I believe that, often, the worst thing that can happen to Christian men is really the best thing, for, while nature would cry out, The clouds are to be dreaded, grace can reply, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Gen 22:1-2. Apparently, Adam was not forbidden to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, though, after his fail, he was cast out of Eden, as God said, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. He might freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except one: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. It was a slight prohibition, yet the test was more than man, even in a state of innocence, was able to endure, and, alas! Remember how earnestly David prayed about the sins of his youth, and his later transgressions too; and Jacob, in deep humility, must have most vividly remembered his sin against his brother. Only a few days ago, the chestnuts were just beginning to turn green, and then there came the little spikes, and now you can see them in full flower. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. They are all gone out of the way.. Gen 1:1. 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.. Gen 22:2. What simple faith! He was strong, but then he was an ass as well as strong, so he liked couching down between two burdens much better than bearing either one of them, yet he had to bow his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. Gen 8:15-16. And saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. There can be no destruction of the world, there can be no pouring out of the last plagues, there can be no total sweeping away of the ungodly till, first of all, the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads, and taken to a place of security. And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. A little of the spirit of doubt had crept into Eves mind, so she answered, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. Yet, alas! What care he takes about the whole affair! And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; God works upwards, and stops the windows of heaven. Gen 32:30. Genesis 6:3 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org b. I will destroy them with the earth: Some wonder if this is too harsh a judgment, or if this shows God to be cruel or a monster. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is Gods host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; That knife was cutting into his own heart all the while, yet he took it. They who would serve God aright must serve him faithfully in little things as well as in great ones. Genesis 6 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Bible Gen 1:26-28. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. See how Joseph traces Gods hand in his whole career. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. Spurgeon's Exposition: Genesis | Precept Austin And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. That was a very anxious night for Jacob; he was to have another night of sterner work still, but in doing as he did he acted wisely and rightly. b. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth: Noah's three sons will figure into the account in a significant way. How often we throw the blame of our sin on the devil, who certainly has enough to bear without the added guilt of our iniquity! i. Gen 27:1-4. Gen 1:14-19. He is always going about with serpentine wriggling, Seeking to do more mischief. And the evening and the morning were the third day. They will make up our first day and our last day, till we get where there are no days but the Ancient of Days. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. Sermons by Spurgeon - Bible Hub Genesis 6 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Commentary on Genesis 2. Let your prayers go up for them all: Son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters.. Gen 49:8. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. Stoop, my brothers, if you wish to lead others. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen 49:8. You may except that some great blessing is coming nigh to you when a horror of great darkness falls upon you. All rights reserved. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro. Happy is that man who, though he begins with a dark shadow resting upon him, so lives as to turn even that shadow into bright sunlight. Yet it was to be so long in coming to maturity because it was so vast. And God opened her eyes. Genesis xxi. It was true then, and it is true today: But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more (Romans 5:20). Verse Genesis 6:3. Uncontrolled passions may make him very little who otherwise might have been great. And any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. The Lord took away from Adam and Eve the withered fig-leaves; but put on them the skins of animals, to show, in symbol, that we are covered with the sacrifice of Christ. We cannot expect our supplications to speed with God unless we put them upon the footing of free grace by acknowledging that we have no merit of our own which we can plead before him. ii. It is God who sends the winds; they seem most volatile and irregular, but God sends them to do his bidding. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. This fear and distress were sad proofs of want of faith on Jacobs part; for where there is strong faith, there may be a measure of human fear, but it will not go to the length of being greatly afraid and distressed, as he was. Gen 49:1-2. A sad misfortune to lose the sight of the eyes! Happy man that can say that, who has a blessing everywhere! Gen 32:20-24. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. That which is foul, material, carnal, he delights in. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Gen 33:5. Instead of wiping out the entire race, God preserved a remnant. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. Genesis 6:4. Blow it east, or blow it west, the wind comes from God; and whether the waters increase or are assuaged, it is Gods doing. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. The final result is God's judgment. For because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen 49:18. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,-, Obedience should be prompt, we should show our willingness to obey the Lords command by not delaying: Abraham rose up early in the morning,-. I am Esau, said he. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. First, let us read the story of Jacob in the Book of Genesis, the thirty-second chapter, at the twenty-second verse: , He had made a quiet oratory for himself by sending everyone else of the company over to the other side of the brook; his own resolve being , When the wrestling Man, the Angel of the covenant, saw , When we come nearest to God, we must have a deep sense of our own personal weakness; it must never be supposed, if our suit prevails with heaven, that there is anything in us, or anything in our prayers, to account for our prevalence. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 5 We must do everything that is included in the bounds of the divine command, and do it all with scrupulous exactness and care. Noah might have thought it was dry enough before; but God did not think so, there was enough mud to breed a pestilence, so Noah must wait until God had made the earth ready for him. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. Indifferent obedience to Gods command is practically disobedience, careless obedience is dead obedience, the heart is gone out of it. The highly developed hieroglyphic writing existed already in Egypt, as its origins can be traced back to 3000 BC.The Sumerian pictograms and the Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform also date back that far. It is a good thing to have the right names for things. 1. The same effect is often produced on us; when the flood of affliction is deep, then we begin to rise. The daughters of men were not raped or seduced as such. Ezra God will foresee; God will-as we usually say,-provide, which is being interpreted, fore-see. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: For, among Orientals, it is such a common custom to offer and receive presents, that, if they are not accepted, it is regarded as an affront. All they had gained by their sin was a discovery of their nakedness. Gen 8:2. Gen 22:19. Genesis 6 - Henry's Complete Commentary on the Bible - Bible But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. In the six hundred and first year: Genesis 7:11-13 says that Noah entered the ark on the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of his life. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. When he left the promised land, he had a vision of angels, ascending and descending upon the ladder, as if to bid him farewell. He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took our nature, and died in our stead. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. Gen 8:22. b. He now resolved to have a night of prayer, that he might win deliverance: Jacob was left alone;, We know who that Divine Man was, the God who afterwards actually became man, of whom it might even then be said that His delights were with the sons of men.. The title "law" does not only refer to the commandments that Moses received at Sinai from God. It was usually the way, in Gods commands to Abraham, to make him sail under sealed orders. This was a wise and proper action on the past of Jacob, for he had grossly wronged his brother, and it was right for him to make advances toward a reconciliation. Gen 22:5. Gen 19:18-21. This does not mean that creation was out of control, nor does it mean that God hoped for something better but was unable to achieve it. Here is another type of our Saviours great sacrifice on Calvary,-the ram offered in the place of Jesus. He spoke like a prophet of God when he was really speaking to his son in the anguish of his spirit, and in his prophetic utterance we find the sum end substance of the gospel: My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He is the great Provider, and he provides the offering, not only for us, but for himself, for the sacrifice was necessary to God as well as to man. When that "beginning" was, we cannot tell. This tribe would show more cunning than courage; it would excel rather in the strategy of war than in the force of arms. Since it had not rained yet on the earth, it is reasonable to suppose Noah didnt know what God was meant yet. I fear that the decline of family godliness, which is so sadly remarkable in these days, is the source of a great many of the crying sins of the age; the Church of God at large would have been more separate from the world if the little church in each mans house had been more carefully trained for God. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New . I suppose that, until we get to heaven, there will be both darkness and light in us; and as to Gods providential dealings, we must expect darkness as well as light. There is not an angel in heaven but God will make him to be a servant to you if you need him; there is not a wind in any quarter of the globe but God will guide it to you if it is necessary; and there are no waves of the sea but shall obey the Lords will concerning you. There must have been flaws in it; and, certainly, after this time, there was one great sad flaw, of which it is not necessary now to speak more particularly, still, God regarded him as righteous. (Spurgeon). And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Observe the remarkable fact that, no sooner had God made the dry land appear, than it seemed as if he could not bear the sight of it in its nakedness. It is the prerogative of the king to have the power of life and death, and it is the sole prerogative of the King of kings that He can create, and he can destroy. But what destructive power is brought into operation because of human sin! The hand of justice was held back until Gods servant was safe. It was brave of Jacob thus to wrestle, but there was too much of self about it all. It seems he was in the ark a full calendar year. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; Winds and waves are wholly under Gods control. Gen 32:25. Matthew God knows when to send angels to his servants; and when they come, it is often as the forerunners of a trial which is to follow them. Genesis 6 - Dr. Constable's Expository Notes - Bible Commentaries 1 Thessalonians Not, Cursed art thou, as the Lord said to the serpent; but, Cursed is the ground for thy sake.. Gen 1:24-25. Sermon Bible Commentary. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. Song of Solomon Every bird of every sort, that is, every kind of bird; they are all mentioned over again. 18. C.H. Gen 18:20-22. I think that, when Christians differ from one another, there should be a holy emulation between them as to which shall be the first to give way, and which will give way the more to the other. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? We must never judge anything before it is complete. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. Levi gained a blessing at the hands of Moses, one of the richest blessings of any of the tribes. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded by controversy. Daniel Numbers In a.d. 180, Theophilus of Antioch wrote: the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen in the mountains.. Perhaps the world was in its prime, when the trees were in bloom, and the birds were singing in their branches, and the flowers were blooming on the earth, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. Our subject is the value of divine guidance, and we shall, therefore, read two passages of Scripture illustrating the truth which we hope to enforce. And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, Whenever I am engaged in blessing, I will bless thee. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. That raven that you did not lock up well at home, has come here after you. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. It was necessary that they should be , FAMILY REFORMATION; OR, JACOBS SECOND VISIT It is only God who can look upon any one days work, and say of it, as a whole, and in every part, that it is good. As for us, our best things need sprinkling with the blood of Christ, which we need not only on the lintels and side posts of our house, but even on the altar and the mercy-seat at which we worship God. It was according to the rule of war that, if persons who had made an invasion were afterwards themselves captured, then if the new captor gave up the persons, he was fully entitled to take the goods to himself. When we walk with a man, we know that he is there, we hear his footfall if we cannot see his face; we have some very clear perception that there is such a person at our side." (Spurgeon) ii. God remembered Noah, and he remembers you. The work of building the ark was laborious, costly, tedious, dangerous, and seemingly foolish and ridiculous; especially when all things continued in the same posture and safety for so many scores of years together; whereby Noah, without doubt, was all that while the song of the drunkards, and the sport of the wits of that age. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Gen 8:12. The evil one suggested ambition to the womans mind, and imputed wicked designs to the ever-blessed and holy God. PREVIOUS Genesis 6:3 NEXT Genesis 6:5. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. Terms of Use i. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Besides, I hope we shall never imagine that the highest faith is inconsistent with the greatest prudence, and that we shall never forget that there is such a book in the Bible as the Book of Proverbs, which contains counsels of wisdom for daily life. Gen 7:9. 3. Not Yet a Member? How often do you and I have our great Substitute very near to us, yet we do not see him because we do not lift up our eyes and look. And he (Jacob) said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. The blood was not to be sprinkled inside the house where the Israelites might be comforted by a sight of it, but outside the house, where only God could see it. Why is all this recorded in the Bible? JOHN MACARTHUR DISCUSSES GENESIS 6 & THE NEPHILIM - Apprising And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? God will always have agents enough to save his elect; there shall be sufficient gospel preaching, even in the darkest and deadest times, to bring his redeemed out of the City of Destruction. Look till the tears are in your eyes as you thank God that you are rescued from so terrible a doom! Chapter 1-5 From creation to the flood, Chapter 1 The work of the six days (general report), Chapter 2 Creation of man (special report), b. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. There is a remarkable , 5001 North Oak Trafficway Whether the sun and moon are here said to be absolutely created, or whether they were only created so far as our planet was concerned by the dense vapours being cleared away so that the sun and moon and stars could be seen, is a matter of no consequence at all to us. He that walks with God will not be a fool, for God is the source of all wisdom, and the man who walks with him will learn wisdom from him. When you and I also are near our journeys end, may we be able to say, as Jacob did, I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. He could not have said that once. Gen 8:14. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; Noahs faith was pleasing to God. Study Guide for Genesis 6 by David Guzik - Blue Letter Bible Why did not Noah come out? The waters were abated as far as the fruit trees; not only the tallest forest trees, but some of the fruit trees were uncovered from the water. How wonderfully those two things meet in practical harmony,the free will of man and the predestination of God! Genesis describes the creation of the world, the fall of the first men into sin and its consequences, but not only the curse but also the first clear pointer to the redeemer.We see God's righteousness in the judgment of the great flood, but also election of grace and the life of faith in Abraham.In the story of Isaac we see the beloved son of the Well, even that was better than planning, and not praying at all; so there is something commendable in his action, though not without considerable qualification. Gen 1:20-23. Whatever evolution or any other folly or evil of man may have done, everything had to begin again over. Their spirit and temper constantly change; their pursuits are sometimes in one direction, and sometimes in another; they are everything by starts, and nothing long; and to each of them it may be said, Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.: It is a very remarkable circumstance, well worthy of notice, that this curse was turned into a real blessing, especially in the case of the tribe of Levi. Similar stereotype statements are known from cuneiform tables from Mesopotamia.The word "toledoth" occurs in the following passages: 1. It was a memorable discourse , A Family Sermon Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: Judah . Thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee. (wpe), Family Reformation; Or, Jacobs Second Visit to Bethel, An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer. His was deliberate obedience; he could bear suspense, thinking over the whole matter for three days, and setting his face like a flint to obey his Lords command. Gen 6:6-7. After all, an ark is a chest, not a ship; this refers to the shoebox shape of the vessel. Why did he not say, The damsel that shall first offer me to drink? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? He will have everything ready against the time when it will be needed. Gen 49:3. Nay more, we may say to him, Take not tithes, O Lord, but take all!. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. There is a deal of wisdom in this sign, however. It is true that they were divided and scattered, like handfuls of salt, throughout the whole of Israel, for they were attendants upon the Lords priests, and they had cities appointed to them so that, while they did dwell here, and there, and everywhere, it was in order that they might reach the whole of the people, and prove a blessing to them. And he rose up that night, and took his two womenservants, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. Jacob called unto his sons, so he was not bereaved after all. When she had but a handful of meal, she made a little cake for Gods prophet first, but then God multiplied her meal and her oil. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: According to the Eastern manner of swearing. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 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. 1 Kings Gen 45:28. And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. They were to have a land in which would be milk for babes and wine for strong men; surely this land is thy land, O Emmanuel! What nourishing milk there is in the gospel, and what exhilarating wine for those who know the love of Christ! No good comes of prying into unrevealed truth. 2 Peter Send out a dove rather than a raven; come to the house of God with quiet, gentle, holy expectation, and your dove will come back to you. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice just now. Noah could read something from that leaf that the dove brought to him, but he learned more when she did not return to him. It seemed essential to this end that Abraham should come right out from his fellow-countrymen, and be separate unto Jehovah, so the Lord said to him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee.. Ecclesiastes We will read two or three passages in the Book of Genesis concerning God blessing his servant Abraham. Our Lord Jesus was blessing his disciples when he was taken from them; and since we do not know when we shall be taken sway from our relatives, let us be always blessing them. We dont hear of him complaining or rebelling; he simply obeyed. Eve had begun to feel the fascination of the evil one, for she softened down the word of God. She was to offer him to drink, and draw water for his camels; she would thus not be afraid of work, she would be courteous, and she would be kind, and all these meeting in one might show him, and by this test he might very wisely discover, that she was a fitting woman for Isaac, and might become his spouse. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?