Have you had a chance to review your handout from Sunday's lesson yet? Don't forget to look it over! Do you remember the goal you set for this series? Mine was to understand and remember the key message of each book of the Bible. I get extra credit if I can also say how each pertains to me and what I did to put it into action. Tell at least one person your goal -- it will help you remember it better and it help you to be more accountable for it!
Today read Genesis 9-12 (can read it here if you want)
Today's devotion text -- Gen 11:24-32
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. (NIV)
taken from www.biblegateway.com
These four chapters covered a lot of time -- from Noah to Abram! Did you notice what happened to the life span after the flood? After Noah lived 950 years, it looks like the life span was cut by almost 75%....the next folks who are listed with their ages only lived into their 200's. I wonder why that changed?
We also start seeing some pretty, um..., interesting situations. We learn about Terah, the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. We don't know why Haran, Abram's brother, died, but it was obvious that his father loved him very much. Haran's daughter, Milcah, married her uncle Nahor. For some reason they stayed behind in Ur while Terah took Abram, Sarai, and his grandson, Lot, to a new land. They were actually heading toward Canaan, but decided that they liked a piece of land on the way. Terah named it after his dead son, and they all settled in.
If you read on in Chapter 12, God tells Abram to take all of his possessions and leave...without having a destination in mind. Abram's wife, Sarai, is beautiful, and he's afraid that the king of the land they are visiting might kill him (Abram) so he can steal Sarai. Check it out to see what happens!
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