Genesis 5:32
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come this morning to the very end of Genesis chapter 5, a chapter that functions like a funeral dirge. Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah, Lamech, all of them lived for centuries, and every last one of them died. This is the long, grim echo of the curse in the garden. This is the wages of sin being paid out, generation after generation. The chapter is a graveyard, a long line of tombstones reminding us that the serpent was a liar from the beginning. Our modern world has a desperate allergy to this kind of thing. We don't like genealogies because we don't like history. We want to believe we are autonomous individuals, self-created, disconnected from the failures and obligations of our fathers. We want to be the first man, every one of us. But the Bible will not let us get away with it.