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Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John 16:13-14
[13] Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. [14] He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

This Bible Study was originally written by Roger Christopherson,
published at http://www.theseason.org/

Without the leading by the Holy Spirit, there is no understanding of the truths, for all the truth of the Scriptures are revealed to us by God's Spirit.

Genesis 5:1 "This is The BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;"

In the first two verses of Genesis five, this Adam and his wife are presented in their unfallen state, created in the image of God, and without sin. We can see Genesis five, and Luke 3:36-38 follow the same generations from the first Adam, to the "Last Adam", which is Christ.

There are four principal Hebrew words rendered "man", and when we use "Man, or "Adam" we must refer back to the Hebrew to see which case it is used in. These cases are:

a. Adam, denoting the origin of man, as being made from the dust of the ground.

b. "Ish", is in regards to this sex, a male.

c. "Enosh", has regard to his infirmities, as physically mortal, and incurable.

d. "Geber", has respect to his strength, a mighty man.

This verse starts out addressing mankind in general, as we see in "a." above. To the creation of male and female alike, however this is a specific male and female bonding that God had made one. In verse one, the word "him" at the end of the verse is added, for it is not in the Hebrew Text.

Genesis 5:2 "Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."

Lets take a closer look at the name "Adam", for Adam, as it is given in verse 3 is in reference to both the "male and female", and not to the specific man "Adam". From the very beginning of the forming or creation, when God gave Eve to Adam, God made them "One". The man and the woman, husband and wife are one, and treated as one at their joining.

Genesis 5:3 "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"

Seth is the first child of Adam's generations, for Cain was not Adam's son; and Abel was killed [murdered] by Cain before He had children, so there was no progeny, or future generations of Abel.

You had best accept this as fact,
that the eating of fruit by Eve was her seduction by Satan,
the "tree of the knowledge of Good and evil";
for if you are so naive to think
"the eating of fruit"
in the Garden of Eden had anything to do with apples and trees,

then you deserve to be deceived.

Why is it important to stress this part of God's Word?

Because if you don't understand what happened in the garden, the prophecies dealing with Christ and the end times will not be understood properly.

This event is given continually given throughout the Word of God.

Genesis 5:4 "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:"

These "days of Adam", and his generations, are only given to the lineage of Adam and they are through Seth. There is no record given that is known of the days of Cain, most likely because Cain is not a son of Adam, or any of Cain's lineage, except their names, and in a few cases, what they did.

Genesis 5:5 "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."

Remember the verse in II Peter 3:8; "A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day..." Adam did not complete that first day with the Lord, on the Lord's time schedule.

American Wisdom Series Editor's Note: Remember, God told him in 2:17, ..."for in the day that thou eateth thereof thou shalt surely die."

Genesis 5:6 "And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:"

This is the Enos from Genesis 4:26, who allowed the false worship of Jehovah; turning the worship of the heavens, and rocks, and trees, into a form of Godliness.

This is where we can see the start of religious forms.

Worshipping the creation, and not the Creator, and still goes on today even in our Christian churches.

American Wisdom Series Editor's Note: We can see that this started already in the second generation from Adam and Eve, and without Kenite influence. At least I think! Who knows. I don't know the timing. Maybe descendants of Cain had already gone out from the land of Nod.

Genesis 5:7 "And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:8 "And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died."

Seth also died short of the thousand year period.

As you study on into Genesis five, note that this is the blood line, the pure pedigree that our Lord Jesus Christ would come into the world, and be born through Seth.

This is the blood line kept pure to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Satan knew this, and this is why he, and the fallen angels were continuing to attack it down through the ages.

We will go deeper into this in the next chapter. Satan tried to destroy that lineage, and block God's way of salvation, through Jesus Christ, for mankind to come back to Him.
Satan failed!

Genesis 5:9 "And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan:"

Genesis 5:10 "And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:"

The rest of Genesis five deals with the genealogy from Adam to Noah.

However, notice that the "Lamech", the son of "Methuselah", in verse 25 is of Adam's seed through Seth's offspring;

while the "Lamech", the son of "Methusael" was from Satan, through Cain. The seed, or offspring of Cain are the wicked seed,

and a great deception exists in the Scripture.

This deception because the Kenites men will have similar names, they will appear to be of God; when in fact they are not.

An example of this is found in Jeremiah 35.

If you were not familiar with Jeremiah the Prophet's father, "Hilkiah", who was a priest of Judah; you could mix him up with "Jeremiah the son of Habaziniah" [Jeremiah 35:3].

What is the difference?

One is a Prophet of God, while the other is a head of the "House of the Rechabites" [the Kenites], and this is spelled out in I Chronicles 2:55. The Rechabites are Kenites who are the offspring of Satan, through Cain.

Be alert when you see a name.

Most ministers teach that Moses' father-in-law, "Jethro" was a Kenite. They teach it because they were taught it, and in ignorance failed to check it out for themselves. They will try to blend Noah's generations, as well and Moses' generations with these Kenites. This indifference to God's Word by them, is pointed out in Exodus 3:15-25, where we read the father-in-law's name is "Reu'el", and not "Jethro". "Jethro" is a title, such as mayor, or governor over the Kenites area, and not the name of a man.

This is restated in Numbers 10:29; "And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the midianite, Moses' father in law, ..." Moses' father in law "Reguel" was in fact a priest, and from the seed of Abraham, through Abraham's second wife "Keturah" [Genesis 25:1-6]. Midian's family tribe moved to pasture land just east of Horeb, where Moses fled to when Moses was cast out of Egypt. This area is also the land of the Kenites..

Moses' offspring have no Kenite blood in them, for they are of the tribe of Levi, and Midian on their mother's side, through Dedan. The reason he was called a Kenite, is the fact that he lived in the land of the Kenites.

This is the same reason that Satan's offspring, the Kenites are called Jews, in Jesus time; for they lived in the land of the Jews. They lived in Judea, which is the land of the House of Judah.

The Kenites living in America today are called Americans, and those living in Canada are called Canadians.

So the important thing to remember in Genesis five, is that we stay on guard against being misled by names, for when we are given names, and those names are identified by tribe or parentage.

Genesis 5:11 "And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died."

Genesis 5:12 "And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:"

Genesis 5:13 "And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:14 "And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died."

Genesis 5:15 "And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:"

Genesis 5:16 "And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:17 "And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died."

Genesis 5:18 "And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:"

Genesis 5:19 "And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:20 "And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. "

Genesis 5:21 "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:"

Genesis 5:22 "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:23 "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:"

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

The correct translation from the Hebrew Massorah text for, God "took him"; was "without dying".

This just as Elijah was taken in II Kings 2,9.

Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam, which is referred to in Jude 14, and the fact that Enoch walked and talked with God, and prophesied from God. The "book of Enoch" is available today, and writings within the "book of Jude" comes from the writings of Enoch. Today the modern church fathers have selected not to include "The book of Enoch" in Canonized Scripture, because the councils within the early Catholic Church simply would not teach it as being acceptable and within their creeds. However, we see that Enoch was acceptable to the author of the book of Jude, which is acceptable to both the Catholic Church and the modern Church world.

Genesis 5:25 "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:"

The name "Methuselah" in the Hebrew text means," When he is dead it shall be sent," and this is reference to the flood.

Genesis 5:26 "And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:27 "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died."

Genesis 5:28 "And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:"

There are two Lamechs and many churchmen confuse the two as being the same person, however, they are not. The Lamech of Genesis 4:19 is a Kenite, and an offspring of Cain's generations. Their can be no confusion between the two, for Lamech the Kenite was a murderer just like his parents, Cain and Satan.

The Lamech of Genesis 5:28 was of the lineage of Adam and Seth, and was part of the lineage, or blood line, that our Lord Jesus Christ would come through.

Genesis 5:29 "And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed."

The name "Noah", means rest in the Hebrew. The phrase; "Comfort us concerning", in the Hebrew text should read; "give us rest from", and this is in reference to the "work and toil", which in the original text is pointing to the grievous toil of the ground, and that overwhelming evil deeds that are being committed.

Genesis 5:30 "And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:"

Genesis 5:31 "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died."

Here we can see God's hand in His Word. Age 777 is spiritual completeness.

Genesis 5:32 "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japhet."

This verse closes out the generations from Adam to Noah and his sons, which names the generations in the lineage of Christ prior to the flood. We have set the stage for chapter six, which was a time when the whole world had undergone a change in preparation, and became the cause for the flood of Noah's time.

Chapter six will present a gloom picture of humanity at its worst, yet it is also an image of what our present times are becoming.

However, Jesus spoke of these times in Matthew 24:36-39:

Matthew 24:36; "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only." That hour spoken of is the hour of our Lord's return.

Matthew 24:37; "But as the days of Noe [Noah, in the Hebrew] were. so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

Matthew 24:38; "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,"

Matthew 24:39; "And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

American Wisdom Series Editor's Note: So we must open our eyes and learn exactly what was happening prior to Noah entering the ark! Live Link to- Noah's Flood

This is why it is important to pay attention to these early chapters of Genesis,
for Jesus Christ is telling us that exactly as it was in Noah's day, so shall it be at at His second coming.

This is why we must be alert as we continue into the next chapter

American Wisdom Series Editor's Note: We are going to stop here in our "In the Beginning Study" to review some commentary from chapter 5 in an earlier study we published on the the first 11 chapters of Genesis. I don't believe you will find much difference in the general opinion of these 2 authors, but to read another person's perspective of events that took place at the start of God's creation of our universe may prove helpful in your understanding of the beginning of both the first and the second earth ages Because if you don't understand what happened in the beginning you will not understand the remainder of Scriptural teaching

Genesis
Chapter 5

Genesis 5:1-32
This is the BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Do you believe the Bible is the Word of God? Do you suppose our Father needed to fill some space in His Word and add some more volume to it? It makes you wonder sometimes when people ask why we have the Book of Chronicles and why we have these "boring", as they call it, genealogies listed in the Bible.

It is extremely important that we pay close attention to these genealogies. They are here for a reason, otherwise God would not have had them included.

We have already seen in chapter four that Cain, begotten of his father the Devil (John 8:44), has his own genealogy, completely separate from Adam's, for he was not of Adam.But it would be through Adam and Eve that the Messiah was to come. Therefore God's Word is very careful in documenting that it did indeed happen, exactly as it is was ordained.

Also, when we examine closely the genealogies in Matthew (Joseph's genealogy) and Luke (Mary's genealogy) in context with the events of His birth (particularly Elizabeth's cousinship to Mary), we find that Christ was half of Judah (the kingship line) and half of Levi (the priest line) and so He fulfilled, right down to His bloodlines, the position of King of Kings and Lord of Lords. God's Word is perfect.

[2] Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
[3] And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
[4] And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
[5] And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

God told Adam in Gen 2:17, ".. for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". As we've already learned, Adam lived 930 years, which is 70 years short of one of God's days (2 Pet 3).

[6] And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: [7] And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: [8] And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. [9] And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: [10] And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: [11] And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12] And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: [13] And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: [14] And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. [15] And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: [16] And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: [17] And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. [18] And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: [19] And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: [20] And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. [21] And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: [22]And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Methuselah = when he is dead it (the Deluge) shall be sent.

With all of the idolatry now taking place on the earth, we come to this one, Enoch, whose name means teaching, or initiation, who walked with God.

[23] And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Much has been written about this very special man of God who lived 365 years, the number which corresponds to the number of days in a year. Some even suppose he was the master builder of the great pyramid of Giza.

[24] And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

There were two men in the Bible, Enoch and Elijah, who did not see death, but instead were translated, i.e. transported to heaven. Elijah was taken up in a "whirlwind", a highly polished, bronze looking, circular vehicle. The same vehicles are described by Ezekiel in chapter one of the book titled after his name. (Live Link)to-Ezekiel chapter 1

2 Kings 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

There is no reason not to believe that Enoch was "taken" in the same manner. (Of course the traditions of men show Elijah being sucked up by a tornado, kind of like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Both are fairy tales.)

Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Our Father was obviously very pleased with the work of this man Enoch.

Have you ever read about the Phoenix bird? Do you know the derivation of the word Phoenix? Do you know who the Phoenicians were? Their father was "Pa-hanok", father Enoch. For those interested in learning more, the book "Tracing Our Ancestors", by Fredrick Haberman, will give you some fascinating insight into the history of man.

[25] And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: [26] And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: [27] And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Methuselah holds the honor as the oldest man recorded in the Bible. Perhaps Lamech was first to use the phrase "my old man".

[28] And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Lamech means powerful. Remember, never let anyone tell you this is the same Lamech as in Genesis 4:18. You can rightly divide.

[29] And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

The promise of One to come, a "comforter" if you will, had been given back in Gen. 3:15. Perhaps Lamech thought this one, Noah, would be Him. In any event, Noah means rest, comfort, or consolation, which he would provide concerning their works ("work" should be translated "works" in verse 29). And so it is that they will "rest" a long time after the flood.

[30] And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: [31] And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
[32] And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The chronology has now been brought up to Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. To this point we have seen two major attempts by Satan and his offspring to thwart the plan of God and destroy the "woman" and her "seed".

Next we will see another massive attempt to prevent the Messiah from ever being born of woman. It is a story not taught in the majority of Christian churches, and yet it can be documented with just a "little bit" of "rightly dividing" the Word. This attempt was so evil and so against God's plan and His commands, that it caused the Great Deluge, the Flood of Noah.

How exciting the Word of our Father!