by David Keesling | Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 14:13 “…he was living in Sodom.” Observation: Abram and his nephew Lot had come to an amicable parting once it was apparent that their holdings were too vast for them to live near one another. Large herds needed expansive lands, so Lot had chosen to occupy the...
by David Keesling | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 9:22 “Ham … saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.” Observation: Genesis 9:19 states that from Noah’s three sons “came the people who were scattered across the earth.” Along with their wives, each had experienced God’s deliverance...
by David Keesling | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 8:1a “But God remembered Noah … ” Observation: Preceding verses have described the effects of the flood: every living thing on the earth perished, along with all mankind. “Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died (Gen. 7:22) Then...
by David Keesling | Oct 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 14:23 “I will accept nothing belonging to you.” Observation: Abram had just returned from defeating a group of allied kings who had earlier routed the king of Sodom. In the original battle, the allied kings had taken captive Abram’s nephew Lot along with his...
by David Keesling | Oct 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 15:12 “As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness fell over him.” Observation: Earlier in the day the Lord had told Abram in a vision that He would be Abram’s “shield and very great reward.” (v. 1) Then God assured...
by David Keesling | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Genesis 7:11b, 12 “ … all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” Observation: Noah and his sons had worked faithfully on the ark for decades, doing “all that...
