There’s a lot of money to be made teaching people foreign languages; we’ve got Babel to thank for that. In our last study, we saw the United Nations of the post-flood world. We read, “The whole earth had one language and one speech” (Gen 11:1). The people seemed at first to have no communication problem. […]
We’re builders, from Legos and doll houses to skyscrapers, but nothing comes of it if God isn’t on the project. In Genesis 11, we are introduced to one of the greatest rivalries in history. It is, in the words of Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’s cities were London and Paris, but the […]
Ham, pronounced something like khawm, means “warm” or “hot.” You’ll be surprised with his biography. One more lesson on the amazing history of Ham. According to the Bible, he was the father of all people of color. Not the swarthy-skinned people of the Middle East, who traced their line to Shem; nor the lighter-skinned people […]
Read More… from March 10, 2021 — The Fascinating Story Of Ham
The only race in the Bible is the human race. But there are three families who work best if helping each other. Speaking in the city of Athens in the first century, the apostle Paul makes the statement that God “has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face […]
Read More… from March 9, 2021 — Three Brothers And The Human Race
This is one of the tough questions in the Bible. It’s also an amazing miracle: a curse turned into a blessing. What people often call the curse on Ham (really the curse on Canaan) has been abused as an excuse for enslaving the black man. What a horrid misuse of the Bible! Ham’s mistreatment of […]
This isn’t like a beer ad: good-looking people having a great time. It’s not champagne, either; it’s real pain. The world, as described in Genesis 8, had a fresh start. Well, almost. The one thing that hadn’t changed was the human heart. God paints an honest portrait of humanity, warts and all. Imagine Noah, listed […]
How long have you got on the planet? We don’t leave in order, do we! Probably good to get your bags packed. The earth had been swept clean by the flood. Just one family was left to re-populate the world. Noah, we read, is now 600 years old! How could people live that long? One […]
Here is the ultimate reset in history, when God performed radical surgery to give us humans another chance. The waters took a long time to recede, but once it was over, God gave us four beautiful pictures of Christ’s finished work at Calvary. There was the resting of the ark, the returning of the dove, […]
Is it OK for God to get angry? Don’t YOU get angry about slavery and child abuse and such? God does too. The rain began seven days after Noah and his family entered the ark. The storm continued unabated for 40 days, with the underground waters joining in the deluge from above. As Genesis 7:11 […]