The Glory of God
in Genesis
The Lord chose us before the foundation of the world
to be 'holy and without blame,' in His Presence,
in love. Ephesians 1:4
Then:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
He did it by just speaking. ‘God said, Light!
and there was light. Genesis 1
Creation is His infinitely stunning gift
to His beloved ones
that He made in His image.
Genesis 1:27
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Enoch walked with God.
Noah walked with God. Genesis 5:22,6:9
When man goes the wrong way,
God waits until the last minute for them
to return to Him, ‘Not willing that any perish.’
2 Peter 3:9
Like the Amorites, ‘for their iniquity is not yet full.’
Genesis 15:16
Great in counsel, and mighty in work:
for Your eyes are open on all the ways
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of the sons of men:
to give each one
according to the fruit of his own doings.
Jeremiah 32:19
After 120 years of longsuffering and warnings, '
In the 600th year of Noah's life
all the fountains of the great deep broken up
and the windows of heaven were opened.
Rain was on the earth 40 days and nights.
All in which was the breath of life died.
All their evil was stopped.
Genesis 7:11-22
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God remembered Noah and every living thing
and brought them out to a beautiful fresh start,
free of evil, saying, ‘
Be fruitful, and multiply abundantly.
I set My rainbow in the cloud for the sign
promising that waters will never again
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:13-15
Ezekiel’s vision of God:
And above the space over their heads
was a sapphire throne
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where sat the fiery amber form of a man
flashing forth rainbows.
This was the Glory of the Lord.
Ezekiel 1:26-28
Centuries later
the Lord appeared to Abraham saying,
I will make of you a great nation
and I will bless you and make your name great;
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those that bless you,
and curse those that curse you:
and in you all families of the earth will be blessed.
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Seven promises from Almighty God
that are for everyone since,
God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34
He doesn’t play favorites but is pure, infinite love
and has given to us thousands of exceedingly great
and precious promises,
that by them we might be ‘partakers
of the divine nature.’
2 Peter 1:4
Not one thing failed of all the good
He promised:
all came to pass. Joshua 21:45
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Ask what you will
that your joy may be full,
Jesus promised in John 16:24
Raiding kings rampaged
across the land in Abraham’s day
attacking the cities and kidnapping Lot,
Abraham’s nephew.
Abraham armed his 318 servants,
and they chased after them
and recovered all the persons and goods.
Genesis 14
Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High God,
met Abraham on his return.
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He blessed him saying,
Blessed be Abraham of
the Most High God,
possessor of heaven and earth,
and blessed be God,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.
Genesis 14:18-20
Thanks be to God,
Who always causes us
to triumph in Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:14
For we don’t wrestle with flesh and blood,
but powers and rulers
of the darkness of this world,
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who came ‘to steal, kill, and destroy’
our view of God, our faith, love, joy, peace,
and our very life. John 10:10
The battle is the Lord's. 1 Samuel 17:47
Don’t fear, stand still
and see the deliverance of the Lord
that He will show you today.’ Exodus 14:13
I am persuaded, that not death,
or life, or angels, or any other thing can separate us
from the love of God,
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which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Roman 8:38, 39
After his victory, fearing retribution,
the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision, saying,
Don’t be afraid, Abraham: I am your shield,
and your exceeding great reward.
Genesis 15:1
The greatest person on earth as your best friend
can’t compare to the infinite Almighty God
being the one closest to you,
the one who loves you most.
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The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:8
Your reward will be great,
and you will be the children of the Highest.
Luke 6:35
Hagar was an Egyptian slave girl
that Sarah tried to have children through.
When Hagar became pregnant,
she despised her mistress and was sent away.
The Angel of the Lord found her
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by a fountain of water in the wilderness.
He listened to her and said, Return to your mistress.
Submit yourself under her hands.
I will multiply your seed, too many to count.
She called the name of the Lord,
You God see me.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place
beholding the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:3
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You God see me
The Glory of God
in Genesis ii
Nothing is too hard for God
The Lord told Abraham, I will return to you,
and Sarah will have a son.
Sarah laughed inside, being old, and said in her heart,
Will I have pleasure, my lord also being old?
The Lord asked Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh?
Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:10-18
What could be too hard for the One who created the universe?
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The One who always keeps His promises,
exceedingly abundantly above what we ask or can imagine.
Ephesians 3:20
Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son
when he was 100 years old,
naming him Isaac (laughter).
And Sarah said, God has made me laugh,
so all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:5, 6
With God nothing is impossible.
Luke 1:37
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God provides Himself, the Lamb:
Years later God tested Abraham, saying,
Take your son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering
on one of the mountains I will show you.
On the 3rd day Abraham saw the place far away.
He took the wood of the burnt offering
and laid it on his son;
and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife;
and they went together.
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Isaac said, See the fire and the wood:
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself
a Lamb for a burnt offering: Genesis 22:7, 8
Abraham built an altar and bound Isaac
and laid him on it and stretched out his hand to kill his son.
The Angel of the Lord called out of heaven,
Abraham! Don’t harm him!
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Abraham saw a ram caught in a thicket
and offered him up for a burnt offering
and called the name of that place Jehovah jireh,
which means, on the mount of the Lord it will be seen
(that God didn’t withhold His only Son).
He that didn’t spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all,
how will He not with Him
freely give us all things? Romans 8:32
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Abraham said to his most trusted servant,
Swear by the God of heaven
you will go to my homeland to get a bride for Isaac.
The Lord will send His angel before you.
Genesis 24
When the servant arrived in Ur of the Chaldees,
he had his camels kneel down by a well at evening,
and prayed,
Today, Let me see her,
the young lady who gives me a drink
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and waters my camels,
let her be the one you have designed for Isaac.
Before he finished speaking Rebekah came
out with her pitcher on her shoulder
and he asked her for a drink.
She gave him a drink
and he watched in awe
as she watered his 10 camels.
He told her who he was and gave her
a golden ring and two gold bracelets.
Then he bowed and worshipped,
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Blessed be the Lord God
of my master Abraham,
who hasn't forsaken His faithfulness
to my master.
The servant told Rebecca
and her family about Abraham,
his miracle child, Isaac,
and the Lord's great blessings on them.
He told them of his errand:
his promise to get a bride for Isaac.
They asked Rebekah if she would go
and she agreed,
seeing it was from the Lord.
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He gave the family many treasures
and left the next morning
with Rebekah and her nurse
for the long journey back.
Isaac came from the well of the
'Living One seeing me.'
When he went out to meditate
in the field in the evening,
he looked up and saw the camels coming.
When Rebekah looked up,
she saw Isaac and fell off her camel.
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Isaac brought her into his mother’s
tent, and Rebekah became his wife.
He loved her and was comforted
after his mother's death.
Blessed be God, the Father of mercies,
the God of all comfort,
Who comforts us in all our troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3, 4
And He tells us what will be:
Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife
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because she was barren, and Rebekah conceived.
When the children struggled within her she said,
Why am I like this?
And she went to ask the Lord.
The Lord said, Two nations are in your womb;
one will be stronger, and the older will serve the younger.
Esau, the older twin, became a skillful hunter and
Jacob was a complete (perfect) man, dwelling in tents.
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Jesus completes us and exchanged His perfect life
for our sinful one when we believed in Him.
Colossians 2:10
Esau came from the field fainting, and said to Jacob,
Feed me some of that red soup.
Jacob said, Sell me your birthright.
(Our birthright of being created in His image is:
He that overcomes will sit with Me
on My throne. Revelation 3:21)
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Esau said, Look!
I'm almost dead. What good this birthright to me?
Jacob said, Swear to me.
He swore to him and sold his birthright.
Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil soup.
He ate and got up and left.
Genesis 25:34
Those that overcome will inherit all things
and sit with Me on My throne.
Revelation 21:7
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Being rooted and grounded in love,
filled with all the fullness of God.’
Ephesians 3:17-19
On His Thro
The Glory of God
in Genesis iii
One night at sunset
When Isaac sent Jacob away
because Esau planned to kill him
for stealing his birthright and blessing,
Jacob stopped one night at sunset.
He dreamed and saw a stairway set on earth
leading into heaven with angels of God
ascending and descending on it.
The Lord stood above the stairway and said,
I will give you the land where you are sleeping.
Your offspring will spread out
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over the whole earth and in them
all the families of the earth will be blessed.
I Am with you and will guard you wherever
you go. I won't leave you.
When Jacob woke, he said,
How awesome is this place.
The Lord is here and I didn't know.
Surely this is the house of God,
this is the gate of heaven.
One night a Man wrestled with Jacob
until daybreak.
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When He saw that He didn't prevail,
He touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, disjointing it.
Jacob said, I won't let You go
unless You bless me.
The Lord said, you will no longer be called Jacob, cheater,
but Israel, prince: for as a prince
you have power with God and with men
and have prevailed.
Then Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel, saying, I have seen God
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face to face and my life is preserved.
Genesis 32:30
esus said, I give to them eternal life.
They will never perish,
neither can anyone pluck them
out of My hand. John 10:28
God reconciles:
Many years later,
on his return home,
Jacob feared for his life for Esau
was coming to meet with 400 men.
But Esau ran to Jacob,
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embraced him, and they wept.
Seeing the women and children, he asked,
Whose are these? Jacob said,
These are the children God has graciously given me.
Esau asked, What are these flocks and
herds you sent? Jacob said, To find
grace in your sight because God has dealt
graciously with me, and because I have all.
Genesis 33
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He that overcomes will inherit all things
and I will be His God and he/she will be
My sons/daughters.
Revelation 21:7
When Jacob's son, Joseph, was 17,
His father loved him most and made him a
beautiful coat.
Joseph had dreams that
showed he would rule over the family and
he told them the dreams.
His brothers plotted to kill him,
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but instead, sold him to traders going to Egypt.
Then they killed a goat,
put the blood on Joseph's beautiful coat,
and took it to Jacob.
Jacob said. Surely an evil beast has
devoured him. He tore his clothes and
mourned and refused to be comforted.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth,
for the Lord has comforted His people.
Isaiah 49:13
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In Egypt Joseph was bought by
Pharaoh's chief executioner.
But the Lord was with Joseph
and prospered everything he did,
so his owner made Joseph overseer of his whole estate.
One day, the master's wife said to Joseph,
Come, lie with me.
Joseph said, Your
husband has trusted me with everything he has.
How could I do this great sin against God?
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He continually refused her
until she became angry and falsely accused him.
So, the chief executioner put Joseph in prison.
But the Lord was with Joseph,
and gave him favor before the warden,
who put him over everything in the prison.
Genesis 39
Through God, Joseph interpreted dreams
of Pharaoh's two top officials
and later was taken before Pharaoh to interpret a dream:
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after which, Pharoah made Joseph prime
minister over all Egypt.
Promotion doesn't come from the east or the west,
but God is the judge:
He puts down one, and He sets up another.
Psalm 75:6, 7
God had shown through Joseph
that a famine was coming,
so he stored grain,
and Egypt had plenty when the famine hit.
All the world had to come to them for grain,
which saved their lives.
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In Egypt Joseph said to the brothers,
God sent me ahead to preserve your future generations.
(We are saved from hell to sit with the Lord
on the throne of the universe forever.)
Revelation 3:21
When Jacob was giving his last words to his sons,
he said, The Angel who redeemed me from all evil,
bless your sons and grow them into a multitude
in the midst of the earth.
Genesis 45-50
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Jacob's sons are the ones whose names
are forever written on the gates of the
eternal holy city; and through his son, Judah,
came the promised Savior of all.
Holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners and higher than the heavens.
Hebrews 7:26
Whom God, His Father, appointed heir of all things,
by whom also He made the worlds;
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Him being the brightness of His glory,
and the exact image of His person,
who holds up all things by the word of His power,
when He had,
by Himself,
purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Hebrews 1:1-3
Who, by one sacrifice from His eternal love,
Jeremiah 31:3,
perfected forever those that that believe.
Hebrews 10:14
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Perfected forever
Exodus
I Will Be with You
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In night visions, God promised Jacob,
Don’t fear to go down to Egypt,
for there I will make of you a great nation.
I will be with you and bring you again to this place. Genesis 46:3
Exodus shows God’s almighty, miraculous power to deliver all from everything mankind fell into by following evil.
A new king rose in Egypt who feared God’s people
and made their lives ‘bitter with hard work.’
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Pharaoh ordered the midwives to kill all their male babies at birth, but the midwives feared God and didn’t obey the king’s command. God blessed their generations for this, making them dynasties in His eternal kingdom. Exodus 1:21
A descendant of Levi had a son that they hid for 3 months. Then they made a basket to float him in the river.
The daughter of
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Pharaoh found him there crying and said, This is one of the Hebrew children. She called him Moses
and raised him in the palace as her own son.
When he was grown, Moses went out to see
his brother Israelites.
He fought with an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew, killed him, and hid him in the sand.
When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses
and Moses fled Egypt.
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He came to Midian. The priest of Midian had 7 daughters. Moses helped them water their flocks.
Then priest had Moses stay with him
and gave him his daughter Zipporah as his wife.
40 years passed
and cries of the Israelites
came up to God in heaven.
Moses was tending the flock by Mt. Horeb
when the Angel of the Lord appeared to him
in a flame of fire in a bush that burned
but wasn’t consumed.
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He said, Moses, Moses. Don’t come near. Take off your shoes for the place you stand is holy ground.
I have seen the affliction of My people.
I know their sorrows,
(as He sees us and knows our sorrows),
and I have come to deliver them a
nd bring them to a land flowing
with milk and honey.
Moses said, Who am I that you send me?
The Lord said, ‘I will be with you.’
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I will strike Egypt with all my wonders and after that Pharaoh will let you go.
Moses asked, What if your people don’t believe me? The Lord said, The shepherd’s rod you are holding, throw it on the ground. Moses did, and it became a serpent. Moses ran. The Lord said, Take it by the tail.
When He did, it became a rod again.
Moses said, O Lord, I’m not eloquent.
The Lord said, Didn’t I make man's mouth?
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Go, and I will be with your mouth
and teach you what to say.
When Moses stood before Pharaoh he said, The Lord God says, Let My people go
to hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord
that I should let the people go
When Pharaoh asked for a sign,
Moses threw his shepherd’s rod on the ground,
and it became a serpent.
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Pharaoh’s magicians did the same and Moses’s rod swallowed up their rods.
God turned the waters in Egypt to blood;
He filled the land with frogs
‘that you may know that there is none like the Lord.'
The dust was turned to lice.
Ashes from the furnace made boils,
terrors on the heart,
hail from heaven with fire that ran along the ground,
all trying to get these people who had enslaved and killed
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His people for 400 years to turn from all these empty things they worshipped, to the Living God, ‘
that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.’
Exodus 9:29
After ten devastating plagues ending with
the death of every firstborn,
600,000 men plus their wives and children left Egypt carrying with them precious treasures,
400 years back wages.
God led the people in a pillar of a cloud by day,
and fire by night, always with them.
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Pharaoh changed his mind again
and chased Israel with 600 chariots.
When they saw the chariots coming,
Moses said, Don’t be afraid.
Stand still and see the deliverance of the Lord.
The Angel of the Lord stood
between Israel and the Egyptians.
He caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind
and the waters were a wall on their right,
and on their left.
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When they were through the sea,
the Lord brought the waters crashing down on Pharaoh and his chariots.
Then the children of Israel sang,
I will sing to the Lord,
for He has triumphed gloriously.
The Lord is my strength and song,
and He is my salvation:
I will prepare Him a dwelling place;
I will exalt Him.
Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power.
The Lord will reign forever and ever.
Exodus 15:1, 2, 6
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In the desert, when these millions had no food,
the Lord rained bread from heaven for them. ‘
Man ate angel’s food,’
Psalm 78:25
When they longed for meat,
He brought quail from the sea.
When there was no water,
He brought water out of a rock for them.
At Mt. Sinai God gave the people
His high and holy law,
with the sacrifices picturing
the promised Lamb of God
who would take away all their sin.
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God gave Moses detailed instructions
to build a tabernacle for Him to dwell in
as He traveled with His people.
It was wood overlaid with gold,
a symbol of His closeness to us,
His Deity covering our humanity.
When it was finished, ‘
the Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle,
as He desires to fills us with ‘all the fullness of God.’
Ephesians 3:17-19
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He has triumphed gloriously
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