WEEKLY LESSONS FOR TEENS

BY PAUL DITORO

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QUESTIONS FROM GENESIS NINE

1.    What was to be the food for mankind according to Genesis 1:29?

    "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." 

2.    What change in diet did God provide for them after the flood? (Gen.9:3) 

     "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."

3.    What did God say was the life of the flesh? (9:4)

    Blood

4.    What restriction did God make regarding the "life of the flesh"?

    "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

5.    Under the New Covenant, when Gentiles were converted to Christianity, the Jewish converts tried to force the Gentile proselytes to keep certain tenets of the Law Of Moses. At the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15, what advice did James, the brother of the Lord, indicate should be written in the letter to the Gentiles regarding things from which the Gentiles should abstain? (Acts 15:19, 20)

     "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:  20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood." 

6.    What was the law of God to Noah concerning capital punishment? (9:5, 6)

    "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."

7.    What was the covenant that God made with Noah and his sons? (9:9-11)

    "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."

8.     What was the token or "sign" of the covenant that God made with Noah and his sons? (9:12-17)

    "And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17  And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."

9.    Who was the father of Canaan?

    Ham

10.   What work did Noah begin to do?

    Farmer, husbandman

11.    What happened when he drank wine?

    Noah became drunk

12.    What  does God say in the following scriptures about wine or strong drink and their effects?

        a. Regarding His priests (Lev. 10:9)? "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: ..."

        b. Who are God's priests today? (1 Pet.2:5, 9) Christians

        c. What was the priest to do with the drink offering? (Num. 28:7) Pour it out

        d. Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

        e. Proverbs 23:29-35. "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."

        f.  Galatians 5:21? Drunkenness is a work of the flesh

        g. From what will those who are involved in drunkenness be refused entrance? (Gal. 5:21) Shall not inherit the kingdom of God

13.    In Noah's drunken state, it is evident from the passage in 9:20-24, that his grandson Canaan dishonored him after having heard his father, Ham, speak of the condition of Noah. Who were the sons that did their best to cover their father's shame?

Shem and Japheth