Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bible Reading Challenge - Week 2 Day 3 Genesis 9-13

Our reading challenge for the day is Genesis chapters 9-13. I'll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?

Genesis 9-10 See how God establishes his covenant with Noah and his descendants. Consider how God is the one who initiates covenants and establishes them. The commands he gives are for the good of his people, so they will receive his blessing. He gives a sign of the covenant which is a reminder to God, not to man. It is God who binds himself to be the one who will bring blessing.

Genesis 11 God's displeasure shows when the people try to claim divine rights for themselves. Though we are created in the image of God show his image in this world we do not have divine power and authority. Yet as God's command is that people should multiply through the whole earth, the work of scattering the people at Babel continues the work of spreading them throughout the world to take dominion.

Genesis 12-13 Once again God establishes a covenant, this time with Abram, who promptly shows himself, though a partaker of God's covenant, to be a man with a sinful and selfish nature. Yet through this fallen vessel God promises to bless all nations.

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