FROM ADAM TO JOSEPH

Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph                                                                                         

Adam @130yrs The birth of Seth

Adam @235yrs Seth begat Enos

Adam @325yrs Enos begat Cainan

Adam @395yrs Cainan begat Mahalaleel

Adam @460yrs Mahalaleel begat Jared

Adam @622yrs Jared begat Enoch

Adam @687yrs Enoch begat Methuselah

Adam @-57yrs Enoch Lived 300yrs more and God took him

Adam @874yrs Methuselah begat Lamech

Adam lived 56yrs more and died

Enoch @65yrs The birth of Methuselah

Enoch @252yrs The birth of Lamech

Enoch lived 113yrs more and God took him 69yrs before birth Noah

Methuselah @187yrs The birth of Lamech

Methuselah @369yrs The birth of Noah

Methuselah @869yrs The birth of Shem, Ham, Japheth

Methuselah lived 100yrs more and died the year of the flood

Lamech @182yrs The birth of Noah

Lamech @682yrs The birth of Shem, Ham, Japheth

Lamech lived 95yrs more and died 5yrs before the flood

Noah @500yrs begat Shem, Ham, Japheth

Noah @600yrs @The time of the flood

Noah @602yrs Arphaxad begat by Shem 2yrs after the flood

Noah @637yrs Arphaxad lived 35yrs and begat Salah

Noah @667yrs Salah lived 30yrs and begat Eber

Noah @701yrs Eber lived 34yrs and begat Peleg

Noah @731yrs Pelg lived 30yrs and begat Reu

Noah @763yrs Reu lived 32yrs and begat Serug

Noah @793yrs Serug lived 30yrs and begat Nahor

Noah @822yrs Nahor lived 29yrs and begat Terah

Noah @892yrs Terah lived 70yrs and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran

Noah lived 58yrs more and died @950yrs......

Shem @100yrs and begat Arphaxad 2yrs after the flood

Shem @135yrs The birth of Salah

Shem @165yrs The birth of Eber

Shem @199yrs The birth of Peleg

Shem @229yrs The birth of Reu

Shem @261yrs The birth of Serug

Shem @291yrs The birth of Nahor

Shem @320yrs The birth of Terah (the days of Terah 205yrs)

Shem @390yrs The birth of Abram, Nahor, Haran

Shem @465yrs @ 75yrs old Abram & Lot departed fm Haran to Canaan

Shem @476yrs @ 86yrs old Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram

Shem @489yrs @99yrs old God appeared toAbram, Covenant of Circumcision

and Abram/Sarai name changed to Abraham/Sarah

Shem @490yrs @100yrs old Abraham begat Isaac/ Sarah 90yrs old, Gen 17:17

Shem @527yrs @127yrs old Sarah died in Kirjatharba, the same is Hebron

Shem @565yrs @175yrs old Abraham and Gave Up The Ghost and died

Shem lived 35yrs more and died @ 600yrs....

Terah @70yrs The birth of Abram, Nahor, Haran

Terah @145yrs When Abram & Lot departed Haran

Terah @156yrs The birth of Ishmael

Terah @169yrs When God appeared to Abram/Covenant of Circumcision

Terah @170yrs The birth of Isaac

Terah lived 35yrs more and died @ 205yrs....

Abram @75yrs Departed with Lot fm Haran to Canaan

Abram @86yrs The birth of Ishmael

Abram @99yrs God appeared to Abram/Covenant of Circucision/Name change

Abraham@100yrs The birth of Isaac

Abraham@137yrs The death of Sarah

Abraham lived 38yrs more and died @ 175yrs

Isaac @40yrs When he took Rebekah to wife

Isaac @60yrs The birth of Jacob & Esau, Two Nations

Isaac @100yrs Esau took a Hittite wife @40yrs old

Isaac lived 80yrs more and died @ 180yrs

Jacob @40yrs Esau took a Hittite wife

Joseph @17yrs Dreamed a dream (Gen 37:5)

Joseph @30yrs Joseph stood before Pharaoh (Gen 41:46)

Jacob @130yrs Joseph brought Jacob to Pharaoh @Goshen (Gen 47:7)

Jacob @147yrs Jacob lived 17yrs in Egypt and died (Gen 47:28, 49:33)

Joseph @110yrs Joseph dwelt in Egypt 93yrs and died (Gen 50:22-26)

THE STORY OF MOSES

The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2:1

Before Moses was born, the Israelites were living in slavery in Egypt. The Pharaoh was afraid of the numbers and might of the growing Israelites during this time, so he had all of them put under extreme bondage and slavery so they could not rebel against him. It got so bad at one time, that the Pharaoh had put out an order to have all of the male children killed that were being born by the Israelites.

Moses was hid in reeds in a river bank

It was during this time that Moses was born. His mother was a “Hebrew,” which is another name for Israelite. When Moses was first born, his mother hid him for 3 months so he would not be found and killed by the Pharaoh.

After 3 months, his mother then placed him in an ark made out of bulrushes and then placed him down by the reeds along the river banks hoping someone else would find him and raise him up safely. It just so happened that the daughter of the Pharaoh was the one to actually find him down by the river as she was getting ready to wash herself in the river.

Once she found him, she found out who the mother was and then asked the mother to nurse him during the nursing stage. Once the nursing stage was over, the mother then gave the child back to the Pharaoh’s daughter in order that she raise him up as one of her own so the Pharaoh would not find out who he was and have him killed. Moses was thus raised up in the Pharaoh’s house.

When Moses became full grown, he became very distressed at seeing his own people suffer under the hands of the Egyptians. During one of these times, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrew men. Moses became so furious at seeing this injustice, that he killed the Egyptian who had been beating up his fellow brother.

Moses in Midian

After killing this Egyptian man, the Pharaoh then finds out about it and seeks to have Moses killed. At this point, Moses flees into the desert into a place called Midian. He then lives in the desert for 40 years until God calls him out to deliver His people from their slavery to the Egyptians.






 It must have been a great change for Moses, after he spent forty years in the palace as a prince, to go out into the wilderness of Midian and live as a shepherd. He left behind the crowded cities, the pyramids, the temples of Egypt, and the great Nile River. For forty years Moses wandered around Midian with his flocks, living alone, often sleeping on the ground and looking up by day to the great mountains.

He wore the rough skin mantle of a shepherd and in his hand was a long shepherd's staff. On his feet he wore sandals instead of shoes.
Jethro gave  Moses his oldest daughter Zipporah for a wife.
Zipporah bore Moses two children. The first one he called Gershom ("a stranger there") in commemoration of the fact that he was a stranger and exile in the land of Midian, and the second he called Eliezer, "God is my helper," in gratitude for God's protection.

The children of Israel could no longer endure their terrible suffering and persecution at the hands of their cruel overlords.
After 40 years of Moses being in the desert, God heard the cries of His people under their Egyptian bondage.
He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and decided to deliver their descendants from bondage.


Exodus 3:5

Moses and the Burning Bush

One day, Moses led Jethro's sheep to the far side of the desert, to Horeb, which was known as the mountain of God. There he saw something very strange. At the foot of the mountain, he saw a bush on fire. But the fire did not spread. And the bush did not get burned up by the fire.

Then Moses heard a voice call him: "Moses, Moses!"

"Here I am," Moses replied, with his shepherd's staff in his hand.

"Don't come any closer," the voice continued. "Take off your sandals, for the ground on which you are now standing is holy ground. I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."
When Moses heard the voice, he fell to his knees. He was afraid to look at the bush, which he knew was God.

Then the Lord said, "I have seen how cruel the Egyptians have been to you and the other Hebrews, who are my chosen people. The time has come for me to rescue you from the Egyptians.

"Therefore, I promise to bring you back to the land that I promised to Abraham and Isaac a long time ago. This is known as the promised land of Israel, which is a lovely land, with plenty of water for you to grow your crops.

"So go now, Moses, and tell Pharaoh that you will be the one chosen by me to lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

God was calling him to service.  He wanted Moses to be the leader of the Israelites and take them away from being slaves in Egypt to serve God in the Promised Land.  Moses made excuses but finally he realized he could not turn down God's call to serve him. As one last effort to make an excuse, he asked God what his name was so he could tell the children of Israel who it was that called him.  God answered with a word we now call Jehovah (from YAHWEH), which means I AM THAT I AM.

 In fact ten times he went to tell the Pharaoh, 'Let God's people go!' Each time Pharaoh said 'NO!' God would send a terrible plague on the Egyptians - a whole series of disasters - water instead of blood, frogs, flies, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death - it was dreadful. The Israelites watched and were finally convinced that God wanted to deliver them. They became sure that Moses was the leader they were to follow and that God had given Moses new courage and new authority.

God let plagues strike Egyptians

Just as God had said, they saw his 'mighty acts of judgment'. The climax came with the Passover, when God delivered the Israelite families from the death of their first-born and killed the first-born in every Egyptian family from the Pharaoh to their animals.

The Pharaoh and the Egyptians were terrified that they would all die. They begged the Israelites to leave the country, along with all the flocks and herds they would need for the journey ahead. Their anxious slave masters even loaded them with clothing, gold and silver.

 Exodus 14

This next miracle by God has to be one of the most dramatic and spectacular in all of Scripture. The children of Israel have now left Egypt. The Pharaoh, after allowing them to leave, once more changes his mind and decides to pursue them with all of his army in order to try and get them back. When the children of Israel see this, they start complaining to Moses.

The Red Sea was divided into two

The Red Sea is literally parted by dry ground! The Israelites then proceed to cross over the Red Sea on this dry ground mass that God has now miraculously provided for them in order for them to escape from the Egyptians.Moses then proceeds to stretch out his hand over the sea and then the sea returns to its full depth while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. The Bible says that the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea!

Deuteronomy 34

Moses died in the land of Moab before the children of Israel crossed the Jordan River to go in to possess the land.
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Moses was buried by the Lord and the place of his burial was kept secret from all men.

 Moses died on Mount Nebo and was 120 years old when he died.

 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days.

ABRAHAM

Abram left Ur

The Call of Abram: Genesis 12

When God called Abram, he was 75 years old in a city in Babylonia, named Ur of the Chaldees. Ur was a very advanced city and was believed to have been founded some five hundred years before the time of Abraham.

Ur was an idolatrous city worshiping many different Gods such as the god of fire, moon, sun and stars. Sin was the name of the chief idol deity of Ur. Ningal, was the wife of the moon-god, Sin, and was worshiped as a mother God in many other cities. Ur was a evil and sinful city as can be seen in the worship practices of the moon-goddess, Ningal.

God made certain promises to him, conditional upon him severing himself from his idolatrous surroundings, and migrating into a new country which would be revealed unto him. " Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others. I will bless anyone who blesses you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you." 

When God called, Abraham believed and by faith followed God's instructions. Hebrews 10:8, states that: "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whether he went."

 

Abraham heard the voice of God. There is no hint that when God spoke to him that he questioned who God was. Further, he did not confuse the voice of God with the idols and false Gods that his father worshiped. He knew who was speaking to him. It is apparent that he believed that it was God that was speaking to him and because it was God, he believed the promise that God made to him.

 Abraham obeyed God and left with his wife, Sarah, his nephew Lot, and all their possessions and slaves.

Abraham and Sarah from Ur

 When they came to the land of Canaan, Abraham went to a place called Shechem The Canaanites were still living in the land at that time, but God appeared to Abraham and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abraham then built an altar there and worshiped God.

Abraham continued on his journey to the hill country east of Bethel. When he set up camp there, he built another altar and worshiped God. Later, he started out toward the Southern Desert 

 Abraham Goes To Egypt

While Abram was on this journey, a famine broke out in the land, and Egypt, so long known as the storehouse of the world, became the goal of Abram’s wandering. Knowing the evil ways and morals of the Egyptians, Abram tried to hide his fair wife Sarai. But the custom-officers discovered her and took her into King Pharoah’s palace, believing her to be Abram’s sister and not his wife.

Abram and Sarah in Egypt

God smote Pharaoh and his men with plagues, and they could not touch Sarai. When they found out the reason for all the trouble that had come to them, Pharoah called Abram and rebuked him for not having revealed to him that Sarai was his wife. Then he sent Abram and Sarai away, after he had given them many gifts of cattle and servants.

Pharaoh

Abram And Lot Separate


Abram and Lot were standing on the height near Beth-El, and: from this point they gazed over a wide extent of country. They looked down into the fruitful and blooming valley of the Jordan; it was indeed like the Garden of Eden, or like the rich land of Egypt they had just left. But the people of these lovely districts “were wicked and sinners before God exceedingly.” Lot made his choice without hesitation; and separating himself from his generous and unselfish kinsman, he journeyed eastward, and finally pitched his tent near Sodom, in the valley of the Jordan.
Abram, left alone in his encampment near Beth-El.Thus commanded by God, Abram traveled southward, until he reached the city of Kiryath Arba, later called Hebron. Abram settled down in the oak-groves of Mamre.

Isaac's Birth

When Abraham was one hundred years old and his wife ninety. He was already an old man and his wife could hardly be expected to have children for she had been childless for so many years. Sarah gave birth to a son. Abraham called him Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, making him a party to the holy covenant God had established with Abraham.

Now, Isaac was not Abraham’s first born, for Hagar had borne him Ishmael thirteen years earlier. But Ishmael had not grown up as his father had hoped. Sarah observed him and realized that he would have a bad influence upon the young Isaac. She therefore implored Abraham to send Ishmael away.

Abraham Tested.

Abraham lifted the knife to sacrifice Isaac

Peace and harmony had returned to Abraham’s house, after Ishmael and his mother had left. But Abraham was not to find complete peace. Once more his faith was to be tested severely.
Appearing to Abraham suddenly, God said to him, “Please take your son, your only one, whom you love,  Isaac, and go away to the land of Moriah and bring him up there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains, of which I will tell you.”


Having prepared the altar, upon which he bound his beloved son, Abraham lifted the knife to sacrifice Isaac. At that moment an angel called unto him to halt and do no harm to his son, for this was only a test and Abraham had proved his loyalty to God. Full of gratitude and holy inspiration, Abraham looked around and saw a ram that had been caught in a thicket by his horns. Abraham took the ram and offered it, instead of Isaac, to God.

 

 

 The Death of Abraham and Sarah:

Genesis 23:1 Sarah died when she was one hundred and twenty-seven years old.Abraham mourned deeply over the loss of his wife. He bought the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron and there he laid his wife Sarah to rest.

 Genesis 25:7 Abraham lived to a ripe and happy old age, and died at the age of one hundred and seventy-five. His sons, Isaac and Ishmael, buried him in the Cave of Machpelah.There, Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

THE TOWER OF BABEL

The Tower of Babel

  The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Languages Genesis 11

"Babel" is composed of two words, "bab" meaning "gate" and "el," "god." Hence, "the gate of god." A related word in Hebrew, "balal" means "confusion."

"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men migrated from the East, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

 Yahweh came down to see what they did and said: "They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withholden from them which they purpose to do." So Yahweh said, "Come, let us go down and confound their speech." And so Yahweh scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel "because Yahweh there confounded the language of all the Earth."Genesis 11:5-8.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

THE STORY OF NOAH

The Noah's Ark

Noah and The Flood : Genesis 6

Noah had three sons who were named Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah lived in a time when all the people of the earth were very bad. Yahweh got mad at all the people because they did not live the way Yahweh tells everyone they should. Yahweh was so mad He was sorry He even made people. So Yahweh decided to have a big flood to kill all the bad people, everyone except Noah and his family

Genesis 6:14 Yahweh told Noah to build an ark. To build it out of gopher wood. An ark big enough for Noah and his wife and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives. An ark big enough for two of every unclean and clean animals.

Noah Building the Ark

 
It took Noah long to finish building the ark. Then all the animals came into the ark safely with Noah and his family and Yahweh shut them in. Yahweh then sent a great rain that lasted for forty days and forty nights! The water rose higher and higher till  even the tallest mountains were covered! Only Noah and his family and all the animals that were in the ark were saved.

Noah guiding Animals into the Ark

The ark floated on the water for about seven months till it landed on the mountains of Ararat. There the ark stayed until the the tops of the mountains were seen. Noah waited, then he sent out a raven and a dove to see if there was dry land. But the dove could not find a place to rest, so it came back. He waited a week, then sent it out again. This time the dove came back with an olive leaf in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters were lower. So he waited another week, then he sent her out again. She did not come back.

Noah looked on the surface of the earth, and beheld the earth was dry. Soon after, Yahweh told Noah to leave the ark, and bring out the animals, to let them multiply on earth. So Noah did so. 

Noah built an altar to Yahweh and used some of the clean animals to make sacrifices. Yahweh saw this and sent a rainbow as a sign that he would never again send a flood to kill all the people.

Noah Builds an Alter

THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE

God created the Earth

The Garden of Eden

Adam and Eve were the first humans, according to the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian religions, and all humans have descended from them. As stated in the Bible, Adam and Eve were created by God to take care of His creation, to populate the earth, and to have a relationship with Him. Their very names are indicative of their roles. Adam comes from the Hebrew adomah, meaning "man." Eve is from the Hebrew for "life." The complete biblical account of Adam and Eve can be found in Genesis 1:26 to Genesis 5:5 . 

 Adam and Eve were the first gardeners. They lived in the Garden of Eden, a perfect place with no thorns or weeds, and where plants produced their fruit easily. We find in Genesis 2:15-20 that God told Adam to cultivate the garden, keep the garden, name the animals, and eat of the garden's fruit, except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

As it is told in Genesis 2:16-17 , God told Adam that he was free to eat from every tree in the garden, except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God said that he would die if he ate the fruit. We don't know what kind of fruit this tree had. Milton introduced the idea that it was an apple. Later, Eve was deceived by Satan speaking through a serpent and ate the fruit. She then took the fruit to Adam and he ate it knowing he was doing the wrong thing.

 God punished Adam and Eve, and all their descendants, by making their lives hard. No longer could they live in the perfect world of the Garden of Eden. Men would have to struggle and sweat for their existence. Women would have to bear children in pain and be ruled over by their husbands. Animals became dangerous too. Adam and Eve were thrown out of the beautiful Garden of Eden forever.

Because they disobeyed what God had explicitly told them and chose to believe Satan, they began to experience spiritual death, and soon physical death. 

Adam, Eve & The Serpent.