This is the book of the generations of Adam.
When God created man,
he made him in the likeness of God.
Male and female he created them,
and he blessed them
and named them Man when they were created.
It’s almost as if God wants to remind us again that before separating choices were made, God really had provided the best. He created mankind in his likeness, with the ability to have relationship with God. He created them male and female, with the ability to relate to and complete each other. And he even blessed them and named then himself. They had all they needed.
And Adam and Eve did what God called them to do, to multiply and have dominion over the earth.
This chapter details the lineage from Adam through Seth. Remember that Abel is dead, and because of his choices, Cain is separated from his family and included in a different linage. This lineage seems cut and dry until you come to Enoch.
Of Encoh it is written, “Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.”
Everyone else died. Everyone except Enoch, who made the choice to “walk with God.”
Don’t you wish you could have seen their relationship, heard their conversations, seen Enoch turn away from bad choices?
And this is the first time we get a glimpse that “walking with God” means victory over death!
The curse for sin on mankind is death. But God, in his grace, is larger than his curse. He sees into the soul of a man. And God has power over death.
Does it remind you of Jesus? Resurrection from the dead. Could this be the first hint of the redemption to come?
But as we head into Chapter 6, we see a very contrasting story…
