Melvin Cole

God sent him ahead so the rest better

Genesis 45:5 (NLT)
But don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.

Genesis 45:7-8 (NLT)
God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.

Study to teach

Genesis 39:1-18 (NLT)
When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

Study to teach

Genesis 39:1-18 (NLT)
When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

Forgiven ..healed

Matthew 9:2 (NLT)
Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.”

Matthew 9:5 (NLT)
Is it easier to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up and walk’?

Names 1

Genesis 30:11 (NLT)
Leah named him Gad, for she said, “How fortunate I am!”

Genesis 30:13 (NLT)
And Leah named him Asher, for she said, “What joy is mine! Now the other women will celebrate with me.”

Jacobs dream. Stairway to heaven

Genesis 28:12-13 (NLT)
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.

Genesis 28:15 (NLT)
What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”

Genesis 28:17-19 (NLT)
But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!”

Genesis 28:22 (NLT)
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”

Stairway to heaven

Genesis 28:12 (NLT)
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.

Genesis 28:15-17 (NLT)
What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”

Genesis 28:19 (NLT)
He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.

Genesis 28:22 (NLT)
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”

Stairway to heaven

Genesis 28:12 (NLT)
As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.

Genesis 28:15-17 (NLT)
What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.”

Genesis 28:19 (NLT)
He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.

Genesis 28:22 (NLT)
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me.”

Jewelry

Genesis 24:22 (NLT)
Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.

Jewelry

Genesis 24:22 (NLT)
Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.

Jehovah Jireh

Genesis 22:14 (NLT)
Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the LORD will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Eye gate

Matthew 6:22-23 (NLT)
“Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.

Whole chapter

Genesis 19:1 (NKJV)
Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.

Accused by man - rewarded by God

Matthew 5:11-12 (NLT)
“God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.

Stars 2

Jeremiah 10:2 (NLT)
This is what the LORD says: “Do not act like the other nations, who try to read their future in the stars. Do not be afraid of their predictions, even though other nations are terrified by them.

Stars

Isaiah 47:13 (NLT)
All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.

One Race

Genesis 10:5 (NLT)
Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

Genesis 10:8-9 (NLT)
Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.

Genesis 10:20 (NLT)
These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.

Genesis 10:25 (NLT)
Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:31-32 (NLT)
These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.

Heroes of old

Genesis 10:8-9 (NLT)
Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.

Different languages, nationalities, ONE RACE

Genesis 10:5 (NLT)
Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

Never ending fire

Matthew 3:8-10 (NLT)
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.

Matthew 3:12 (NLT)
He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”

Proof by life

Matthew 3:8-10 (NLT)
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.

Interesting. Sons of God (?)

Genesis 6:2 (NLT)
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.

Genesis 6:4 (NLT)
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.

Us...Jesus and God?

Genesis 3:22 (NLT)
Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”

Breath of life

Genesis 2:7 (NLT)
Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

God and Jesus : us

Genesis 1:26-27 (NLT)
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”