Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Family Tree (part 3)

Family Tree (part 3)

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<< Genesis 5 >>
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21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. 30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Sermon

We are just going to do a short session today, as we will attempt to complete this 5th chapter in Genesis.

So let’s begin:

21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Enoch was a very special person. It is said that he walked with God. This may well have been a literal walking together, as we read that in Genesis 3 that God walked in the cool of the day.

But what we really should be getting here is that Enoch’s whole life was taking over by the service of God. Everything Enoch did was as unto the Lord, even if he breathed it was only always for the glory of God. Although I do believe that Enoch did sin at times at Paul states that “all” have sinned “and fall short of the Glory of God”.

24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Now, all through the chapter up until now, we have read about those that have lived to be very old, but each and every one of them eventually died.

But Enoch here, it never states that he died. And it is generally interpreted here that Enoch never died a natural death, but was taken up into Heaven by-passing death.

But let me first ask you a question:

What is death?

You may wonder what I mean by that question; surely everyone knows what death is?

Do they really?

Has anyone ever come back from the dead to tell us what exactly happened to them?

If you want to hear my definition of death, here it is:

Death is merely the transition from this world into that which is to come, death is a transition that takes no time at all, and thus there is no point at which we can say “this is death”. One moment we are in this world, the next we are in eternity. And thus because death takes no time at all it is safe to say that death does not exist. So thus there should be no need to worry about the state of death, but rather, we should prepare for the world to come: Eternity!

So in reality, I believe that Enoch had to go through the exact same things as we will one day have to! So perhaps, in a way Enoch did die, but death is not what is important, but what is to come after death!

25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Our next character is Methuselah, who is famous as having the longest ever recorded life span! Methuselah lived a total of 969 year, almost a whole millennium!

It has been mentioned that Methuselah dies the same year as the flood, maybe he was a wicked man and died in the flood, or maybe he died just before, I don’t know!

28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Now finally we come to the days of Noah, which starts of the second major part of the book of Genesis.

Lamech knew that Noah was going to be used of God in a special way, but I don’t think he knew exactly how special!

30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and if my maths are correct, he died only 5 years before his father Methuselah and only 5 years before the flood!

32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And we are going to hear a lot about Noah in the following chapters.

But that’s all for now.

I pray that the Lord will add His blessing on His holy Word, and help us to meditate therein.

Amen!

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