Overview of the Book of Genesis

The Meaning of Genesis and the Creation Account

This morning instead of our doctrine of the week segment We're going to begin something new a brief summary of each book of the scripture. So an overview of the week segment where we will go through Genesis.

Through Revelation giving a brief overview of every book of the Bible. So the overview of the week for this Sunday is the book of Genesis. Genesis means origin or the book of Beginnings since it starts in chapter 1 verse 1 by saying in the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis was written by Moses, of course somewhere around 1450 BC and of course BC, you know what BC means it means what? Before Christ. None of this BCE. Before common era nonsense. What does that mean anyways the common era.

And funny how the common era is still based on the birth of Christ so. But I digress the book of Genesis is so important because it lays the foundation. The person cannot believe God in Genesis that he created in six days And rested on the seventh day.

If a person cannot believe God in Genesis, it's unlikely. They're gonna believe him anywhere else so. The Bible says that God created all things in six days rested on the seventh day. Mankind was made in God's image.

The Fall of Man and the First Promise of the Messiah

Genesis also records the fall of man into sin in the Garden of Eden. It also records the first promise of the Messiah in Genesis 3 16 records memorable accounts such as the story of Cain and Abel Noah's Ark the Tower of Babel and then begins the story of the children of Israel who descended from the patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob.

This starts with the call of Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 where the Lord says to Abram at the time get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth Shall be blessed. And of course through Christ who descended from Abraham this world has been truly blessed.