Genesis 5:15–17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Many modern Christians, when they approach a passage like the one before us, treat it like nine miles of bad road. They are the load-bearing walls of redemptive history. They kept careful track of their genealogies because they were waiting for someone. From the moment God made the promise in the Garden, that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent, God's people were on the lookout. This was not a matter of idle curiosity; it was a matter of salvation. To treat these names as boring is to be bored by the faithfulness of God. To dismiss these ages as mythical is to take a razor blade to the humanity of the Lord Jesus. If Mahalalel is a myth, then what is Jesus? So we must not read this as a dry ledger.