"And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." Genesis 7:1
The Lord said, "Come...." The Lord did not say, "Go...." So, where was the Lord? He was in the Ark!
The Lord's invitation to "Come" into the ark was to Noah and "all thy house." Yet, God extended the invitation verbally to just Noah. Noah received the invitation and then had the commission to tell everyone else: His wife, His three sons; His three sons' wives (one wife per son!). There were eight in all invited into the ark. Only one man received the message, Noah. Then Noah became the messenger to seven others.
Why did God just tell Noah? God said, "...for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." Which generation is God referring to? The last generation of mankind before the great flood that covered the whole earth.
Are we "this generation," that is, the last generation that will witness the second coming of the Lord? Are we telling our loved ones about his invitation to "Come" to him? Have we heard God's invitation ourselves?
~dkg
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Genesis 6:1-2
The spirit of God moves. The serpent questions. Men multiply and take. The more men multiply, the more men take, and the more men take, the more men multiply. In these verses, men are taking multiple wives. Verse one states that men were multiplying on the face of the earth; they were increasing the population of this planet. Men were monogamous up until Genesis 6 (except for Lamech, Gen. 4:19, who was the first man recorded to take for himself two wives). Monogamy did nothing to hinder a population explosion.
What was the allure for taking more than one wife? Women's beauty. More women equals more beautiful women. Beautiful things are oft times coveted after, lusted after, and sometimes taken from their rightful owners. These "fair" women were "daughters of men." They had fathers who raised them, mothers who succored them, families who loved them. But they were taken, perhaps against their wills, to become a possession, not a just wife. "They took them wives of all which they chose."
Who took them? "...the sons of God..." Just as Adam was the "son of God" and took of the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," even so did the descendants of Adam, "the sons of God," take that which was forbidden, multiple wives.
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Gen. 2:24. How can three or more people in a "polygamous marriage" become one flesh?
Are we satisfied with all that God has given us?
~dkg
"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created." Genesis 5:1-2
This book within the Bible, the "Book of the Generations of Adam," is a record of Adam's and Eve's decedents, from their son Seth unto to their "great-upon-great" grandson Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. During the lives of Noah and his three sons, God sent a great flood which covered the whole earth.
Let's look at some of Adam's and Eve's descendants.
First, it's important to note that Adam's and Eve's first-born son Cain is NOT mentioned in the "Book of the Generations of Adam." In all the inherit promises for being a first-born son, Cain forfeited all these and lost all honor of being mentioned. It's as if he hadn't been born. His name has been blotted out.
Seth - "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth."(Gen. 5:3). By age 130, Adam may have had hundreds of sons and daughters, but none are worthy of mention in "the book" until Seth. Why? Because Seth looked just like his father!
...and Seth begat Enos and Enos begat Cainan...
Cainan - Enos was ninety years old when Cainan was born. It is interesting that the name of "Cain" is within the name "Cainan." Although, Cain is not included in the "Book of the Generations of Adam," evidently he was alive and well in the memories and in the tradition of naming others after him by his "brothers." This could indicate that Cain was forgiven and even well-loved.
Enoch - "Enoch, the seventh from Adam," (Jude 1:14). "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." (Gen. 5:24). The first supernatural happening to a human-being ever recorded in the Bible after "God created the heaven and the earth." Nothing in modern Ufo's sighting and supposed alien abductions compares to this!
Are we walking with God? Has God seized our hearts today?
~dkg
"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord." Genesis 4:1
The first verse in Genesis Chapter Four is about Cain, not about "Cain and Abel." So, let's talk about Cain.
Cain was the result of Adam knowing his wife Eve in the Biblical sense; they really KNEW each other. They were intimate, they were physically and emotionally involved with each other. Cain was the fruit of their love. He looked just like his father Adam. Eve declared that Cain was "a man child." Cain was the very first baby ever born on earth and in the universe. Cain was the first human-being to ever have a belly button! He was unique. Cain did not need Abel to complete him, nor was he "part of a pair." Cain was whole in and of himself. Surely, he relished in the love and admiration that he received from both his parents. Cain was a first-born and had all the qualities of a first-born child, even more so after Abel came along.
Adam was also a "first-born" in that he was the very first human-being created, made in the image of God, by God's own two hands. God spoke the world into existence, but, when he made Adam, God got down on the ground, got his hands dirty, got intimately involved with the dust of the ground, humbled himself even. Then being face to face with Adam, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Adam "became a living soul," (Gen 2:7). Which brings us to another "S" word in the Bible: soul.
Just as Cain looked like his father Adam, so Adam looked like God, until Adam sinned. Then his resemblance to God was marred. Cain looked like his father Adam until he sinned, too. Surely, murdering another human-being, his own younger brother Abel, turned Cain into an unrecognizable "grotesque creature," if he even faintly resembled his father anymore.
Who do you and I resemble?
~dkg