Genesis 5:12–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come this morning to a passage that many modern readers, and I daresay many Christians, are tempted to skim. It seems to be the biblical equivalent of a telephone book for a city that was washed away by a flood four thousand years ago. You must understand that these genealogies are not dusty records for the sake of historical trivia. They are God's inspired, inerrant, and infallible record of His faithfulness to His promise in the garden. When God told the serpent that the seed of the woman would crush his head, He was not speaking in generalities. He was speaking of a specific lineage, a particular bloodline that would run like a scarlet thread from Eve to Mary. This chapter, Genesis 5, is the first great accounting of that line. It is the line of Seth, the appointed replacement for righteous Abel, and it stands in stark contrast to the line of Cain, the city-builder and murderer.