Overview: (NET)The genealogy traces the line from Adam to Noah and forms a bridge between the earlier accounts and the flood story. Its constant theme of the reign of death in the human race is broken once with the account of Enoch, but the genealogy ends with hope for the future through Noah.
Repeated phrase:
Adam was created "in the likeness of" God v.1, and he fathered a son "in his own likeness, according to his image v.3. In other words, the likeness of God passed down from Adam to Seth.
In the genealogy there were only 2 main events in each person's life: becoming the father of the first born (then live and becoming the father of other sons and daughters), and then died. The first event related to the command from God (to fruitful and multiple). The second event related to the curse of the fall 2:17.
Reflection: We lived as a descendant of Adam and we still have the likeness of God. Respect other people as they are image-bearer of God no matter who that person is.
2 special men: Enoch and Noah
Enoch: “to walk with” is used in 1 Sam 25:15 to describe how David’s men maintained a cordial and cooperative relationship with Nabal’s men as they worked and lived side by side in the fields. In Gen 5:22 the phrase suggests that Enoch and God “got along.” This may imply that Enoch lived in close fellowship with God, leading a life of devotion and piety. An early Jewish tradition, preserved in 1 En. 1:9 and alluded to in Jude 14, says that Enoch preached about the coming judgment.
The text simply states that God took Enoch. Similar language is used of Elijah’s departure from this world (see 2 Kgs 2:10). The text implies that God overruled death for this man who walked with him.
Reflection: Are you getting along with God? Do we grief the Holy Spirit or we have Jesus dwell richly in our heart? Do we work side-by-side with God?
Noah: His father gave him the name Noah, and it appears to be related to the Hebrew word, “to rest."
v.29 He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
The curse is so painful if you are a farmer. Imagine you are 777 years old and you still need to dig the hard ground for farmer.
Reflection: Even though we are not farmer we are not exempt from the painful toil. Our lives are hard and we are locking for comfort and rest. That hope in not found in your son. That hope can only be found in the Son.
Audrey
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