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Genesis 5

Genesis 5. Review. Genesis 5:6-32. Q: What about Enoch? Adam has died in 930 years after Creation Enoch’s translation to heaven is about ½ way between Adam and the Flood, in the 987 th year after Creation Seth, Enos , Cainan , Mahalaleel , and Jared were still alive

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Genesis 5

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  1. Genesis 5 Review

  2. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Enoch? Adam has died in 930 years after Creation Enoch’s translation to heaven is about ½ way between Adam and the Flood, in the 987thyear after Creation Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and Jared were still alive Enoch’s son Methuselah and his grandson Lamech were also living, with Lamech being about 113 years old Noah was not yet born (born in 1056 after Creation)

  3. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Enoch? In comparison with the longevity of the other fathers, Enoch was taken away young, before he had reached half the ordinary age, as a sign that while long life, viewed as a time for repentance and grace, is indeed a blessing from God, when the ills which have entered the world through sin are considered, it is also a burden and trouble which God shortens for His chosen. That the patriarchs of the old world felt the ills of this earthly life in all their severity, was attested by Lamech in the line of Seth (vv. 28, 29), when he gave his son, who was born 69 years after Enoch’s translation, the name of Noah, saying, “This same shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed”

  4. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Noah? Noah: his name means ‘to rest’ or to ‘bring rest’; or ‘to comfort’ in the sense of helpful and remedial consolation Noah’s father, Lamech, felt the burden of his work upon the ground which God had cursed, but looked forward with a prophetic presentiment to the time when the existing misery and corruption would terminate, and a change for the better, a redemption from the curse, would come.

  5. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Noah? Lamech’s hope was not realized in the way he desired. A change did take place in the lifetime of Noah By the judgment of the Flood, the corrupted race was exterminated, and in Noah, who was preserved because of his blameless walk with God, the restoration of the human race was secured; but the effects of the curse, though mitigated, were not removed; while a covenant sign guaranteed the preservation of the human race (rainbow), and therewith, by implication his hope of the eventual removal of the curse (Genesis 9:8-17)

  6. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Noah? The genealogical table breaks off with Noah; all that is mentioned with reference to him is the birth of his three sons, when he was 500 years old (5:32 and 9:10), without any allusion to the remaining years of his life. This is probably an indication that someone else took up the writing at this point. “The mention of three sons leads to the expectation, that whereas the line has been perpetuated through (Noah) alone, in the future each of the three sons will form a new beginning (K & D, p. 127)

  7. Genesis 5:6-32 Q: What about Noah? The wickedness and corruption which had become rampant in the Canite line, culminating in evil Lamech and his children (not Noah’s father who was also Lamech in Seth’s line), also became rampant in both branches of the human family, with only a godly remnant in the direct line from Enoch to Noah The siblings of Noah died in the Flood; only 3 sons survived the Flood. The world was rapidly become unimaginably wicked and violent, and evidently his faithful preaching and witnessing seemed futile. Whether or not he saw his other children engulfed in this morass of evil, there is little doubt that he saw it with other loved ones

  8. Genesis 6 The Days of Noah The Marriage of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men

  9. Genesis 6:1-8 Matthew 24:1 2 days before His crucifixion, Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2 “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

  10. Genesis 6:1-8 4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

  11. Genesis 6:1-8 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the Flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the Flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.”

  12. Genesis 6:1-8 42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

  13. Genesis 6:1-8 “The first age of human history was brought to its climax and culmination in the days of Noah. The sin-disease, which began so innocuously when Eve was tempted to doubt the word of God, which then began to show its true ugliness of character in the life of Cain, which came to maturity in the godless civilization developed by his descendants, finally descended into such a terrible morass of wickedness and corruption that only a global bath of water from the windows of heaven could purge and cleanse the fevered earth” (Morris, p. 163)

  14. Genesis 6:1-8 “The characteristics of those awful and tragic days, strange as they may seem to our enlightened culture today, are nevertheless to be repeated in the last days of this present age. It is urgently important, from the standpoint of both understanding past history and seeking guidance for the future, that we understand the events which took place in the days of Noah” (Morris, The Genesis Record, p. 163)

  15. Genesis 6:1-8 “Next to Creation, the Flood of Noah’s time is the greatest event in the history of our earth. Nothing comparable with it has happened since nor will happen until the final destruction of this universe in the fire of Judgment Day. The Flood marks the end of a world of transcendent beauty, created by God as a perfect abode for mankind, and the beginning of a new world, a mere shadowy replica of its original glory. In all recorded history there is no other event except the Fall which has had such a revolutionary effect upon the topography and condition of this earth and which has so profoundly affected human history” (Rehwinkel, The Flood, p. xv)

  16. Genesis 6:1-8 The Flood occupies about 1/3 of the first 11 chapters of Genesis The Flood is more prominent in our Bible than Creation The Flood is referenced in the OT (called a ‘deluge’ 13 times) The Flood is referenced in the NT 6 times The Flood is referenced by the Lord Jesus as a literal, world-wide historical event (Matt 24; Luke 17) The Flood is referenced by Peter (1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5), and by Jude (14-15)

  17. Genesis 6:1-8 Until about 150 years ago (1865), theologians and scientists were generally in agreement with the Biblical teachings concerning Creation and the Flood The British Association of Scientists met in 1865 and drew up a manifesto, signed by 617 scientists, in which they declared their belief not only in the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures, but also in the harmony of Scripture with natural science.

  18. Genesis 6:1-8 “It is the small man, the second-rate scholar and scientist, who struts in arrogant conceit, who parades his learning to impress the uninitiated, who is intolerant and dogmatic in his pronouncements. These are well characterized by Quintilian, a Roman teacher or oratory at the time of Paul, who says: “The less ability a man has, the more he tries to swell himself out as those of short stature exalt themselves on tiptoes, and the weak use most threats” (Institute of Oratory, Book 2, Chap. 3, quoted by Rehwinkel, p. xix)

  19. Genesis 6:1-8 Today, textbooks prescribe courses in physical geography and geology and no longer teach a Biblical creation of the universe in six days of 24 hours each Many take delight in ridiculing the Biblical creation story, and rule it out of modern thinking as naïve, absurd, or as mere folklore of primitive people. Ex: Bill Nye, the Science Guy, in an interview with Bill Maher, September 16, 2013; The Christian Post

  20. Genesis 6:1-8 “Many Christians try to harmonize Genesis and the theories of geology by juggling language and extending the six days of creation into six periods of unlimited time Others preserve an outward reverence for the Bible and speak of Genesis patronizingly as a beautiful but poetical conception of the origin of things. Young Christians become confused and disturbed Social pressure and the weight of ‘academia’ add to this confusion. Christians gain a glittering world of pseudo learning, but loose their immortal souls” (Rehwinkel, p. xvi)

  21. Genesis 6:1-8 As the first world perished by water, so this present world shall be destroyed by fire (2 Peter 3:3f) As this second world emerged from the Flood was stripped of its original glory, so shall a new heaven and new earth emerge from the fire of Judgment, cleansed of sin and evil, cleansed of misery, war and death, and restored to a perfection which shall transcend even its original glory. 2 Peter 3:13f – “But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells…”

  22. Genesis 6:1-3 6:1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend withhumans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

  23. Genesis 6:1-3 6:1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth

  24. Population Growth:

  25. In this formula Pn is the population after n generations beginning with one man and one woman; n is the number of generations---found by dividing the total time period by the number of years per generation. (In Genesis, this is 10 generations, living over 930 years, except for Enoch)The variable x can be thought of as the number of generations that are alive when P(n) is evaluated. Therefore, if x is 2, the generations that are alive are generations n and n-1. This means that only a generation and its parents are alive. It seems reasonable to choose x = 3 most of the time. Taking x = 3 means that when P(n) (the Population living at any one time) is evaluated generations n, n-1, and n-2 are all alive. Note: Ardy’s had her daughter, granddaughter, and great granddaughter in church 3 weeks ago = n, n-1, n-2, and n-3)C is half the number of children in the family. If each family has only two children, the population growth rate is zero, but a reasonable and conservative number of children per family is 2.1 to 2.5 as far as historical records are concerned.

  26. Allowing for famine, disease, war, and disaster, a few sample calculations will show that the earth's population could have easily reached several billions of people between the time of Adam and the time of the Flood. It is even quite possible that the pre-Flood population was much higher than our world’s population is now (in 2013). For example, if the average family size were 8, instead of 6, and the length of a generation 93 years, instead of 100, the population at the time of Adam's death, 930 years after his creation, would already have been 2,800,000. At these rates, the population at the time of the Flood (Deluge) would have been 137 billion! Even if we use rates appropriate for the present world (x = 1 [generation]and C = 1.5 [number of children in each family]), over 3 billion people could easily have been on the earth at the time of Noah." http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html

  27. Our current World Population: 7 billion (top 10): China: 1,387,357,904 (22,966 daily) India: 1,255,444,215 (42,367 daily) USA: 320,603,343 (7,085 daily) Indonesia 250,512,790 (8,297 daily) Brazil: 200,724,586 (4,649 daily) Pakistan: 182,789,115 (8,289 daily) Nigeria: 174,647,763 (13,223 daily) Bangladesh: 156,994,189 (5,118 daily) Russian Federation: 142,768,674 (--834 daily) Japan: 127,120,754 (--293 daily)

  28. First Generation (Adam & Eve): 22 (with 10 child average) Second Generation (Cain/Seth): *18(10) (Josephus = 56) Third Generation (Enosh): *16250 Fourth Generation (Cainan): *1,458250 Fifth Generation (Mahalalel): *13,122 1,250 Sixth Generation (Jared): *118,098 6,250 Seventh Generation (Enoch): *1,062,882 31,250 Eighth Generation (Methusaleh): *9,565,938 151,250 Ninth Generation (Lamech): *86,093,442 756,250 Tenth Generation (Noah): *774,840,979 *3,781,250 + *(Rehwinkel, The Flood, p. 29)

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