29 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 3 - Babel, "False Gods"

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 3 BABEL: FALSE GODS GENESIS 9:1 - 12:1-3 All right, let’s turn to Genesis chapter 8 and in just a few words of review, you remember that from Adam until the flood was about 1650 years. Now I think most people realize I don’t like that word. Genesis 8:21b-22 Because if you’re going to have a doctrine that is true to the Word of God, it has to fit from cover to cover. If you have questions we would appreciate hearing from you and I always tell my classes, I’ve never had a dumb question. Well we might stop for a moment and answer that right here. Now for our study in Genesis chapter 9 and we’ll begin with verse 1. Genesis 9:1 "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and he said unto them, Be fruitful, multiply, and (what’s the word?) replenish the earth." Now you remember way back in Genesis 1, and this is why I like to compare Scripture, come back with me again if you will to chapter 1 and drop down to verse 28. Genesis 1:28a "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and (what’s the word?) replenish the earth…." All right, now if you’re back in Genesis chapter 9, this is also the instruction to Noah the three sons and of course their four wives. "Be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:2-3a Genesis 9:4 "But the flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, you shall not eat." Now there is a strict command of God to the human race that even though He’s given permission – they can eat of anything and everything, they were never to partake of blood. God has commanded that the human race never ingest blood of anything. Drinking blood as part of their ritual. All right, back in chapter 1 now then, by comparison with Genesis chapter 9, God told Adam and Eve, verse 29: Genesis 1:29b-30 God said anything that liveth, you are free to kill and use for food, with that one restriction. Well not blood transfusions but what? So God says, the life is in the blood and then verse 5, He continues why He’s putting this stipulation on this. Genesis 9:5-6 "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, at the hand of man; and at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. 6. Whoso (or whoever) sheddeth man’s blood, (or kills him) by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Now that puts man head and shoulders above anything else in God’s creation because we were created in the image of God and God so ordained that the life of this human being is in the blood. God ordained that man was to be of intrinsic value. Now we call that in the vernacular of Bible study, the instigation, or the beginning or human government. In other words, before the flood, man didn’t have this authority from God to control the behavior by capital punishment, or incarceration in prison or anything else. But now God is instituting that man would have authority over fellow man, under God.And that if man was guilty of murder or of some other crime, then the authority of human government was to take that person and deal with them accordingly. Now that particular aspect and we call it, capital punishment, has never been rescinded throughout Scripture. It still stands as God’s law for the human race and of course, mankind and if there are sociologists listening to me, they’ll probably almost go into orbit, because you know they’re trying to tell us that capital punishment is barbarian and it’s just not fit for civilized society. I just read in yesterday’s Tulsa World that crime jumped what? Romans 13:1 "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, (now that higher powers is not talking about God, it’s talking about government - the authority over us in society) For there is no power (there is no government) of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." Ordained of God? Now you see, this is all getting the world ready again for some awful things that are coming upon human society, but the government has been ordained of God for the good of Christian people. Now many time governments are not that, but again like I’ve just said, nations get what they deserve. Romans 13:2-3a "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, (that is the government) resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive unto themselves condemnation. Romans 13:3b-4 Our young people seemingly have lost that fear for the authority. So again, come back to Genesis chapter 9 and see clearly and do not forget what the Word of God says on these things because the Word is true. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible