Closer Day By Day

Genesis 12

Bible Passage:  Genesis 12 “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you” - Verse 1 Can you just imagine if one day, God were to tell you these exact words that He told Abram? It’s just like suddenly you were told to leave Singapore (or wherever you are reading this post from and are living there), from the people...

Genesis 11

Bible Passage:  Genesis 11 It’s about the beginning of racial, language, ethnic and cultural diversity. And the beginning of the Jewish nation (the Jewish nation came from Shem). I recently saw this when I was surfing a church’s website: “Addressing the capacity crowd of 1,500 people, Senior Pastor *bleep* encouraged the believers to answer the calling of God to be light of the...

Genesis 10

Bible Passage:  Genesis 10 After the exciting events over the last few days in the family of Noah, we come to this passage of the Bible which we have a tendency to skip over quickly.  I mean… what is it with all these names?  I hardly recognize anyone of them.  What can I possibly learn today? I admit my mind was an absolute blank as I read chapter 10.  I know that this was the genealogy...

Genesis 9

Finally, after leaving the ark, a new life begins. While it must have been a relief to be able to leave the ark after being cooped up for such a long period of time, I’m pretty sure Noah and his family would have felt uncertain and even fearful when faced with this new life and new earth. Imagine the whole world laid out before you. Your eyes see stretches and stretches of land from the mountains...

Genesis 8

Bible Passage:  Genesis 8 After two chapters and a period of over 1 year, Noah and family (and animals) are finally out of the ark! Clean scrubbed new place If you think that the scene of the animals going into the ark two by two is magnificent and amazing, think about the scene when they all finally come out from the ark (Genesis 8:18-19)! They were entering into a world that was different (in terms...

Genesis 7

Bible Passage:  Genesis 7 Bible Quiz: Are you the descendant of Cain or Seth? Basic theory test of Noah & the Flood: 1. How long did it take to build the ark? 2. How old was Noah when he entered the ark? 3. How many days did it rain? 4. How many days did the water prevail on the earth? 5. Did Noah take two of every animal into the Ark? Hehe, let’s try not to google for the answers but find...

Genesis 6

Bible Passage:  Genesis 6 All aboard!! Welcome onboard Noah’s Ark! Made with the finest gopher-wood, finely covered with pitch both inside and out.. Standing (or floating) at an impressive 300 by 50 by 30 cubits, it has enough rooms to fit a whole zoo in it! How d’ya like that? Three decks, and with a window and a door. Now that’s a ship. Forget about those superstar cruises and...

Genesis 5

Bible Passage:  Genesis 5 This chapter documents the lineage from Adam to Noah.  We read about the relatively long lives of the people in the ancient days and along the way, encounter a few famous people - one of them being Enoch. It is inevitable that when we hear the name Enoch, we are reminded that he was one that walked with God and did not die. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God...

Genesis 4

Bible Passage:  Genesis 4 Today, we read of the first murder in the Bible, and the murderer - Cain. The first child born of the first man and woman (Gen 4:1) became a murderer. It was a sad turn of events which happened way too early in the beginning of man, not that we wish for it to happen at all. Barely four chapters into the records of the creation of man, we see Satan rearing his ugly head twice....

Genesis 3

This chapter may sound like a fairy tale, or a fantasy story, because you read of a serpent that talks, a tree that can make people wise, an angel to guard Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. Well, these events happened thousands of years ago, no one with human wisdom can verify if this really happened, but only our eternal God who is not limited...