The I'm going to do. Okay, so welcome to Old Testament in the Raw. This is a recording, so I gotta make it kind of official.

Yeah, for, in case you don't know, I release these recordings on a podcast that I do so if you ever do miss one or if you guys want to catch up on some older ones I think this is a week four is that correct?

Something like that week three or four.

So yeah, let me uh, there was one time when I recorded this and it didn't work out right so I'm just gonna make sure

it keeps going here and it looks like I'm good. So welcome back. We took two weeks off, well I was gone for two weeks, so it's been a few weeks.

So let me, why don't we start by going back and just reviewing some things we're in the

middle of Genesis 3 we're going to quickly be in Genesis 4 or 5 well my goal is to

get through Genesis 1 to 11 today.

We'll see how that goes, because there's some interesting stories

that we're going to look at.

The one that I really want to drill down

is this whole thing with the Nephilim in Genesis 6.

It's one of the weirdest passages in the Bible, I think, hands down.

So I do want to spend some time there, but we looked at Genesis.

We did kind of a deep dive into Genesis 1 and 2, and we saw how that sets the stage for, well,

it, Genesis 1 and 2 reveals fundamental. the stage for we well it

Genesis one and two reveals fundamental aspects about who God is Genesis one emphasizes God's sovereignty over creation

Genesis two emphasizes God's, if I can say, intimacy or nearness to creation.

So God is far, he's far above everything in Genesis 1,

but then he's almost quite literally, you know, intimately involved with his creation.

He's either forming atom from the dust of the ground and he had these two, I'll say different, almost contrasting portraits of God.

One, emphasizing his transcendence, the other one in Genesis 2,

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