Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore cain, and said, " I have gotten a man from the Lord."(Gen 4:!)
The days of Adam were eight hundred years and he begot sons and daughters.(Genesis 5:4)
After this God expected Godly offspring from them, Children were born to them as we see in the above verses but unfortunately due to their fall, they produced sinful off spring and they multiplied. The resulting chaos and desecration that developed on the earth forced God to destroy the population of the earth. God's plan for mankind could not be fulfilled through these rebellious people that had developed in masses on the earth.
Destruction of the population on Earth by flood
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.( Gen 7:23)
As the above verse states, God chose and spared the family of Noah. Noah was not a perfect man, but found Grace in the sight of the Lord because of his obedience. After this Noah was commanded by God to build an Ark and take his sons, his wife, and his sons wives, along with the clean beasts, unclean beasts, of birds, and of everything that creeps on earth two by two male and female into the ark.Then God shut the door in and commanded the floods to come and it was on the earth for forty days.Thus God destroyed the population on earth by floods and spared Noah and his family to repopulate the earth. God blesses Noah and his family and says be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. thus the earth eventually became re populated.
From One of Noah's Son's lineage God calls Abram.
Now the Lord had said to Abram;" Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your fathers house, to a land that I will show you. " I will make you a great nation: I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing." I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."(Genesis 12:1-3)
God tells Abram that he would make him father of many nations.The Bible tells us that Abram obeyed the voice of the Lord and left his nation and headed to the land which God had shown him. Abram inherits the land and again God tells Abram that his descendants would be as numerous as the sands of the sea.
Then He said to Abram;" Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them and they will afflict them four hundred years. " And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.(Gen 15:13-14)
In the above verse, God also tells Abram about the slavery and bondage of his descendants in another nation and their deliverance. Abram whose name was later changed by God to Abraham (For God having made him the father of many nations). Abraham's wife who was earlier called Sarai was later changed by God to be called Sarah (Mother of Nations and Kings shall be born of her). The scriptures show that God did not reveal his name to Abram and Abram did not ask God what his name was. Abraham was one hundred years old when his wife Sarah gave birth to a son by name Isaac. When Isaac was married he begot Jacob. Isaac and Jacob the sons of Abraham called God, the God of Abraham. In the beginning God allowed men to build altars for sacrifices to Him. Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob built an altar to God. Jacob on having a vision of God standing at the door and angels ascending and descending from Heaven, took a stone and put it as a pillar and poured oil over it and called it Bethel (Place of God or Temple of God). God allowed it because He wanted to make men understand how they should worship Him. God calls Jacob "Israel" after he wrestles the whole night with God for a blessing. Jacob asks for the name of the Lord. But God did not reveal his name but blessed him and went away.The children of Jacob called the Lord the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The name of God was not yet revealed to them. As God had foretold, the newly named Israelites entered Egypt as Seventy people and then multiplied until they became a huge presence there. The new King who does not remember the past involvement of Israelites in the nation or has any regard for their descendants fearing that they might prove to be an internal threat in the event of war, makes them slaves and they served in Egypt for four hundred thirty years.
Let us turn to the next post to see What happened Thereafter?
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