Genesis 5-6

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Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

  1. Gen 1:1-2
  2. Gen 1:3-31
  3. Gen 2:1-3:24
  4. Gen 4:1-4:26
  5. Gen 4 – Flood

Traditionally, the Old Testament is divided thus.

  • The Pentateuch-5 books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
    • GenesisThe Book of Beginnings
    • ExodusThe Birth of the Nation
    • LeviticusThe Law of the Nation
    • Numbers The Wilderness Wanderings
    • DeuteronomyThe Laws Reviewed
  • The twelve historical books: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
  • The five poetical books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon (Canticles)
  • The five books of the major prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel
  • The twelve books of the minor prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Genesis 5:2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.

Genesis anticipates all false philosophies:

  • Atheism (Genesis says the world was created by God)
  • Pantheism (Genesis says God is transcendent and distinguishable)
  • Polytheism (Genesis says there is One God)
  • Materialism (Genesis says that matter had a beginning)
  • Humanism (Genesis says that God, not man, is the ultimate reality)
  • Evolutionism (Genesis says “God created”)
  • Uniformism (Genesis says God intervenes in His creation)

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

  • Born dead to God but alive in the flesh.
  • Adam was created in the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-28); people are begotten in Adam’s likeness. God’s likeness was perfect; Adam’s was imperfect and depraved, with the law of sin and death working in and bringing it to ruin (Job 14:4; Job 25:4; Psalm 14:3; Psalm 51:5; Romans 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:39; Ephes. 2:2-3).

Genesis 5:4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.

  • Adam Man (is)
  • Seth Appointed
  • Enosh Mortal
  • Kenan Sorrow; (but)
  • MahalalelThe Blessed God
  • JaredShall come down
  • Enoch Teaching
  • Methuselah His death shall bring
  • Lamech          The Despairing
  • Noah Comfort, Rest

Genesis 5:22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

  1. Q) Who is the oldest man in the Bible? Yet he died before his father! How can that be?
  2. A) Methuselah; he lived 969 years. His father was Enoch… At age 65, something happened; he then “walked with God” 300 years…

Genesis 5:23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Enoch: means “commencement,” or “teaching.

  • The Hebrew word (Chanowk (HSN-2585)) means “initiated” or “dedicated.” Enoch was the only one mentioned as being godly in Seth’s line except Noah (cp.Genesis 6:9; Genesis 7:1).  He was a prophet (Jude 1:14), and was translated by faith (Romans 10:17; Hebrews 11:5).  His experience parallels that of Elijah (2 Kings 2).  Both were taken to heaven bodily without dying; both were prophets of judgment; both fought idolatry and apostasy; both knew the time and purpose of their “translation” (transporting) (2 Kings 2; Hebrews 11:5).
  • And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Jude 14, 15
  • Enoch’s Prophecy
    • We know the Lord’s coming is sure.
    • We know who will accompany the Lord.
    • We know the purpose of His coming.
    • We know the result of the Lord’s coming.
  • Nadir of Apostasy
  • Enoch was translated (“raptured”?) midway between Adam and Abraham.
  • Elijah was translated midway between Abraham and Christ.
  • Enoch “Walked with God”
    • Not a casual stroll: 300 years (Heb 11:5);
    • Agreement; surrender; witness (Amos 3:3);
    • Hebrew: halak (HSN-1980), to walk up and down, be conversant (cp. Exodus 2:5; Exodus 14:29; Leviticus 26:40; Joshua 5:6; 1 Samuel 8:3; 1 Samuel 12:2).
    • Privilege available today (Col 2:6; Gal 5:25; 2 Cor 5:7).

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

  • Noah: which is derived from nacham,“to bring relief” or “comfort,” = “Comfort, or Rest.”

Genesis 6:2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

  • Sons of God Bene HaElohim= angels. OT (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7); NT (Lk20:36); Book of Enoch; and, Septuagint (LXX).
  • Benoth Adam =“Daughters of Adam.” Daughters of Adam, not just Cain. (Adam had daughters (Gen5:4): that’s where Cain got his wife! “took…of all they chose”: doesn’t sound like the girls had much choice in the matter…

Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

  • I personally believe this one hundred and twenty years as the time before God sends the flood, but I’m not discounting this also being the lifespan of men.

Genesis 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

  • Genegesis the same word used in Greek mythology for “Titans,” creatures emerging from interbreeding of the Greek gods with human beings. Genea, means “breed,” or “kind.” The English words “genes” and “genetics” come from the same root.
  • “…also after that…” (Genesis 6:4). Rephaim, Emim, Horim, Zamsummim (Gen 14, 15); Arba, Anak & his seven sons (Anakim), encountered in Canaan (Num 13:33). Og, King of Bashan (Deut 3:11; Joshua 12). Goliath and his four brothers (2 Sam 21:16-22; 1 Chr 20:4-8).

Genesis 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

  • Is that what the world is coming to now?

Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

  • The Twelve “I Will’s” of God to Noah
  • I will destroy them with the earth (Genesis 6:13).
  • I will establish My covenant with you (Genesis 6:18).
  • I will cause it to rain upon earth (Genesis 7:4).
  • I will destroy living substance (Genesis 7:4).
  • I will not curse the ground again (Genesis 8:21).
  • I will not smite every living thing again (Genesis 8:21).
  • I will require life for life (Genesis 9:5).
  • I will require blood of beasts that kill (Genesis 9:5).
  • I will require blood of man who kills (Genesis 9:5).
  • I will establish My covenant with you (Genesis 9:11).
  • I will remember My covenant with you (Genesis 9:15).
  • I will look upon the rainbow (Genesis 9:16).

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