Genesis

Of Pillows of Stone and Wilderness Rest

In the days when the children of Israel journeyed through the wilderness, their path was fraught with trials and their nights oft spent under the vast expanse of heaven. The land was dry, the roads wearying, and yet the Lord was their refuge and strength, a shelter in the time of trouble (Psalm 46:1). It is written that Jacob, the patriarch, lay do...

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Author of the Book of Genesis

The Author of the Book of Genesis was Moses...

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Date of the Book of Genesis

The Date of the Book of Genesis was the period from 4004 to 1635 BC Approximately...

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Theme of the Book of Genesis

The theme of the Book of Genesis is The Founding of the Hebrew Nation...

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Type of Jesus within the Book of Genesis

Types and Shadows - In Genesis Jesus is the seed of the woman...

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Greek Name for the Book of Genesis

Greek Name - Genesis "origination"...

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Hebrew Name and Meaning for the Book of Genesis

Hebrew Name - Bereshith "in the beginning"...

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Genesis Types: 4. The Ark of Noah, A Type of God’s Salvation

(Genesis 6-8) The ark was a refuge from the Flood, even as God’s salvation is a refuge from God’s wrath against sin. The Flood was God’s visitation of righteous judgment against the awful sinning of mankind. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con...

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Genesis Types: 3. The Translation of Enoch, A Type of the Translation of Believers

(Genesis 5:21-24) Enoch’s life pleased God because he walked with God in faith. "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him" (Genesis 5:24). "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God" (Hebr...

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Genesis Types: 5. Melchizedek, A Type of Christ as King and Priest

(Genesis 14:18-20) Who was Melchizedek? When Abraham returned from his victorious battle with the five kings, having rescued Lot, we find Melchizedek going out to meet him. "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God...

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