GENESIS - THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES

   In May 2023 Quiet Time, we will continue to learn from GENESIS, the First Book of 

   Moses from the Holy Bible, about all the awesome Creation wonders we see and cannot 

   see in the universe. Everything God created are important to Him. God created the 

   world and all things in it. God created the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, birds,

   and fish. On the sixth day God created all the creatures of the land, and then 

   created man in His own image after His likeness. But why has God given all His Love,

   so much Time, and even His LIFE to humanity? Does humanity deserve Him and all He 

   has done for them since creation?

   In April 2023 QUIET TIME, we read in GENESIS Chapters 1 and 2, how out of all of

   creation, the first man Adam and his wife, Eve, were the crown of all of God's 

   creations. He created everything beautifully, in the universe for His own glory,

   and gave man dominion over all other creatures, and the earth, He had created.

   In GENESIS Chapter 3, we learned how sin came into God's perfect Garden of Eden

   and ended man's relationship with God, with terrible rewards. Man sinned against

   God, and the rewards included seperation from the LORD God, banishment from the

   Garden of Eden, and death penalty of body and soul. Evil received his just reward

   the most danmigng being, God putting enemity between him and the woman, and 

   between her seed and his seed, whose heel he shall bruise, but who will bruise

   is head.( GENESIS 3 : 1-24 KJV).

   The serpent went through the Woman, to bring about Man's Fall, with severe rewards,

   to Man, his wife. Man's fall has not stopped God from loving humanity. They were 

   and will always remain God's favourite creation, forever. That is why He created

   Man in His image, after His likeness. But humanity have to choose who is their 

   Master. God and His offer of everlasting Life of their soul.

   Or Sin and his eternal Death of their soul. So the choice that each person makes

   now, while still alive, about the destination of their souls after earths life,

   will determine where they will spend their eternity with the Master of their choice.

   Jesus Christ explained what these two choices are, and why it is crucial for the world 

   to make the right choice, as they both have rewards.

   Jesus explained His purpose for coming to earth. As Moses lifted up the serpent in 

   the wilderness, so that the Children of God, His chosen people, who looked at it lived,

   after being beaten by serpents, in the same way, like the serpent, He will be lifted

   up on the cross, so that every one in the world who looks at Him, and who believes

   that He is the Son of God, who died to take away the sins of the world, will live, and

   not die in their sins.

   Salvation is free. But it is up to each person in the world to receive it or reject it.

   Those who accept it from Him are saved from their sins and have His everlasting life. 

   Those who reject His free gift of Salvation are lost and have chosen eternal death.

   Jesus says in JOHN 3: 14 -22,

      14. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 

       even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

      15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish,

       but have eternal life.

      16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only

      begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should

      not perish, but have everlasting life. 

      17. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn

      the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

      18. He that believeth on him is not condemed: but he that

      believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not

      believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.

      19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into

      the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, 

      because their deeds ere evil.

      21. For every one that doeth evil hated the light,

      neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be

      reproved.

      22. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that

      his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought

      in God."

   Christ Jesus came to reconsile humanity to God after Man's Fall. We don't know where

   Adam was when the serpent deceived the woman. This serpent was Satan, enemy of God and

   man. Like bandits in some parts of the world who take hostages, and demand heavy ransome 

   be paid to them, before they agree to release the hostages, satan took man hostage in 

   the garden of Eden that fateful day. A ransome had to be paid, in order to free man 

   from satan's sin and is death penalty. No one else in heaven nor in earth could free man

   except Christ, that is why He came to earth as a man. Holy without sin that seperated

   man from God, He was the perfect Lamb of sacrifice to be a Ransome for man's freedom.

   It was not just the Jewish leaders who convicted Him of treason against the law,

   and the Roman Gorvernor who sentenced Christ to the disgraceful cruel crucifixion on the

   cross of Calvary, everyone in the world, decendants of our first father and mother, Adam

   and Eve, due to their sins we inherited, nailed Him to the cross. God sent Him to the

   world as a Ransome to us all, who were held by satan as his hostages guilty before God 

   of sin and death. Christ took all our sins on Himself on that cross.

   He compared His death to the golden serpent that Moses lifted up at the wilderness to 

   save God's people who sinned, who would have died, but did not, because they obeyed God,

   and had faith that God will pardon and keep them alive if they looked up at the serpent.

   In the same way, any one who looks at Christ, believing that He died in their place, 

   will receive pardon and live forever with Him.

   Obedience to God is a key to life. Why did the woman chose to disobey God and obey satan

   and gave the forbidden tree to her husband to eat with her?

   Who was the Woman? Where did the Woman come from?

   The Holy Bible says that after creating every other thing, on the sixth day, God created

   the creatures of the land, and then He created man. (GENESIS 2: 18 -25 KJV).

     "And the LORD God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I

     will make him an help meet for him.

     19. And out of the ground, the LORD God formed every beast of the field,

     and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he

     would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creatre,

     that was the name thereof.

     20. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to

     every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help 

     meet for him.

     21. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:

     and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

     22. And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,

     and brought her unto the man.

     23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:

     she shall be called Woman. because she was taken out of Man.

     24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave

     unto is wife: and they shall be one flesh.

     25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed"

     (GENESIS 2 : 18 -25).

   God did not only create Man, and gave him dominion over the earth, and over all the

   creatures in the earth, God created the Woman also, she was entilted to all the benefits

   man had in God's eyes. He put the man to sleep, took out a rib bone from him, made one

   woman with it, and brought her to Adam, to be his one and only wife, to be loved by him,

   protect her, care for her as he does himself. The rib bone encases the heart, and the 

   lifes blood it pumps all around the body to feed it and keep it alive. It signifies, love

   and protection from trauma and harm. Adam was supposed to keep his only wife close to his

   heart. He did, as we have no record in the Holy Bible that he married any other wife/ wives

   before and after his fall. He may have had trouble keeping her close by his side. We

   don't know where Adam was, when she got them in trouble with God, because she listened to 

   satan, who saw her vulnerability, and targeted her for his lies. But Adam loved her.

   God did not remove a foot bone from Adam to make his wife, so he could trample her under

   his feet. We have no record that he mistreated Eve, after she sinned by obeying the serpent

   lies, and giving the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil to him to eat and disobey

   God, and fell into sin and death penalty with her. So he did not stop loving his wife.

   Neither did God stop loving them both. He chased them out of the Garden of Eden, to 

   stop them also eating of the tree of life, and becoming like God, after giving them His

   death sentence. God made coats of skins and clothe them with it. He sentenced the

   serpent who led them astray. 

   He placed at the East of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword that turns every way, to protect 

   the way of the tree of life. God kept on loving them and providing for them, providing

   and protecting, and blessing them with three children, and cared for Adam's generations.

   As we will see in GENESIS 4 -8, God blessed Adam and his generations with long life.

   The Bible tells us that Adam lived for almost 1000 years before he died. Other men in

   his generations also had very long life spans, that kept decresing with Adam's subsequent

   generations. Man was not supposed to die, their sins brought death to man.

   The point here is that God loves the Woman as He loves the Man. He will not allow any

   man or sons of God to mess with daughters of men. As we will read in GENESIS 6, God

   destroyed the generation of Adam because men's heart had always turned to do evil,

   after man's fall. The sons of God took to themselves daughters of men as they chosed,

   as the population of the earth grew, and they saw that women, daughters of men were fair.

   Marrying one wife per man as Adam did was forgotten by sons of God who took many women

   to themselves. God was grieved and repented He had made man, whose heart is always

   full of evil thoughts, violence, and curruption. (GENESIS 6).

   Noah found favour with God, built an ark as God commanded him to do. He went into it 

   with his family, only eight people, in all is generation, and a few selected land

   creatures and birds of the air, into the ark, to keep them alive and safe, to start a

   new earth ; after the Great Flood from God.

   It destroyed evil people, and evrything in the earth. God reduced Man's life span to

   one hundred and twenty years, due to evil in man's heart continually.

   God has warned us in the Holy Bible that He will destroy this new earth of Noah's

   generaration, in the End Times, which Christ's description in MATTHEW 24;25, 

   POINTS TO our Time, our Generation!

   This time, it is not a Flood that will cover the earth, but a Mighty Fire, inferno,

   that will consume this whole earth. Every living thing will perish, that Noah puts into

   the ark, with his family, that survived the Great Flood which drowned every humanity,

   and all living thing in his generation. God renewed His covenant with righteous Noah

   and his family after the Flood. (MATTHEW 24;25 KJV). GENESIS 9;10 KJV).

   But has man learned any lessons from the past evil that befell our forefathers, of

   Adam's generations, due to hardheartedness and all forms of ungodliness. Sons of God 

   taking the daughters of men to themseles in numbers they chosed! Assaulting the 

   daughters of men, after taking them from the safety of their parent's homes. Engaging 

   in Violent acts, wars, curruptions, tortures of God's sons and daughters, and their

   children. (GENESIS 6).

   How is our generation doing? Are we doing anything differently, better?

   We are the remnants of the post Flood generation of righteous Noah. Are we any different?

   A closer look at the cultures, tribes, lands and nations of the past and present world,

   indicate a tendency where some humans, always disagree with God's Laws, change it to suit 

   them, reject it, doing as they please. Is man prepared for God's wrath that is coming

   on this generation? How can we prepare? Please stay with us and learn with us about the

   way of God's salvation of the world. He has already put His plans in action to rescue,

   restore man from sin back to Himself. EDEN RESTORED, with God and JUST Man in it forever.

   We will focus on how we can prevent evil from taking hold of our lives and our families.

   God loves his sons, but he loves daughters of men very much too, and wants their parents and

   husbands to handle them with care. He can destroy the earth if sons of God mess with them.

   The Holy Bible in 1 PETER 3, explains how the Christian husband ought to treat his wife, and 

   how the Christian wife ought to treat her husband, as she was made from him, and for him.

   The woman is referred to here as ' the weaker vessel.' EPHESIANS 5, gives extensive advice 

   about Christian marriage, being a physical union, a reflection of the Spiritual marriage

   between Christ and His Church, whom He is using to build His Spiritual Kingdom here on earth,

   until He returns to take us Home to heaven as His Brides to dwell with him forever.

   ( 1 PETER 3: 1-23).( PROVERBS 31: 1-31). ( 2 TIMOTHY 3 :1-17); (EPheSIANS (Chapters 5 and 6).

   The world has not been the same peaceful and tranquil lovely place, since man's fall.

   Something had to be done to reverse the cause of world history since creation; to bring 

   peace and tranquility back to earth, and all of God's wonderful creation, with a new heaven

   and a new earth, so Eden can be RESTORED. How? 

   In March 2023 QUIET TIME, we read of the Promised Seed, in GENESIS 2 :14-15, the Second Adam,

   Jesus Christ the Son of God, God Who took on the Form of Man, for one single purpose:to 

   destroy the works of the devil once and for all, and restore man to Himself in man's initial

   sinless state, fit to become the children of God, born again in the Spirit of God. How He 

   would be the Only Ransome, Worthy ONE, to free humanity from their sins and death sentence 

   from God. For Jesus Christ the Son of God was the Only acceptable Final Sacrificial Lamb of God,

   A MAN, Standing in the Gap created by Man's Enemy between God and man. Jesus Christ was the 

   ONLY Man, a Perfect Man, a Sinless Ransome, Who was worthy to be Slain for man's sins and death. 

   The Old Testaments Sacrifices of lambs by the high priests, had divine significance, to do with

   keeping God's chosen people from sin and its death penalty, in Israel and Judah, for centuries, 

   and why THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, and LAW OF ORDINANCES AND CEREMONIES, were written, also to guide

   and keep God's blessed and chosen people in God's Way. So that God can overlook their sins, and

   not destroy them, because of their tendency to sin and disobey God.

   (See their significance and differences below):

   THE TEN COMMENDMENTS, was Spoken of by God - Deut. 4:12, 13; Called the "royal law." -James 2:8;

   Written by God. - Ex. 24:12; Written on tables of stone- Deut. 10; 1-4; Written "with the finger

   of God"- Ex. 31:18; Placed in the ark- Deut. 10 -5; Called "the testimony"- Ex.40:20; Ex. 31 : 18; 

   Called law of God - Ps. 1;2; Lasts Forever - Ps. 111:7,8; A perfect law - Ps. 19:7; Points out sin 

   - 1 John 3;4; Gives recognition of sin. - Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; Not abolished by Christ -

   Matt. 5:17; Is holy, just and good - Romans 7:12; Faith establishes this law. Romans 3:31;

   A spiritual law - Romans 7;14.

   LAW OF ORDINANCES AND CEREMONIES Spoken by Moses- Lev. 1;1,2; Called law...contained in ordinances"

   - Eph. 2:15; Written by Moses - Deut. 31:9; Written in a book- 2 Chronicles 35:12; Was the "handwriting

   of ordinances"- Col. 2:14; Placed at side of ark - Deut 31:26; Called "book of the law" - Deut . 31:26; 

   Called law of Moses- Mal.4:4; Came to end at cross- Col.2:14;

   "Made nothing perfect."- Heb.7:19. Pointed to sacrifice of Christ- Col. 2 :14:17; Given in consequences

   of sin-Lev. 3:7; Was abolished by Christ-Eph. 2: 15; Nailed to cross by Christ- Col. 2:14; Shadow

   of things to come- Heb. 10;1; If kept now, shows lack of faith in Christ as Saviour - Gal. 5;2-5; 

   Concerns material things, meats, drinks, washings- Heb. 9:10. (From the HOLY BIBLE - King James Version).

   Two thousand years ago, Jesus Chhrist, the Son of God came down to fallen man on earth,

   and took on Himself the form of man, not of angels. The Promised Seed had the Power to break

   the power of sin and death of the body and soul of man. 

   ( GENESIS 1 : 26 - 27 KJV).( GENESIS 2 : 7 KJV).

   As a man while on earth, Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, was full of all the wonderful 

   attributes of a Holy God, as the first Adam was supposed to be, but fell into sin and death.

   Christ was pure, holy, loving to all, and the outcasts, kind to the needy, humble, meek,

   peaceful, merciful, virtous, longsuffering, graceful, and all other attributes of His

   Father. He was successful in living right. Jesus was a different kind of Man. Why ? 

   How did He live such a Victorious Godly, Sinless Life? We do not need to look at someone

   else to see the presence, effects, rewards of sin and death. JEREMIAH 17 ;9-10 KJV states how

   wicked the heart is, It says, 

    " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

    who can know it?

    I the LORD searchest the heart, I try the reins, to give every

    man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."

  Jesus knew that in order for us to overcome evil and sin, men and women, must Live in

  God's presence constantly. God created us to have a Father and children relationship and 

  fellowship with Him. Remember at the Garden of Eden, before he fell, God used to visit man

  in the cool of the day. He wants this relationsip and fellowship with us His children

  to be maintained still, unbroken! Christ came to live among men, to teach us how to live 

  like Him, God the Son, Who knows exactly how to please God. So that we can emulate Him, 

  and live a victorious Christian life! 

  When He started His Ministry, Jesus called and had chosen His desciples, common men, whom

  He was able to teach His WORD and to whom He imparted His ways, and sent them, and us out,

  to preach His Gospel to all people. (JOHN CHAPTERS 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21 KJV).

  These holy men, were witnesses of His earthly Ministry, wrote and recorded Christ's Words

  and work in the NEW TESTAMENT of the Holy Scriptures. They recorded Christ's Teachings, and 

  Ministry on earth, by the annointing power of God the Holy Ghost, Who empowered them for 

  ministry at Pentecost.

   The Word of God is Spiritual Balanced Food, and Prayer to our Heavenly Father, is

   Spirital Oxygen for believers in Christ. We cannot survive in this present world without

   them. Christans who stop growing spiritually, do so because of Spiritual Starvation, forgeting 

   to read, study the Holy Bible, Pray to God, to seek His face for their daily guidance for

   good and bad times. Jesus Christ is the Promised Seed of GENESIS 3 : 14-15 KJV. The enemy

   did everything to stop him fulfilling His Promise, to free man. The enemy failed.

   See ( GENESIS 3 : 1 - 24 KJV); (MATTHEW 2 : 1-23KJV); (REVELATION 5 :1-14 KJV);

   REVELATIONS 12 ; 1-17 KJV);(JEREMIAH 17 : 1-27KJV); (EZEKIEL 18:4 ; 18: 1-32 KJV).

   (JOHN 3:16-17 KJV).

   God fulfilled this promise two thousand years ago. And in April 2023, many people in our

   generation, had another chance to remember the moving story of the crucifixion, as 

   recorded in the Holy Bible. To some, it would have seemed like yet another painful cruel

   death to add to many other violent human deaths of the past and present generations. 

   But the story of the Cross is a different and a very Special Story, and we will see why

   in this month's QUIET TIME.

   It changes such assmptions and thinking that Christ's cruel death was just one of those 

   things that happen to some people. But that lonely Man of Calvary, Who was nailed to a 

   wooden rugged cross, represented all lonely suffering people in different parts of the world,

   in the past and present times.

   His death represented many people who have lost their lives from famines, and wars; draughts,

   earthquakes; torture, and from other forms of distress of nations and tribulations, Signs

   of Christ's Second Coming for His Church, in the End Times, that He fortold shortly

   before His death, resurrection and ascension to heaven, of world events that will happen

   shortly before His return, in MATTHEW Chapter 24; MATTHEW 25.

   Christ's death represented many sick very young children, fleeing for safety with their

   parents, family members, from the security of their homes, some on foot hundreds of miles,

   within, and many beyond their countries boundaries, in search of water, food, any shelter,

   to find life, any life. 

   These are the kind of people Christ spoke of, whose blood He will demand from the hands of 

   inhabitants of the world, during the dreadful Final Judgement Day of the world in MATTHEW 25.

   The key issue that will determine peoples fates, will be what people did or failed to do 

   to alleviate the sufferings of these rejected, despised and displaced people. Did they offer 

   'Help' and become 'Good Neigbours,''Good Samaritans' to these 'Spcial People' who came to

   them for Help before they met their cruel deaths? 

   Many little children and babies without well balanced meals, suffer hunger, thirst, 

   dehydration, and put on strange deadly weights of kwashiokor, some with marasmus,(just skin 

   and bones). These are the many babies and young children Jesus's death represented, who have

   died on the way before reaching the life giving feeding Centres, of refugee camps, shelters,

   make shift tents, or while being cared for by handfuls of 'angels of mercy' from charitable 

   national, international aid organisations; who look after hundreds of thousands of forgotten

   people in a single day, in strange sub - human conditions, and very high temperatures, in

   countries not their own.

   Christ's Passion represented the many people who have suffered and died, and those will die

   unecessarily, from different types of wars, famines, by (the Killer called 'LACK','NECESSITY'),

   from Tough Times, unemployment, poverty, destitution, and from preventable and curable 

   diseases, as they cannot afford high costs of private clinic nor hospital treatment, basic food,

   nursing care, found in less developed parts of the world.

   The story of the crucifixion tells of Jesus Christ crying out on the cross, 'My God, My God,

   why have you forsaken me?' He wanted God His Father not to forsake Him there on the cross, while

   carrying on himself the sins of the world. But God cannot look at sin. So Christ died alone.

   Before their deaths, many of these people who have passed away, and their relations with them,

   in the above cruelling cases, have asked the question that Christ asked his Father, Why? 

   Many of them, shortly before they die, God had revealed Himself to them, that He has always 

   Loved them. He enveloped and wrapped them in His Love, and Shield, to Protect and Prepare them

   for their departures from this spoiled, world, into eternity's Journey. He would reveal to them

   that Jesus Christ was not a painted or sculptured icon, to be worshipped like a god, nor a

   historical figure to be celebrated every Christmas and Easter. But that this Jesus, the Man on

   Calvary's Cross was God. How He loved them, and had come for them, and has always been close to

   them in good and bad times. And had suffered a cruel death for them, as they had suffered 

   (ISAIAH 55: 1-12).

   The question many surviving heartbroken people have asked is, 'Why should anyone love the 

   broken Man Who was nailed to the cross in the story of the crucifixion, What did He do for them? 

   The answer that suffering people from anywhere seek, who ask this question, could be found if they

   can read the Holy Bible, while alive. Many people, men and women, older children, who suffer in 

   these situations have asked the question why they should love God's Son, Jesus? They ask, 

   'God has brought suffering and deaths to us from famines, droughts, earthquakes, and wars. Our 

   loved ones have died, our children are seperated from us parents. Who cares for them now? Why

   does loving this Man on Calvary's Cross matter so much?' 

   Many people who have been tortured and who fear for their lives for loving Jesus, will always give 

   the answer, that they just cannot stop loving and serving Jesus Christ, even when going through

   these sufferings. Because their lives belong to Jesus! He bought their Salvation with His Life's 

   Blood, and their will and lives have been crucified with Christ on that rugged cross. They cannot 

   keep their newly found JOY and Faith to themselves, no matter the cost to them or the price. They are

   simply returning His Love. 

   The Wonder of God's Love, Grace and Mercy towards humanity is that, God is a SPIRIT, and to qualify

   to become His Spiritual children, we must invite Jesus Who died for our sins, to forgive us our sins,

   come into our heart, to remove our sinful heart, and give us His pure, sinless heart,

   new soul without sin ( sentenced to death of body and soul, awating eternal destruction), to live 

   inside of us. When Christ comes into our hearts, He breaks evil's power, changes our lives into His

   image and likeness. We become new creations with God's Holy Spirit living inside of us, giving us

   the power to live sinless, pure lives, like Christ when He was a man, living in this spoiled world

   two thousand years ago. This is LOVE no man can give us. God living in us through His Holy Spirit,

   changing us each day to become like him, with His image, and His likeness, Adam's original pure

   holy and innocence state, before he fell into sin, and was sentenced to death.

   This is the mystery of Godliness, that Jesus Christ, God the Son, came from heaven, as a man. He was

   the Seed of the Woman, ( GENESIS 3: 14-15 KJV). He was born in Bethlehem,in Judea, of a Virgin Woman 

   conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit of God. 

   His earthly mother and father, who helped to raise Him, came from the ancestral lineage of King David 

   of Jerusalem, King of Judah, from Israel, God's Chosen People.

   Jesus grew up, as a man He taught men of His Father's Love for humanity. Preached Repentance from sin,

   like John the Baptist, who came to introduce Christ to all the world. Jesus revealed Himself to man,

   as the Son of God, Saviour of the world, sent by God His Father, to die, to pay the Rasome for man's 

   sins, to free man from sin and death of the soul.

   Jesus was crucified, rose again from the grave on the third day, having gone to Hell and took the 

   keys of hell and death from satan. He revealed His Ressurected 

   Holy self to His diciples, planted His Spiritual Kingdom on earth, by commissioning them and us, believers

   in His Name, to go into all the world to preach His Gospel, to make disciples of every nations. He promised

   them and us, the indwelling power of His Holy Ghost, to empower them further His Ministry of Salvation, 

   to reconsile Man back to God. They experienced the Baptism of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost.

   Jesus Revealed God the Father's Love, Jesus's Grace, and Comfort of the Holy Spirit to man.

   Three God, in One, Holy Trinity, are the same God, Who perform different funtions, yet are One living

   in each other. All Three were present and Created Man, Adam, our first human father and mother Eve, 

   in the Garden of Eden.(GENESIS Capters 1, 2, 3 KJV). God is One.

   God is a Spirit. For anyone to become His Child, born anew of God, our Heavenly Father, our sinful

   spirits must be transformed, changed into His image and likeness, recreated by God Himself. No man

   can change his old sinful nature, inherited from Adam after his fall. All God's Spiritual Children must

   believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, Who died to save humanity from sin, recieve new Godly

   life, souls and spirits and everlasting life of God.

   We become living Spiritual Stones, He is using to Build His Spirital Kingdom here on earth.

   God lives in us and we live in Him by His Holy Spirit. We have Everlasting Life, Jesus Christ, Saviour 

   of our souls. The same is true of any one anywhere, who belives in Him by faith.

   As new creation of God, old things have passed away, all have become new. Our recreated soul and spirit

   never dies, but lives forever with God in eternity, like Adam our first father was, when God created him,

   in a holy and pure state of innocence, before he fell due to sin, seperated from a Holy God, Who

   cannot look at sin, and Adam was sentenced to of body and soul.

   Please see, 1 THESSALONIANS Chapters 4 and 5 KJV; and JONH 3: 16-17 (King James Version

   of the Holy Bible, KJV).

   Many suffering people, accept that humanity lives in a spoilt, lost, world. God's way, the narrow way,

   for Man, every creation of His, led only to love and peace. But humanity have chosen the wrong way of

   sin and selfishness, war, violence and hatred, a broaday, ruled by Evil, who became Man's master, 

   and Man became his slaves. ( JOHN 18; 19; 20; 21). 

   Even in a spoiled and lost world, humanity is still loved deeply by God. A hurting suffering 

   father whose children are lost, whose wife was fatally shot to death by freedom fighters, 

   while on the run, in search of her lost children, in a country torn apart by famine or war, 

   knows that his children are victims of an evil system. Yet he still loves them, and will travel

   on foot or by any means possible, for hundreds of miles, risking his own life to find them! 

   And when he finds them, he make plans to take them back to the safety of his home, Someday!

   Likewise, God travelled a great distance from heaven, came down to earth to find us, His lost 

   children. God became man, the Man of Calvary, Jesus Christ, who died for us, rose again on

   the third day after forming His Spiritual Kingdom on earth with His Children, the Church.

   He will return to take us Home to heaven so we will dwell with Him forever in heaven. 

   In ISAIAH 43: 1 -7, God has Comforted His Church, His Children.

   To the suffering ones, who ask the question, 'What happens to to the hungry, thirsty, wounded,

   and dead thousands, prisoners, and those who fall dead by the roadside, and in bushes?'

   They too eventually come to understand that all the causes of sufferings and death is part

   of the evil and spoiling choices, that man made when he rejected God and His laws for a 

   peaceful and loving existence, chosing instead to follow another master, called sin. 

   In some parts of this world, wicked bandits capture hostages, and ask for enormous amount of

   ransome before they agree to release the hostages. 

   Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ the Son of God, God's Ransome, came into this spoilt and 

   lost world, and died, to set all captives of sin and death free!

   Are you free freind? If not, you still have time. Please read the Holy Bible for answers

   to your soul's questions. God Himself will give you answers therein, as you seek Him, He will

   reveal Himself to you. He will not fail you.

   Let us continue to search the Holy Scriptures to see humanity's journeys through the 

   generations, from Adam, to Noah, that righteous man and his family. What happened to

   him, and to the people in is generation, and why? May God help us to learn life saving

   lessons from these Holy Scriptures.

                  GENESIS 4

                 Murder of Abel

   "AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten

   a man from the LORD.

   2. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a 

   tiller of the ground.

   3. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground

    an offering unto the LORD.

   4. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.

   And the LORD had respect unto Abel and unto his offering:

   5. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,

   and his countenance fell.

   6. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

   7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth

   at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

   8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when there were in the

   field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

   9. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am 

   I my brother's keeper?

   10. And he said, What has thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from

   the ground.

   11. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive thy 

   brother's blood from thy hand:

   12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength;

   a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

   13. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

   14. Behold, thou has driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy

    face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;

    and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

   15. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore , whosoever slayeth Cain, vengence shall be

    taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should

    kill him.

   16. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on

   the east of Eden.

   17. And Cain knew his wife and she conceived, and bare E-nosh: and he builded a city,

    and called the name of the city after the name of his son E-nosh.

   18. And unto E-nosh was born I-rad: and Irad begat Me-hu-ja-el: and Me-hu-ja-el begat

    Me-thu-sa-el: and Me-thu-sa-el begat La-mech.

    19. And La-mech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was A-dah, and the name

    of the other Zillah.

    20. And A-dah bare Ja-bal: he was the father of such that dwell in tents, and of such

    that have cattle.

    21. And his brother's name was Ju-bal: he as the father of such as handle the harp

    and organ.

    22. And Zillah she also bare Tu-bal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass   

    and iron: and the sister of Tu-bal-cain was Na-a-mah.

    23. And La-mech said unto his wives, A-dah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of

    La-mech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young

    man to my hurt.

    24. If Cain shall be avanged sevenfold, truly La-mech seventy and sevenfold.

    25. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:

    For God, she said, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew.

    26. And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name E-nos: then

    began men to call upon the name of the LORD."

       ( GENESIS 4: 1- 26).

                   GENESIS 5

    THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the

    likeness of God made he him;

    2. Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in

    the day when they were created.

    3. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likemness,

    after his image; and called his name Seth:

    4. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he 

    begat sons and daughters:

    5. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

    6. And Seth lived an hundred and five years and begat E-nos:

    7. And Seth lived after he begat E-nos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons

    and daughters:

    8. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

    9. And E-nos lived ninety years, and begat Ca-i-nan:

    10. And E-nos lived after he begat Ca-i-nan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat

     sons and daughters:

    11. And all the days of E-nos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

    12. And Ca-i-nan lived seventy years, and begat Ma-hal-a-leel:

    13. And Ca-i-nan lived after he begat Ma-lal-a-leel eight hundred and forty years, and

     begat sons and daughters:

    14. And all the days of Ca-i-nan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

    15. And Ma-lal-a-leel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jar-ed:

    16. And Ma-hal-a-leel lived after he begat Jar-ed eight hunred and thirty years, and 

    begat sons and daughters:

    17. And all the days of Ma-al-a-leel were eight hundred and ninety and five years: and

    he died.

    18. And Jar-ed lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat E-noch:

    19. And Jar-ed lived after he begat E-noch eight hundred years, and begat sons and 

    daughters:

    20. And all the days of Jar-ed were nine hundred and sixty and two years: and he died.

    21. And E-noch lived sixty and five years, and begat Me-thu-se-lah:

    22. And E-noch walked with God after he begat Me-thu-se-lah three hunderd years, and

    begat sons and daughters:

    23. And all the days of E-noch were three hundred and sixty five years:

    24. And E-noch walked with God : and he was not: for God took him.

    25. And Me-thu-se-lah lived an hundred eighty and seven years and begat La-mech:

    26. And Me-thu-se-lah lived after he begat La-mech seven hundred eighty and two years,

    and begat sons and daughters:

    27. And all the days of Me-thu-se-lah were nine hundred sixty and nine years, and e died.

    28. And La-mech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

    29. And he called his name Noah saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work

    and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD had cursed.

    30. And La-mech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat 

    sons and daughters:

    31. And all the days of La-mech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

    32. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham and Ja-pheth.

    (GENESIS 5: 1- 32 ) 

                     GENESIS 6

                  Wickedness of the earth

    AND it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were

    born unto them,

    2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them

    wives of all which they chose.

    3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:

    yet his years shall be an hudred and twenty years.

    4. 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 reknown.

    5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination 

    of the thoughts was evil continually.

    6. And it repented the LORD that he hath made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

    7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the facce of the earth; both 

    man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have

    made them.

    8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

    9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation, and 

    Noah walked with God.

    10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Ja-pheth.

    11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted

     his way upon the earth.

    13. And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with

     violence through them; and; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

    14. Make thee an ark of go-pher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch within

    and without with pitch.

    15. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three 

    hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

    16. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and

    the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories

    shalt thou make it.

    17. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh,

    wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.

    18. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy

    sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee.

    19. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sorts shalt thou bring into the ark, to

    keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

    20. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the 

    earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

    21. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it

     shall be for food for thee; and for them.

    22. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

      ( GENESIS 6:1-22 KJV).

                 GENESIS 7

              Noah entereth the Ark

     AND the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen

     righteousin in this generation.

     2. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of 

     beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

     3. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the

     face of all the earth.

     4. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth fourty days and fourty nights;

     and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from all the face of the earth.

     5. And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

     6. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

     7. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark,

     because of the waters of the flood.

     8. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that

     creepeth upon the earth.

     9. They went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had 

     commanded Noah.

     10. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

     11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the

     month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of

     heaven were opened.

     12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and fouty nights.

     13. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Ja-pheth, the sons of Noah, and

     Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

     14. They and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping

     thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird

     of every sort.

     15. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of

     life.

     16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:

     and the LORD shut him in.

     17. And the floods was fourty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark,

     and it was lift up above the earth.

     18. And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the

     face of the waters. 

     19. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the eath; and all the high hills, that were under

     the whole heaven were covered.

     20. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

     21. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts,

     and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

     22. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land died.

     23. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man,

     and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from

     the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

     24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

                      GENESIS 8

                     The ark resteth

    AND God remembered Noah, and every living thing; and all the cattle that was with him in the ark:

    and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

    2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped;

    3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and 

    fifty days the waters were abated.

    4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenthh day of the month, upon the mountains

     of Ar-a-rat.

    5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day

    of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

    6. And it came to pass at the end of fourty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he

    had made;

    7. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off

    the earth.

    8. And also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the 

    ground;

    9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for

    the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand and took her, and pulled

    her in unto him into the ark.

    10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

    11. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:

    so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

    12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him

    anymore.

    13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of

    the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark,

    and looked, and, behold the face of the ground was dry.

    14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

    15. And God spake unto Noah saying,

    16. Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy son's wives with thee.

    17. bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of 

    cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly

    in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

    18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his son's wives with him:

    19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatever creepeth upon the earth, after

    their kinds went forth out of the ark.

    20. And Noah builded an alter unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,

    and offered burnt offerings on the alter.

    21. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the

    ground anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither

    will I again smite anymore everything living, as I have done.

    22. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and

    day and night shall not cease.

       ( GENESIS 8: 1-22 KJV).

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