Genesis 5:25–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When we come to a passage like the genealogies in Genesis 5, the modern reader is tempted to let his eyes glaze over. We see a list of names and a string of begats, and we think it is little more than a dusty record from a forgotten archive. This chapter is a graveyard, and every gravestone is a sermon. It is a solemn procession, a funeral march that stretches for over a millennium and a half, from the gates of a lost Eden to the threshold of a drowned world. This is what happens when man listens to the serpent instead of to God. This is the doctrine of federal headship in its most somber display. Adam was our representative, and when he fell, we fell in him. The consequence of that rebellion is this relentless, marching drumbeat of death.