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Genesis 5
Today, because the reading is long, I’ve place a link for you to follow so that doing the reading is easy. I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating – don’t skip the Bible reading! The Word of God is way more important than what follows. In actually reading the text you will find that your heart and mind will be informed by God’s Word. It is critical. It is one of the most powerful ways to see your faith grow.

http://www.esvbible.org/Genesis+5/

It was bound to happen; an entire chapter of names and genealogy. God’s people are just getting started and He wants us to know who they were and how they were related to one another and to Him. Not only do we get a list of the name of the men who followed Adam, we get to learn how long they lived. Just imagine if you were born about the time of the Reformation (1522). Then you would only be half as old as Methuselah! If you think you’ve seen a great deal of history in the last 50 years, think what you would have seen if you had been born almost 1,000 years ago! Rather boggles the mind.

What we find at the end of each listing though is the keeping of a promise. God promised Adam and Eve that if they ate of the Tree in the middle of the Garden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they would die. While each of the people listed in this chapter lived for a very long time, they aren’t here anymore. They died, just as God said they would. God always keeps His promises – negative and positive.

Enoch and Methuselah constitute and interest passage. Enoch didn’t die. He walked with God and then God simply “too him.” The only other person in the Bible to whom something similar happened was Elijah. God sent a fiery chariot to pick him up when his life on earth was finished. These are stories that might be interesting to hear once we get to meet these guys!

Enoch fathers Methuselah (who lives longer than anyone else), who fathers Lamech (not the same evil Lamech from chapter 4), who fathers Noah. What we see in this chapter is that God created Adam in His own image and set up the system so that we would also “father” children. God tells Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply and indeed, they did! We are proof of that.

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