Genesis

This first book of the Bible begins with the history of creation followed by mankind’s asserting its independence from God. Nevertheless, God demonstrates His saving grace and His promises for abundant life in the instructions He gives. Taught by Tom Bradford.

• Lesson 1 – Genesis Introduction

  The Book of Genesis Lesson 1 – Introduction Today we start a journey that millions of Hebrews and Christians have taken over the last 3000 years. We are going to study the Torah, which is the first and oldest section of the original Hebrew Bible. Torah: a word that few Christians have ever heard of, […]

• Lesson 2 – Genesis 1

  GENESIS Lesson 2 – Chapter 1 READ GEN.1 ALL We could spend several weeks just in Genesis 1 but I’m going to assume that most of you have some basic knowledge of this chapter; and because what came first, second, third and so on is plainly stated and pretty straightforward there’s not a lot of […]

• Lesson 3 – Genesis 2

  Lesson 3 – Chapter 2 Let’s begin today’s lesson by raeding Genesis chapter 2. READ GENESIS 2 all Here we discover two more important fundamentals: 1) that God has blessed and made holy one day per week, the 7 th, and 2) that He rested in that day so that all that He had created […]

• Lesson 4 – Genesis 3 & 4

  Lesson 4 – Chapters 3 and 4 Today we’re going to study Genesis chapter 3, so let’s jump right into our Scripture reading. READ GEN. 3 all The great Jewish Rabbis and sages of long ago point to something rather interesting in verse 1 about the serpent: the serpent was different from the wild animals […]

• Lesson 5 – Genesis 4, 5, & 6

  GENESIS Lesson 5 – Chapters 4, 5, and 6 Last week we examined what really amounts to the primary reason that we have a Bible and why (in a few chapters) there will be such a thing as a Hebrew created because from Genesis forward the concept of sin and the need for atonement is […]

• Lesson 6 – Genesis 6

  GENESIS Lesson 6 – Chapter 6 Something was said last week in Genesis 6:13 that is going to cause us to go off on a fascinating (and certainly controversial) detour today. CJB Genesis 6:13 God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is […]

• Lesson 7 – Genesis 6 & 7

  Lesson 7 – Chapters 6 and 7 We spent all of our time last week discussing evil and where it came from, and what role it plays in our lives. I’m not going to review it because we need to move on. So either get the CD or listen to it online at www.torahclass.com if […]

• Lesson 8 – Genesis 8 & 9

  Lesson 8 – Chapters 8 and 9 READ Genesis 8 all Just as chapter 7 began with the comforting words that God invited the righteous family of Noach into the safety of the Ark, chapter 8 tells us that God “remembered” Noah. But, the verse doesn’t stop there; it says He also remembered all the […]

• Lesson 9 – Genesis 9 & 10

  Lesson 9 – Chapters 9 and 10 Open your Bibles to Genesis 9. We’ve been studying Genesis 9. To get us back on track from last week, I’m going to read from verse 18 to the end of Genesis 9. In V18 of Chapter 9, the NEW history of man begins; let’s explore that for […]

• Lesson 10 – Genesis 10, 11, & 12

  GENESIS Lesson 10 – Chapters 10 and 11 The importance of Genesis chapters 10 and 11 is that they are the bridge from the beginning of the New World, after the Flood, to the greatest of the Biblical patriarchs, Abraham. As brief as these two chapters are, we get a linkage of genealogy between Shem […]

• Lesson 11 – Genesis 12

  GENESIS Lesson 11 – Chapter 12 READ GEN 12:1-3 God, Adonai (means Lord or Master), makes a covenant with Abraham (still called Avram at this moment). This covenant occurs while Abraham was residing in Haran, up in Mesopotamia. And, basically what occurs is that God tells Abraham to leave Haran, and go where God will […]

• Lesson 12 – Genesis 12 & 13

  Lesson 12 – Chapters 12 and 13 READ Gen 12: 4- end We begin by now understanding that a God-created covenant is nothing less than a new or modified law of nature. There is no other word we can come up with that expresses the unfathomable force of a covenant. A promise, a contract, a […]

• Lesson 13 – Genesis 13

  Lesson 13 – Chapter 13 While Torah Class is all about studying the first 5 books of the Bible….the Torah…..it also is probably the most profitable for us when we can understand the relevance it has for us in our day and age, and apply it to our lives. It’s said by many preachers and […]

• Lesson 14 – Genesis 14

  Lesson 14 – Chapter 14 Before we discuss this chapter, I’d like to take a few minutes to discuss something of a general, but important, nature concerning the Bible. And, it involves a rather scholarly and legal term: the word is “redacted”. Redacted is a word you’re going to hear with some regularity in Torah […]

• Lesson 15 – Genesis 14 & 15

  Lesson 15 – Chapters 14 and 15 It’s amazing what becomes clearer when we put the Jewishness that was removed like an inflamed Appendix out of the Bible, back into the Bible…. And a prime example is the story of Abraham and Melchizedek. The traditional Roman and Western Church’s answer to “who is Melchizedek” has […]

• Lesson 16 – Genesis 15 & 16

  Lesson 16 – Chapters 15 and 16 READ GENESIS CHAPTER 15:12 to end Let’s look at verses 15 and 16 a little closer. As I have taught you on a few occasions, there was no concept of “dying and going to heaven” in Abraham’s era; in fact, that concept is nowhere to be found in […]

• Lesson 17 – Genesis 17 & 18

  GENESIS Lesson 17 – Chapters 17 and 18 Today we begin Genesis chapter 17. It’s a pretty long chapter, so we’re going to break it up a bit. We’ll start by reading the first 14 verses. READ GEN 17:1-14 In the first part of chapter 17, we are given a benchmark: Avraham is 99 years […]

• Lesson 18 – Genesis 18 & 19

  Lesson 18 – Chapters 18 and 19 Last week we started the story of the 3 men suddenly appearing to Abraham, that he brought them to his tent, and that they sat down and ate what was prepared for them. There is much disagreement on whether these were men, or angels, or some of each. […]

• Lesson 19 – Genesis 19

  Lesson 19 – Chapter 19 The point of Torah Class is to study the Holy Scriptures, and not to establish or learn doctrines; nor are we a class that centers on topical discussions. However, as I said in the introduction to Torah Class several months ago, while we’re generally going to go verse-by-verse through the […]

• Lesson 20 – Genesis 19 & 20

  Lesson 20 – Chapters 19 and 20 We have talked from time-to-time about the importance of bringing the Jewishness, and the Hebrew language and culture, back into Christianity, and back into the basic understanding of the Holy Scriptures; and here in the next few verses we get an example of why that is so important. […]

• Lesson 21 – Genesis 20 & 21

  Lesson 21 – Chapters 20 and 21 When last we met, we found that the greatest Patriarch, Abraham, had moved from Hebron down into the reaches of the upper Sinai Peninsula. Though the Scriptures do not say so, the reason for the move was an obvious one, which we would not question if we were […]

• Lesson 22 – Genesis 22 & 23

  THE BOOK OF Genesis Lesson 22, chapters 22 and 23 READ GENESIS CHAPTER 22 all “After these things” is the Hebrew way of saying “eventually”. It describes an undefined period of time having passed; but usually it is a substantial amount of time. In some places in the Bible, the time is so long and […]

• Lesson 23 – Genesis 24 & 25

  GENESIS Lesson 23 – Chapters 24 and 25 READ GEN 24 all The Scriptures are preparing us to move on from Abraham as the focus, to Isaac, then to Jacob, and then the Israelites. Just as Abraham needed children for the covenants of promise to be carried on, so did Isaac. And, the first step […]

• Lesson 24 – Genesis 25

  GENESIS Lesson 24 – Chapter 25 This week we continue our study of Genesis 25. Let’s start by reading Gen. 25:12-18 READ GEN 25:12-18 We ended last week taking a brief look at the descendants of Keturah, one of Abraham’s concubines. Just how many concubines Abraham had beyond Hagar and Keturah we don’t know; likely, […]

• Lesson 25 – Genesis 25 Cont.

  GENESIS Lesson 25 – Chapter 25 Continued Last week we began the story of the all-important event of the birth of Jacob, who would become the FIRST Israelite. Let’s pause and put this in perspective and watch the progress of the Patriarchs: Abraham….Jacob’s grandfather…. began life as a pagan. The world, at the time of […]

• Lesson 26 – Genesis 26

  Lesson 26 – Chapter 26 Patterns. We see patterns, here in Genesis 26, that we’ve seen in earlier chapters. And, some of these patterns are built-upon and further developed in the narrative of Genesis 26. We’ve talked about patterns quite a bit in this class, because they are crucial in understanding Scripture. Because God has […]

• Lesson 27 – Genesis 27

  Lesson 27 – Chapter 27 READ GEN 27 all Permit me to quote a profound statement made by the great 19th century Jewish Christian scholar, and perhaps the man whose readings have influenced me 2nd only to the Torah itself, Alfred Edersheim: “ If there is any point on which we should anxiously be on […]

• Lesson 28 – Genesis 28 & 29

  Lesson 28 – Chapters 28 and 29 READ GEN 28 all Isaac, having agreed with Rebecca that the last thing the family needed was more Canaanite women added to the clan through marriage, instructs Jacob to go take a wife from his mother’s family up in Mesopotamia. Let me remind you once again that the […]

• Lesson 29 – Genesis 30 & 31

  GENESIS Lesson 29 – Chapters 30 and 31 In the last lesson we saw Jacob……not YET called Israel….. take a wife. Actually, he wound up with 2 wives…..the sisters Leah and Rachel…..because his conniving father-in-law Lavan had deceived him much in the same way Jacob had deceived his own father. Is it not amazing in […]

• Lesson 30 – Genesis 31 & 32

  Lesson 30 – Chapters 31 and 32 In Genesis 31 we saw that things had turned sour between Jacob and his father-in-law Lavan. Even Lavan’s 2 daughters………Leah and Rachel…..who were Jacob’s wives, felt their father had broken trust with them. They even accused him of not so much giving them in marriage to Jacob like […]

• Lesson 31 – Genesis 33 & 34

  Lesson 31 – Chapters 33 and 34 READ GEN 33 all The dizzying events of the night before had prepared Jacob, in a nick of time, for what was coming next. The question of Jacob’s (and his family line’s) survival was about to be answered as he spotted Esau leading his band of 400 men. […]

• Lesson 32 – Genesis 35

  GENESIS Lesson 32 – Chapter 35 Chapter 35 is rich in information BUT largely hidden to our view due to the Greek and English translations. So, we’re going to sort of detour around a bit, and connect some dots that have been obscured over the centuries, as we go through this chapter. We’ll also use […]

• Lesson 33 – Genesis 36 & 37

  GENESIS Lesson 33 – Chapters 36 and 37 While this chapter is primarily a genealogical listing, there’s more to be gained from it than you might think. We can learn much about tribal society, and how families mixed, and even the politics of the era. So, while this might seem like a nice time to […]

• Lesson 34 – Genesis 37 & 38

  GENESIS Lesson 34 – Chapters 37 and 38 Last week we just barely got started into Genesis 37. Before we did that, though, we looked in some depth at the genealogy of Esau, Jacob’s twin brother, in chapter 36. And, we learned that Esau’s descendants intermarried to a large degree with Ishmael’s descendants, meaning that […]

• Lesson 35 – Genesis 38 & 39

  GENESIS Lesson 35 – Chapters 38 and 39 Last time we began to study Genesis chapter 38, which is a story about the 4th son of Jacob (alternately called Israel); and that 4th son is Judah. It is from the tribe of Judah that we have the Jews. So, since it’s been awhile that we’ve […]

• Lesson 36 – Genesis 40 & 41

  Lesson 36 – Chapters 40 and 41 READ GEN 40 all About eleven years had passed since his older brothers sold Joseph into slavery. He’s 28 years old, now. I wonder if Joseph still thought his dreams of his family bowing down to him, that had much to do with his current condition, bore any […]

• Lesson 37 – Genesis 42 & 43

  Lesson 37 – Chapters 42 and 43 At the end of our last lesson, the 7 years of abundant crops and livestock had passed, and the great 7-year famine of Pharaoh’s dream had begun. Joseph was now in charge of Egypt…and this food program….. and was 2nd in Command of the nation with only Pharaoh […]

• Lesson 38 – Genesis 44 & 45

  GENESIS Lesson 38 – Chapters 44 and 45 Let’s continue the story of Joseph as we move our way through Genesis. But, as we read Genesis 44, I want you to do something: everywhere we see Joseph dealing with his brothers, mentally picture Yeshua dealing with us. As we’re going to see, Joseph is a […]

• Lesson 39 – Genesis 46 & 47

  Lesson 39 – Chapters 46 and 47 With this chapter, the era of the Patriarchs truly closes. Abraham and Isaac are dead, and Jacob (a very old man) is in the midst of moving the Israelites out of Canaan, into Egypt, and into the authority of Joseph and Judah. And, soon, Jacob will go to […]

• Lesson 40 – Genesis 48

  Lesson 40 – Chapter 48 We are about to embark on a study that is full of ramifications for our day and time. A study that is going to explore some areas of Scripture that many of you have never before heard, let alone considered prophetic. And, it is contained within the final 3 chapters […]

• Lesson 41 – Genesis 48 Cont.

  Lesson 41 – Chapter 48 Continued The last time we met, I spent a lot of time trying to establish just what Paul meant when he spoke of a “true” Israelite (or Jew), and that I have decided to describe that true Israelite as a “Spiritual” Israelite. That is, one who has the spirit of […]

• Lesson 42 – Genesis 48 Concl.

  GENESIS Lesson 42 – Chapter 48 Conclusion Last week we were beginning to flesh out just who Ephraim, Joseph’s son, would become, and what his destiny would be as a result of Jacob’s Cross Handed Blessing of Genesis 48. And, we ended by looking in the book of Hosea which has much to say about […]

• Lesson 43 – Genesis 49

  Lesson 43 – Chapter 49 Last week we finished examining the Cross-Handed Blessing of Jacob, as told in Genesis 48; this was a prophetic blessing made upon Ephraim and Manasseh, but the primary target of this blessing was Ephraim. We discovered that Ephraim would in some way, not yet fully clear, be a blessing to […]

• Lesson 44 – Genesis 49 Cont.

  GENESIS Lesson 44 – Chapter 49 Continued As we continue on our study of Genesis 49……which is essentially a series of prophetic blessings that predestines the character and attributes of the 12 tribes of Israel……we ended last time with the 4th –born son of Jacob, Judah. And, we saw that Judah seemingly received the Firstborn […]

• Lesson 45 – Genesis 49 & 50 (End of Book)

  GENESIS Lesson 45 – Chapters 49 and 50 (End of Book) Last week we were close to finishing up Genesis 49. This week we will complete Genesis 49 and 50, and conclude our study of Genesis. Joseph was the 11 th son of Jacob, and last time we looked carefully at the prophetic blessing given […]