Study 2024-2025: Genesis

The Book of Genesis 

Overview
- Author:    Moses
- What: The creation of the heavens and earth, and all that are in them created by God.
-When: Around 1440 BC?
-Where:  Mount Sinai?
-Why: Genesis lays the foundation for the rest of not only the Bible, but lays the foundation to answering life’s most difficult questions.

Jesus OT ← → NT:
3:8 = Possibly pre-incarnate Jesus
6:16 = the Ark has a single door, Jesus in John 10:9 says He is the door/gate depending on the translation
15:1-21 = the Word of the LORD, John 1:1-14 refers to Jesus as the Word of God, and so does Revelation 19:11-16… additionally see John 8:56-58 when Jesus tells the Pharisees He’s interacted with Abraham before His time on earth
16:7-12 = the angel of the LORD; later to be revealed as God Himself in 48:15-16
21:17 = angel of God
22:11 = angel of the LORD
22:15-18 = “The angel of the LORD called to Abraham and said, ‘I swear by myself, declares the LORD…” who called Abraham, and declares who?
24:7 = the LORD, the God of heaven said this, and so does the Word of the LORD in 15:1-21
31:11-13 = angle of God
32:9-12 = Jesus made the covenant with Abraham in chapter 15
32:22-30 = Jacob wrestles with God
35:10 = the name Jacob is now named Israel, Jesus does the same thing to Peter in Matthew 16:18 when He calls Simon, Peter
35:13 = Jesus’ ascension illustrated
48:16 = Israel acknowledges that the angel of the LORD is God
49:24= God is the Sheppard, Jesus is the Good Shepherd in John 10:11-15

The Trinity Shown:
1:1-2 the word God is a plural, masculine noun (Elohim)
1:26-27 = let us make mankind in our image… plural, though God is speaking
3:8 = LORD God walked…
3:22 = LORD God said, “the man has become like one of us”
6:3 = the LORD said my Spirit… indicates that there is a distinction between the LORD and His Spirit
9:8,16 = God said… (A)…follow the alphabet, but also verse 16 God speaks in third person
11:7 = LORD said “let us”
15:1-21 = the word of the LORD came… (B)
17:1,22 = LORD appeared to him
18:1-2 = the LORD appears to Abraham, and three men show up at Abraham’s tent, Abraham also calls them Lord
21:17 = God heard, but the angel of God called to Hagar
22:16 = the LORD swears to Himself… the LORD also made the Law (Deuteronomy 19:15)  state that a testimony is not valid except for the witness of 2 or 3, then the matter can be established… God couldn’t swear to Himself, by His own law He put in place, UNLESS there were 2 or 3 and not just one.
24:7 = the LORD, the God of heaven… see 15:1-21
26:24-25 = the LORD appeared to him
31:11-13 = angel of God
32:9-12 = see 16:9, the angel of the LORD said this but here Jacob refers to the angel of the LORD as the LORD
35:1 = God speaking in 3rd person
48:15-16 = angel of the LORD called God
49:24 = God is the Sheppard, Jesus is the Good Shepherd in John 10:11-15

Key Events:
1:26-28, 9:6, 9:8-17, 9:19, 10:32, 11:1-9, 12:1-3, 15:6, 15:8, 19:4-5, 19:24-25, 26:7-11, 27:1-46, 28:22, 35:23-26

Major (not all) Prophecies Fulfilled of the Messiah(Jesus):
3:15 = Galatians 4:4-5 , Matthew 1:18, Hebrews 2:14, 1 John 3:8
5:24 = Mark 16:19
12:3 = Galatians 3:8, Acts 3:25-26
12:7 = Galatians 3:16
14:18 = Hebrews 6:20 + 7:2, , Matthew 26:26-29
15:4 = Matthew 21:33-40
17:19 = Romans 9:7
22:8 = John 1:29
22:18 = Galatians 3:16
49:8-10 = Luke 2:1-7, Galatians 4:4, Luke 3:33, John 17:3, John 11:47-52, John 10:16


Culture/Time:
8:21

Relevant History + Science:
7:19-20, 9:2

Notes

• 1:1 God = Elohim1:2 Spirit of God = Ruach Elohim2:5 LORD God = Yehovah/Yahweh Elohim4:1 LORD = Yehovah/Yahweh15:1 = the word of the LORD = Devar Hashem … literally means the Word of Yahweh… Revelation 19:13 describes Jesus as Word of God (Yahweh)
• 6:15 One Door: Jesus
• 10:12 “great city"