Genesis Part I: 1-11

Lesson 2: God-Given Names

Lesson 1: Book of Generations

Outline of Genesis1 – 11 Adam12 – 24 Abraham25 – 50 Israel

If you record God’s name in your mind, He will record your name in His book.

Malachi 316Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon His name.

Names are important to God.

17“And they shall be Mine,” saith the LORD of hosts, “in that day when I make up My jewels …”

Names are important to God.

Names in God’s book are like jewels in a treasure chest.

Malachi 3

Daniel 121… at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Names are important to God.

Names in God’s book shine like stars.

Philippians 29Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name:10that at the name of Jesus …

Names are important to God.

Sometimes names are God-given.This is for emphasis and instruction.

Acts 412Neither is there salvation in any oth-er: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Names are important to God.Matthew 1

21… thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.

Outline of Genesis1 – 11 Adam12 – 24 Abraham25 – 50 Israel

Outline of GenesisGenesis 5

1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man …2male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam …

man = ָאָדם = Adam = red

Outline of GenesisGenesis 2

17And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Red because of the dust of the ground?

Red because of the breath of life?

Outline of GenesisLamentations 4

7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies …

8their visage is blacker than a coal … their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.Red is to health as white to cleanliness.

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Isaiah 2922Therefore thus saith the LORD … Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

Scarlet face is characteristic of all men.

Scarlet face is a moral guide: not too red and not enough red.

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Jeremiah 615Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush …

1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

Too much red is wrong behavior.

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Jeremiah 306Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

Not enough red is wrong relationship.

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Genesis 171And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD … said …5… thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

12 – 24 Abraham: strong faith

Romans 416…not to [the circumcision] only which is of the law, but to [the uncircumcision] also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,17(as it is written, ”I have made thee a father of many nations,”) before Him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead …

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Romans 418who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations …19And being not weak in faith, he con-sidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred …20… but was strong in faith,

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Genesis 3228And He said, “Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”

1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

12 – 24 Abraham: strong faith

25 – 50 Israel: spiritual family

Romans 96… For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

John 36That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7Marvel not that I said unto thee, “Ye must be born again.”

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Galatians 615For in Christ Jesus neither circumci-sion availeth any thing, nor uncircum-cision, but a new creature.16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

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Outline of Genesis 1 – 11 Adam: scarlet face

12 – 24 Abraham: strong faith

25 – 50 Israel: spiritual family

Genesis 1And God called … 5 … the light Day … the darkness Night 8 … the firmament Heaven

10 … the dry land Earth … the gathering of the waters Seas