Book of Genesis Summary_ A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2)

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00:00The Book of Genesis. In the first video we saw how chapters 1 through 11 set up the basic story line of the Bible.

00:10God has created all things and he makes humans in his image to rule the world on his behalf.

00:16The humans choose sin and rebellion and so the world spins out of control into violence and death,

00:22all leading up to the rebellion and scattering of the people in Babylon.

00:26And so the big question is what is God going to do to rescue and redeem his world?

00:32Well out of that scattering at Babylon, the author traces a genealogy of just one family that leads eventually to a man named Abram, later known as Abraham.

00:42And God's promise to Abraham at the beginning of chapter 12 opens up a whole new movement in the story.

00:48God calls Abraham to leave his home and go to the land of Canaan, which God says will become his one day.

00:54And in that land, God promises to make Abraham into a great nation, to make his name great and to bless him.

01:00Now these promises are connected back to earlier parts of the book.

01:04So Babylon had arrogantly tried to make a great name for itself and that didn't go over very well.

01:10But God in his generosity is going to bestow a great name on this no-name guy, Abraham.

01:17And God's blessing of Abraham echoes all the way back to that original blessing God gave humanity in the beginning.

01:24So the question is why is God going to bless Abraham and his family?

01:28And the last line of God's promise makes this clear.

01:31So that all the families of the earth will find God's blessing in you.

01:35Now this is key for understanding the whole rest of the biblical story.

01:39God's plan is to rescue and bless his rebellious world through Abraham's family.

01:45And this is why the whole rest of the Old Testament story is just going to focus on this one family,

01:50eventually called the people of Israel.

01:52This is also why Israel will later be called a kingdom of priests at Mount Sinai.

01:57God wants to use them to show all of the other nations what he's like.

02:02And ultimately, this is the promise that gets picked up by the later biblical prophets and poets

02:07who say that its fulfillment will come through Israel's messianic king,

02:11whose reign will bring justice and peace to all of the nations.

02:15Now at this point of the story, none of that's clear.

02:18You just have to keep reading and watch the promise develop.

02:21And so the rest of the book focuses on Abraham and his family.

02:24First, Abraham himself, then his son Isaac, and then his son Jacob, and then Jacob's 12 sons.

02:31And the stories about each generation, they're united by two main themes.

02:35So first, each generation of Abraham's family is marked by repeated failure.

02:40They just keep making really bad decisions that mess up their lives and that put God's promise in jeopardy.

02:47However, God remains faithful to them.

02:50He keeps rescuing them from themselves and reaffirming his commitment to bless them

02:55and bless the nations through them despite their failings.

02:58So the Abraham stories.

03:00God had promised Abraham a huge family, but on two different occasions.

03:04He's afraid for his life because other men are attracted to his wife.

03:07And so he denies that he's even married to her, which creates, of course, all of these problems.

03:12And not only that, Abraham and his wife Sarah, they can't have children.

03:16And so Sarah arranges for Abraham to sleep with one of their servant girls,

03:20which also creates all of these problems in the family.

03:23But each time, God bails Abraham out.

03:26And in chapters 15 and 17, God even formalizes his promise to Abraham with an official commitment called a covenant.

03:33This is a classic scene.

03:35God invites Abraham to look up at the night stars and to count them.

03:39And he says that's how numerous your family is going to be.

03:42And despite all of the odds, having no kids and no way to have any at the moment,

03:47Abraham looks up in the sky and simply trusts God's promise.

03:52And God responds by entering into a covenant with Abraham,

03:56promising that he will become a father of many nations,

04:00that God's blessing may come to the whole world.

04:02God asked Abraham to mark his family with a sign of the covenant,

04:06circumcision of all the male boys in the family.

04:09This is a symbol to remind them that the fruitfulness of their family is a gift from God.

04:15And so Abraham has lots of kids eventually and he dies at a good old age.

04:20Now the Jacob stories play out these themes even more dramatically.

04:24From birth, Jacob lives up to the meaning of his name, which is deceiver.

04:28He cheats his brother Esau out of his inheritance and blessing

04:32and he does it by deceiving his old blind father, no less, and then he just takes off.

04:37He goes on to take four wives, even though he really only loves one, Rachel,

04:42and this creates all of these rivalries in the family.

04:45The only thing that humbles Jacob is being deceived by his uncle Laban,

04:51who cheats him out of years of his life.

04:53The tables have finally turned.

04:55And so it's a humbled Jacob that returns to his homeland.

04:59And in a very strange story, Jacob ends up wrestling with God as he demands that God bless him.

05:06Some things never really change, do they?

05:09However, God honors his determination and he passes Abraham's blessing on to him.

05:14And he renames Jacob as Israel, which means wrestles with God.

05:19Now it's this last part of the book, the story of Jacob's sons, where all the themes come to a head.

05:25Jacob loves his second to youngest son, Joseph, more than any of the others.

05:29And he gives him this special jacket.

05:31And the ten older sons come to hate Joseph.

05:34And so they kidnap him and they plan to kill him.

05:36But instead they decide to just sell him into slavery in Egypt, where he ends up in prison.

05:41Talk about family failure.

05:44But God is with Joseph.

05:46And he orchestrates Joseph's release from prison.

05:49And Pharaoh ends up elevating Joseph to second in command over all of Egypt.

05:54And so Joseph saves the nation of Egypt during a famine.

05:58And he also ends up saving his brothers and his family from starving to death.

06:02And so once again, we can see the folly and the sin of Abraham's family is met with God's faithfulness,

06:09who subverts even the evil of the brothers into an occasion to save life.

06:14And this is actually what Joseph says right near the end of the book.

06:18He says to his brothers, you all planned this for evil, but God planned it for good to save many lives.

06:25Now, these words are strategically placed at the end of the book because they summarize not only the story of Joseph and his brothers, but the book as a whole.

06:34From Genesis 3 onward, humans keep acting selfishly and doing evil, but this God is not going to leave his world to its own devices.

06:43He remains faithful and determined to bless people despite their failures.

06:47You can see this especially in how that mysterious promise about the descendant of the woman gets developed throughout the book.

06:54So remember, Genesis 3, God promised that this wounded victor would come and crush the snake and defeat evil at its source.

07:02And the author then connects this promise directly to the line of Abraham.

07:06This is a part of how God is going to bring his blessing to the nations.

07:10Now from Abraham, this promise gets connected to Judah, the fourth son of Jacob.

07:15And this is how.

07:17In an extremely important poem in chapter 49.

07:20In aging Jacob, he's on his deathbed.

07:23He wants to bless his 12 sons.

07:25And when he comes to Judah, Jacob predicts that Judah will become the tribe of Israel's royal leaders.

07:31And that one day, a king will come who will command the obedience of all the nations and fulfill God's promise to restore the garden blessing to all of the world.

07:41And then after this, Jacob dies.

07:44And later, Joseph dies too.

07:46And the growing family remains in Egypt.

07:49And so the book of Genesis ends with all of these future hopes and promises left hanging and undeveloped.

07:56And it forces you to turn the page to see how it's all going to turn out.

08:00But for now, that's the book of Genesis.

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