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DISCOVER GENESIS
An exploratory Bible course for disciples of Christ
PART 2 -- The Torah of ADAM (Genesis 2:4 to 5:32)
GENESIS 5
A historical confirmation, that man is God’s blessed creation -- (DATE: From 130 until 1056 after Adam)
OUTLINE of Genesis 5:
22. The generation of Adam (5:1-4)
23. The generation of Seth (5:5-8)
24. The generation of Enosh (5:9-11)
25. The generation of Kenan (5:12-14)
26. The generation of Mahalalel (5:15-17)
27. The generation of Jared (5:18-20)
28. The generation of Enoch (5:21-24)
29. The generation of Methuselah (5:25-27)
30. The generation of Lamech (5:28-31)
31. The generation of Noah (5:32)
DISCOVER Genesis 5: After God had created Adam, he lived 930 years before he died. In his 130th year, he fathered is son Seth. -- Seth lived to be 912 years before he died and fathered Enosh at the age of 105. -- Enosh died at 905 years of age and had Kenan, when he was only 90 years old. -- Kenan lived for 910 years, fathering Mahalalel in his 70th year. -- Mahalalel walked the earth for 895 years and fathered his first son Jared at the age of 65. -- Jared lived for 962 years before he died, and had fathered his son Enoch at 162 years of age. -- At the age of 365, Enoch was taken away by God, with whom he had walked for many years. In his 65th year, however, he had fathered Methuselah. -- Methuselah lived to an age of 969 years, and had fathered his firstborn son, Lamech at the age of 187 years. -- Lamech lived for a total of 777 years and had fathered his first son, Noah at the age of 182. All these men had many other sons and daughters besides their firstborn, for they had the blessing of the LORD and were fruitful and populated the earth. -- At the age of 500 years, Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
PRAYER: Our heavenly Father we are humbled to read of these ten generations from Adam to Noah. It goes beyond what we can imagine or comprehend, how you allowed the kindred of Adam to live for such long times. Thank you that you are the source of our lives and that you created Adam in such a wonderful way that he and his descendants were able to live so long. And thank you that through faith in Jesus Christ we have eternal life from you, the source of all life. Amen
QUESTION 5: How did the blessing of God on Adam and Eve become reality in the years after they fathered Seth?
QUOTES: One verse from Genesis 5 was quoted two times in the New Testament:
“Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” (Genesis 5:2) Part of this verse is QUOTED in
Matthew 19:4-5 -- “4 He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?” --
Genesis 5:2 is also QUOTED in
Mark 10:4-8 -- “4 They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce (for his wife) and to send her away.’ 5 And Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. 7 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and they shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.’”
In addition we find the following 7 verses in the New Testament which allude to statements in this genealogical chapter: Genesis 5:1 is ALLUDED to in Matthew 1:1 (The Gospel of Matthew begins this way: ‘The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ ...’, which is an allusion to Genesis 5 beginning with the words: ‘This is the book of the generations of Adam.’) and in 1 Corinthians 11:7 (Paul wrote: ‘For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God.’ By this he alluded to Adam being made in the likeness of God.) -- Genesis 5:1-8 is ALLUDED to in Luke 3:38 (The first three generations after Adam in Genesis 5 are alluded to by Luke, when he wrote about Jesus being ‘the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.’) -- Genesis 5:3 is ALLUDED to in 1 Corinthians 15:49 (Adam in Genesis 5 is described as having fathered a son in his likeness. Paul alludes to this in writing: ‘Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.’ This means, as Christians we are not only in the likeness of Adam, who perished, but also in the likeness of Christ, the man of heaven, who lives forever!) -- Genesis 5:9-32 is ALLUDED to in Luke 3:36-38 (Summarizing the genealogy in Genesis 5 up till the birth of Noah, Luke wrote that Jesus is ‘the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, ...’) -- Genesis 5:21+22 is ALLUDED to in Jude 14 (Alluding to Enoch in the genealogy from Adam to Noah, Jude wrote that ‘Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way,” ...’) -- Genesis 5:24 is ALLUDED to in Hebrews 11:5 (Alluding to God having taken Enoch up from earth, because he walked with God, we read in Hebrews: ‘By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.’).