Category: Biblical Exposition

The Unbroken Line: From Shem to the Threshold of Promise (Gen. 11:10-32)

Loved ones, we have just witnessed the collapse of the world’s first empire. At Babel, humanity shouted, “Let us make a name for ourselves,” and God answered with confusion and dispersion. The camera of Scripture panned out to show us a world scattered and divided by language. It was a scene of judgment and chaos.… Continue reading The Unbroken Line: From Shem to the Threshold of Promise (Gen. 11:10-32)

Let Us Make a Name for Ourselves: The Folly and Fall of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9)

Loved ones, we have reached the end of the beginning. Genesis 1 through 11, often called the “Primeval History,” charts the course of the world from the heights of creation to the depths of the Fall, through the judgment of the Flood, and now to the scattering of the nations. We stand at a critical… Continue reading Let Us Make a Name for Ourselves: The Folly and Fall of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9)

From One Man, Many Nations: A Theological Reading of the Table of Nations (Gen. 10:1–32)

Loved ones, if you are reading through the Bible sequentially, you have just hit your first major speed bump. After the dramatic narratives of the Flood and the shameful incident in Noah’s tent, Genesis 10 presents us with a long list of names—seventy of them, to be precise. It is a directory of ancient tribes,… Continue reading From One Man, Many Nations: A Theological Reading of the Table of Nations (Gen. 10:1–32)

The Shame of the Patriarch: Sin and Prophecy in Noah’s Tent (Gen. 9:18–29)

Loved ones, we have spent several weeks looking at Noah as a hero of the faith. We saw him stand alone as a righteous man in a violent generation. We saw him build the Ark in obedient silence. We saw him offer a pleasing sacrifice that established a covenant of peace for the entire world.… Continue reading The Shame of the Patriarch: Sin and Prophecy in Noah’s Tent (Gen. 9:18–29)

The Rainbow and the Redeemer: Debating the Nature of the Noahic Covenant

Loved ones, in our exposition of Genesis 9, we took a specific theological stance regarding the Noahic Covenant. We argued that God made this covenant fundamentally with Noah (as a believing federal head) and that it functions as an administration of the Covenant of Grace. In this view, the preservation of the physical world is not… Continue reading The Rainbow and the Redeemer: Debating the Nature of the Noahic Covenant

The Warrior’s Bow in the Clouds: God’s Covenant with a Washed World (Gen. 9:1–17)

Loved ones, the storm has passed. The waters have receded. Noah has stepped out onto a renewed earth and offered a sacrifice of propitiation, and God has promised to preserve the natural order despite the evil of the human heart. Now, in Genesis 9, God speaks. He addresses the survivors of the catastrophe and establishes… Continue reading The Warrior’s Bow in the Clouds: God’s Covenant with a Washed World (Gen. 9:1–17)

But God Remembered Noah: Divine Faithfulness in the Flood (Gen. 8:1–22)

Loved ones, we ended the last chapter in silence. The fountains of the deep had burst, the windows of heaven had opened, and the world was buried under a chaotic, watery grave. For 150 days, the only life on earth was huddled inside a wooden box, drifting on a shoreless ocean. It is a picture… Continue reading But God Remembered Noah: Divine Faithfulness in the Flood (Gen. 8:1–22)

The Fountains of the Great Deep: A World Unmade by Water (Gen. 7:1–24)

Loved ones, for one hundred years, the sound of hammer on wood has echoed through a violent world. Noah, the “herald of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5), has been building a massive vessel on dry land, a visible testament to his faith and a warning of things to come. Now, the construction is finished. The pitch… Continue reading The Fountains of the Great Deep: A World Unmade by Water (Gen. 7:1–24)

A Righteous Man in His Generation: Noah, the Ark, and the Coming Storm (Gen. 6:9–22)

Loved ones, the previous passage left us staring into the abyss. We saw a world where the godly line of Seth had compromised with the worldly line of Cain, resulting in a culture so morally bankrupt that God grieved over the creation of man. The verdict was total: “every intention of the thoughts of his… Continue reading A Righteous Man in His Generation: Noah, the Ark, and the Coming Storm (Gen. 6:9–22)