SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 03/13/2006
My Worship Time Focus: Early generations of Jesus Christ
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 5:12-27
Message of the verses: “12
Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel. 13
Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became the
father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters. 14 So
all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 15
Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared. 16
Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the
father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters. 17 So
all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. 18
Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of
Enoch. 19 Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he
became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.
20 So all the days of
Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
21 ¶ Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the
father of Methuselah. 22
Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the
father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 So
all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25 Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven
years, and became the father of Lamech. 26 Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and
eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons
and daughters. 27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine
years, and he died.
This section of Scripture helps to
confirm that the Bible, and in this case the OT, is a book about the Lord Jesus
Christ. Moses wrote this section of
Scripture a long time after this event, which he did through the influence of
the Holy Spirit. When I look at the book
of Genesis there are some other things that I would like to have seen in it,
things like more of the people listed and where they came from. I have stated before that when Adam and Eve
had children, girls, then they married their brothers sons of Adam and Eve were
in effect there own in-laws, but at any rate these things are not in the book
of Genesis but the things that are in it all point to the Lord Jesus
Christ. From the time when Adam sinned
and God promised to send a Redeemer through the seed of a woman some of the
genealogies that are recorded in Scripture show the decedents of the Lord Jesus
Christ. There are two of these given in
the NT, one in the book of Matthew, and the other in the book of Luke. Matthews goes back to Abraham, and it is
believed to be the blood line of Joseph, the stepfather of the Lord Jesus Christ,
while the other in Luke is said to be the blood line of Mary, Jesus’ mother. The difference between these two blood lines
is from David on, and that probably was because of the sinfulness of the line
that went from David through Solomon.
David was a distant relative of both Joseph and of Mary, but Mary’s came
through Nathan.
At any rate this section of
Scripture, which shows the line from Adam through Seth up to Methuselah the son
of Enoch is part of the blood line of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Enoch seems to be one of the people
in the Scripture that stands out for he and Elijah were the only two people
recorded in Scripture who did not die, but went straight to heaven without
experiencing death. Enoch began to walk
with God after his son Methuselah was born, and if you count up the years from
the time that Methuselah was born until he died that was when the flood came to
destroy all of the wicked upon the earth.
Dr. Wiersbe surmises that God could have spoken to Enoch when his son
Methuselah was born to let him know of the plans that he had, but at any rate
Enoch began to walk with the Lord when Methuselah was born and he walked with
Him until he was 365 years old and God took him to heaven. Some say that this could be a picture of the
rapture of the Church that will come before the next great judgment that God
will bring upon this earth and the people on it. The name Methuselah means “when
I die it will come,” and right after his death the flood came.
I believe that one thing can be
said about this line of people and for that matter all of those who are in the
line of Jesus Christ, that they are all in heaven even at this time.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I believe
that one of the things that I can learn from this section of Scripture is that
all of these people were believers and lived in a crooked and perverse
generation, and yet they were faithful to the Lord and walked with Him. Enoch was said to have walked with the Lord
and so was Noah who is Enoch’s grandson and was the seventh generation from
Adam.
When I think of how fast the world
fell away from God, for Noah was the night generation from Adam, and then God
judged the earth with the flood, so this proves exactly what Pastor Jacobs was
teaching in our Sunday school lesson yesterday and that is that after the fall
man could do nothing but sin because that became his nature. This quote came from Augustine and was in the
notes from our Sunday school lesson: posse non peccare (able not to sin) non
posse non peccare (not able not to sin).
The first one speaks of Adam, and Adam was able to and did sin, and the
last one speaks of Adam and his decedents after he sinned. This shows why I need the Lord.
The Word of God has challenged my heart as I read and
studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Trust the Lord to give me the
grace that I need this day to live for Him.
Trust the Lord to search my heart of sin so that I can confess it to Him
in order to have wonderful fellowship with Him today. Trust the Lord to direct my paths and to
teach me contentment.
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