Sunday, January 2, 2011

Day 2

I. From the creation to the flood 3975-2319 B.C. ~ cont.

B. Fall of man and its consequences ~ cont.
1. Temptation and fall - Genesis 3:1-7
(Second Dispensation - Conscience)
2. Judgement and Curse - Genesis 3:8-19
3. Expulsion from Eden - Genesis 3:21-24
C. History of the first civilization
1. Cain and Abel
a. Birth of Cain - Genesis 4:1
b. Birth of Abel - Genesis 4:2
c. Cain kills Able (124 years) - Genesis 4:3-10
d. Cain is marked - Genesis 4:11-15

Begin Parallel Passages
2. Descendants of Seth and Cain

Genealogy of Righteousness                                                    Genealogy of Wickedness
a. Birth of Seth (63rd Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:1;                    Line of Cain - Genesis 4:16-24
    Genesis 4:25; 5:3
b. Birth of Enos (62nd Gen) - Genesis 4:26; 5:6
c. Birth of Caian (61st Gen) - Genesis 5:9
d. Birth of Mahalaleel (60th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:2;
    Genesis 5:12
e. Birth of Jared (59th Gen) - Genesis 5:15
f. Birth of Enoch (58th Gen) - Genesis 5:18)

End Parallel Passages
3. Adam's descendants continued
a. Birth of Methuselah (57th Gen) - 1 Chronicles 1:3; Genesis 5:21

b. Birth of Lamech (56th Gen) - Genesis 5:25
c. Death of Adam (930 years) - Genesis 5:4-5
d. Enoch's walk with God - Genesis 5:22-23
e. Translation of Enoch (365 years) - Genesis 5:24
f. Death of Seth (912 years) - Genesis 5:7-8
g. Birth of Noah (55th Gen) - Genesis 5:28-29
h. Death of Enos (905 years) - Genesis 5:10-11
i. Death of Cainan (910 years) - Genesis 5:13-14
j. Death of Mahalaleel (895 years) - Genesis 5:16-17
k. Death of Jared (962 years) - Genesis 5:19-20

I was reflecting upon several things as I read through. The first nugget was one I discovered during a discussion which brought up headship, that men are to be a covering for their wives.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  (Genesis 3:6)

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.  (Genesis 3:7)

The bold words are the ones which I am focusing on at the present moment.  Adam was the covering for his wife.  I do not know what would have happened had he NOT eaten the fruit and it would be pointless to speculate - it is what it is - but the emphasis for me was in his COVERING her.  He was her protector, their eyes were not opened until he willingly disobeyed.

Then Adam opts out of the responsibility - that woman.  The woman admits she was beguiled.

Beguiled - H5377 - נשׁא -nâshâ' - naw-shaw' - A primitive root; to lead astray, that is, (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce.

Used 16x in 15 verses - I liked the one in 2 Kings 18:29, Rabshakeh (Assyria) telling the Jews that Hezekiah (King of Israel) is deceiving them in telling them that God will deliver them from the hand of the king of Assyria.

I like Father's admonishment to Adam:  "Because thou has hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and has eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for they sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life; (Genesis 3:17)

Hearkened - H8085 - שׁמע - shâma‛ - shaw-mah' - A primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.).

Used 1158x in 1072 verses - okay, I am way to lazy to look at all those verses.  If memory serves me correctly, Hear O Israel, that hear is the same as this one in Genesis 3:17.  A quick search of the key words Hear O Israel resulted in 72 hits within 22 verses.  Same Hebrew word.

This is also the same word that Adam and Eve "heard" the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

An admonishment to us, as women, to take great care in what comes forth from our lips.

Father told Adam "no eating" - I do not know whether Eve was privy to the conversation or not, but Adam definitely had the greater responsibility.

One final thing to share and I will close out this day's postings.  The lineage of Adam down to Noah.  It has been commented that Enosh would have been alive when Noah was born.  I found a couple of charts which show the birth and death of the patriarchs.  Enjoy!


To view this chart and the information about it, check out Answers in Genesis.  To view another one try this link.

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