Genesis 12-15

     In chapter 12 God calls Abram to leave his country and go to the Egypt. When they got there the land was in famine. They were about to enter Egypt when Abram said to his wife Sarai ''I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you they will kill me and take you, unless you say you are my sister.'' They entered and when Pharaoh's officials saw her they took her to Pharaoh. Then the lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife. Then Pharaoh got mad because Abram lied and told him to leave Egypt.
     In chapter 13 Abram, Lot, and Sarai go to Bethel. Abram and Lot go separate ways so they don't mix up their cattle. Then the lord gives Abram lots of land between where he was and all four directions. Abram build an altar.
     In chapter 14 the kings went to war and took Lot captive. Abram rescued Lot. Melchizedek blessed Abram and Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
     In chapter 15 Abram wants kids, so God appears as a deity and makes a covenant with Abram. They cut animals in half and put them in a ditch and walk through the blood and guts and intestines and organs and bones. God also promises to judge Egypt
     The passage that I picked out of this is in chapter 15:1. God says to Abram in a dream “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
     This verse can be applied to our lives when we have troubles with something like school or at home. Then we just need to remember that God will provide and protect us and his love is unending and unconditional.

    

Genesis 6--9

     In chapter 6 time goes by and the population gets bigger and bigger. God declares that there will be a 120 year limit on a mans life, but not forever just till he floods the earth. The bible talks about the Nephilim and how they could have been angles having children with the women on the earth.Then God saw great wickedness in the people that he had created and he grieved all that he had made. God decieds to wipe the earth clean except for Noah and his family who was favored in Gods eyes. Noah was a righteous man with three sons: Shem, Ham and Japeth. God tells Noah to build an ark of cypress wood. The ark should have three stories with rooms and be coated in pitch inside and out. The kimensional size should be 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high. God tells noah to gather his wife, his sons, and their wives into the ark, along with two of every kind of animal and bird and food for all of them. Noah did that stuff.
     In chapter 7 God goes over the instructions. God opened the fountains of the deep and the heaven's rained down for forty days and forty nights. The waters covered the entire earth, including the highest mountain peak. All the land dwelling animals, birds, and men died. The water covered the earth for 150 days.
     In chapter 8 the rain stopped and the springs of the deep stopped. After forty days Noah sends out a dove, it returns later in the evening with nothing. After another seven days he sends out the dove again and it comes back with a olive branch. Then he sends it out again and the dove does not come back. The waters dry up and Noah and all the animals leave the ark. God makes a promises never to flood the earth again so he made a rainbow.
     In chapter 9 God tells Noah and his sons to repopulate the earth. God makes punishment for people that murder. God promises to never destroy all living things again. Noah plants a vineyard and one day he is drunk and naked in his tent. This next part I have no flippen clue what is going on.
     An application for this would be even when others taunt you for what you believe in, they may not always be right. A specific example of this could be if you study for a test and all your classmates say your wasting your time, but then it turns out the test is today, all that taunting would not matter because in the end you did what you knew was right.

     In genesis:1 God creates the univese in seven "days."On the first day of creation God created the heavens and the earth, but the earth was formless and dark so God said "let their be light" and so it was. One the second day God seperated the waters by adding the sky or a dome. On the third day God said "let the waters be gathered into one place and let dry land appear."On the fourth day God said "let there be light to separate night and day under the dome", God also said " let there be signs to signal the seasons, days, and years." On the fifth day God said “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” On the sixth day God said " bring forth living creatures of every kind" and so it was. On the seventh day God looked at all he had done and new it was good, so he rested.
     In genesis:2 it goes over how God rested on the seventh day. Then it goes into detail about the sixth day, specifically the creation of man.
     In genesis:3 the serpent (saten) comes to Eve and tempted her to eat from the forbidden tree. The serpent says that the fruit from this tree will make her be like God, so Eve takes the fruit eats it and gives some to Adam. Then they realized what they had done and felt shame for being naked, so Adam and Eve hide. God comes and Adam blames Eve for eating from the forbidden tree. God promises that he will send a savior to crush the serpents head. God punishes women by making childbearing painful, and men must now work hard for food. The next thing God says is actually a gift, and that gift is death, as weird as that sounds it is true. Death gets us off of this sin filled world. Next God clothes Adam and Eve and forces them out of the garden. An angel is sent to protect the tree of life so no one will eat from it.
     An application in life could be that when you mess up take the blame and own it. That shows integrity and confidence. An example of this would be if you worked on a group project and the group got a bad grade and you know it was your fault, go out of your way to tell the teacher that.