Download - Jan 1-5-08 The Tempter & Promise
There is no way to tell what length of time is
covered in our first 5 days of reading. Oh, there are ways to figure how many
years are in the human story we read about.
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Where the timing becomes a problem is in
the verses arranged for us to read first. The first is from Peter’s first letter.
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1 Peter 1:18 NET You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your
ancestors you were ransomed —
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not by perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished
and spotless lamb, namely Christ.
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20 He was foreknown before the foundation of
the world but was manifested in these last
times for your sake.
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The translations I looked at used the phrase,
“before the foundation of the world” except the
CEV and it says; “before the world was created.”
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Our next reading is from Paul’s letter to the
Christians in Ephesus.
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Ephesians 3:10 NET The purpose of this
enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of
God should now be disclosed to the rulers
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and the authorities in the heavenly realms. 11 This
was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ
Jesus our Lord,
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The translations I looked at say, “according to the
eternal purpose,” Except the CEV says,
“according to his eternal plan.”
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God made a plan for Jesus, God the Son, to
come to earth and fulfill God’s need to bring
humans (who had not yet been created) back to
Him.
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God’s knowledge is so vast our human minds cannot comprehend.
The word for this ability to be “all knowing” is
omniscience.
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OmniscienceOMNIS'CIENCE, OMNIS'CIENCY,
n. [L. omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.]
The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge;
knowledge unbounded or infinite. Omniscience is an attribute peculiar
to God. (Webster’s)
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Omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God! This is a very important fact. Later in our reading
we will see how NO BEING, not even angels
have this attribute.
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So from this we must conclude not even Satan
processes this ability.
We will not tarry on the Creation of all things.
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We have faith God is all powerful and did create
all things.With this in mind I want
to make you aware, if you’re not already, of the word for “all powerful.”
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Omnipotent OMNIP'OTENT, a. [supra.]
1. Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful. The being that can create worlds must be omnipotent.
2. Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as omnipotent love. (Webster’s)
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I want to get into the meat of why
The Omniscience Godknew He had to have a
plan in place before creating humans.
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Genesis 2:8 NET
The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in
Eden; and there he placed the man he had
formed.
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9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at
and good for food.
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(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in
the middle of the orchard.)
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Genesis 2:16 NET Then the LORD God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree
of the orchard,
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17 but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely
die."
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A command has been issued, “Do Not Eat From That
Tree!”How hard could it be to obey
this one command?It’s not hard…until
temptation is introduced.
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Genesis 3:1 NETThe Temptation and the Fall
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the
LORD God had made.
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He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat
from any tree of the orchard'?"
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2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of
the orchard;
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3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle
of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it,
or else you will die.' "
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4 The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die, 5 for God knows that when you eat from it
your eyes will open
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and you will be like divine beings who know good and
evil." 6 When the woman saw that the tree produced
fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye,
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and was desirable for making one wise, she
took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave
some of it to her husband who was with her, and he
ate it.
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7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they
knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made
coverings for themselves.
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Genesis 3:8 NET The Judgment
Oracles of God at the Fall
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the
LORD God moving about in the orchard
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at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the
LORD God among the trees of the orchard. 9 But the LORD God called to the
man and said to him, "Where are you?"
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10 The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was
afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
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11 And the LORD God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you
eat from the tree that I commanded you not to
eat from?"
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12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some
fruit from the tree and I ate it."
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13 So the LORD God said to the woman, "What is
this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I
ate."
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14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts
and all the living creatures of the field!
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On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your
life. 15 And I will put hostility between you and
the woman
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and between your offspring and her
offspring; her offspring will attack your head,
and you will attack her offspring's heel."
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16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children.
You will want to control your husband, but he will
dominate you."
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17 But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed
your wife and ate from the tree about which I
commanded you,
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'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground
thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all
the days of your life.
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18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to
the ground,
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for out of it you were taken; for you are dust,
and to dust you will return."
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There were consequences for disobedience to God’s command.
Let’s focus on the consequences given the
tempter, the serpent.
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15 And I will put hostility between you and the
woman and between your offspring and her offspring;
her offspring will attack your head, and you will
attack her offspring's heel."
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Do you see God’s plan made before creation
starting to unfold?Humans are promised
salvation from the tempter .
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God’s chosen will destroy the tempter.
Let’s read the same verse from the Message Bible and the Contemporary
English Version.
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Genesis 3:15 MSG I’m declaring war between you and the
Woman, between your offspring and hers. He'll wound your head, you'll
wound his heel."
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Genesis 3:15 CEV You and this woman will hate each
other; your descendants and hers will always be
enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the
heel."
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Notice the singular is used of Eve’s descendant here.
The plan of Jesus,God the Son, dealing with
the tempter and the disobedience, (sin,) that comes from yielding to
temptation is set in motion.
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The tempter has been warned and humans have
been promised relief.The tempter continues to
tempt.You see the tempter is not
omniscience.
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He does not know all so does not foresee the plan
made ready before creation. He has been warned so is aware one of Eve’s offspring will
do him damage.
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But he can’t know who the offspring is, how or
when harm will be done. With this in mind we
understand his continuance to tempt
humans into sin.
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The tempter is good at what he does and he
works hard at it. So hard that approximately 1652
years later God had enough of human’s sins.
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Genesis 6:5 NET But the LORD saw that the wickedness of
humankind had become great on the earth. Every
inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil
all the time.
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6 The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was
highly offended.
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7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created,
from the face of the earth everything from
humankind to animals,
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including creatures that move on the ground and
birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them." 8
But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
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The tempter was so good and so many sins were
being committed by humanity, God decided to wipe them all off the
face of the earth.
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But then there was Noah. Noah was living rightly and found favor in the sight of God. So God decides He will rid the
earth of humanity except Noah and his family.
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Here we find the commission to build the means of escaping death
that would destroy everything in the world.
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Genesis 6:13 NET So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is
filled with violence because of them.
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Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. 14a
Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood.
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We all know the story of Noah and the ark well.
It is important to note the plan laid out before
creation is still needed.
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Noah’s family was barely off the ark before the
tempter struck again and Noah’s son Ham fell to temptation and sinned.
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After this event Noah pronounces curses and blessings on his sons. With these words it is indicated the promised one of Eve will now come from Shem.
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Make note before we read about the curses and
blessings that Canaan is from the family of Ham.Genesis 9:25 NET So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be
to his brothers."
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26 He also said,
"Worthy of praise is the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem!
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27 May God enlarge Japheth's territory and
numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his
slave!"
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Canaan was to be the slave to both Shem & Japheth. Japheth was to live in the
tents of Shem. Share in the blessings
bestowed on Shem. (NIVStudyBibleNotes)
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Japheth’s territory and numbers will be
enlarged.Many commentaries say
this indicates gentiles will come from Japheth.
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Of Shem he says: "Worthy of praise is the LORD,
the God of Shem!” Commentators say this
shows the Jews will come from Shem.
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By the way this is where the word Semites or
Semitics comes from. The Semitics, Jews, turn out to be God’s chosen
people.
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Later in our reading we will see the Messiah,
Jesus Christ, is to come from God’s chosen
people.
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With the tempter getting a toe hold on Ham he
works hard again and before long it’s time for God to shake things up.
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Genesis 11:1 NET
The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel
The whole earth had a common language and a
common vocabulary.
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2 When the people moved eastward, they found a
plain in Shinar and settled there.
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3 Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake
them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of
stone and tar instead of mortar.)
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4 Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a
city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for
ourselves.
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Otherwise we will be scattered across the face
of the entire earth."5 But the LORD came
down to see the city and the tower that the people
had started building.
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6 And the LORD said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they
have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
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7 Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."
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8 So the LORD scattered them from there across
the face of the entire earth, and they stopped
building the city.
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9 That is why its name was called Babel — because
there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the
LORD scattered them across the face of the entire
earth.
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God promised to never kill everything on the earth by flood again. This time He, being
omnipotent, easily takes care of the present
problem by limiting
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the ability to communicate with speech, and also
proximity. He confused their language and
scattered the people all over the earth.
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God prepares a plan before creation for His Son Jesus to shed His blood for humanity.
In a short time span a tempter successfully tempts humans to break a command they’ve been
given.
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A promise is made to the tempter and the humans that one will come
from Eve who will crush the tempter. Not knowing who, when or where the tempter works fast
and furious enough that God cleanses the world in a great flood.
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Noah is a righteous man so he and his family are saved along
with pairs of animals all to repopulate the earth.
Barely out of the ark the tempter strikes again and Ham falls to
sin.
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In Noah’s curses and blessings we find
indication the one who will crush the tempter will come from God’s people, Semitics, Jews, descendants of Shem.
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The tempter works fast and furious again. This
time causing The Omnipotent to confuse
humanities’ language and scatter them around the
entire earth.
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In the next couple week’s readings we will see how God allows the tempter to really test a servant of
God’s named Job.
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Satan, the tempter is still always at work. It’s
good to know The Lord followed through with
His plan. Jesus did pay the price to redeem us because we all have
given in to the tempter at one time or another.