After a year on the ark, the first thing Noah does when the water recedes and he leaves the ark is build an altar to the Lord. Why? Because we must come to God His way, which was established in the garden when He killed an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve after the fall, showing us that the blood of the innocent must be shed to cover our sins. This is a picture of the perfect, spotless Lamb, our Savior, who is coming to die on the cross for our sins. Abel understood this as he came to the Lord His way, and we see Noah understands this as well. (Brace yourself because many animals will be sacrificed throughout this story before Jesus comes in the form of man to die for us as the final sacrificial Lamb.)

The Lord blesses Noah and his sons and gives them the same promises He gave to Adam and Eve in the garden. He tells them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Then God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons and every living creature. He says, “Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God gives them another picture – “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”

Ok, now after all that, Noah plants a vineyard and gets drunk. I know, I didn’t learn that in Sunday school class either, but go easy on Noah. He just witnessed the entire world, including his neighbors, friends, extended family, and everything else outside of the ark, die. However, there are always consequences to our sin, and the same is true here with Noah and his son Ham. Because in Noah’s drunken, naked state, Noah’s son Ham does something naughty to him. As a result, Noah curses Ham’s son Canaan of whom the Canaanite people descend. We will learn more about them soon.

But first, tomorrow we will read the last of the five stories of the Creation Era: 1) Creation ✔️ 2) Fall ✔️ 3) Cain and Abel ✔️ 4) Flood ✔️ and up tomorrow…5) Tower of Babel. Then we will jump into the Patriarch Era so keep reading! 

(Genesis 7:1-10:5, 1 Chronicles 1:5-7, Genesis 10:6-20, 1 Chronicles 1:8-16, Genesis 10:21-30, 1 Chronicles 1:17-23, Genesis 10:31-32)

God made a promise to send a Savior in Genesis 3:15. And since God always keeps His promises, the Lord starts working His plan through Adam and Eve’s descendants. They have two sons, Cain and Abel. Abel approaches the Lord His way, as the Lord demonstrated to Adam and Eve in the garden, by bringing an animal sacrifice. But Cain comes to the Lord his own way, with fruits of the ground. The Lord accepts Abel’s offering and not Cain’s, which angers Cain. God tells Cain he better check himself because sin is crouching at his door. 

The Lord desires for us to repent of our sins and turn to Him. As the wisdom writer in Proverbs will later tell us, “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). However, Cain chooses to ignore God’s warning, and he kills his brother, Abel. As a result, Cain is sent outside the presence of the Lord.

Cain is now living in the land of Nod, and we see what it is like for people living outside the presence of the Lord. Cain’s descendants are involved in murder, polygamy, and the oppression of women. But nothing is going to stop the Lord’s plan to send a Savior! So Adam and Eve have another son named Seth. And Seth’s descendants begin calling on the name of the Lord. However, over time, they start making decisions based on sight instead of faith. Seth’s descendants see Cain’s beautiful women who are walking outside the presence of the Lord, and they begin to intermarry with them and are led away from the Lord. “And the Lord said: ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh.’”

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart… But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” So God tells Noah, a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5) and a descendant of Seth’s (10 generations after Adam), that He is sending a flood “to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.” 

The only ones that will be saved by grace through faith are Noah and his wife, his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives along with two of every unclean animal, seven pairs of every kind of bird, and seven pairs of every clean animal for eating and for sacrificing to the Lord. (We will learn more about the clean animals and the sacrificial system during the Exodus Era.) 

Keep your eye on Shem because through him we will meet the first Patriarch, Abraham (10 generations later from Noah). If this is your first time reading through the Bible, you are about to see how messy these people are and how God executes His amazing plan of redemption through the mess. But this also highlights God’s grace and mercy as he patiently grows their faith and works all things for good for those who love Him! Enjoy your reading! 

(Genesis 4:1-5:32, 1 Chronicles 1:1-4, Genesis 6:1-22)

In the beginning of the Creation Era, God creates everything and He calls it good. After He creates man and woman in His own image, He calls it very good! The Lord gives the man and woman, Adam and Eve, dominion over everything in the garden with one rule – don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

Well, that serpent comes along and does what Satan does best – he deceives Eve. He tempts her with the lust of the eye (the fruit looks good to eat), the lust of the flesh (it will fill her belly), and the pride of life (she will know as much as God). Instead of listening to God and appropriating her dominion over the serpent, she eats from the prohibited tree of the knowledge of good and evil and so does her husband Adam, who is standing passively by her side. Since Adam and Eve fail to exercise dominion over the serpent, they come under his dominion because the voice that you listen to always becomes your master.

God’s desire for His children is for us to walk by faith, believing that He is good and that His word is true. However, Adam and Eve walked by sight and not faith, resulting in sin entering the world and the relationship between God and man breaking. But God does not leave them in their broken state. He makes a promise to send a Savior through the seed of the woman that will crush the head of the serpent. This Savior, His Son Jesus Christ, will come and shed His innocent blood on the cross to atone for our sins and to restore us back into a right relationship with the Lord.

As an illustration of the coming Savior who will be sacrificed for us, God takes an animal that He called good, because sin cost the Lord something too, and He kills it, shedding its innocent blood. God then uses the skin of the animal to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness, showing that the blood of the innocent atones for the sins of the guilty. 

The Lord tells them, as a consequence of their sin, that childbirth will be difficult for the woman, working the land will be hard for the man, and there will be a power struggle between man and woman. Then the Lord sends them out of the garden and places a cherubim with a sword to guard the entrance lest they eat from the tree of life and remain in their sin state forever. 

The rest of the story is about God working His plan to redeem His people through His Son, Jesus Christ, who is on His way, so keep reading! 

(Genesis 1:1-3:24)

Note: Chronological Bible Teaching Ministries (CBT) breaks the Chronological Bible into 14 Eras: Creation, Patriarch, Exodus, Conquest, Judges, Kingdom, Divided Kingdom, Captivity, Return, Silent, Gospel, Church, Missions, End of Times/New Beginnings. We are currently in the Creation Era.

After a year on the ark, the first thing Noah does when he gets off is builds an altar to the Lord. Why? Because we must come to God His way which was established in the garden when He killed an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve after the fall, showing us that the blood of the innocent must be shed to cover our sins. This is a picture of the perfect, spotless Lamb, our Savior, to come to die on the cross for our sins. Abel understood this as he came to the Lord His way and we see Noah understands this as well. (Brace yourself because there are about to be a lot of animals killed throughout this Story before Jesus comes in the form of man to die for us!)

The Lord blesses Noah and his sons and gives them the same promises he gave to Adam and Eve in the garden. He tells them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. And God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons and every living creature. He tells them that “Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” Then God gives them another picture – “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”

Ok, now after all that, Noah plants a vineyard and gets drunk. I know, I didn’t learn that in Sunday school class either, but go easy on Noah…he just witnessed the entire world including his neighbors, friends, extended family, and everything else outside of the ark die. But there are always consequences to our sin and the same is true here with Noah and his son Ham. Because in Noah’s drunken, naked state, Noah’s son Ham does something naughty to him. As a result, Noah curses Ham’s son Canaan of whom the Canaanite people descend. We will learn more about them soon.

But first, tomorrow we will read the last of the five stories of the Creation Era: 1) Creation ✅ 2) Fall ✅ 3) Cain and Abel ✅ 4) Flood ✅ and up tomorrow…5) Tower of Babel. Then we will jump into the Patriarch Era so keep reading!

(Genesis 7:1-10:5, 1 Chronicles 1:5-7, Genesis 10:6-20, 1 Chronicles 1:8-16, Genesis 10:21-30, 1 Chronicles 1:17-23, Genesis 10:31-32)

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God made a promise to send a Savior in Genesis 3:15. And since God always keeps His promises, the Lord starts working His plan through Adam’s and Eve’s descendants. They have two sons, Cain and Abel. Abel approaches the Lord His way, as the Lord demonstrated to Adam and Eve in the garden, by bringing an animal sacrifice. But Cain comes to the Lord his own way with fruits of the ground. The Lord accepts Abel’s offering and not Cain’s which angers Cain. God tells Cain he better check himself because sin is crouching at his door. 

The Lord desires for us to repent of our sins and turn to Him. As the wisdom writer in Proverbs will later tells us, “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). However, Cain chooses to ignore God’s warning and he kills his brother, Abel. As a result, Cain is sent outside the presence of the Lord. 

Cain is now living in the land of Nod and we see what it is like for people living outside the presence of the Lord. Cain’s descendants are involved in murder, polygamy, and the oppression of women. But nothing is going to stop the Lord’s plan to send a Savior! So Adam and Eve have another son named Seth. And Seth’s descendants begin calling on the name of the Lord, but over time they start making decisions based on sight instead of faith. Seth’s descendants see Cain’s beautiful women who are walking outside the presence of the Lord and they begin to intermarry with them, leading them away from the Lord. “And the Lord said: ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh…’”

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” So God tells Noah, a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5) and a descendant of Seth’s (10 generations after Adam), that He is sending a flood “to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.” The only ones saved by grace through faith are Noah and his wife, his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives along with 2 of every unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animal for future sacrifices to the Lord. (We will learn more about the clean animals and the sacrificial system during the Exodus Era.) So, how do we know Noah and his family members had faith? Because they got on the boat!

Keep your eye on Shem because through him we will meet Abraham (10 generations later from Noah). If this is your first time reading through the Bible, you are about to see how messy these people are and how God works His amazing plan of redemption through the mess. But this also highlights God’s grace and mercy as he patiently grows their faith and works all things for good for those who love Him! Enjoy your reading! 

(Genesis 4:1-5:32, 1 Chronicles 1:1-4, Genesis 6:1-22)

#bibleliteracymovement

#chronologicalbibleteaching

New Year’s Day pop quiz: What was there in the beginning with God before He spoke creation? (hint: the answer is in today’s reading) 

In the beginning of the Creation Era, God creates everything and He calls it good. After He creates man and woman in His own image, He calls it very good! The Lord gives the man and woman, Adam and Eve, dominion over everything in the garden with one rule…don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Well, that serpent comes along and does what Satan does best, deceives Eve. He tempts her with the lust of the eye (the fruit looks good to eat), the lust of the flesh (it will fill her belly), and the pride of life (she will know as much as God). Instead of listening to God and appropriating her dominion over the serpent, she eats from the prohibited tree of the knowledge of good and evil and so does her passive husband Adam. So Adam and Eve fail to exercise dominion over the serpent; they, instead, come up under his dominion because the voice that you listen to becomes your master.

See, God’s desire is for His children to walk by faith, believe that He is good, and that His Word is true. However, Adam and Eve fail causing sin to enter the world and human relationship with God to be broken. But God does not leave them in their broken state. He makes a promise to send a Savior through the seed of the woman that will crush the head of the serpent. This Savior, His Son Jesus Christ, will come and shed His innocent blood on the cross to atone for our sins and to restore us back into a right relationship with the Lord. 

As an illustration of the coming Savior who will be sacrificed for us, God takes an animal that He called good (because sin cost the Lord something too) and He kills it, shedding its innocent blood. God then uses the skin of the animal to cover Adam’s and Eve’s nakedness showing that the blood of the innocent atones for the sins of the guilty. 

The Lord tells them, as a consequence of their sin, that childbirth will be difficult for the woman, working the land will be hard for the man, and there will be a power struggle between both the man and the woman. Then He sends them out of the garden and places a cherubim with a sword to guard the entrance lest they eat from the tree of life and are stuck in their sin state forever. 

The rest of the Story is about God working His plan to redeem His people through His Son, Jesus Christ, who is on His way…so keep reading! 

Quiz Answer – Holy Spirit

Note: CBT breaks the Chronological Bible into 14 Eras: Creation, Patriarch, Exodus, Conquest, Judges, Kingdom, Divided Kingdom, Captivity, Return, Silent, Gospel, Church, Missions, End of Times/New Beginnings.

(Genesis 1:1-3:24)

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First thing Noah does when he gets off the boat is build an altar to the Lord. Why? Because we must come to God His way which was established in the garden when He killed an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve after the fall. God showed us that the blood of the innocent must be shed to cover our sins. This is a picture of the perfect, spotless lamb to come to die on the cross for our sins. Abel understood this as he came to the Lord His way and we see Noah understands this as well. Brace yourself because there are about to be a lot of animals killed throughout this Story before Jesus comes in the form of man to die for us! (Ok, after the altar Noah did get drunk. I know, I didn’t learn that in Sunday school class either but go easy on Noah. He just witnessed the entire world including his neighbors, friends, extended family and everything else outside of the ark die. I can not imagine but our gracious God settles their fears by placing a rainbow in the sky and telling them they would never have to go through that again and this rainbow will be a reminder. God is good all the time!)

(Genesis 7:1-10:5, 1 Chronicles 1:5-7, Genesis 10:6-20, 1 Chronicles 1:8-16, Genesis 10:21-30, 1 Chronicles 1:17-23, Genesis 11:27-14:24)

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Day 2 and we have already learned so much! God made a promise to send a Savior in Gen 3:15. God always keeps His promises and He starts working His plan through Adam’s and Eve’s descendants. They have 2 sons, Cain and Abel. Abel approaches the Lord His way, by bringing an animal sacrifice, but Cain comes to the Lord his own way with fruits of the ground. The Lord accepts Abel’s offering and not Cain’s which angers Cain. God tells Cain he better check himself because sin is crouching at his door. The Lord’s desire is always for us to repent and turn back to God. “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and foresakes them will obtain mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13) However, Cain chooses to ignore God’s warning and he kills his brother, Abel. As a result, Cain is sent outside the presence of the Lord. We then see what it is like for people living outside the presence of the Lord. Cain’s descendants are involved in murder, polygamy, and the oppression of women. But nothing is going to stop the Lord’s plan to send a Savior so Adam and Eve have another son named Seth. Seth’s descendants begin calling on the name of the Lord but over time they start looking around at Cain’s beautiful women who are walking outside the presence of the Lord and they begin to intermarry. God looks down to assess His creation and He sees nothing but evil continually in the hearts and minds of the people. God tells Noah, a preacher of righteousness and a descendant of Seth’s (10 generations after Adam), that He is sending a flood. Noah warns the people but the only ones that will get on that boat by faith are Noah and his wife, his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives along with 2 of every unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animals for future sacrifices to the Lord. Keep your eye on Shem because through him we will meet Abraham (10 generations later from Noah). If this is your first time reading you are about to see how messy these people are and that God works His amazing plan of redemption through them. But this also highlights God’s grace as he patiently grows their faith and works all things for good! Enjoy your reading!

(Genesis 4:1-5:32, 1 Chronicles 1:1-4, Genesis 6:1-22)

#bibleliteracymovement #chronologicalbibleteaching