We’re examining the intermediate level, the 8 logical steps of creation and recreation. Looking at the key verses of Exodus 19:5-6, where God’s desire is to establish a kingdom of priests who will go out and help Him reclaim the world, meaning the hearts of people.

The process of the fulfilment of prophecy takes place through rebellion, destruction, and salvation. We looked at how that played out at the time of revelation. A people are established, they are destroyed by the beast, and people must flee once that realization is being spread.

God’s plan in both the past and the future involves parables. When God speaks about the past, He sometimes uses parables, just like when He speaks about the future. Jesus said, “Things have been hidden since the creation of the world.”

That’s why He speaks in parables. The beginning and the end are intimately connected. As we understand more about the end, we can now understand more about the beginning.

God’s plan of creation and recreation unfolds through 8 distinct steps that repeat throughout history until the end of Revelation.

First, God selects an individual to lead and guide His people. This leader then establishes a kingdom or community where God’s principles and laws are followed. God makes a covenant with the chosen people, promising to be their God and to guide them. However, sin and disobedience lead the people to break their covenant with God, resulting in judgment and destruction.

After the destruction, God elects a new leader to guide the people back to Him. God brings judgment upon the wicked and salvation to those who repent and turn to Him. A new kingdom is established, where God’s laws are followed and His people live in righteousness. Finally, God establishes a new covenant with His people, promising to forgive their sins and to dwell among them.

Understanding these eight steps provides a framework for interpreting the events of the Bible and comprehending God’s plan for the world. It reveals how God works through history to bring about His ultimate purpose of establishing a kingdom where He reigns supreme and His people live in peace and harmony.

 

Study Guide SCJ Bible Study

 

 

The 8 Steps of the Logical Order of Creation and Recreation

Exodus 19:5-6, Isaiah 46:10, Genesis 2-3, Genesis 6 and Genesis 9

 

 

We’re going to delve into a profound lesson today. I know I often say that, but this time, it’s truly profound. I hope you are all prepared for the journey we will embark upon momentarily.

What are the crucial points we’ll be discussing today?

We’ll be examining the 8 logical steps of creation and recreation. What does this mean? When God creates and recreates, He always follows these steps. By understanding these steps, we will comprehend the roles and significance of the key figures who came before us in the Bible.

Our main reference chapters and verses are Exodus 19:5-6, which we know well: “If you obey me and keep my covenant, then you will be my treasured possession and a holy nation.” Isaiah 46:10 is a new one, and I’m excited to explore it. God essentially says, “I make known the end from the beginning.” Here, we have the beginning and end mentioned in Isaiah 46:10.

We’ll also be looking at Genesis 2 and 3, focusing on the time of Adam and some crucial understandings about him. Genesis 6 introduces Noah and the flood, while Genesis 9 concludes the matter.

So, those are the essential topics we’ll cover today: covenant, beginning and end, Adam, Noah, and covenant.

Our hope is to belong to the recreated kingdom at the time of the second coming.

1. Process of Rebellion —> Destruction —> Salvation

We’ll first start by looking at the process of rebellion, destruction, and salvation once more, and remind ourselves of how the prophecies of revelation must be fulfilled. It must happen in order. One thing we talked about in the last Q&A that I want us to remember or to mention for those who weren’t able to attend the Q&A is that fulfilment is not just one big event that happens, and then everything is over.

Actually, fulfilment is a process or a series of events. For example, we had Jesus’s birth. When Jesus was born, did he immediately die on the cross? No, he had to grow up, spend time in the temples, start his ministry, and then collect his 12 disciples. So there was his birth, and then one event was fulfilled, followed by another event being fulfilled, and he was fulfilling prophecy his entire life until he died on the cross. The fulfilment at the second coming also happens in this way.

Some of us might have thought earlier, “Well, none of revelation is fulfilled because Jesus isn’t here yet,” but that’s because we were thinking of the second coming as all collapsed into one thing when, in reality, the events of revelation play out over time. So there’s a process. Things can start being fulfilled, though Jesus is not clearly here yet, but we know that he’s getting closer because things are being fulfilled.

It’s like what Jesus said in Matthew 24, “You know the sign of the fig tree, that when its leaves become tender, you know that summer is coming, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” So, Jesus goes on to explain the signs. You should be waiting for the abomination to enter the holy place. You should be waiting for the appearance of this and the appearance of that, and the fall of the sun, moon, and stars, right? These things are events that take place, which then cue us that, “Oh, it’s coming. It’s close.”

 

ONE – The Testimony of that Fulfillment, 5W1H

 

 

The Apostle Paul tells us the process that the fulfillment of revelation must follow. The testimony of that fulfillment, the who, what, when, where, why, and how of how things were fulfilled, must follow rebellion, destruction, and salvation. Salvation being the day of the Lord that we are waiting for, the day of the Lord. So first, there must be a rebellion or a betrayal.

Then, there must be destruction. After that, salvation. That’s the flow of events. Any testimony that does not follow this flow cannot be trusted as a true testimony. And as Paul says, do not be deceived by such a testimony. So what is the testimony we’ve been talking about regarding rebellion, destruction, and salvation?

Well, we talked about the introduction of the seven golden lampstands in Revelation 1:20. Jesus is holding the seven stars in his right hand and walking among the seven golden lampstands. He then writes letters to them, saying, “Repent, for you have forgotten or forsaken your first love,” but they do not repent. Unfortunately, because they do not repent, they get judged. We see that the beast with seven heads and ten horns invades this tabernacle.

Those who lived in what was once called heaven, not heaven in the spiritual world, but a heaven that became a physical world, the first heaven and first earth, are consumed by the beast. The beast causes them to eat food sacrificed to idols, worship idols, and commit spiritual sexual immorality, destroying them for a period of time. However, one person witnesses these events and is the first to flee to the mountain, saying to everyone, “Come out, or you will be destroyed like that.”

This provides a little more detail than we’ve covered in the past, but hopefully, it’s not feeling too new, as it’s content we’ve covered so far. But that’s the flow of Revelation, from Revelation 1 to 22.

The 8 steps we’ll be talking about today as we’re looking at Intermediate Bible logic are:

A key factor that I want us all to write down:

 

The steps of creation and recreation are just rebellion, destruction, and salvation in more detail.

Rebellion, destruction, and salvation have been happening in the Bible since the very beginning. It’s the process of how fulfillment ends up getting fulfilled and has been repeating over and over again throughout the Bible.

We’ll look at an example in the book of Genesis that follows rebellion, destruction, and salvation by breaking it into 8 steps, so we can see those steps very clearly. Is everyone following so far? Hope not lost. All right, here we go.

2. God’s Purpose and Will

Let’s start by reminding ourselves about God’s purpose and will.

 

ONE – To be a Kingdom of Priests (Holy Nation, Chosen People) to reclaim the world!

 

 

As a reminder, the world is in a fallen state because of what happened in the Garden of Eden. God needs people to choose him again. “Choose” being the optimal word, as God does not force or compel, but strongly encourages us to choose and obey him.

For the world to choose and obey God, he needs people to work through to spread the word about God – a word that either people have forgotten or have never heard before. God’s desire has and always will be for all to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. But to achieve this, God needs a kingdom and priests.

He needs a people who have cleansed themselves and can help others be cleansed. Those who handle the word of the Lord respectfully and with care, having studied to show themselves approved, right?

That’s what God needs – a holy nation. So that’s been his desire from almost the very beginning. And he needs those kingdom and priests to do a very special job – to reclaim the world and help him reclaim it. That is your job, your purpose, and your duty.

God establishes a chosen people, and those chosen people go out into the world. But if a chosen people struggle with step one, they cannot do step two.

When a people cannot do step one and ultimately cannot do step two, God starts over. The cycle repeats like that. A kingdom and priests are what God needs so that he can use those people to reclaim the world – people who will go out and testify to who God is and what he is doing in our time.

Now, let’s look at how God set this up and some secrets that God had laid since the very beginning. I’m telling you, if you really understand this part, it will unlock more parts of the Bible for you that previously you thought you had mastered, but probably didn’t realize that there’s way more to it than that. This content is so, so important. I’m going to take my time here on this one.

3. God’s plan, Past and Future

Let’s establish a common understanding about God. Does God age? Can He die? How long has He been around? How long will He be around? Forever. So, is a being like that bound by time? No. But we, as mortals, are bound by time. To us, the past and the future are totally inaccessible. But to God, they are completely accessible. And because God has that ability, because God has the ability to create, He can set His plan that will be fulfilled in the future and tell us about it in the present.

Let’s turn to Isaiah 46:10 to understand some clues about how God talks about both the past and the future.

 

ONE – God Tells the End from the Beginning

 

 

This is God speaking. And what does He say? “I make known the end from the beginning.” Then God mentions two things: ancient times and what is yet to come. When someone says “what is yet to come,” another way of phrasing that is prophecy. And in what language is prophecy spoken? Parables.

How do we know? Hosea 12:10 comes to mind: “I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them.”

So that’s how God talks about the future. But what are ancient times? History, aka the past. Ancient times or the past. But God says, “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times to what is yet to come.” He’s talking about these two things together.

Here’s a key concept we need to understand: When God speaks about the past, from the time the person is receiving and recording it, He sometimes includes prophecy. What does He also include when He talks about the past, similar to what He’s talking about in the future? Sometimes, He also speaks in parables about the past.

Let me give you an example. Moses was the writer of the book of Genesis, which spans 2,500 years. One book, 2,500 years. Was Moses around to see the events of Genesis? No. But yet he wrote about them in great detail, greater detail than can be passed down orally. So how did he do that? God gave him visions. Yeah, God showed him when he was on Mount Sinai, spending all that time with God. God was showing him the events of Genesis. And this was Moses, right? He was writing them down. “What? Abraham said this? Wait. Adam lived how long? We’re only living 70 to 80 years.” Psalms 90, right? So God showed Moses the past.

And some of what He showed Moses in the past was spoken in parables. So how do we understand this? The end and the beginning are intimately tied together. They speak to each other. And certain things that happen in the beginning cannot be fully understood until the end. And some things in the end cannot be fully understood until someone understands the beginning. They are intimately tied together, similar to how prophecy and fulfillment work.

The prophecy cannot be understood until it is fulfilled. Then everything makes sense. You’re like, “Oh, that’s what God was talking about.”

So what I’m trying to make very clear is that when God speaks about the past and when He speaks about the future, He uses the same language: parables. So there are parables spoken in the past. We often interpret the past literally in every situation, but that’s not actually the right way to look at it all the time. Let’s see how Jesus talks about this and how he makes that connection between the beginning and the end so clearly.

TWO – Jesus spoke in Parables

This is so important, what Jesus just said here.

 

Remember why Jesus spoke in parables? There were two reasons. What were those two reasons why Jesus spoke in parables?

 

1. To protect the secrets of heaven from the evil one.
2. To fulfill prophecies.

So here, Jesus is saying, “I spoke to the people in parables. I will utter things hidden since when?”

When was the creation of the world detailed? In the beginning, in Genesis.

So what does that mean about Genesis? What does it contain? Genesis contains parables.

Some of Genesis is moral teachings. Some of Genesis is history.

But also, some of Genesis is prophecy and fulfillment. All four contents exist throughout the Bible. So what we’re going to look at today is one of the bigger parables.

And it’s going to, or at least I hope that’s how the lesson is understood. Does everyone understand what we’re discussing here? Is everyone following?

Because if you don’t understand this, this lesson will not make sense. So I want to make sure everyone has got it. Let me review it one more time.

The end and the beginning are intimately connected to God. And he speaks the same language in both the end and the beginning.

And when you are blessed enough to exist at the end, there are things in the beginning that now make sense to you, which could not have made sense to people before you because they did not exist at the time of the end. So the end better explains the beginning. And then you’re looking from the beginning to the end, and the story looks completely different.

It’s kind of like in a movie, right? When you’re watching a movie, and the director focuses on a book for a few seconds, and then you don’t see that book again until the end of the movie. And then you’re looking at that book completely differently at the end of the movie because that book holds special significance.

So you saw it at the beginning, but you’re like, okay, that must be important. And then you kind of forget about it. And then at the end of the movie, the book is critically important because it contains a secret letter from the father or something, you know, insert movie here, right?

So at the end of the movie, the beginning makes sense. Really good movies do this well. And they’re really fun to rewatch too after you know the secret at the end, right?

So God does the same thing. So what we’re going to talk about today, you will not have heard before, but that’s because we now exist at the time of the end. So this explanation could not have existed before.

Let’s now look at the 8 steps of creation and recreation. Oh, I’m excited for you guys. I remember the first time I heard this, I was like, no way.

Let’s go over it today.

4. Eight Steps of Creation and Recreation

Creation: 4 Steps

 

Step 1 – Selection of a Pastor

 

 

So, God took some dust and formed it, then breathed into that man the breath of life.

This is a concept we have been familiar with for a long time. However, we have studied it further. What is the figurative representation of the breath of life?

The word of life.

We are reading about the past, which was spoken to Moses. So, God may be using figurative language here.

Why would God give someone the word? So that he can teach.

Let’s think about it. We talked about what it means to form a container, didn’t we?

Way back, I’m asking you to recall many months ago when we discussed the figurative container. What is the process to form a container?

What does it start as?

Clay, also known as dirt or dust.

Dust is just tiny clay particles. So, it starts as clay, and then you add water and mold it.

Then you fire it until it becomes a usable bowl. So, God took Adam, who was dust, and he gave him the breath of life. And then he became a living being.

But what came to life in Adam? What was he given by God? The word.

His spirit came to life. He became the first man who could understand the word of God.

Which means that Adam, in reality, was a priest. That’s right.

He was a pastor. God gave him the breath of life, which is the word of life. And Adam became a pastor.

But Adam can’t preach to no one. What’s the point of that? So, after God established his pastor, he now needed to give him a place to preach.

 

Step 2 – Creation of a Kingdom

What was Adam’s kingdom? The garden of Eden. And what did God tell Adam to do with that garden? He had to tend it, take care of it, water it, so that it could flourish. In that garden, there were many different types of animals and living creatures. And he was told to name them all. 

Well, let’s understand this deeper, because we’ve also talked about the figurative garden, didn’t we?

Let’s turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 5. The title is “The Song of the Vineyard.” I want you to pay close attention to this passage as we read Isaiah 5:1-7.

 

 

The vineyard figuratively represents the house of Israel, which is a people. The same writer authored both Genesis and Isaiah, though different individuals physically put pen to paper. However, the author is the same.

 

God’s logic is consistent from Genesis to Revelation. When God refers to a garden as His people, He is also talking about the first garden. So, what does the garden represent? In one word, the garden equals the house of a chosen people, a church. 

That makes sense.

God established Adam as a pastor and gave him the breath of life, which is His word. He also gave Adam a kingdom to tend and instructed him to name or assign positions, titles, and duties to the people in that place, taking care of them and imparting the very word God had given him.

However, the story unfortunately takes a turn at this point. Before the turn, God gives a warning, a covenant.

 

 

Step 3 – Covenant with the Chosen People

 

 

God said, “You may eat from any tree in the garden, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For if you eat from this tree, you will surely die.”

Did God say, “You will surely be fine. It’s really not that big a deal”? No. What did God say? “You will die.”

If you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it will not end well for you. This is the covenant. Hosea 6:7 says, “Like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.” Hosea 6:7 states, “Like Adam, they have broken the covenant.”

So, Adam received the covenant from God, and God takes His covenants quite seriously. However, Adam lived for a long time after this event, didn’t he? He lived up to 930 years, according to Genesis 5. But God said, “If you eat from this tree, you will surely die.” What is the explanation for that?

Adam’s spirit died immediately. The very spirit that God had just brought to life with His word was gone immediately. You can even notice this based on how Adam started to treat his wife. Instead of saying, “God, I repent. I’m sorry. Please forgive me,” what did he do?

He passed the blame, saying, “This woman you gave me did this.” And then the woman blamed the serpent, saying, “The serpent told me to do it.” Instead of taking responsibility and repenting, they did the opposite. You could tell they changed right away.

Instead of coming to God, they began to flee from God. Their spirit was gone. And when their spirit died, eventually their flesh also died, though they were supposed to live forever.

 

Step 4 –  Betrayal of the Covenant by the Chosen People and Destruction

Although the covenant was given to these people, there was a betrayal of that covenant.

So, step number four is the betrayal of the covenant by the chosen people and their destruction. Oh, are you starting to see rebellion and destruction? Since the very beginning, everybody. It has been happening since the start. And so, it started the whole thing – rebellion and destruction.

And since we’re going deep, might as well keep going deeper. 

Was it a literal serpent that deceived Adam and Eve? A talking snake? No.

It represents a person who was like a snake being used by Satan. Who invaded their tabernacle and began to spread lies. A tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

We know what figurative tree is. John 15:1 says, “I am the true vine, and you, my disciples, are my branches.” Jesus had already told us that he was a tree of life. At the time of the first coming, the tree of knowledge of good and evil is also people who are being led by Satan, the ultimate serpent. And when Eve listened to the serpent saying things like, “You can be just like God, knowing good and evil,” they bought into what he was saying.

The way this is depicted oftentimes is with an apple, though Genesis 2 and 3 never mentioned any type of fruit. They just say “the fruit.” It does not mention an apple in the book, though it is commonly depicted as an apple.

But we know what a fruit really is. A spiritual fruit has two meanings. One meaning is what a person says. You can see and determine a tree by its fruit, as God was rebuking the Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew 12. But also, a fruit can be people too, or connected to a physical or spiritual tree, like James 1:18 says, “He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created.”

So, a man’s heart and actions are like their fruit. For whatever is in a man will come out, Luke 6:45 states. So, whatever is in there will come out. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve listened to the serpent-like person who spread lies to them, and they broke the covenant that they had with God. 

And what happened? Their nakedness was revealed. They were clothed in animal skin, and they were kicked out of the garden. And they lost access to the tree of life.

And what happened? Satan, sin, death, mourning, crime, pain – all of these horrible things then entered the world. And it began a vicious cycle of a need to create and to recreate – a cycle that will end in the time of revelation by God’s grace. We’re understanding creation before we move on to recreation.

 

How is everyone’s heart doing? Who’s experiencing an internal earthquake? What? I happn to be experiencing one too, but trust me. I’m sure you’ll have many questions. We’ll go over those questions soon as well. I know you have questions, so just hang on to them for a moment.

Understand that in the process of creation, God picks a person and gives that person the word. That person is then given a kingdom, and they have to attend to that kingdom. To solidify this, God gives a covenant to those people. 

But what is Satan’s job? To disrupt and destroy that covenant by causing the people to break it, because God will never break His covenant. God always keeps His promises, but it’s the people who break the covenant. 

So when they broke the covenant, God had to pass them out. And then He told these things to Moses so that people are aware of what took place in the past. This way, they can learn from the mistakes of the past and do better in the future.

Recreation: 4 Steps

Step 5 –  Selection of a New Pastor

Step number five is quite similar to step number one. What do you think step number five is? A new one. The selection of a pastor, the creation of a kingdom, and a covenant with those chosen people. But Satan invades and destroys, causing them to betray. Their hedge is gone, and they are destroyed. So God has to start again.

The selection of a new pastor. Who is the new pastor that God began to work with after Adam’s betrayal? Noah.

 

 

After the betrayal of Adam and Eve, what began to happen to the world? It fell into corruption. Corruption in what kind of measure? Increasing. Evil and sin began to steeply increase, and God’s heart was grieved.

So what did God decide to do? “I’m going to wipe them away. But not everybody, because I need to work through a new people.”

But before starting with the people, God needed to start with one first. With that one, from him, God would build something new. So God came to a righteous man named Noah.

We know him quite well. God told Noah what he is and what he intends to do in the future because Noah walked with God. God had to wait a long time for Noah. Noah was the ninth generation descendant of Adam. It took God nine generations, almost a thousand years, to find someone who walked with him. A very long time.

So what did God want to do with this righteous man? “I’m going to build something new. But first, the old has got to go. The world, the old has to go.”

Let’s read a little bit more about Noah to understand his position as the new pastor.

 

 

Noah, a preacher of righteousness. Because what was Noah doing during the 100 years it took him to build the ark? Oh my gosh, everybody. What was he doing? He was preaching. “Guys, a flood is coming. I’m building an ark. Get on it.” That’s what he was doing for 100 years. 100 years. It took him forever to build that ark. 100 years. He was preaching. But did people listen? Seven out of the rest of Adam’s world.

So when God decided to work through Noah, step number 6, out with the old, in with the new.

 

Step 6 –  Judgement and Salvation

Based on the story of Noah, what was the judgment? The Flood.

And what represented salvation? The ark. Out with the old, in with the new.

So, judgment and salvation. God, through Noah, judged the old with the Flood, and Adam’s world came to an end—the world that had become sinful and corrupt. Only eight people, including Noah himself, got on the ark.

But with the new ones who got on the ark, what was God intending to do with them? Recreate. To start again. So with the new that was saved, the old world, Adam’s world, was judged. And the new was saved.

This concept of the new and the old makes its way throughout the Bible too. They often go by a number of names: Remnants, Survivors, or the Penitent—meaning the repentant ones. You see these terms, for example, quite often in the book of Isaiah. You see this terminology used: Remnants, Survivors, Penitent. It means those who came out of the old world and followed the one that God was currently using. We see this pattern over and over again.

What are some other names that this concept has gone by that we’ve studied so far? Babylon. What else? The sea, Egypt, The field, Sodom. You’re seeing the pattern? It’s the same pattern. Come out of this world and come into the new world that God is building. Same thing. Same pattern. It just repeats itself.

God takes a few survivors out of the old world and begins to build something new with them. But first, the old must be judged. For the sake of time, we won’t read the full story about the Flood. But a few key reminders here: God said, “Make yourself an ark. I’m going to bring floodwaters to wipe away the old world, the world that had become corrupt.” And now, with those who survived this event, God could build something new with them.

 

Step 7 – Creation of a New Kingdom

Genesis 9:1-7

With those who survived the event of judgment, God builds a new kingdom. Like that.

After the event of judgment, those who survived became God’s new kingdom. Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat, as described in Genesis 9.

Noah’s family of eight became God’s new kingdom, and God began to work through them. God gave them a very specific instruction for his new kingdom.

Let’s turn to Genesis 9 and see this instruction that God gives them.

Genesis 9:7, “As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

God instructed them to multiply and increase in number. Why?

Why did they need to increase in number?

The kingdom needed people. The kingdom needed people who were like the survivors.

At that time, it was more physical, but the same logic applies spiritually today. What did Jesus tell his disciples in John 15?

When he said, “I am the vine, and you are the branches,” what was Jesus asking his disciples to do?

To make believers out of all nations.

That’s right. To evangelize. The logic is the same, both physically and spiritually.

Make others who are like you. It makes sense. Noah and his family were tasked with this by God.

And God confirmed this command with them by giving them a new covenant, sealing the deal and closing the cycle.

We’ve read this story dozens of times in church, but we didn’t understand it this deeply. And now you’re starting to understand God’s fingerprint, right?

That’s why Intermediate is sometimes, like when I talk to students who finish the course, Intermediate was my favorite. It was great. It explained so many things.

Glory to God. We just started. This is lesson three.

We just started, and we’re already going deep.

 

Step 8 – New Covenant

In Genesis chapter 9, God establishes a new covenant with Noah and his family. He tells them, “Be fruitful and multiply. And here is my covenant with you: Never again will I end the world with a flood.” God symbolizes this covenant with the rainbow.

The rainbow represents a signifier of God’s covenant with his chosen people. 

What do you think God wants from this new covenant with the people? How does he want them to treat it? He wants them to keep it.

How can someone keep the covenant? By doing what God asks of them.

And how does one do what God asks? What must happen first? They have to hear it first. 

Then what? They must believe it.

How does one believe something? It has to go into the heart, right? But can it leave the heart? No, it cannot. It must remain in the heart, right?

It must remain in the heart in order for someone to keep it. If it leaves the heart, you cannot keep it. It’s like working at a factory job. In your first two weeks, you’re given instructions on how to operate an important piece of equipment. Let’s say the next day, somehow, you forget how to operate that equipment. Will you be allowed to touch the equipment? No, because you’re likely to hurt yourself or someone else. You forgot how to operate the machinery, so you will not be allowed to keep that part of your job.

Similarly, as mentioned in Deuteronomy 6:5-9 and Hebrews 8:10-12, God is telling the people to put his law on their hearts and minds. This is what the Bible calls “sealing,” so that people can keep the covenant they have received.

Noah’s job was to seal that covenant on the hearts of his people, his sons and daughters, and his descendants.

 

 

God established His covenant that He would no longer bring a flood, and it was signified by the rainbow. 

Noah and his family were meant to be the people through whom God would work, living holy and good lives and teaching others to do the same.

However, we know that Satan was still present, waiting to cause problems. Satan thought, “Okay, how can I get to Noah’s family? How can I destroy them too?”

Did Satan succeed? Yes, unfortunately.

How? Everyone remembers the story of Ham, Noah’s second son. His first son was Shem, from whom Abraham descended. But Canaan, the land of Canaan, and all the “Ites” – the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites – descended from Ham and his son Canaan.

What did Ham do, likely with his son? Noah tended a garden, very similar to his ancestor Adam. It was a vineyard, and he helped himself to its fruits, the fruits of his labor. He was naked in his tent. What happened then? Ham went in and saw his father. Instead of immediately covering him up and ending the matter, what did Ham do? He said, “Hey guys, guess what? Dad’s naked in the tent.” Shem and Japheth grabbed a blanket, walked backward, and covered their father without seeing his nakedness. When Noah heard about this, he said, “Cursed be Canaan, and you will be a servant to Shem.”

Oh, this starts the whole drama, doesn’t it? The splintering of families. Ham and Canaan went off, becoming the “Ites.” Shem led to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And now they had to go. It’s a whole thing, which we’ll cover in a later lesson.

But just to show you that the cycle does what? It repeats, like that. Until which time? When does the cycle stop? In Revelation, when the cycle stops. So just note that Satan will continue to deceive God’s people until he is put away in the abyss, at least for a thousand years. So let’s be diligent and not let Satan grab us.

The logical order of creation and recreation has 8 steps. Are we understanding? Did the lesson make sense?

So really, you only have to remember 3 or 4 because the others are just new additions. 

It’s not very hard. Pastor, kingdom, covenant, betrayal, pastor, judgment, salvation, kingdom, covenant. Done. Very easy. Remember, just think about the story of Adam and Noah, and it will make a lot of sense. Again, this process repeats itself throughout the Bible until the end of Revelation, when Revelation is fulfilled.

Memorization

 

Let’s Us Discern