Genesis 5:21–24
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The fifth chapter of Genesis is one of the most sobering passages in all of Scripture. It is a long, monotonous, and rhythmic funeral dirge. This is the outworking of the curse pronounced in the Garden. God told Adam that in the day he ate of the forbidden fruit, he would surely die. And here, in the official family register of Adam, we see the receipts. We live in a culture that is terrified of this reality. We have banished death from our public squares and our private conversations. We hide it away in sterile hospitals and quiet funeral homes. We pump our bodies full of chemicals and our minds full of distractions to pretend that the drumbeat is not for us. For him, it is the ultimate absurdity, the final annihilation of the self, the great cosmic joke where the punchline is oblivion.