Today we begin Genesis Chapter 12. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. In Genesis chapter 11, we are told that Terah, his son Abram, his grandson Lot and his daughter-in-law Sarai left their hometown called the Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the Land of Canaan. […]

From verse 10, we have the lineage of Shem recorded. The primary purpose of this lineage is to introduce us to Abram. Abram, who will later have his name changed to Abraham, is both the father of monotheism and the nation of Israel. Amidst a sea of names and genealogies that can be quite confusing, […]

Nimrod represents a pattern of what the anti-Christ will be like when he finally appears on the world stage. Actually, there have been many types of Antichrists who have already appeared on the world stage. Pharaoh whom Moses stood down in the Book of Exodus could be considered a type of Anti-Christ. Antiochus Epiphanies who […]

In Genesis Chapter 10, we are told that the start of Nimrod’s kingdom began in Babylon, Erec, and Accad. Now all of these cities were located in a place called the Land of Shinar (modern day Iraq in our times). Furthermore, in Genesis Chapter 11, we are told the following:  It came about that as […]

In the story of the Tower of Babel,  we encounter a couple of interesting Hebrew words. First, in Genesis 11:4 when it says they were building a tower so “they could make a name for themselves”, the original Hebrew says, they were building a tower so that “they could make a shem for themselves”. “Shem” […]