THE PENTATEUCH THE BOOKS OF MOSES THE PENTATEUCH

THE PENTATEUCH THE BOOKS OF MOSES

THE PENTATEUCH • • Pente means 5 Teuchos means book The first 5 books of the Bible Genesis – book of origins Exodus – book of redemption Leviticus – book of worship and communion Numbers – book of pilgrim people Deuteronomy – instruction for the redeemed

GENESIS • THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS – View of 1 st 11 chapters effects view of entire Bible – Nowhere else can we find the creation of the world – Written to reveal to man that he was divinely created

GENESIS • 3 VIEWS OF ORIGIN OF LIFE – Atheistic materialism • Accidental arrangement of molecules – Theistic evolution • God through evolution – Special creation • God in 6 literal days

GENESIS • Gen. 1: 1 introduces the reader to God • Man must accept the fact that God is. • Hebrew word Elohim is a plural form (Trinity) • Word “created” indicates a definite act • All “scientific theories” are excluded • All ideas of creation apart from God are excluded

GENESIS • The Gap Theory – Earth created in a dateless past in effort to explain geological eras • Age-Day theory – The day is equated to geologic era • The Ideal Time Theory – Earth seemed old at time of creation

GENESIS • God created the heaven and the earth – 3 Heavens 1 st is home of birds and clouds Dan. 4: 12 2 nd is home of sun, moon and stars Psa. 19: 1 3 rd is home of the angels and departed saints I Cor. 12: 2

GENESIS • The 1 st Day – Let there be light • The 2 nd Day – Waters separated • The 3 rd Day – Creation of plant life • The 4 th day – The sun, the moon and the stars

GENESIS • The 5 th Day – Fish and fowl • The 6 th Day – Cattle, beast and Man • The 7 th Day – God rested – “yom” evening and morning = 24 hour day – Signs, seasons, days and years

GENESIS • The Corruption of All Things – The pivoting point in history of man • That Old Serpent Rev. 12: 9 20: 2 – Satan Isa. 14, Eze. 28 • The Steps in the Fall of Man – The Serpent in the Garden – Doubting God’s Word – Denying God’s Word

GENESIS • The results of the fall • Five fold judgment – Upon serpent – Upon Satan – Upon woman – Upon nature

GENESIS • Banned from Tree of life • Promise of redemption –Proto-evangel (the first gospel) –Blood sacrifice (animal skin covering) – Seed of woman – Lamb of God on the cross

GENESIS • The first civilization • The line of Cain – Type of self righteousness – Jude talks of the way of Cain – Enoch (not the 7 th from Adam) – Lamech –bigamist – Jubal – Trader, musician, inventor

GENESIS • The Line of Seth – Enos • Then began men to call on the Lord – Enoch • Culminates in righteousness – Methuselah • Favorable memory, lived to the flood