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Today we
arrive at the first of the genealogy passages.
On the surface, these passages don’t seem to contain much. In truth, some contain more than others. In this particular genealogy, I don’t find
that there is too much depth. We’re
honestly not told much about any of the characters other than their age and the
son that we are meant to remember. In
summary, the author is simply trying to move us from Adam to Noah. That’s the point of this passage.
That being
said, there is something that we can take away from this. We have had four chapters in Genesis. The first two chapters were all about God’s
creative work. The last two chapters
were about mankind’s sinfulness and our destructive influence over His
creation. Then we hit this genealogy.
What can we
say about this? God is there through it
all. Mankind may rebel. Mankind may sin. Mankind may selfishly act in the conceptions
of our own desires. But God does not
abandon us. He raises up faithful people
around us. He continues to walk with
those who desire to walk with Him regardless of what the sinfulness of mankind
does in the world around us.
There may
not be a grand story in this chapter from which we can pull a moral out of the
story. But there is a message. God is with us. He does not abandon us. Our sinfulness may rage and shape the world around
us, but He is still there waiting for relationship with us.
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