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24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. This is a curious phrase, “God took him away.” Everyone else in this passage died, but Enoch was taken by God. I hear a fine point of theology that I hear almost daily in my dealings with others who areContinue reading “8Feb2009 Genesis 5:24”

22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. It appears that something happened when Enoch became a father. He became a father at age 65 and then for the next 300 years the text says he “walked with God.” Most of theContinue reading “7Feb2009 Genesis 5:22”

11 Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died. That is the fate of us all: death! No matter how much we push to the contrary, we will all end up dead. The only exception will happen if we are alive when Jesus returns. But if you are not alive when that happens, deathContinue reading “6Feb2009 Genesis 5:11”

14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me. Cain gets punished for killing his brother Abel. He loses everything that is stable in his life. He loses his place inContinue reading “3Feb2009 Genesis 4:14”

10 The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Sin is noisy! You can’t keep it a secret. Eventually it will come out and others will hear it. In fact, they probably hear it already, but they just don’t understand that what they are hearingContinue reading “2Feb2009 Genesis 4:10”

7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” Humankind was designed by God to rule over the other inhabitants of the earth. Instead, because of sinContinue reading “31Jan2009 Genesis 4:7”

23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Did you notice the subtle shift in this verse? Adam is sent out to take care of the garden, the dirt, from which he was made. His job had been to rule overContinue reading “29Jan2009 Genesis 3:23”

16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” The last part of this verse articulates the great struggle of relationships. A woman’s desire, her longing, is for aContinue reading “27Jan2009 Genesis 3:16”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” This is the first time in history someone was guilty of “passing the buck.” It is amazing that excuse making entered the world right after sin. Excuses usually follow sin and this isContinue reading “26Jan2009 Genesis 3:12”

5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Why would anyone choose to know evil and all it horrendous out-workings like 9/11 and Somalia? The choice Eve made to listen to Satan’s half-truth was fatal, literally. Knowing goodContinue reading “25Jan2009 Genesis 3:5”