Genesis 11-14:24, 1 Chronicles 1:24-27
Right off the bat is the Tower of Babel. After the flood things are going great many generations have passed and it’s time for people to screw it up again. At this point in time everyone spoke the same language, and as things are going well the population starts to migrate east and eventually settles in Babylonia. They all come together and decide that they are going to build a city and build a tower that reaches the sky. This city and tower they believe will help keep them in one place. But this thought process causes an ego problem and God comes down and recognizes this and makes all people speak different languages and scatters them all over the world.
Instantly I am thinking, scattered them across the world. Is this how there are native americans in North America, Is this how people ended up in the jungle in South America, what about the Aborigines in Australia?
After the tower of Babel we get into some more Genealogies (pretty important), Shem to Abram(Yes Abraham). There are some massive ages during this time period, and I’m glad we don’t live this long any more.
Abram lives in an era of idolatry and worshipping false God’s. How is it that God would speak to a man living in an idolatrous culture and tell him that he will have a son at a ripe old age and that he will build a nation and bless everyone on earth(redemption, Genesis 3:15). Abram becomes Counter Culture and begins following the Lord, building altars to honor the Lord.
As the story progresses Abram, Sari and Lot travel south to Egypt due to a famine. Abram lies as they enter Egypt for selfish ambition and says that Sari is his sister so they will not be harmed, as God brings them out of Egypt safely and extremely wealthy in livestock (flocks of sheep, goats, and herds of cattle). As they are traveling back north Lot and Abram decide to pick where they will settle. Lot decides to take the fertile Jordan valley and Abram is left with the leftovers. The Lord appears to Abram and tells him see all this land, all land in every direction with that I will bless you with descendants as much as the dirt of the Earth.
What does the story of Abram tell us? God will use anyone, any age, any circumstance! The situation could seem unconquerable, unobtainable, unfathomable, but he can and will use us, even if we are not perfect in our walk with the Lord. Grace Through Faith.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Anchored Men 
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