey through the Bible. Each flight begins each week at 6:30 PM. The flight is about an hour. And you're going to see things that are familiar. But hopefully, you're going to see some things you have never seen before.

Now, the Bible is worth reading slowly, which is what we usually do in our devotional time. Even in our normal and midweek Bible study or our Sunday morning approach, we go slower. And I've been known to go very slow in my teaching. I've done a whole sermon on not just a sentence, not just a phrase, but just a single word. One time I even did one on a comma between two words. And there is value in going slow.

But there's also value in an approach like this where you speed it up and you cover vast portions of scripture. It gives to us the big picture. And sometimes we can miss the forest for the trees. We need to see how the plan all fits together. And this unique approach will do just that. So we're going to cover a lot of ground. We're going to move quickly. We're not going to be able to read every verse.

We're going to be looking at the landmarks. Just like a pilot will often say to those who were aboard his or her flight, if you look to your right, you'll see the Grand Canyon. Later on if you look to your left, you'll see the St. Louis Arch over the Mississippi. We're going to show you the major landmarks in this scripture and show how it all fits together.

Now, on a horizontal level, there are two sources of knowledge-- reason and experience. That's how most people get their knowledge-- reason and experience. We experience things. And therefore, we draw conclusions. Or we reason things out based on others' observations or others' experiences. Those are the two basic sources of knowledge, reason and experience.

However, those two sources are limited sources. There's a lot of things that are left unanswered like where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the purpose and meaning of life? How did I get here? Therefore, you need a third source. Not just a horizontal source, reason and experience, but a vertical source. And that is Revelation.

Someone from outside the time and space continuum needs to communicate to you and tell you what's up. You'll never answer those questions without it. And so we have Revelation, God's Revelation. And Revelation can even be divided into two groups. There is a natural Revelation. There is special Revelation. Or if you prefer general Revelation as opposed to special Revelation.

What is general Revelation? Things like creation, the universe. As you go out and you observe the stars, the sky, the moon, the sun, the intricacies of biology. The Bible says, "the heavens declare the glory of God." The firmament shows his handiwork. But then there is special Revelation. And that is the Bible. And that is what we're studying in this year study called the Bible from 30,000 feet.

Now, in this book, this Bible, there are 66 separate books-- some long, some very long, some very, very short-- 66 entries all together or 31,173 verses. Sounds like a big book. It is. If you were to read it from cover to cover out loud, like if you were to stand in your room and just start reading it aloud, it would take you about 70 hours straight to read from Genesis to Revelation.

If you were to break that up though, you could cover it in 12 minutes a day in a single year. So it's worth doing. It's worth reading through the Bible. And we're going to be doing that, as I said, not every verse. But we're going to look at the highlights. Now, the Bible does something. It sweeps throughout history. And it goes from eternity past to the future, the eternal state. It covers all the way back from primeval early history all the way to ultimate prophecy in the Book of Revelation.

But all of the Bible, if you wanted to sum it up, you could say this. All of the scripture, all 66 books, all of special Revelation points to one person and two events. One person and two events. Now, you have the Bible in a nutshell. That's the irreducible minimum. You can't get any tighter or any smaller than that. The one person, the hero of the Bible, you know who that is. It's Jesus Christ. The two events-- His first coming, His second coming.

His first coming, He comes to deal with sin. His second coming, He comes to reign with those who have been cleansed from sin. That is the whole Bible-- one person, two events. Genesis is the foundation. It's the ground floor. If we don't understand the book of Genesis, we won't understand what follows the book of Genesis. It is all about origins. That's what Genesis means.

The Hebrew title is Bereshit, in the beginning. Our title is Genesis. It means the origin. And we get in this book the origin of, well, everything. The origin of the Heaven and the Earth. We get the origin of man, the origin of sin, the origin of God's plan to deal with sin, the origin of marriage, the origin of the family, the origin of human government, the origin of the nation of Israel. Everything is covered in terms of its origin in this book.

Now, we're going to look at, tonight, the first 11 chapters. And then next time, we're going to finish the book of Genesis and go on in the next week into the Book of Exodus. But the first 11 chapters are about events. The second part of the book of Genesis, chapters 12 through 50 highlights people. We're going to look at events. And the four events that you've seen just in the introduction video are the formation followed by the fall followed by the flood followed by the fallout.

I'll briefly explain it. Chapters 1 and 2, the formation of the Heavens and the Earth. The universe is formed by God. And it's explained briefly in two chapters. Then we have, in chapters 3, 4, and 5, the fall of Man, Adam and Eve's sin in the garden and the repercussions that follow. Then we have the flood in chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9-- a universal judgment where waters covered the Earth followed by the fallout of man's rebellion in chapters 10 and 11.

So let's begin at the beginning with the formation of the universe. We're going to look at the first verse of the Bible. And we're going to kind of pick this out singularly and then move on through the rest. Let me just say as I've said so often before. If you can accept Genesis 1:1, everything after that gets really simple.

"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." That's a good trick. That's a lot of power. That's an incredible feat. If that can happen, then every single other miraculous event is now possible. So if you can get past that first verse, get through that first verse, understand it, in part, and embrace it, you'll be good.

So look at it. "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." It's so simple, so straightforward. And it happens to be very precise. Back in 1903, an unbeliever, a scientist by the name of Herbert Spencer argued that all things in the universe, everything in the universe, can be fit into one of five categories. Now, listen to what he said. The five categories are time, force, action, space, matter. Everything could be fit into one of those categories-- time, force, action, space, matter.

What he did not know is that God beat him to the punch. Because when he said that statement, he just said Genesis 1:1. Look at it again. "In the beginning--" that's time. "God--" that's force. "Created--" that's action. "The Heavens--" that's space. "And the Earth--" that's matter. "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth," in a precise, succinct statement.

"The Earth," verse 2, "is without form and void. Darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." So now, we understand that God involved His Holy Spirit in His creation. As we keep reading through the Bible, we're going to understand that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were all involved. Not only is the Spirit hovering over the waters. But John chapter 1 will tell us that Jesus was before all things and that He created all things.

It'll also be repeated in Colossians chapter 1. "He is before all things. And by Him, all things consist." John 1:1, "in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. All things were made through Him. And there was not anything that is made or that was made, except by Him."

Then verse 3, God said, "let there be light. And there was light." And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light, day, and the darkness he called, night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Now, we have, in the verses that follow, the six days of creation.

On day 1, the light comes on. Day 2, the hydrological cycle begins as waters on the surface pool and waters above the firmament or the expanse of heaven exist. On day 4, the celestial bodies are formed. On day 5, the animals are formed. And so God basically decorated His creation. He created it. Then He decorated it. Now, He populates it.

On day 6, He creates us, mankind. Verse 26, "then God said, let Us make man in our image." Isn't that an interesting way to put it. God said, let Us-- the Father, the Son, the Spirit, the Triune God in communication with each other. According to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over the cattle over all the Earth over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth.

So God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created Him male and female. He created Them. Then in chapter 2, verse 1, when God was all done, it has this unusual term. God rested. God rested. That becomes the very basis for a commandment Israel will follow the day of rest, the Sabbath. God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, He rested. Why did he rest? Was he tired? No. He was done.

When he rested, it's not like-- don't picture God, oh, man. That was tough getting those animals out. Like that rhinoceros-- that was tough. No. He was done. And so He ended it. He ceased. Or He rested from it. There is a word. It's found in verse 1 that happens to be a stumbling block for a lot of people. That's why, I said, if you can get past verse 1, you'll be fine.

And that is the word, created. Boy, when you say, God created, there's an awful lot of people in this world who hate the idea, this naive idea, that there is a super being out there named God who created things. Because most people believe that, in our culture, evolution is a done deal. Nobody believes in creation anymore.

The only problem is it's not a done deal in the scientific community. There's an awful lot of biologists, biochemists, and others who object to the standard theory of evolution. One molecular biologist by the name of Michael Denton, whom I greatly admire his works, said, the evolutionary theory is still, as it was in Darwin's time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support.

Did you know that, when Charles Darwin came up with his theory of evolution, he knew that there was one glaring lack of evidence in one area. And that was the fossil record. He couldn't find any evidence in the fossil record of transitional forms. He could find plenty of transmutational forms but no transitional forms. It was absent. But he believed that, over time, he would be vindicated, that enough science would go by that would vindicate his theory of evolution.

But what has happened is exactly the opposite. David Roth, the curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, wrote this. "We are now about 120 years after Darwin. And the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species. But the situation hasn't changed much. We have fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time."

So a growing group of these scientists are looking at evolution saying, this is a ridiculous idea to think that no one plus nothing equals everything. That somehow just lacks common sense. Because no matter how far back you go, however infinitely you regress, you've got to do something about all that gas-- where did it come from? And all that space-- where did it come from?

As you came in the church building tonight, if you came from the east parking lot, you passed our courtyard. And in our courtyard is a baptismal fountain-- a water feature as a waterfall. But it's also used as a baptism. We can fill it up. We can warm it up to like 90, even 100 degrees if we wanted to and make it kind of like a Jacuzzi. We fill it up. We baptize people. And then we bring it back down for the rest of the week as a water feature.

So as you go by, I don't know if you've ever thought this. But I thought this from the beginning. This thing's cool. And it's designed really well. And because it's designed, obviously, there must be behind it a designer. But if I were to say, you know really how that came about? It was really freaky. But one day, it just appeared.

And I figured that, over millions of years, gases and energy and rocks and steel collided. And eventually, it just formed itself in this fashion. You would say, you're a nut. And you would be correct. I would be a nut. Because something that is as intricate as that demands design.

Like your home. When you go home, you can look at your house. And it shows a builder did this. An architect formed plans. And a builder followed those plans. Design shows a designer. That, by the way, is called the teleological argument for the existence of God, that there is a designer behind the intricacies of the designed world.

"He created them," it says at the end of verse 27. In Genesis chapter 2 verse 4, "this is the history of the Heavens and the Earth." There's this word again, "when they were created in the day that the Lord, God, made the Earth and the Heavens."

A couple of days ago, many of the pastors and myself were camping outside for a couple of days in northern New Mexico by the San Juan River. And at night, far from the city, you can look up and see the panoply of stars like diamonds spread across black velvet. They just pop. They're brilliant-- the planets, the stars.

And when you see the universe like it says in the book of Psalms, "the Heavens declare the glory of God." The firmament shows his handiwork. "Day into day, they utter their speech. Night after night, they reveal knowledge." You really get that when you look in that perspective out in the tulies at the heavens.

To say, well, it's just a weird accident. It's a cosmic accident. It just so happens that the Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth and has a surface temperature of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Really? It just so happened? If we were as close, say, as Venus, our surface temperature would be 860 degrees Fahrenheit. You'd think it was hot here today? Imagine 860 degrees Fahrenheit. If you moved far back like to the orbit of Mars, you would have minus 195 degrees Celsius. That's cold.

In either extreme, life as we know it could not survive. But we are right here in that spot. Or if you were to say, well, it just so happens that the Earth is rotating 365 orbits around the Sun-- why not 30? What if our days were that long so it took 30 orbits like some of the planets are very slow in their rotation. Well, the day would be 10 times longer. The night would be 10 times longer. And there would be alternate events of freezing and heating. Life could not be sustained.

If you say, well, it just so happened that the Earth is tilted 23 and 1/3 degrees on its axis giving us the beautiful array of four seasons. Or it just so happened that the atmosphere is this unusual balance of 78 parts nitrogen to 21 parts of oxygen with 1% of varying gases. It's weird how it just so happened.

And it just so happened that the amount of water to land is the ratio that it is, which gives us the rainfall that we have on the Earth. Did you know that if the oceans were just one quarter larger than they are, we would have a flood on the Earth. It would be eight times the amount of rainfall. Life couldn't be sustained. If they were just a little shallower than they are, it would be dry all over the Earth. And we know it's dry here. It would be dry everywhere, and life couldn't be sustained.

So it didn't just so happened. It was just so designed by a designer. And the Lord God made the Earth and the Heaven. So when you go outside-- and maybe you'll see a star or two tonight. We have light pollution around here. And you look up and you see a couple of stars or a planet, think this. If the art hanging in the skies must be that magnificent, how magnificent is the artist behind it? That's the God of the Bible.

In Genesis 2, in verse 8, "the Lord, God, planted a garden." I love that God was a Gardener. "Where eastward in Eden. And there, He put the man whom He had formed." Now, we don't exactly know where this is. Probably was in the Mesopotamian river valley, the river delta, between the Tigris and Euphrates River. Of course, the Earth was very different. But that would make it around Iraq somewhere, that delta.

Verse 9, "out of the ground, the Lord, God, made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Go down to verse 15. "Then the Lord, God, took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend it and to keep it. And the Lord, God, commanded the man saying, 'of every tree of the garden, you may freely eat.'"

Please notice that. We always notice, you can't eat that one tree. And we kind of get bummed out at God for making a rule. You can eat everything in this garden. You may freely eat it. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." Now, we're going to see this in chapter 5 more than any other chapter in this early part. Because it will be a list of all the people who die. It will say eight times, and he died and he died and he died and he died. "And the day that you eat, you will surely die."

Go down to verse 19. "Out of the ground, the Lord, God, formed every beast of the field, every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name." Adam is a name. It's actually a Hebrew word. And it simply means, man. That's how we translate Adam-- man.

But the word, Adam, comes from another Hebrew word, adamah, which means, dirt or soil, red soil. They even use adamah for, red, in the Hebrew language to this day and probably because the nutrient-rich red soil of a garden of Eden is where God took him. So if you look at verse 19, that's Adam's life. What a great job. Living in the Garden of Eden? And his job was naming animals. This is a hippie's dream.

Hey, this is what people save their whole life for and look to retire after. This is what they want to do, just hang around in a garden environment with a bunch animals. Come on. That's living. So he's naming animals. And I always like to imagine that, at first, he was very creative and diligent and came up with these weird things like, Hippopotamus. That's like five syllables. Man, that's long. Or rhinoceros.

And then he got a little tireder-- elephant. And then it's the end of the day. And he says, like, dog. Cat. Pig. Fly. He had not much energy. Of course, these are English names. Chapter 2 verse 18, go back one verse. "The Lord, God, said, 'it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him."

Verse 21, "the Lord, God, caused the deep sleep to fall on Adam. And he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib," or the side, literally, "which the Lord, God, had taken from man, he made into a woman. And he brought her to the man."

There was this Sunday school class where the teacher was telling this story, the story of creation, the story of the first man and woman. There was one little boy who was just so interested in Adam and Eve and how this process worked. He'd never heard anything like this. God took a rib and made a woman. And it was his wife. And it was just so weird to him. But he's listening. And he was wrapped in attention.

Later on that week, little Johnny had a stomach ache and was lying on his bed. And as mom came in the room, and said, Johnny, what's wrong? And he was holding his side. And he goes, I think I'm having a wife. It's what a kid would think looking at the story. "And Adam said," verse 23, "this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called, woman, because she was taken out of man."

Now, that doesn't sound all that romantic. The girl shows up. And this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. Really? That's all you got? But that's because our translation really doesn't capture the feel and flavor of the original. So the Living Bible tried to do that and said, and God brought the woman to the man. And Adam said, this is it. And I like that translation. This is it. Yeah, bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. But this is the one. This is the helper. This is the match. This is the one. It was from God, and he knew it.

"Therefore," verse 24, "a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. And they shall become one flesh." Now, we've noticed something repeated. If you were to read every single verse of these chapters, you would find out that time and time again, God says, after he makes something, it was good. It was good. Chapter 1, verse 4, verse 10, verse 12, verse 18, verse 21, verse 25, God says, it's good.

And then in chapter 1 verse 31, "then God saw everything that He had made. And indeed, it was very good." Now, for the first time in all the Bible, God says, something is not good. He looks at the dude. He looks him over and goes, something's not right. Something is not good about this. And what it was was the state of aloneness that he was in. It is not good that man should be alone.

So God says, I'm going to make him a helper. Now, speaking of unromantic things to say, this would be high on the list. Well, who's this? Oh, this is my helper. Try that sometime, man, and watch her reaction. Oh, really, that's what I am? Your helper?

It doesn't sound impressive. It sort of sounds like, she's my assistant. However, did you know that it is a word God used to describe Himself. In Psalm 46, "God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help." Same exact Hebrew word. "A present help in times of trouble." Also Psalm 33, "God is our help and our shield."

So God knew that this guy needed all the help he can get. So He made her. And He brought them together. God was the first matchmaker you might say. And we would be right to say, this was a match made in Heaven. God brought them together. In fact, somebody once said, Adam and Eve had the ideal set up. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married. And she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. So you know, it was just perfect.

So that is the formation, chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis. God does not go into great detail. But he covers the formation. Now, we come to chapter 3 through 5. And this is the Second Great event that Genesis speaks about. And that is the fall of man. Genesis speaks about four great events and four great people. The four great people we'll look at next time. But now, we come to the fall of man, chapters 3 through 5.

And chapter 3 gives to us the only reasonable explanation that the world is as bad off as it is today. Every generation looks around and says, man, this world is so bad these days. I hear that every "set of days." The next generation, man, the world is so bad these days. The next generation-- these days, not like it used to be. So just everybody acknowledges life is pretty bad.

Where did it all start? The explanation is here. Verse 1, "now, the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, has indeed God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" Now, right off the bat, we are struck with the fact that this creature, whatever it is, is markedly different from other creatures. Because this creature can talk and can understand human language and can dialogue with the first man the first woman.

So we understand that man is given one negative command. We saw that. He can to the trees of the garden. But this one tree, you can't eat of. So he's given one negative command. Who knows. God may have even hung a sign over that one tree. It says, danger. Lethal tree. Keep out. But what do you think when you see a sign that says, keep out? Go in. Keep out? That's for other people, not me. If it says wet paint, what are you going to do? You're going to touch it. And that's what happens.

Now, the word, serpent, is not the best word. Because the Hebrew word that is uses is the word, nachash. Nachash, means to shine. Or the shining one said. That's the literal translation. So this being, this serpent, would be best translated, a shining one.

Which immediately, if you're a Bible student, takes you to the New Testament, Book of Second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 where Paul said, "You have false apostles among You who transform themselves into apostles of Christ. And we shouldn't Marvel at this. "For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." He appears here as an angel of light. He didn't come with horns, a little tight red suit, a little pitchfork going up to people going, boo! He comes as an angel of light, a shining one.

In fact, there are two Old Testament passages that describe Satan in the beginning and his subsequent fall-- Isaiah chapter 14 and Ezekiel chapter 28. In Ezekiel chapter 28, it says of this being, "you were in Eden, the garden of God. You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty."

Now, this being, this shining one, comes and immediately, as we saw in verse 1 of chapter 3, challenges God, challenges God's Word, challenges God's motives. And right here begins the beginning of what we call in the New Testament, "the world." You've heard that term, "the world." The world, the flesh, the devil.

The world is a New Testament word. And the world is a system of ideas, actions, and people that are opposed to God. And it begins here as something is planted in the heart of Eve by the serpent. Verse 2, "the woman said to the serpent, 'we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden.'" You said, we can't eat. We may eat. "'But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat. Nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'

Then the serpent said to the woman, 'you will not surely die for God knows that, in the days that you eat, your eyes will be opened. And you will be like God knowing good and evil.' So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took its fruit and ate it. She also gave to her husband with her. And he ate."

Now, notice something in verse 6. "It was good for food. It was pleasant to the eyes. It was desirable to make one wise." First John chapter 2, "for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life are not of the Father but they're of the world." We see them displayed in this verse.

Now, you'll notice something also in verse 6, four verbs that Eve engages in. She saw. She took. She ate. She gave. For Adam, there's one. He ate. He's a guy. He ate. Now, what you should know, what you need to know, is though that is true, Adam gets all the blame. Paul, the Apostle, writes, First Timothy chapter 2, "Adam was not deceived. But the woman being deceived fell into transgression."

So you just got to picture Eve over there in the garden. She's just sort of listening and talking and maybe feeling empathy for this creature even though it's a shiny creature. And she listened some more. And she engages more in conversation. And she thinks about it. Adam? He knew exactly what was going on. He just ate. It's like, ugh, grunt, mm, eat! Me Tarzan! But he knew what he was doing.

All that aside, though, this is the darkest day in human history. This is where all the problems began. On this day, the virus, called S-I-N virus, was introduced to the bloodstream of humanity. You are all S-I-N positive. Every single human being-- that beautiful baby that was just born, your little child, your little niece or nephew-- S-I-N positive like all you all.

And so Paul puts it this way in Romans chapter 5, "by one man, sin entered the world. And death through sin and death spread to all." And then finally, Paul writes, "death rained from Adam to Moses." Sin entered. Death entered. Death spread. Death rained. It all started here.

When Adam sinned, a constitutional change was generated in human character so that, from Adam all the way down to every other generation, they would be impacted. He went from innocence to sinfulness. That was the constitutional change in his character. So Adam acted sort of like the federal head of all humans who would ever be born. And by his act, sin and death spread and entered the world.

It's sort of like what happened-- and I told this story to you on a few occasions. As a kid, I went to the Grand Teton's National Park with my parents. And I was at the base of that beautiful lake, Jackson Lake. Early in the morning, a summer morning, it was pristine. And you could see the reflection of the mountains about as clear as you could see the mountains themselves in the horizon.

But just one stone that I threw across that lake to see how many skips that stone would make across that lake, just the first hit, the first impact caused ripples that marred the image of the beautiful Grand Tetons in Jackson Lake, Wyoming. What I did as a kid, Adam did for the world, for the race. He threw the stone of disobedience that has ripple effects in every single generation and distorted the image of God that we were created in. And that answers the question, why the world is, after thousands of years, the way it is and seemingly getting worse.

Now, in chapter 4, we come to the first home, the first nuclear family. We have Adam and Eve and their two boys, Cain and Abel. Both are worshipping together. Abel's offering is accepted. Cain's is not. Verse 3, "and in the process of time," literally, and at the end of days, "it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord."

So it seems like there was an appointed place and an appointed time for them to worship. So worship was already being organized back in Genesis. Verse 4, "Abel also brought of the first born of his flock and their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering. But He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry. And his countenance fell." You know what that means, that sad face. You know, the emoji. His countenance fell. It went from to bummed out. His countenance fell.

A couple of the things are at play here. First of all, the quality of the offering. It is mentioned here. It says that he brought the first born of his flock and their fat. A better translation is he brought the first ones and the fattest ones. In other words, he brought the very best. I'm going to bring the first ones, which also happened to be the biggest, fattest ones. I'm giving those to the Lord. I'm not keeping those for myself.

So we understand that worship, giving, should involve at least some amount of sacrifice. David, when he was offering something to the Lord, he offered to buy the threshing floor of Ornan. We'll get to that much later on. And Ornan said, no, no, no. Let me give this to you. You're going to build a temple for God? Man, it's on me. It's yours. Have it.

He goes, no, no, no. I'm going to pay for it. No, David. You can have it. It's for God. David said, listen. I'm not going to give to the Lord anything that doesn't cost me something. I've got a feeling. It has to be some amount of sacrifice. So it was in this one. There was a quality to his offer.

Second, there was the character behind the offer. If we wonder why did God accept one and not the other, Hebrews 11 gives you the answer. "By faith, Abel offered up a more acceptable or excellent sacrifice than Cain." And if you look at verse 7, there's a hint of that. In verse 7, God says, why are you so bummed out? "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you don't do well, then sin is lying at the door."

In other words, you're not doing well. You're not living right. And I, God, will never separate the offering from the one who offers it. You can worship me. But I always look at the worshiper along with the worship itself. I don't just say, man, that guy can sing. Ooh, he's got his hands raised. And it's so loud. And he's into it. I look at the life behind him. So both of those are at play, the quality of the offering and the character behind the offering.

So he was angry. Cain was so angry that his countenance fell and he kills Abel. It is now the, what you would call, first murder. I'm calling it the second murder in history. Technically, it's the first homicide, a man killing a man. But I contend it's the second murder. The first is when Satan destroyed the relationship of intimacy that God had with his ultimate creation, man and woman. That was the first murder. Satan, the Bible says, was a murderer from the beginning.

So he murdered that relationship. And Cain killing his brother marks the second murder. So Cain killed Abel. And Cain wasn't able to hang out anymore. He's banished and kicked out. And so verse 25 picks up the line of Seth. When we get to chapter 5, the whole chapter is the line of Seth, the third child born to Adam and Eve-- Cain, Abel, and now, Seth.

So it's the genealogy, chapter 5, of Adam through Seth to Noah. And just glance over the chapter. Just look at some of the names in there. When you look at Chapter 5, it looks like a bunch of boring names stacked one on top of the other. Verse 1, "this is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day, God created man, he made him in the likeness of God."

Now, I'm not going to read the whole chapter. But I do want you to know this. Chapter 5 covers 1,500 years, just this chapter. Chapters 1 through 11 cover about 2,000 years. And the rest of the book of Genesis between 300 to 500 years. Just this chapter in its genealogical records is 1,500 years.

But the chapter is like walking through a graveyard. It says, and he died, and he died, and he died, and he died. It's over and over. It's repeated in this chapter. Verse 2, "He created them male and female and blessed them and called them mankind." The Hebrew word there is He called them Adam.

Isn't that interesting? Male and female, He didn't call them the Adams's or the Addams family. But He calls them, collectively, the singular Adam-- man. Translated mankind in our version, or in a more politically correct translation, humankind. But the Word is He called them Adam on the day that they were created.

Now, when God names them, that's an indication that He has dominion over them. Naming them means God has dominion in as much as God said to Adam, you get to name all the animals. You're going to have dominion over all the animals in the world. Over all of the creation, you're the head. You're the crowning creation. But God names them indicating his dominion over them.

"And Adam," verse 3, "lived 130 years and begot a son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth." From this verse on, the line of Cain is dropped. And the line of Seth is focused on and picked up. Verse 5, "so all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died" Go down to verse 25. "Methuselah lived 187 years and begot Lamech. After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had sons and daughters. All the days of Methuselah were 969 years. And he died."

People always ask this question. How is it possible for people to live that long? Are these false numbers? Are these much, much, much, much shorter years? So it's really a normal lifespan. How on Earth could they live that long? It is believed-- and I think the best explanation is, before the flood, there was a water canopy that surrounded the Earth, sort of like a thermal blanket, a mist, that would produce uniform temperatures on the Earth.

There would be no rain on the Earth, because the Earth was watered not by rainfall the Bible says, but by a mist that came from it. And also there would be no mass air movements, no wind. But with that canopy, that thermal blanket, came the filtration of all the ultraviolet rays of the sun or at least most of the ones that would be harmful. It would produce a moderate and healthful condition.

Now, this is going to drop off after the flood. You'll see it. The lifespan goes down. Because that water canopy is broken up. Now, the word, Methuselah-- everybody knows Methuselah is the oldest dude in the Bible. But most people skip over what his name means. It's a very interesting name. The name, Methuselah, literally means, "when he is dead, it shall be sent." When he is dead, it shall be sent.

What's fascinating, if you do the chronology, you discover that 969 years after Methuselah came on the scene was the year the flood happened. Now, isn't that an interesting prophecy? When he is dead, it shall be sent. Now imagine being Methuselah's parents. When he is dead, it shall be sent.

Methuselah has a cold. Oh, my goodness. And if the neighbors knew that that little boy was a walking prophecy, are you kidding? We'll baby sit. We'll help out. We'll give him vitamins. We want to do everything we can to keep Methuselah alive for as long as is possible. But one day he would die. And in the year that he died, we believe, from the chronology, is when the flood came.

Which takes us to the third of the four events. And that is the flood on the Earth. That's chapter 6 through 9. Verse 1, "it came to pass when man began to multiply on the face of the Earth and daughters were born to them." Because people lived so long, the long lifespans would cause a rapid increase in population.

Two scientists named John Whitcomb and Henry Morris have figured that, if you take the genealogical tables from Genesis, calculate longevity that is provided for here, and the average number of kids per family, at the end of 18 generations, you could have 774 million people on the Earth. And their reckoning, by this math, is, by the time of the flood, there would be well over a billion people on Earth.

So they began to multiply on the face of the earth. What makes this interesting is Jesus said, "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the son of man." Today, there are a 7.6 billion people. By the year 2150, it is estimated, the high estimate is 28 billion people on this planet. We are multiplying on the face of the Earth.

Verse 5, "the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great on the Earth that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He made man on the Earth and He was grieved in His heart. And so the Lord said, 'I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man and beast, creeping things, and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.'

But Noah found grace or favor in the eyes of the Lord." I love the Living Bible. It says, "but Noah was a pleasure to the Lord." Now, I deliberately skipped a hot potato issue in this chapter. And that's the issue of the sons of God and the daughters of men, the Binet Elohim if some of you know that argument. I'm always asked, what were they? Who were they? Were they demons? Were they sons of Seth? And there are books written about that.

I'm going to skip over that for time and just say, listen, the big picture is more important. That Satan so corrupted the Earth that it reached into virtually every part of society. That's how bad it was. And that is why God judged the Earth. Verse 14, "make yourself an ark of gopher wood." That's thought to be cypress wood, very hard, very durable.

"Make rooms in the ark. Cover it inside and outside with pitch." Verse 17, "and behold, I myself am bringing flood waters on the Earth to destroy, from under heaven, all flesh, which is the breath of life. Everything that is on the Earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you. You will go into the ark, you and your sons, your wives, your son's wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

Genesis 7 verse 17, "now, the flood was on the Earth 40 days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark and it rose high above the Earth." That's why I believe it's a universal flood. "The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the Earth. And the ark moved about on the surface of the waters." Now, folks, this is a lot more than just a lot of rain.

It was rain from heaven. But also it says, "the fountains of the deep," the subterranean vaults of water all over the Earth that God had originally made were broken up. And it was a great cataclysm that filled the Earth. "The waters prevailed," verse 19, "exceedingly on the Earth. And all the high hills under the whole of heaven were covered. The waters prevailed 15 cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh died that moved on the Earth-- birds and cattle, beasts, every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth and every man." So every man, every woman, every creep died. All the creeps that creep. "And all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died."

Now, let that verse sink in. Everybody died. This is a sober verse. This is the future of all sinners destruction in a holocaust of judgment. You say, well, the flood is never going to happen. You're right. There'll never be another flood on the Earth. The next time, God will judge the Earth though. "And it will be by fire," Peter said. But it will happen.

Chapter 8, "the flood stops." Here's what's interesting. There are 270 cultures out there that have records of a flood. From Egypt to Babylonia to Persia to Greece to the Hindu countries and Chinese cultures, there are flood narratives. And they're strikingly similar with their own variations. And that is because they're all myths. But they all play off the singular event that is true recorded in the Bible, the universal flood.

What's interesting is that a significant number of them say that it was God judging the Earth for its sinful behavior, its wickedness. Now, the ark, was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet tall, with a displacement of 20,000 tons, or roughly the size of the Titanic. It had three decks, which would make the volume 1.5 million cubic feet. The capacity of this vessel was equivalent to 522 railroad cars.

Some estimate the ark could accommodate 18,000 species of animals. And if you were to make the total of animals on the ark, 72,000 creatures, that's less than 60% of the total volume of this boat. Amazing, isn't it? The flood subsided after 150 days. Noah was on this boat for a total of 371 days. I can't begin to imagine the smell.

In chapter 9, when it's all said and done, God makes the covenant. The Noahic covenant, or God's covenant with Noah, he says, you, your three boys, Shem, Ham, Japheth, fill the Earth, multiply. And now, God adds meat to their diet where previously they were just vegetarian. Now, God commands them to eat the animals as they populate the Earth.

Also part of the covenant is the protection of human life, which includes capital punishment as a direct order from God. And now, we come to the last section. And we'll close with this. Chapters 10 and 11, the fallout from the rebellion of man. After the flood, a new social order arises-- human government.

That's not only a new social order. But there's a new physical order. The vapor canopy is removed, that thermal blanket that I just talked about. And man's lifespan is significantly shortened. Also some believe that the atmospheric pressure is cut in half after the flood. And one of the reasons is because there are pterodactyl fossils on the Earth-- those flying dinosaurs. And by design, they couldn't fly unless the atmospheric pressure were twice what it is today.

Now, that's not a big deal, because a lot of people contend they never really flew much. They were sort of like Roadrunner's, kind of ran a lot and then flew a little bit. Or a peacock-- flew a little bit, then stayed on the ground most of the time. Don't know. Don't care. What happened after the flood?

Noah's three sons-- now, watch this. He has three sons-- Shem, Ham, and Japheth. That's what this chapter focuses on-- the next couple of chapters. They had a lot of kids. And chapter 10 is called the table of nations. 70 nations come from these three boys-- 26 from Shem, 30 from Ham, and 14 from Japheth. Just look at verse 1.

Now, this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah-- Shem, Ham, Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. Now, Japheth is highlighted in verse 2 through 5. He was the Father of the Indo-European races. People from Europe, people from Iran, India, and Central Asia can trace their heritage back to Japheth.

Verses 6 to 20 are the records of Ham. Ham is responsible for the populations of Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, and the Canaanite civilizations that inhabited Israel before they got there. Verses 21 through 31 is Shem. Shem produced the population of a Syria and Syria as well as those in Asia Minor. Now, get this. The rest of the book of Genesis focuses on the line of Shem.

So one line, Cain is eliminated. Seth is focused upon. Now, the rest of the book, one lineage, one genealogical record, one people group is highlighted. Look at verse 21. I want you look at a single word, a single name-- Eber. Do you see that in verse-- Eber? Look again, verse 24. "Arphaxad--" I just had to say that word. Don't ever name your son that. "begot Shelah." That's a little better. "And Shelah begat Eber."

Eber-- it is thought that the word, Hebrew, comes from the word, or the name, Eber, and that the original language, this lineage of Eber spoke, was the language of Hebrew. This is the source of the Semitic group called the Jews. Now, God said something. He said, fill the Earth, right? Be fruitful and fill the Earth. He said that to Adam. He said that to Noah.

In chapter 11, they decide not to spread out but to get together and coalesce into a superstate. Look at just a couple of verses and we close. "Now, the whole Earth had one language and one speech. It came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and dwelt there." That's Mesopotamia or Iraq.

Verse 4, "and they said, 'come let us build ourselves the city and a tower whose top is in the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole Earth.'" Verse 7, "God responds, 'come let us go down and confuse their language that they may not understand one another's speech.'"

Now, there are separate languages, which divide them up, which is what God wanted them to do in the first place. Fill the Earth. Spread out. Don't coalesce. So their ethnicities and their language will cause them to coalesce into different groups in different zones.

So verse 8, "the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the Earth. And they ceased building the city. Therefore, the name is called Babel." That's where Babylon will come from. "Because there, the Lord confused the language of all the Earth. And from there, the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the Earth."

The word, Babel, means a gateway to God. So here is mankind building this ziggurat, this tiered structure, that's sort of like a ladder to heaven. Or if you will, in the words of Robert Plant, they're trying to build a stairway to heaven. They're trying to reach God and have dominion themselves apart from God.

As we close, and now we are closing, the Bible can be summed up besides one person and two events. You could say the whole Bible is the choice between two cities. It's a tale of two cities. It's the city of God versus the city of man. Or in biblical parlance, Babylon versus Jerusalem. By the way, the two cities named more than any other cities in the Bible are Babylon and Jerusalem.

So it's interesting that the Bible will close exactly the same way. In Revelation, there is Babylon the great that gets conquered and, in its place, the new Jerusalem, which comes out of Heaven from God. Which is your city? Which is your town? Where are you putting down your roots and building your foundation?

The capstone of this whole section of Genesis 1 through 11 is chapter 3 verse 15 where God says to Satan, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. And he will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel." It's a promise of the Redeemer. It's the seed plot of the rest of the Bible.

God promised that, one day, the messiah would come, the deliverer would come. And though he would die and, in a sense, his heel would be bruised, He would be crushing the authority, the dominion, the power of Satan. Paradise lost will be paradise regained. Don't blame Adam. God gives you the same choice-- life or death. Eternal life, eternal death-- it's up to you. You choose.

Father, we want to thank You for the time that we've spent together soaring over 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, understanding the events that this book speaks about-- at least in part. The formation of everything, the fall of mankind, the flood that came upon the Earth, and the fallout that happened because of man's rebellion to God.

But Lord, it all comes down to our personal choice. And I pray we would walk away with not only that understanding of the Bible but the understanding of our choice and our need to decide what city we're going to be a part of, what tree we're going to go moved toward, what fruit we're going to take for ourselves, and what we're going to do with Jesus Christ. It's in his name we pray. Amen.

We hope you enjoyed this message from Skip Heitzig of Calvary church. For more resources, visit calvarynm.church. Thank you for joining us for this teaching from the Bible from 30,000 feet.

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Genesis 12-50
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This flight takes us through the biographical part of Genesis and God's response to man's rebellion. Four men are prominent in the formation of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Through this lineage, God would fulfill His promise of salvation for humanity.
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Exodus 1-18
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The central event in this flight through Exodus is the redemption of God's people, the Israelites, from their bondage in Egypt. We fly over Egypt and the wilderness where Israel wandered for forty years. The plight of the Israelites, their disobedience, and God's deliverance all foreshadow Jesus Christ.
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Exodus 19-40
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The Sinai Peninsula is the backdrop for this flight to Exodus, where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments along with detailed instructions for how He was to be worshiped. Miraculous signs of God's absolute power abound, along with the revelation from God that would define Israel's national identity.
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Leviticus 1-27
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Leviticus describes the worship life of the nation of Israel. We discover how the Israelites were instructed to make atonement for their sin through sacrifice. The overarching theme of this book can be summed up in one word: holiness. After centuries of captivity in Egypt, the Israelites needed a reminder of who God is, His absolute holiness, and how they were to live set apart for Him.
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Numbers 1-36
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Numbers contains two censuses of the Hebrew people. The first is of the generation that left Egypt, including how they were organized, their journey in the wilderness, and their refusal to enter the Promised Land. Due to their disobedience, the first generation of Israelites failed to enter the land God had promised; however, God remained faithful by leading a new generation into the Promised Land.
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After forty years of wandering, the Israelites were finally ready to enter the Promised Land. The book of Deuteronomy can be organized around three messages Moses gave while the Israelites waited to enter the land. With the key word of this book being covenant, Deuteronomy speaks of the special relationship God established with His people.
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Joshua 1-24
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In this flight over the book of Joshua, we get to know its namesake, who shared in all the events since Exodus and held the place of military commander under Moses' leadership. We'll also get a tour of the Promised Land and follow Israel's conquest of Canaan, after which Joshua divided the land among the twelve tribes.
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Judges 1-21
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The Israelites experienced a period of victorious conquests in Canaan after Joshua's death. But as their obedience to God's laws and their faith in God's promises diminished, Israel became entrenched in the sin cycle. God divinely appointed Judges to provide leadership and deliverance during this chaotic time. Sadly, God's people repeatedly did what was right in their own eyes.
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Ruth 1-4
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In this flight, we'll see the godly love and courage of two very different women from very different backgrounds. And we'll meet Boaz, who became Ruth's kinsman-redeemer, a type of Christ. Although the book of Ruth is short, it is prophetically important in terms of the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Ruth's story of romantic grace places love at the center of each of its four chapters.
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1 Samuel 1-31
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In this flight, we find the nation of Israel in desperate need of direction and leadership. We will meet the man whose good looks, physical stature, and success in war made him an obvious choice from a human perspective, but Israel's first king had a tragic flaw: pride. From the ashes of King Saul's calamitous reign, God raised up an unlikely man who would become Israel's next king, a man after His own heart.
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2 Samuel 1-24
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David went from shepherding livestock to serving as God's sovereign king in Israel. His faith and obedience assured him military and political victory as one by one he defeated Israel's enemies. In this flight, we both celebrate David's successes and identify with his failures as we get to know this man whom God called, "a man after My own heart."
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After years of being a powerful unified nation under King David, Israel, because of their disobedience, became a divided nation under many different kings. This book reveals a story of good kings and bad kings, true prophets and false prophets, and faithfulness and disobedience to God.
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2 Kings 1-25
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Despite the many kings who took control of Israel, the nation still lacked true leadership. Second Kings continues the history of a divided Israel, and we see what happens when a nation passes from affluence and influence to poverty and paralysis.
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1 Chronicles 1-29
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The book of 1 Chronicles recounts the lineage of King David as well as God's promise that He would establish His reign on earth through this man after His own heart. As we see how God fulfilled His promises to David, we discover how that presents a witness of His faithfulness to us today.
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2 Chronicles 1-36
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After King Solomon's reign and death, the nation of Israel went on a spiritual roller coaster ride that ended with the division of the kingdom and the people's exile. From the temple's building to its decline and destruction, we see a parallel to 1 and 2 Kings from a spiritual viewpoint.
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Ezra 1-10
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The book of Ezra begins with King Cyrus' decree for the children of Israel to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. Ezra tells of two different returns: the first led by Zerubbabel to rebuild the temple, and the second by Ezra to bring reformation to the people. In this flight, we see God's faithfulness in keeping His promise to return His people to their homeland.
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Nehemiah 1-13
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At the end of Ezra, the temple in Jerusalem had been rebuilt and dedicated, but the city walls were still in ruins. After gaining permission from the king of Persia, Nehemiah led a group to repair and rebuild the walls. Though he was met with hostility and conflict, we see how Nehemiah gathered his spiritual strength from God during trialing times.
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Esther 1-10
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Esther reads almost like a fairy tale: A Jewish maiden becomes queen of Persia. The villain launches an attack to destroy the Jews. In the end, his plot is thwarted by the hero and the brave maiden, who risks her life to save her people. Though the name of God isn't mentioned once in this short book, we clearly see God's providence and faithfulness in dealing with His people.
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Job 1-42
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The book of Job opens in the throne room of heaven with a conversation between God and Satan regarding the faithfulness of a man named Job. God allowed Satan to test Job, and Satan caused Job to lose his health, wealth, and even his beloved family. But in the midst of Job's tragic circumstances, God revealed His sovereignty and faithfulness, and Job's steadfast faith prevailed.
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Psalms 1-150
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The book of Psalms is a collection of songs, prayers, and poetry that express the deepest of human emotions. These artistic masterpieces were compiled over a period of roughly 1,000 years from the time of Moses to the time of Ezra and the return from the Babylonian exile. As we fly over the Psalms, we'll see beautiful writings of gladness and grief, pleading and prayers, and reverence and worship—all with one overarching theme: a complete dependence on the love and power of God.
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Proverbs 1-31
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Known for the wisdom it contains, the book of Proverbs reveals how to deal with everyday situations. But more than just good advice, it is God's words of wisdom, which we need in order to live righteously. These proverbs are universal principles that apply to all people for all times, because they speak of the character of God and the nature of man—both of which remain constant.
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Ecclesiastes 1- 12
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The book of Ecclesiastes records King Solomon's intense search to find meaning and fulfillment in life. In this flight, we discover some significant truths—namely, that all worldly things are empty and that life's pursuits only lead to frustration. After tasting all that this world has to offer, Solomon ultimately concluded that life without God is meaningless.
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Song of Solomon 1-8
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The Song of Solomon portrays a moving love story between King Solomon and a shepherdess. The story reveals the intimacy, love, and passion that a bridegroom and his bride share in a marriage relationship. Even more than the fulfillment found in the love between a husband and wife, we'll discover that the spiritual life finds its greatest joy in the love God has for His people and Christ has for His church.
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Isaiah 1-27
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The prophet Isaiah's ministry lasted around fifty years and spanned the reigns of four kings in Judah. His prophecies are quoted in the New Testament more often than any other prophet's. In this first flight over Isaiah, we focus on his prophecies of condemnation that pulled no punches and pointed out Israel's need for God.
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Isaiah 28-66
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Of all the Old Testament prophets, Isaiah is thought by many to be the greatest, in part because of his clear prophecies about the Messiah. In this second flight over his book, we see his continued work and how God used his prophecies of both condemnation and comfort to generate change in the individuals he encountered.
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Jeremiah 1-20
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The book of Jeremiah is a series of oracles written in the southern kingdom of Judah over a period of fifty-plus years. It speaks of judgment, the promise of restoration, and the protective hand of God over those He loves. In this flight, we catch a glimpse of the man behind the prophecies as he allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel.
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Jeremiah 21-52; Lamentations 1-5
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The prophet Jeremiah allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel. As we complete our flight over his book, we find the prophet reinvigorated by God's promises as he continued to prophesy Babylon's impending invasions and, ultimately, Judah's captivity. Then our flight continues over the poetic book of Lamentations, which Jeremiah wrote as he wept and grieved over Jerusalem's destruction, ending the book with a prayer for Israel's restoration from captivity.
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Ezekiel 1-48
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Written by Ezekiel the priest, this book takes place during the second Babylonian captivity and documents the fulfillment of several prophecies from previous Old Testament books. In this flight, we see God continue to offer promises of restoration through Ezekiel, bringing the nation hope despite their tribulations.
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Daniel 1-8
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Chronologically, the book of Daniel links the time of the kings in 2 Chronicles to the restoration of Jerusalem in the book of Ezra. It begins with the first Babylonian captivity and ends with Daniel's vision of seventy weeks. In it, we witness both prophetic history and the four prophetic visions of Daniel, as well as powerful stories that reveal a faithful man of God who was unwilling to compromise his beliefs.
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Daniel 9-12
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Midway through the book of Daniel, the focus shifts from the historic to the prophetic. Daniel's four prophetic visions reveal the stunning accuracy of biblical prophecy, as well as Daniel's uncompromising faith in God's fulfillment. From the rise and fall of human kingdoms to the Messiah and the day of judgment, Daniel's visions drove him to his knees in fervent prayer for the people of Israel.
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Hosea 1-14
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Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Jeroboam II, and he had a clear message to deliver: Israel had rejected God, so they would be sent into exile and become wanderers in other nations. On this flight, we see a clear parallel between Hosea's adulterous wife—whom God had instructed Hosea to marry—and Israel's unfaithfulness. But even as Hosea endured a rocky marriage, he continued to share God's plan that He would bring His people back to Himself.
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Joel 1-3; Amos 1-9; Obadiah
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Through three ordinary men—Joel, Amos, and Obadiah—God delivered extraordinary messages to His people, warning them against greed, injustice, false worship, and self-righteousness. On this flight, we witness God's patience and love for Israel, and we see how He stands ready to forgive and restore all who turn away from their sin.
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Jonah 1-4
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Rather than focusing on prophecy, the book of Jonah narrates a prophet's story. Jonah was blatantly disobedient to God's call, but despite his defiance, God redirected his path through a unique situation. The resulting revival in Nineveh shows us that God's grace reaches beyond the boundaries of Israel to embrace all nations.
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Micah 1-7; Nahum 1-3; Habakkuk 1-3
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God used three prophets—Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk—to criticize, comfort, and inspire: Micah encouraged social justice and the authentic worship of God. Nahum prophesied against the Assyrians for returning to their evil practices. And though Habakkuk didn't address Israel directly, his message assured them that evil does not endure forever. Through these prophets, God's people confessed their sins and grew confident in His salvation.
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Zephaniah 1-3; Haggai 1-2
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The prophet Zephaniah addressed the social injustice and moral decay of Judah and her neighbors, proclaiming the coming day of the Lord and His wrath upon the nations—both an immediate judgment and a future end-times judgment. God sent Haggai the prophet to preach to the restored community of Jews in Jerusalem after their return from exile in Babylonia. Haggai encouraged the nation to set aside their selfishness and finish rebuilding the temple, an act of obedience that would align their desire with God's desire.
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Zechariah 1-14; Malachi 1-4
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As we fly over the last books of the Old Testament, we first look at the expanded message of rebuilding the temple when Zechariah encouraged Israel to anticipate their ultimate deliverance and the Messiah's future reign. One hundred years after the temple was rebuilt, the book of Malachi revealed that God's chosen people had once again slid back into their sinful practices. Malachi declared God's promise of a coming messenger, John the Baptist, and a coming Messiah.
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Intertestamental Period
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In between the Old and New Testaments lies 400 years of history. During this intertestamental period, God chose not to speak to His people through prophets as He orchestrated people, politics, and events in preparation of the coming Messiah. Scholars have come to call these four centuries the silent years. Remarkably, the silence would be broken by a newborn baby's cry in Bethlehem.
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Matthew 1-28; Mark 1-16; Luke 1-24
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These three Synoptic Gospels give us our first glimpses of Jesus' life and death here on earth. Matthew, Mark, and Luke present Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, and the Son of Man, respectively. On this flight, we'll see the service, sermons, sacrifices, and sovereignty of Jesus as we witness the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies.
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John 1-21
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The spiritual depth of John sets it apart from the other Gospels, with one-third of its content dedicated to the last week of Jesus' life. Rather than focusing on what Jesus did, John focused on who Jesus is, presenting Him as God incarnate and highlighting His deity. On this flight, we'll see seven miraculous signs of Jesus, as well as seven statements that He used to identify Himself as God.
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Acts 1-28
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The book of Acts presents the history of a dynamic, growing community of believers that started in Jerusalem and went on to spread the gospel throughout the known world. In this book, the gospel writer Luke also recorded how the early church received the Holy Spirit, who enabled them to witness, love, and serve with boldness and courage, even when faced with persecution.
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Romans 1-16
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The book of Romans is the apostle Paul's letter to the church in Rome, and it focuses on God's plan of salvation for all humankind. Romans is the most systematic of Paul's letters, reading more like an elaborate theological essay rather than a letter. On this flight, we look at Paul's strong emphasis on Christian doctrine as well as his concern for Israel.
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1 Corinthians 1-16
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In 1 Corinthians, Paul confronted the problems that had infiltrated the influential church at Corinth and defended his position as an apostle of Christ. He later rejoiced over their repentance and acceptance of his God-given authority. On this flight, we discover the power of a new life in Jesus as we see how Paul shared the heart of the gospel with his fellow believers.
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2 Corinthians 1-13
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After Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, false teachers began spreading opposition to him in the Corinthian church. Paul sent Titus as his representative to deal with them, and most of the church repented. Paul wrote this epistle to express his joy at the turnaround and to appeal to them to accept his authority, which was confirmed by the many hardships he suffered for the gospel. On this flight, we find beautiful truths to carry with us through our own times of suffering.
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Galatians 1-6
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Galatians is a firm statement of the doctrine of justification by grace through faith. When Paul wrote this letter, the false doctrine of legalism and faith by works had infiltrated the church throughout Galatia. As a result, believers had traded their freedom in Christ for bondage to the old Jewish law that had been fulfilled by Jesus. On this flight, we discover the differences between law and grace as well as the practical application and results of the proper doctrine of grace.
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Ephesians 1-6
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Who are we in Christ? In Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus, he answered that very question as he addressed a group of believers who were ignorant of their spiritual wealth in Jesus. He explained how the Christian is the bride of Christ, a temple in the Lord, and a soldier for the gospel. On this flight, we see how Paul also emphasized unity among believers, describing the church as a body that works together for a common goal.
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Philippians 1-4
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Referred to as the epistle of joy, Philippians contains the message that joy is possible in all of life's circumstances, including suffering. Paul wrote this very personal letter while in prison, and despite his trials, he rejoiced over the caring and generous church in Philippi and encouraged them in unity, humility, and prayer.
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Colossians 1-4
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On this flight, we see how the young church in Colossae became the target of a heretical attack that included angel worship, the depreciation of Christ, and reliance on human wisdom. In Paul's letter to this church, he refuted the heresy by exalting Christ as the very image of God, the preexistent sustainer of all things, the head of the church, and the first to be resurrected.
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1 Thessalonians 1-5; 2 Thessalonians 1-3
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The apostle Paul wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians in response to a report that some errors and misunderstandings about his teaching had crept into the church at Thessalonica. But Paul also used the opportunity to encourage the believers there, exhorting them in the Word, warning them against pagan immorality, and urging them to remain steadfast in God's truth in the face of persecution.
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1 Timothy 1-6; 2 Timothy 1-4
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These loving letters to Timothy, a young pastor in Ephesus, reveal Paul's true love for his brother in Christ. Timothy was facing a heavy burden of responsibility, so Paul not only instructed him about the conduct of the church and its ministers but also encouraged him to stand strong for the faith against false teachings, to endure hardship, and to preach the Word.
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Titus 1-3; Philemon
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Paul's brief letter to Titus focuses on Titus' role and responsibility in the organization and supervision of the churches in Crete. Throughout the letter, Paul also stressed the importance of sound doctrine and church order. In Philemon, on the other hand, the apostle took a more personal approach and spoke on the application of the great principles of Christian brotherhood to social life.
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Hebrews 1-13
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Although this well-written book's author is unknown, it reveals a man with a great desire to encourage Jewish believers to live in the grace of Jesus, especially since many of them were slipping back into the rites and rituals of Judaism to escape persecution. The letter centers on the person and work of Christ, inspiring believers through all the ages to pursue Jesus in every area of life.
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James 1-5
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While it's vital for Christians to understand that salvation comes by faith, the book of James emphasizes an active faith, characterized by good deeds that flow from salvation. In this unmistakably Jewish epistle, the author encourages believers to live out and grow in their faith by embracing trials, carefully controlling their speech, and letting God's love flow through them to others.
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1 Peter 1-5; 2 Peter 1-3
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The apostle Peter wrote these letters to encourage persecuted Christians and to defend the authenticity of God's Word against false teaching that had infiltrated the church. He called on believers to grow in their faith so they might detect and combat the spreading apostasy. On this flight, we see how these letters uniquely encourage us as we live in conflict with our culture, giving us incentive for holy living as we look forward to Jesus' second coming.
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1 John 1-5
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In this letter, John lived up to his nickname—the apostle of love—as he urged the church to continue living a life of faith in Christ. He defended the nature of Jesus against heretical teachings and warned his readers about those who taught such things. John not only addressed the preeminence of God's love for us but also emphasized our duty to love others in return. This flight shows you how God can transform your life when you follow Him wholeheartedly.
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7/29/2020
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Flight JJU01
2 John, 3 John; Jude
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These three epistles were written to encourage the church to keep a strong biblical foundation. The authors exhorted believers to walk in love but to be discerning in their expression of love, to have and enjoy fellowship with other Christians, and to stay strong in the faith. On this flight, you'll discover why it's so vital to balance love and truth to reach a lost world with the gospel of Jesus.
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8/5/2020
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Revelation 1-11
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Considered to be one of the most powerful books in Scripture, Revelation is a direct vision from God to the apostle John. It's both a warning to the world of a coming tribulation and a source of hope for believers as we anticipate Jesus' return. The book is filled with prophecies of future judgment, but in it, we find a glimpse of heaven and the glories awaiting Jesus' bride, the church.
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8/12/2020
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Revelation 12-22
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In the second half of Revelation, we read some of the most thrilling text in the entire Bible, getting a preview of a future judgment, Jesus' thousand-year reign on earth, the eventual fate of unbelievers, and the church's eternal destination in the new heaven and earth. As we conclude our journey at 30,000 feet over the Scriptures, we discover how the history of the world culminates as we look to Jesus in all His splendid glory.
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8/19/2020
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Visit to the Cockpit Q&A with Pastor Skip
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Our midweek series The Bible from 30,000 Feet came to a close with a final Visit to the Cockpit Q & A session. In the last message of our series, Pastor Skip answers questions from the congregation on topics throughout the Bible, from creation to the end times.
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There are 58 additional messages in this series.
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