Humble Beginnings

man’s first 2,000 years

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Humble Beginnings

• Out of Chaos, Into Order

• Failure Manifesto

• Seas Raging

• On terra firma

Out of Chaos, Into Order

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

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Out of Chaos, Into Order

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep (Genesis 1:2)

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Out of Chaos, Into Order

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light… And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

And God made the expanse and separated the waters from the waters… the second day.

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Job 38-41

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth,

as if it had issued out of the womb?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof,

and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further:

and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Job 38:8-1 1

Out of Chaos, Into Order

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Third day

Fourth day

Fifth day

Sixth day

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished…

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Out of Chaos, Into Order

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was

God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any

thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man

sent from God, whose name was John... Joh 1:1-6

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In the beginning was the Word

λογος (G3056)logos (log'-os)From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ): - account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

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In the beginning was the Word

But as truly as I live,

all the earth shall be filled

with the glory of the

LORD. Num 14:21

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Failure Manifesto

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:9

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Failure Manifesto

And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

Gen 2:16-17

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Failure Manifesto

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

1Ti 2:13-14

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Failure Manifesto

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the

days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy

seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Gen 3:14-15

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Failure Manifesto

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Gen 3:16

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Failure ManifestoAnd unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,

saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;

and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat

bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Gen 3:17-19

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Failure Manifesto

Eve

Abel

Seth’s line

Noah’s family

Shem, Japheth

Serpent

Cain

Cain’s line

All of mankind

Ham

Nimrod

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Seas RagingCain

Enoch

Irad

Mehujael

Methusael

Lamech

Jabal

Jubal

Tubalcain

he builded a city, and called the name of

the city, after the name of his son,

Enoch.

father of polygamy, ruler by warfare

the father of such as dwell in tents and

have cattle.

the father of all such as handle the harp

and organ.

an instructer of every artificer in brass

and iron:

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Seas Raging

130+105+90+70+65+162+65+187+182+600=

1656 years from creation to flood

2010BC AD4100

GENESIS 5

AdamSeth

EnoshKenanMahalalel

JaredEnoch

MethusalehLamech

Noah

FLOOD

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Seas Raging

Adam – ManSeth – AppointedEnos – miserableCainan – object of mercyMahalaleel – He who is with the mighty GodJared – Shall descendEnoch – the consecrated oneMethusaleh – His death shall send forthLamech – When smittenNoah – Rest

Man, appointed miserable, the object of mercy. He who is with the mighty God shall descend, the consecrated one. His death shall send forth, when smitten, rest.

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Seas Raging

…when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Gen 6:1-4)

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Seas Raging

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth… So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created…” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Gen 6:5-8)

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came… And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went in to the ark… and of animals… two and two.. went into the ark… (Gen 6:6-9)

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Seas raging

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Mat 24:37-39

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Seas Raging

And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man… Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.” (Gen 8:21)

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Seas Raging

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. …I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Gen 9:11-13

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On terra firma

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Gen 9:3

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On terra firma

Noah – 950 yearsShem – 600 yearsArphaxad – 438 yearsSalah – 433 yearsEber – 464 yearsPeleg – 239 (in his days the earth was divided)Reu – 239 yearsSerug – 230 yearsNahor – 148 yearsTerah – 205 yearsNahor – 148 years

etc.

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On terra firma

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Gen 10:8-10

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On terra firma