1. Cracking the Genesis Code

In this opening presentation, Pastor Bohr studies the meaning and importance of the book of Genesis. He shows how it is the seed planting plot for all the rest of the Bible, which develops the principles and truths planted in Genesis until the tree is fully grown in the book of Revelation. Genesis, then, is the code form of the mature tree and must be studied in order to crack the code and open up the wonderful truths in the rest of the Bible. Satan knows this, so he has attacked this book by influencing many influential theologians and commentaries to call much of the book myth and legend and by mixing the ideas of evolution that have permeated the modern world into the teachings of many in the church.

Pastor Bohr shows how every New Testament writer refers to the book as fact and how they comment on all of its stories, thus showing clearly that if you get rid of the authority of Genesis, you must also doubt the authenticity of the rest of Scripture. The central theme of the great controversy between Christ and Satan is first revealed in Genesis 3:15, which is the core text for this seminar. This war is developed in Genesis in the story of Cain and Abel and many similar conflicts between the seed of God and the seed of the evil one that have their counterparts on a larger and grander scale at the first coming of Christ and also at the very end of time, thus making each literal story of Genesis also a prophecy of similar future events. Pastor Bohr shows how this prophetic aspect, so often ignored, is the secret to unlocking the Genesis code.

Let us pray:

Our Father in Heaven

As we open the book of Genesis, we ask

for guidance from on high

Show us the wondrous things from this book

We pray this in the precious name of Jesus, our Lord and Savoir. Amen.

The book of Genesis is the book about origins.

In fact, the name Genesis means precisely that: origins

Now allow me to mention as we begin our study today the things which the book of Genesis mentions as originating

First of all, we have the origins of the cosmos

That is, of the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1:1. We have the origins of plants, spoken of in Genesis chapter 1.

We have the origins of animals

We have the origin of man, the origin of woman

The origin of sin, the beginning of the origin of death, the beginning of the origin of redemption

The beginning of nations, the beginning of languages, the beginning of Israel and even the beginning of the Arabs, or the Arabic nations.

These are just some of the beginnings that we find mentioned in the book of Genesis.

So the book of Genesis is very important because it goes way back into pre-history as we know it, to describe

the origins of everything which exists

upon this earth

Now allow me to give you a little bit about the timeline of Genesis. The book of Genesis

describes the first 2500

years of human history. I believe as I've examined the contents of the book that

it was written by Moses and actually

it was written approximately 1500 years

before the birth of Jesus

and so you can imagine that the book of Genesis was actually

describing events that took place approximately

the year 4000BC - four thousand before Christ

And actually, it was written 1500

years before Jesus Christ was born

The book of Genesis presents a short chronology

of planet Earth. In other words, it does not allow for long periods of millions of years where God is creating

what is known as "progressive creationism". The book of Genesis teaches that

this planet is approximately 6,000

years old, from the moment in which God began to create upon it.

And I'd just like to tell you up front from the very beginning that in this seminar,

I take the book of Genesis as literal history

I believe that it represents a short time span

For the events that are described in it. In other words,

we don't have to go back millions of years to find out the origin

of things in this world. All we have to do is go

back approximately 6,000 years to find

the events for example that are described in Genesis Chapter 1, and chapter 2

The book of Genesis is the seed plot of the bible

Allow me to explain what I mean

One of my favorite national parks in all the United States

is the one that we have just up the mountain

Sequoia National Park. I just enjoy going up there

and unwinding, and taking it easy for a whole day

breathing some fresh air especially when its foggy here in the valley

And I just enjoy, uh going for example to the grant tree and to the general Sherman tree and just

standing there underneath these trees. It's amazing!

Some of them are almost 3,000 years old. Can you imagine a tree that's almost 3,000 years old?

And they are hundreds of feet tall

And I am just am awed every time I go up there

And I stand under these trees and I see how thick they are

and how high they go, and I'm just amazed

But have you ever stopped to think, that

the might Sequoia, for example the general sherman tree

actually came from a

little seed?

Have you ever stopped to think that that whole tree

that you find up there, the general sherman tree in Sequoia National Park

actually was enclosed

in cold form, sort of speak

in that little seed, and the seed sprouted, and

it produced after almost 3,000 years

this gigantic tree. In other words, the

Sequoia tree was contained in that seed.

Thats the relationship between Genesis and the

rest of the bible. The book of Genesis has the seeds

The rest of the bible is the development and growth

of those seeds, and eventually, the growth

reaches its climax or its fullness

in the book of Revelation.

In other words, we're not

going to stay in this seminar in the book of Genesis. We're going

to begin in Genesis in each lecture, and we're going

to study these seeds and then we're going to see

how these seeds develop throughout the course of the

whole bible. Now, the bok of Revelation

is a very important book to study along with Genesis

You notice for example in the brochure that many of you received

in the mail or perhaps in the newspaper, or maybe somebody gave

you one of the brochures, you notice there that this seminar

is not only about Geneiss, it is also about the book of

Revelation. You see, I beleive that we cannot understand

the book of Revelation unless we understand the book of

Genesis. We can never understand the end

unless we understand first of all the beginning.

Because the end is simply the culmination of a process

which began way back in the book of Genesis.

Allow me to give you an example of the relationship

between Gensis and Revelation. We'll study these things more

fully a little bit ater on, but I want to show you a couple of the examples

so that you can see how important it is for us

to compare and to inter-relate Genesis with

Revelation. Go with me, in your bibles

to Genesis Chapter 3 and verse 15.

And by the way, on the lists of texts that you have there is in parenthesis, a page number

which will make it a lot easier

for you to find the bible verses as we move along

because the people have heard me say that I go awful fast, but

with the list, you'll know exactly where we're going, so you'll be able to

one up on me. You'll be able to look up the next text actually before I

even mention it. Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15

This is immediately after sin. I want you to notice

what it says. God speaking: And I will put enmity between

you, that is the serpent, and the woman,

and between your seed

and her seed

Now let's stop there for a moment. We have four elements

in what we've read from this verse so far. First of all,

is enmity or war. Secondly,

there is a serpent whom God is speaking to

in this verse. In the 3rd palce, we have a woman because there's war between the serpent and the

woman. And in the 4th place, we have the seed. We actually two seeds

The seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman. So we have these four

elements: enmity, serpent, woman, and

seed. And I want you to notice that the enmity runs

between the serpent and the woman, between the seed of the

serpent and the seed of the woman, and between the seed of the woman

and the serpent. Let's notice this verse again.

God says, "I will put enmity between you

the serpent, and the woman. There's the first enmity--the serpent and the woman

And between, your seed--that is the serpent

seed and her seed. So you have enmity between the serpent and woman and between seed and seed

But that's not the real warfare. Even though there is warfare

The critical and most important warfare is between the seed of the woman

and the serpent, because the last part of the verse says

He, that is the seed of hte woman, will bruise

your head, the serpent's head, and you

will bruise his heel. So the enmity runs three

ways. Serpent vs. woman, seed of the

serpent vs. seed of the woman, and the seed of the woman vs.

the serpent. There's no way in the world that we can understand

a chapter like Revelation 12 without

comprehending Genesis 3:15. Because in

Revelation chapter 12, I'll just mention it, we have

a couple of lectures on Revelation chapter 12

You see, in Revelation 12, we have

a child who is born to a woman

And standing next to this woman who is about to bear the child

is a dragon who is identified as the ancient

serpent the devil and Satan. And it says that he

wants to devour the child as soon as the child is born

The child of the woman. Do you see Genesis 3:15

in that passage in revelation chapter 12?

versus 1-5? Very clear.The warfare was going

to be between the seed of the woman and the serpent

And that's exactly what you have in Revelation 12:1-5

But Revelation 12 doesn't end there. Later on in the chapter,

when the child is caught up to God and the throne, which refers to

the ascension of Christ, we're told that now the woman

flees into the wilderness and the serpent is

after the woman. And later on

even in this chapter, in verse 17, we find

that the final warfare is no longer against he woman, but

against the seed's seed. In other words,

the seed of the woman's seed, and so there's no

way that we can really understand, uh, Genesis

chapter 3:15 uness we find the greatest development

in Revelation chapter 12, as well as other pasages

that we find in the New Testament. Now, allow me to give you one

other example. Genesis chapter 2

and verse 24. Genesis chapter 2, and verse

actually its verse 25.

Speaking about Adam and Eve,

it says, "And they were both naked, the man

and his wife, and were not ashamed."

We're going to find in our seminar that the reason they were not ashamed

is because they were not covered with human garments, but

made out of material. They were actually covered by

the glorious light of God. They had no artificial

garments. They were naked with respect to garments made out of

satin, or made out of other material. They were covered

with the glory of God. They wer covered with the light of

God. The same type of garments that God has according to

Psalms 104. And that's the reason why they were not ashamed.

But then in Genesis 3:7, we find that Adam

and Eve sinned, and suddenly we find them hiding from

God. And now they are ashamed even though

they've covered themselves with fig leaves. They still don't

feel like the fig leaves are covering their nakedness because the light has

gone away from them. And so they're hiding from God even though they

have covered the nakedness of their bodies with fig leaves, they know that their nakedness

is nakedness of soul. And do you know what God

does? In Genesis 3:21, it says that God makes

garments of skins and clothed

Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness.

Now there's a text in the book of Revelation

which we could never understand

unless we catch this background from Genesis

chapter 3. And that is the

central verse in the passage that deals with the battle of Armageddon.

You know there's a lot of talk today about Armageddon

What it's going to be? What nations it's going to involve, what the issues

are in this great battle. And I've heard a lot of

books written by many different scholars on the battle of Armageddon. In fact, we're

gonna have a whole lecture later on in this series, on the battle of Armageddon.

But you know what I find interesting? Most of those

commentaries with very few exceptions, dea

with all sorts of issues connected with the battle

of Armageddon. They talk for example, about the kings of the east

And they talk about the drying up of the river Euphrates, and they

talk about the three evil spirits like frogs coming

up out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. They have a lot to say about

all of these things. But there's one verse which very

rarely is even commented on, and it deals with

with the central issue in the battle of Armageddon.

And it shows that we must study Genesis in order

to understand it. Go with me to Revelation 16 and verse

15, and you'll see this.

Revelation chapter 16 and verse 15. Right

in the middle of the passage

on the sixth plague of Revelation,

and while you're looking for that text, allow me to say this,

this is the only place, where

Jesus speaks in the book of Revelation between

Chapter 3 and chapter 21

The only verse--if you have a red letter edition of the bible

where it gives the words that are spoken by Jesus, you'll find that the last words

of Jesus are in Chapter 3. The next time that Jesus

speaks is in chapter 21 with the exception

of Revelation 16 and verse 15. Do you

figure that if Jesus-- that if this is the only place that Jesus speaks

between revelation 3 and revelation 21, that it must be a very important

verse? Obviously! Notice what we find

there in Revelation chapter 16 and verse 15:

Jesus is speaking. Behold, I am coming

as a thief. Blessed is

he who watches and keeps

his garments lest

he walk naked and they see

his shame. Now you tell me. Is that verse

have anything to do with Genesis chapter 3? You have the same elements

You have garments, you have nakedness, and you have shame.

Obviously, there's going to be some people at the end of time

living during the period of the battle of Armageddon who are going

to be found naked and their shame will be revealed

just like Adam and Eve. But you cannot understand what this

means in the end time unless you first understand what

happened with Adam and Eve in Genesis because at the end of time

there's gonna be a repetition of what happened in the book of Genesis

These are just two examples of how

Genesis is very intricately entwined

with the book of Revelation. Now

this question frequently comes up when we study the book of Genesis, and that is

is the book of Genesis really

literal history? Or is the book of Genesis legend, myth, or as Carol Bath

the great theologian said, "saga"?

I want to tell you upfront that I believe that the book of Genesis

from Genesis 1:1 through the end of chapter

50 is dealing with literal historical

events. In fact, it might surprise

some of you to know that up till the age of the englightenment

in the 18th century--if you go before the eighteenth century,

you'll find that practically every scholar

that ever wrote on the book of Genesis believed that book of Genesis

was actual, literal, history

as it took place

But in the age of enlightenment appeared

historical criticism

and appeared the scientific method and so they

started applying the scientific method and historical criticism to God's

Holy word besides doing it to the natural world

and to documents that had been written in antiquity, and for this reason,

many of the scholars came to the conclusion that the book of Geneiss

particularly chapters 1-11 were not describing real

literal hisotry. I saw this problem

very clearly a few years ago when I was

at a speaking committment up in Berrien Springs, Michigan

there's the university where I went to

school. They have a fantastic theological library.

with hundreds of thousands of books. And of course, I only had

to speak in the evening. And during the daytime, I took advantage and went to the

library for aobut 8 or 9 hours a day doing research

for this series on the book of Genesis. And as I examined

the commentaries that were written on the book of Genesis

there's something which really struck me. And that's

is that most of the commentators really

did not believe in the historicity of the book of Genesis.

They did not believe that it's literal history.

And these were Christian commentators who were actually writing

on the book of Genesis. In fact, I had to

snicker when I was uh, researching the story

of Eve and the serpent which spoke to Eve

and a scholar, several of them actually, said the reason

why this story was included in Genesis is to

explain the reason why people are afraid of snakes

and then I went on to story of Cain and Abel.

And severeal of the authors said the reason

why you have the story of Cain and Abel in the book of Genesis is to

explain the origin of sibling rivalry

and then I continued studying and got to Genesis chapter 11

where it speaks about the Tower of Babel, the confusion of the languages

and the commentaries said this did not

really happen in history. This idea that

they tried to build a tower and God confused their languages.

The scholar said the reason why this story was written

was in order to explain why in the world you had so many

different languages, and so on

Most of the scholars that I read would be called

liberal scholars. They do not beleive in the

full inspiration of scripture. And therefore, they do not belive

that the stories of Genesis are really literal history

Is the book of Genesis though literal history?

Let me share this with you, folks! If we

don't beleive that the book of Gensis is dealing with literal history events

we are not only impuning

the veracity of Moses. We are impuining

the veracity of Peter, and

Paul and Steven and Luke

and Jesus. Do you realize

that every single story

without exception in the book of Genesis

is repeated as literal history in the new testament by the new testament authors?

Many of these events in Genesis are told

by Jesus in the gospels. Let's notice for example

Matthrew chapter 19 and verses 4

through 6. Matthre chapter 19 and verses 4-6.

Here Jesus is speaking about the origin of

marriage. And notice what we find there--Genesis chapter

19 and verse 4.

And he that is Jesus answered

and said to them, Have you not read

that He who made them at the beginning made them

male and female, and said

For this reason a man shall leave his father

and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two

shall become one flesh? So then, they are no longer

two but one flesh. THerefore, what God

has joined together, let no man separate.

Question: Did Jesus believe

that there was a literal marriage originally in Genesis

between Adam and Eve? He most certainly did!

And if you say that that story is myth or legend

or saga, you are not only impuining the veracity of Moses,

you are questioning the veracity of our Lord and Savior,

Jesus Christ! Notice also,

Matthew chapter 24:37-39

Just a few examples here. Matthew 24:

37-39. This is

speaking about the flood in the days of Noah. It's called

Noah's flood, but it really was the Lord's flood. Notice

Matthew verse 24 and beginning with verse 37

But as the days of Noah were,

so also will the coming of the Son

of Man be. For as in the days before the flood,

they were eating and drinking, marrying

and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah

entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came

and took them all away. So also

will the coming of the Son of Man be. Did Jesus,

believe that the flood in the days of Noah actually

took place hisotrically? He did.

By the way, if you don't believe that the flood took place historically,

you don't have any basis for believing that Jesus is telling the truth when he says he's gonna come

again. Because he says, as it was back then,

so will it be. But if that back then didn't happen, what makes

you think that what he predicted in the future is going to happen?

Let's notice another couple of examples. First,

John chapter 3 and verse 12

You'll notice that

we're using scripture a lot tonight, and the list that you got tonight is a short list.

We're going to be using a lot of scripture here in the future

lectures of the seminar. Notice 1 John 3

and verse 12

It says there,

And not as Cain who was

of the wicked one and murdered his

brother. And why did he murder him?

Because his works were evil and his brother's

righteous. Question: Did the apostle

John who wrote 1st John beleive that the story

of Cain and Abel was literal history? He most certainly

did. Because it tells us here that Cain

killed his brother Abel. So

John beleived that this was a real, historical, occurance

Let's notice another example. Hebrews chapter

11 and verse 5. Hebrews 11:5

Here we find a very interesting

person mentioned. Actually, he's not mentioned

very freuently in scrpture. The bible tells us that

he was caught away to heaven. In fact, he never suffered death

accoridng to Genesis 5 compared to Hebrews chapter 11

his name was Enoch. Now notice Hebrews

chapter 11 and verse 5. By faith

Enoch was taken away so that

he did not see death. And was not

found, because God had taken him. For

before he was taken, he had this testimony, that

he pelased God. NOw let me ask

you: Did the author of the book of Hebrews believe that Enoch

was a real historical person? He most certainly did! And by the wa,

I believe that the author of the book of Hebrews was the apostle Paul

I believe that there's plenty of internal evidence to that fact. So did

Paul believe that Enoch was areal historical person?

He most certainly did! Let's notice one further example

and by the way, in the reference material that you'll receive this evening, you're going

to find half a page of references in the New Testament to every

single event and person in the book of Genesis

You have Abraham, you have Issaac, you have Jacob,

you have Joseph, you have the twelve sons of Jacob,

I mean, you have every single event in the book of

Genesis repeated somewhere in the New Testament. Notice

Luke chapter 3. This will be the last example

that we'll give of the importance of believing in the historicity of the

book of Genesis. Luke chapter 3 has

the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

And I want you to notice--we're only going to read two verses

Chapter 3 and verse 23 and then we're going to

jump down to verse 38. It says in verse 3,

Now Jesus himself began his ministry at about

thirty years of age, being as was supposed

the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, and then it continues

giving the genealogy, "the son of, the son of, the son of.."

And I want you to notice how the list ends in verse 38.

It says there, the son of Enosh

the son of Seth, the son of Adam

the son of God. Do you believe that Jesus

was a literal historical personage? Do you think that Jesus existed

in history? Well we have proof from secular

historians that Jesus did exist. Now you notice that this

genealogy actually begins with Jesus

and ends with whom? Ends with Adam.

NOw was Jesus a real, literal, historical person?

He most certainly was! So must Adam also be a

literal, historical person? Obviously, yes! You can't have it

one way iwth Adam and another way with Jesus.

Jesus is a real historical person, so is Adam.

By the way, you'll notice in this genealogy that the roots of Jesus

are traced all the way back from His day to

Adam. And you don't have long periods of millions

of years in between according to this genealogy.

And so I believe that it is of extreme importance

for us to believe in the historicy of the book of

Genesis. It is not myth, it is not legend.

It is not saga. It is real,

history. NOw, allow me to

mention a few things about the disciples that are

addressed in the book of Genesis. Do you know that hte book of Genesis addresses

at least in seminal form, most of the

disciplines that are studied in universities today. Allow me to give you a

list quickly. The book of Genesis has a lot to say about

theology. You know, if people believe the book of Genesis,

there won't be any atheist in the world, because the book of Genesis

begins by saying, "In the beginning, God created the heavens

and the earth." That is a theological statment. The book of Genesis

does not try to prove the existance of God. The book of Genesis

takes the existence of God for granted. It makes this

wonderful theological statement. The book of Genesis has

a lot to say about cosmology--the origins of the heavens

and the earth. You can find that in chapter 1 verses 6 through

8. The book of Genesis actually speaks about the

origin of chronology or time. Because after

each day of creation, it says that God,

God saw that what he had made was good, and it was the evening

and the morning of the first day, and the second day, the third day, and so on

And in Genesis chapter 1, it speaks about God making

the son, the moon, and the stars to establish the season

and periods of the year. You can find that in chapter 1

So in order words, God created chronology. He created months

He created years, and he created days, as the

frame of reference of time in this earth. You also

find in the book of Genesis, the origins of geography.

Where the dry land came from. You see,

it tells us in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2 that the earth was

compltely covered with water before creation. But God was the one who made the earth

Geography! The book of Genesis also addresses

the issue of botany. It says that every plant reproduces

according to its kind. And that is true even till

this day. Every plant reproduces according to its

kind! So Genesis definitely has somethign to say aobut

the origins of trees and plants and the grass.

The book of Genesis actually speaks about the origin of

zoology--the study of animals. And by the way,

the book of Genesis indicates that all of the animals were created "adults" so to

speak. All of the animals were created on the fifth and

the sixth day, adults! They did not take millions

of years to evolve according the book of Genesis. Go

God spoke and on the fifth day, the birds and the fish appeared

God spoke, and on the sixth day, the land animals

appeared. So the book of Genesis indicates that man

is not the end of a long evoluitonary process

where we come from primates, and the primates came from lower forms of life

The book of Genesis simply says that clearly, and

directly that God spoke, and things

were done. And so the book of Genesis deals with

zoology and it says that every animal reproduces according to its kind. THat

is also a scientifically true statment

The book of Genesis has a lot to say about anthropology--

the study of man. In fact, it speaks about the origin of

man and woman and it speaks about how

Adam was taken from the dust, and I believe that that's a literal

story. That God took clay and he formed Adam and

he took a rib from Adam and he made Eve. And you say, that kinda

unscientific. Well the fact is, that scientists weren't there.

And if we have faith in God's word,

Faith means having faith and trusting what God says

We'll have absolutely no problem with that story. The book of Genesis says

has a lot to say about sociology. Why do people

get married today? And why do they have children? Why

do we have this uproar recently about a man marrying a man, and a woman marrying a woman?

It's because that's contrary to what we find in

the book of Genesis. God established the ideal social

circle. He established marriage. The marriage between a

man and a woman, to have children, within a family unit

And Genesis has the origins of that.

The book of Genesis has a lot to say about psychology, believe it or not!

It would be interesting for you sometime to sit down and look at all the

psychological concepts that you find in the book of Genesis. It's amazing!

You know, psychologists today try to solve the problem of depression

and low self esteem and fear with all sorts of

gimmicks, and methodologies. The fact is, that we're going to

notice in our study tomorrow that the origin of fear

and the origin of a low self concept

nad the origin of strife in marriage

and the origin of strife between brother and brother

like in the case of Cain and Abel, is not due

to some psychological malfunciton. It is due to

sin. And unless a counselor

deals with the issue of sin, the problem

will not be resolved. Genesis has a lot to say

about psychology. The book of Genesis has a lot to say about Geology.

The study of the earth. You know, you have

scientists today who don't believe that there was a universal flood

I believe that you have to study the story of the flood in order to be

read the earth correctly. Because at the flood

the earth went through huge changes. In fact, if you

read in Chapter 8 of Genesis, God caused a mighty wind to

blow and that mighty wind, you know

buried everything that was on the surface of the earth. In other words, you had a

an upheaval of the earth. You know, we all probalby

have seen the graphic pictures on television

of the Tsunami. Have you noticed that? The devastation

the destruction? And that was just a tidal wave in a

certain region of he world. Can you imagine what

it must have been like, to have this whole world

totally covered with water? With a huge

storm that lasted forty days and forty nights? Where the bible

says that out of the earth came gushing forth

jets of water, and the windows of heaven were opened?

The earth was in turmoil. No wonder science today cannot

read the eath in teh correct

way. Because the earth is nothing like it was at the beginning

And so in order to get a true concept of

geology, we must make reference to the book of Genesis.

The book of Geneiss addresses the issue of philology--the

study of languages. It tells us where languages originated.

The book of Genesis has a description of Ethnology--the

origin of nations. In fact, in Genesis chapter 10, we have

the table of Nations, which describes the origin of all of the nations

that have ever existed on planet earth.

The book of Geneisis also addresses some very important existential

questions. Like you noticed in your hand bill, we're going to be

dealing with all of these issues as we go along in this seminar.

How did I get here? Why am I here?

Does my life have meaning and purpose?

Is there really a God who loves me?

You know, lots of people after the Tsunami

says, "If there's a God like that, you know ,I don't even want to believe

in a God like that. And if a God like that exists,

then I certainly don't want to serve Him." The fact is,

Is God good? And why is there so much evil

if God is good? We'll have a whole lecture when we're going to decode

the paradox of good and evil. We're going to answer the question, "How can

I experience personal people in a world of strife?" Everybody's

nervous today. Everybody is anxious about perhaps another terrorist

attack. Or homeland security. How

can we live life and experience perosnal peace

in all of the strife that surrounds us? How can I enjoy quality time

in the rat race of life? What happens the moment I die?

If I die, will I live again? Is there

really a better world coming? Is there such a thing

as absolute truth? If there is absolute truth, how

can I find it? How can I enjoy life

filled with health and with prosperity? All of these issues

are addressed very carefully in the book of Genesis.

Now, did you know that hte book of Genesis

is actualltye story of two seeds?

And we're going to further develop this concept of the

two seeds. It begins in Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you an the woman. See the two

sides there? The serpent and the woman.

Between the serpents seed and the womans' seed. See, there you have the two again.

He, the seed of the woman, will

bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.

You see the controversy and the conflict there? Between

serpent and woman?

Seed and seed? Seed and serpent?

The story of Genesis which is developed in the rest of scripture has to do

with a battle between two seeds.

Not only do you have this in Genesis 3:15,

But you also have it in the story of Cain and Abel. Do you know the first

example of Genesis 3:15 is in the story of Cain and Abel?

You say, "How is that?"

Well, lets look for the four elements. Is there a woman in the story of Cain and Abel?

Sure. It's Eve! She's the mother of both of them.

Do you have in the story of Cain and Abel enmity?

You most certainly do!

Cain gets angry and hates his brother.

Do you have in the story of Cain and Abel, two seeds?

That are totally unlike, one good and one evil?

Absolutely! And do you know that even the serpent

is involved in the story of Cain and Abel? Not directly in Genesis

If you go to 1 John 3:12, which we've already read,

it says, "Not as Cain who was of the wicked one."

So the one who wanted Abel dead

was not only Cain, it was the wicked one of whom Cain

was the seed. So you have this enmity

between Cain and Abel. A little bit later on in the book

you have this illicit relationship between the sons of God

and the daughters of men. We're going to deal with this later on.

Who are the sons of God that unite with

the daughters of men? We have two different seeds--the righteous and the

unrighteous intermingling. Once again, we have the idea of the

two seeds. And then of course

in the story of Noah, you have the story of the righteous who are saved inside

and the wicked who are destroyed outside.

And then a little bit later on in Genesis chapter 10, you have

the descendents of Shem, the son of Noah, and then on the other side,

you have the descendants of Ham and Japhet. By the way, we're going to notice that the descendents of Ham and Japheth

the nations that came from them, were the very enemies that tried to destory

Isreal in the Old Testament. Israel descends from Shem.

Wheareas all the nations that tried to destory

Israel descend from Ham and Japheth.

Very interesting! We'll deal with this a little bit later on, but you have

this idea of the two seeds. And then you have the

builders of the tower of Babel. And God commands

Abraham: He says to Abraham, "Get out

of the place where the Babel builders built this tower." Because

the bible says that Abraham and his family were getting contaminated

with the gods of Babylon. And So God says to Abraham,

You can't be with that evil seed. You must separate

from them. So there you have once again the idea of the two seeds.

Time and again in the book of Genesis, you have this idea

of the two seeds. Then you have the story of Isaac

and Ishmael. Notice once again, the same idea of the two seeds.

Isaac is the seed of the promise. Ishmael we're told

in Galatians chapter 4 that he arose

to try and kill Isaac who was the son of the promise

Once again, you have this enmity between the good seed,

and an evil seed. And then of-course you have the story of Jacob and Esau.

See the two seeds in this book? It's amazing

And by the way, in the book of Revelation, this is going to culminate.

These people who are individuals in Genesis: Isaac,

and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel,

actually are individuals who represent

two world wide groups at the end of time

They're symbolic in miniature of the characteristics

which two groups will have at the end of time.

And so we must know the characters of Jacob and Esau

Isaac and Ishmael, Cain and Abel, to understand

what the characters of the two groups at the end of time

are going to be like. And then of course we have Joseph

and his brothers. We have lot and the inhabitants of Sodom.

I could continue going through Genesis. You have this idea

of the two seeds.

Battles of one seed

against another. Now before we draw this to a

close this evening, I need to tell you something

which is very important. Probably the most important thing that I

am going to deal with tonight. And that is the secret

to decode or to break the code of the book

of Genesis. You see, the book of Genesis on the

surface appears to be a collection

of stories that took place

once upon a time. But those

who read the book of Genesis only as history are

missing the deeper dimension of the book of Genesis.

We're gonna see in this seminar that every

story of Genesis is not only a story

but a prophecy! In fact, I believe I can show

that every story in the old Testament

is a prophecy. A prophecy about the coming Messiah

Jesus in His first coming, and also,

a prophecy about events surrounding the second coming

of Christ. In other words, the book of Genesis

is literal history. But it is prophecy written as

history. In other words, beyond the local, historical

events, they become symbolic or representative

of future world-wide events

I already mentioned as an example Genesis 3:!5

and how its fulfilled in Revelation 12.

We'll be studying this in

more detail. You'll find the same elements. You'll find

enmity, you'll find the woman, you'll find the seed of the woman,

you'll find the serpent trying to kill the seed, and then trying to kill the woman

there's no way we can understand end-time prophecy

without understanding the issues that are brought up in Genesis

3:15. By the way, if you read Genesis chapter 1

and 2, you'll find that the Garden of Eden has

rivers of living water flowing through them

and you'll find that in the Garden was the Tree of Life.

Have you ever noticed that in Revelation chapter

21 and 22, you have the river of the water of

Life? And you have once again restored

the Tree of Life? In other words, what we have in Genesis

is the original Garden of Eden adn

the losing of Eden because of sin. In

the middle --the rest of the bible, you find the story of how God

acts to redeem that which was lost.

And in Revelation 21 and 22, you have the restoring

of the original Garden of Eden.

So there's a close relationship between Genesis 1 and 2

and Revelation chapter 21 and 22.

You find for example, the story of Cain and

Abel. This story is not only history--it's a prophecy!

We're going to have a whole lecture on the battle of Armageddon. If you

are going to know what the issues are going to be in the final

battle of Armageddon, you have to know what the issues were

in the story of Cain and Abel. And we're going to find that

the issues in that origianal story revolved around

obedience and worship. And if you go

to the book of Revelation, you're going to find that the issues which are

going to separate the world into two groups are obedience

to God's law and worship.

The only difference is that in the beginning of human history, you have

two individuals. Whereas at the end of history, those

two individuals have proliferated into two

world-wide groups that have similar characters

to those two original people.

Jesus himself said that the story of the flood is not only a story

It's a prophecy! He said, "As it was in the days of Noah,

so also shall it be at

the coming of the Son of Man." Jesus said, "What happened then, is going to

happen again in relationship with my second coming."

And I'm going to have a whole lecture on the story of the Flood, and I'm going to show you that not only is the wickedness

of the world similar to the wickedness which will exist at the end of time, not only is the

destruction of the world in the days of Noah

similar to the destruction which will take place at the end of time, I will show you

that there will be whole patters on sequential

events which will be fulfilled in the exact way

in which they took place in the Old Testament. You have also the story of the

Sodom and Gomorrah. Very interesting story! Do you know that Jesus

also said that that story was a prophecy? He said in Luke

chapter 17. Notice, let's go there and read

this passage. Luke 17 and verses

28-32. Luke 17:28-32.

Here Jesus is speaking, and He says this,

"Likewise, as it was also

in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought,

they sold, they planted, they built. But on the day

that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone

from heaven and destroyed them all." And now notice what it says:

"Even so will it be in

the day when the Son of

Man is revealed." Did you catch that?

As it was back then, so will it be

And allow me to give you a little bit of an inkling of what we'll deal with

when we talk about Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you know that before

the cities were destroyed, God sent three angels with

the warning for those cities?

In the book of Revelation, we find that before the destruction of the world,

God is going to send three angels to warn the world!

And somebody might say, "Pastor, that's just an accident

That's a coincidence!" We're going to notice that

it is not a coincidence. You see the three angels

that came to Abraham and then two of them went to Sodom

and to Gomorrah actually are symbolic of

the messages which will be presented by these angels of Revelation

chapter 14. Actually the call of

Abraham out of the place where the tower of Babel was built

is fulfilled in Revelation 18 where there is a

message given to God's people: Come out of Babylon

my people, and do not participate in her sins!

That you receive not her plagues! The call of Abraham

out of Babylon foreshadows or symbolizes the final call

of God's people out of spiritual Babylon.

at the end of time. The story of the conflict between

Isaac and Ishmael actually is taken by the apostle

Paul in Galatians chapter 4 and he says that this represents

two different kinds of people: those who live according to the flesh

and those who live according to the spirit. In other words,

these two sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael

represent two different kinds of characters

of people that will live in this world at the end of time. Those

who live according to the flesh and those who live according to the Spirit.

We're going to notice in this story

that we have the description of the origin

of the conflict that exist today between Israel and

the Palestinians. We're going to deal with that issue in Bible prophecy

with Israel in Bible prophecy, with the Arabs in Bible prophecy

because that is the origin of this controversy in

bac when Abraham had Isaac

and Ishmael. Since the days of Abraham

they been at each other's throats. This isn't something new

It's something which has existed all throughout the course of

human history. Who could forget the story

of the almost sacrifice of Isaac?

I say almost because Isaac was not sacrificed. I mean, that story is so clearly a pointing

to the Messiah, that you know, I don't even have to dwell on it very much.

You know, God told Abraham, "Take your son

to mount Moriah, and sacrifice him there", and when Abraham

is about sacrifice his Son,

the voice said, "Don't sacrifice your son

and Abraham looks up and finds a ram, which is a male lamb

and he finds a ram in a thicket, and he offers the ram in

place of his son. Do you know that that represents

the fact that God the Father sent his son, Jesus to this world

and He sent Him to take our place.

He sent Him as a Lamb of God which takes away the sin of

the world. And there's a whole series of parallels

between the story that took place the in days of Abraham and

the story of the ministration of

Christ on this earth. Who could forget the story in what is called Jacob's ladder?

By the way, it's not Jacob's ladder, it's the Lord's ladder.

In Genesis chapter 28, it speaks about a ladder that's planted on the earth, and its top reached to the

highest heavens and angels were ascending and descending on

the ladder. What could that mean? Well, we don't have to guess.

Because in John chapter 1 verse 51

Jesus says, "You will see heaven open, and you will see the angels

ascending and descending upon the Son of Man!

In other words, the ladder represents

Jesus Christ. The bottom of the ladder represents his humanity, his oneness

with us. The top of the ladder represents the fact that he's God;

It represents his divinity or his deity. In other words,

the only one who can represent us before God is one who is man

with man, and God with God. He's the only one

who can bridge heaven and earth. So Jesus himself said,

"I am the ladder. The ladder of Genesis

28 is really a prophecy. It is not only a

story. Who could forget the story of Jacob and Esau?

This is a symbolic story. The fact that the very

end of the story, we find Jacob returning to his home after

he's gone into exile from his home because of sin--like Adam and Eve were cast out because of their sin. Now he's

returning home and he hears that his brother is coming after him to destroy him

And Jacob goes

through what is known as the Time of Jacob's trouble.

He's in anxiety because he's afraid that his brother

is going to destroy him. Do you know that the Bible says that shortly before the coming of Jesus,

God's people will go through a period that is known as the

Time of Jacob's trouble? They will have a similar experience to the experience that Jacob had?

It's mentioned for example in Daniel chapter 12:1

where it says that at that time Michael shall stand up --that Great Prince that stands watch over your people

and there will be a time of trouble such as never was since

there was a nation. See that's the time of Jacob's trouble. But

at that time, God's people will be delivered. Everyone who

is written in the book. The story of Joseph

is a symbolic story. Jacob is sold by his brothers for

few pieces of silver. Jesus was sold by his own brothers.

by 30 pieces of silver. If you want to understand the 144,000 of Revelation chapter 7

once again, you have to go back to the book of Genesis.

Genesis 49. There Jacob before his death gives a

description of the character of each one of his sons.

And they form the foundation for us understanding the characers--the twelve personality profiles

that will exist at the end of time.

The book of Genesis is a prophetic book.

It has a much deeper dimension than

mere history and we're going to try and decipher all of those things

in this seminar. I believe it's going to be a

wonderful experience.