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The Peace of the Lord Jesus! I would like 
to give an overview of the book of Genesis.

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How are we going to understand a book that 
has 50 chapters?

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Well, these 50 chapters can be divided into 
two main parts:

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the first part goes from chapter 1 to 11, 
which tells the story of all humanity,

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and [the second part] from chapter 12 to 
chapter 50 speaks of the origin of the Hebrew 
and Arab peoples.

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Generally speaking, we will divide [the study] 
into eight parts to facilitate,

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but before that I would like to show you 
the importance of this book of Genesis. Why?

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Because only in the first 11 chapters there 
is about 2 thousand years of history,

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that is, it certainly has a lot of revelation 
in these first 11 chapters of the Bible.

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From chapter 12 of Genesis to Malachi there 
are the next 2 thousand years of history!

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There are only 11 chapters for 2 thousand 
years of history, there has to be a lot, 
a lot of mystery, and God speaks of this 
in Isaiah 46, let's read it…

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Isaiah 46: 9,10: “Remember the former things 
long past, For I am God, and there is no 
other; I am God, and there is no one like 
Me,

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Declaring the end  [pay attention to what 
God is saying: "I announce the end"] from 
the beginning, [from the beginning God is 
announcing the end]

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And from ancient times things which have 
not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be 
established, And I will accomplish all My 
good pleasure';”

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If God says that He announces the end from 
the beginning,

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we need to look at these first 11 chapters 
and understand that there’s a lot about the 
Revelation [end times], for example.

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It is not for nothing that Jesus gives very 
important examples of the Book of Genesis 
that will happen in the future, alright?!

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One is in the first 11 chapters, which is 
the story of Noah. Jesus says that [at the 
end of time] it will be like in the days 
of Noah, remember that?

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So there [in the Flood] God was talking about 
the end. And then Jesus says it will be like 
in the days of Lot...

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From chapter 12 to 50 tells the story of 
Abraham [and his descendants], and you will 
remember that Lot accompanied Abraham,

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and Jesus says: “it was the same as in the 
days of Lot”, then God is from the beginning.

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Now let's go to the biblical overview of 
Genesis, okay?! I'm going to leave my Bible 
here so we can start…

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Well, the first part [of the study] will 
be divided like this: “Event”, “Biblical 
Reference” and “Main ‘Characters’” of the 
biblical excerpt.

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The first event, of course, is the creation 
of all things. And it is something beautiful 
because it says: “In the beginning God created 
the heavens and the earth”.

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Whenever you read the Bible you have to keep 
this in mind:

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When? "At the beginning". What happened? 
a creation. Who made this? "God!" What did 
he do? “The heavens and the earth”.

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So start to ask questions to the text and 
you will start to understand a little more 
about the Bible.

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things like: Who was there, what He was doing, 
what was the purpose, why, where and when. 
So God opens up your understanding, alright?!

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Look, the Creation is in chapters 1 and 2…

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I will teach you how to read biblical references: 
when you have a chapter number followed by 
a comma [example: 1, 2], it means that it 
is that first chapter and the chapter 2 as 
well.

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When you have a chapter number followed by 
a “dash” [example: 3-5],

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it means that the reference starts on the 
first mentioned chapter to the last mentioned 
chapter, in sequence [so, in the example, 
the reference includes chapters 3, 4, and 
5].

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So Creation is in chapters 1 and 2, and Who 
is the main character? God!

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The Father and the Son were there working 
on the creation, you will see that the next 
verse says this: "and the Spirit of God was 
hovering over the face of the waters".

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The Spirit of God is also called in the epistles 
of [Peter] as “Spirit of Christ who was in 
the prophets”,

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that it is the Holy Spirit who was in the 
prophets, inspiring them, that is, placing 
the Word of God in the hearts of the prophets 
so that they would write to us.

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So the main character there is God, interesting 
is that the word "in the beginning created 
God", the word "God" is "ʼĕlôhîym" [Hebrew], 
which is a plural word and not a singular 
word.

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Why? Because there was not just a “person” 
creating, but there was one God creating.

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And you will notice this when we study Genesis, 
chapter 1:

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The Father created all things, the Son created 
all things, all through the Holy Spirit who 
was hovering over the waters.

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Now for the second event: The Fall... The 
fall of man.

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The fall from its original state, from a 
wonderful state, and then man fell because 
of sin.

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This section will be covered from chapter 
3 to chapter 5.

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Who are the main characters in this fall? 
Adam, Eve and the serpent, which is Satan.

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The figure of this animal, that we see in 
Revelation 12 being mentioned as a "great 
red dragon",

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and says that he is nothing more than the 
ancient serpent, which is the devil and Satan.

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So, this devil, Satan, who deceives everyone, 
in the beginning he was just a snake, just 
a snake,

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but at the end of the story he’s a big red 
dragon, see what a diabolical transformation, 
see what an increase in evil power, isn’t 
it?!

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But let's continue... The Flood is the next 
important event, which appears from chapters 
6 to 9.

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It would be important for you to make a table 
like this [in the whiteboard]…

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to follow this course I suggest buying a 
notebook to make notes, every table we create 
here you copy on your notebook.

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This will add you a lot and it will become 
a good research book for you.

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The Flood, in chapters 6 to 9, and main character: 
Noah.

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Noah is the main character in this excerpt. 

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Then we have the next event which is the 
Tower of Babel, you can find it in chapters 
10 and 11. The main character is Nimrod.

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Nimrod is the important character in this 
text here, and when I say “important character” 
it doesn't mean that the character is good 
or bad,

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it does not mean that he is a good person 
or a bad person, but that it is important 
within the context of the subject, alright?!

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We have here in the next four biblical passages 
the Patriarchs, where the Hebrew and Arab 
peoples originate, alright?!

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So here we have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) 
and Joseph.

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The main narrative about the Abraham story 
begins in chapter 12 through chapter 24, 
okay?!

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Chapters 25 and 26 speak of Isaac, very little, 
only these two more specific chapters on 
Isaac,

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but it stands to reason that there are other 
chapters that talk about him as well…

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From chapters 27 to 36 the main subject is 
a man named Jacob, that God changed his name 
to Israel, it is from him that the nation 
of Israelites arises, alright?!

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Later God promised the land that belonged 
to Canaan.

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From chapter 37 to the end of Genesis, which 
ends in chapter 50, we read the story of 
the great Joseph.

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These are considered Patriarchs. What is 
“Patriarch”?

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They are the heads of families, they are 
the ones who originate their families.

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The word “head of the family”, you will find, 
for example, in First Chronicles, in chapter 
8, verse 28.

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The word "householder" is translated from 
the word "rô’sh" [Hebrew], which means "beginning", 
"first", "founder", "head"...

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And it’s worth remembering that there are 
many patriarchs of families,

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but from the nation of Israel, Peter quotes, 
in Acts 2:29, David as one of the patriarchs 
of Israel and this is very important for 
you to know, alright?!

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So here we have an important table only on 
the biblical panorama

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and I'm going to leave a space here for you 
to pause and make note of this table, ok?!

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And one thing that I would like to highlight 
is that every video we make about a particular 
chapter,

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we will put in the video description that 
chapter [in its entirety] for you to read, 
if you haven’t already,

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and also some of the verses being cited in 
the video so that you can make your notes, 
okay?!

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May God bless you and we continue on our 
next video...