The land where it never rained.

Today's Study 
Genesis 1-5 
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God created the earth in a literal 24 hour period as we see the evening and the morning for each day. 






What was the firmament? This was like a big dome in a sense water above and water beneath... a green house effect. People lived for a very long time until the flood then you will see the life spans going down. It never rained until after the flood.

Time is created with the Sun and moon.

Each animal was created with the "seed in itself" - no evolution ... The chicken came first... created after it's kind

LET "US" make man in our image... here we see the first example of the trinity - Father, Son and the Holy Spirit were all part of creation. Jesus left Heaven to die for us. He was in heaven before then.

People ate plants for food in the beginning later you will see God telling us that we should NOT forbid eatting meat. We need meat in our diet now.

A mist watered the earth.

God planted a garden.

2 special trees .. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of Life.  We do not know the exact fruit that was on it. 

First thing God said was not good ... was isolation. Man needed people.  

Adam was created in God's image
First surgery... deep sleep.. and a rib was taken from Adam to "build Eve". 

Chapter 3

The serpent allowed satan to enter it. At one point the serpent walked with legs. Adam and Eve were both together when the fruit was eatten as it says Eve gave to her husband "WITH HER". 

Adam harkened to the voice of his wife... he may have openly known the sin unlike Eve who was deceived. 

First blood sacrifice... God made coats of skin for them. 

The tree of life was guarded so that it would not be eatten and man to live in their sinful state forever.

Cain and Abel. Some believe that they could have been twins. 

Cain tried to bring plants "his own works" to God
while Abel brought a blood sacrifice. 

The first murder. -- no repentence from Cain .. we see no remorse for his brother Seth just sorrow for himself. Like people today... many never take responsibility for their own sin. 

Cain went out from the "presence of the Lord". just for the moment or eternally? I don't know. 

Sin going down through generations... Cain bears another murderer.

Seth is born from Eve.

Chapter 5
Man and woman both created in the image of God and both were called Adam in the beginning. 

Here we see the long life spans of those who lived before the flood. 

Methusalah lived 969 years

Enoch - a example of the Rapture... He walked so close to God that one day... God just took him.

Noah - 500 years old had 3 sons Shem, Ham and Japheth