Through the Bible in one year notes
Jan 3, 2003 Genesis 8-11

Genesis 8
v. 1 - 19
God remembered that Noah was in the ark 9v. 1). Did He ever really forget? And God stopped the storm from raging. And formed a wind to push the waters together so that the land would be able to form. Noah tests the area several times by relasing birds and then he opened the ark and saw the land was dry, but waited another month before God told him it was safe to venture out. He did and all the animals with him.

v. 20 - 22
Noah's first act, build an alter and offer the blood sacrafices that he knew would please God. And God says he will not destroy the earth because of man's sins anymore. God also establishes here, seedtime and harvest, winter and summer, cold and heat, night and day. Patterns that will never change.

Genesis 9
v. 1 - 17
In v. 4 God clearly establishes that man can eat meat, just meat that does not have the blood still in it. v. 5 and on say that anything, man or animal, that slays innocent blood of a man will have to justify it before God. You see, life is in the blood, and God will not allow blood to flow for no reason at all. God gives life, it is not man's job to take it away. And man is told to go forth, be fruitful and multiply. Then God states to Noah that he will never destroy the earth. For a sign, he put a warriors sign up, a bow (as in bow and arrow). This is the first mention of covenant in the Bible.

v. 18 - 28
We are told of Noah changing professions here, being a farmer, and getting drunk in his tent. One of his sons saw him told the other two brothers and they covered him. For some unclear reason, Noah curses not the son, but the son's son.

Genesis 10
Chapter 10 is a general genealogies. These genealogical are important to the Jew, they establish who you are. But to a Christian, they establish the bloodline. That will be important to us.

Genesis 11
v. 1 - 9
The people want to make a name for themselves, not for God. Their selfishness is what got them spread. God even says that man can if he puts his mind to it, do anything. But they are scattered and given different languages.

v 10. - 26
We go back to Shem, Noah's son, and trace the bloodline down to Terah, father of Abram.

v. 27 - 32
Final tying up of Terah's life.

Tomorrows Reading: Job 1- 5