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Sunday Morning Service

Genesis 3 gives us the Fall of man (Adam and Eve's sin), the first prophetic verse of a coming Messiah, and the expelling of man from the Garden of Eden. The result of the Fall of man was a seed war (as L.A. Marzulli likes to call it) between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. This is an important subject that not only goes thru the entire Bible, but the affects of it can be seen in our world today.

Sunday Morning Service

We begin a study thru The Revelation of Jesus Christ. John the Apostle wrote the things he saw and heard when he was shown the risen, glorified Christ, the throne room and the events that will take place during Daniel's 70th Week, the Tribulation Period. Today we are in chapter 1, which is the first section of the book. Verse 19 of chapter 1 gives the outline of the book: things you have seen (past), things that are (present), and things that will be after these things (future). God gives the information to Jesus, who gives it to an angel, who then gives it to John.

Hebrews 7 deals with Melchizedek and Jesus being our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. The first Biblical reference of Melchizedek from Genesis 14 is reviewed. The most popular view of Melchizedek in Genesis is that it was a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ. Dr. Johnson has written a book, the Ancient Order of Melchizedek in which he presents the order of Melchizedek as being a list, or order, of human men from Adam to Jacob, after which the offices of Priest and King were separated into two different tribes of Israel. Then when Jesus came and is now our High Priest, seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven, He is now our final and eternal High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek and will reunite the offices of Priest and King to Himself.

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Chapter 2 of Genesis covers the same things from chapter 1, but it gives more detail. We see about Eve's creation and her relationship with Adam. We also discuss the 7 days of Creation week and refer to the typology of the 7 days in a work week, the 7 Feasts of the LORD, and the teaching found in the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Patriarchs and early church fathers of 7000 years of mans history prior to the creation of the new heavens and earth.

We look at verses of encouragement from Psalms 1, 31, 61, 91, and 121

Jude is a one-chapter book right before the book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Jude was a brother of James and half brother of Jesus, but he introduces himself as a bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ, just like James did. Jude is often called the Acts of the Apostates because of Jude talking of judgment coming upon them for their actions. He compares the dreamers as he calls them and their actions to three groups of people; the unbelieving and disobedient Israelites going through the wilderness, the rebellious and fallen angels who cohabitated with women in Genesis chapter 6, and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Jude also is interesting because of its chiastic pattern as sometimes found in Hebrew writing. That pattern is a symmetrical form in which the first verse or verses of the chapter coincide with the last verse or verses and the others follow the pattern till there is one particular theme or subject in the middle of the chapter.

The first portion of Hebrews 6 deals with believers bearing fruit. The last portion of the chapter deals with God's promise and oath to Abraham as an object lesson and encouragement to us that we have an anchor of the soul also based upon God's promises and oaths that our salvation is eternal.

Sunday Morning Service

We begin our study on "The Beginnings" in Genesis chapter 1. We also mention that one particular chronological Bible actually starts with John 1:1-2, then goes to Psalm 90:2 before getting to Genesis1:1. It also then presented from Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 to indicate satan's rebellion and fall prior to creation of earth and man. We will find several Scriptural principles in the first part of Genesis that will carry all the way through the Bible to their culmination in the book of The Revelation. Some of those principles we find in chapter 1 are: - God's creation instead of evolution - God created male and female; only two genders

3rd John is written to Gaius, a member of a church body. John encourages him to give hospitality and support those who have a good witness and testimony. He tells Gaius not to imitate those who do evil but to imitate those who do good. John had additional things to share with him but wanted to share them in person rather than by additional information in the letter.

Hebrews 5 presents Jesus as our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. In this capacity, He is again presented as superior to the Levitical Priesthood. The writer of Hebrews ends the chapter with sadness over his readers not having matured in the Scriptures and still needing a milk diet. This prepares us for his theme in the next chapter of moving on to more mature Scriptural principles