Day 5 - Genesis 5

From: Chapter-A-Day: Volume 1 By: Norman W. Berry

• 1 min. read • grade level: 5

V.1 Compare this verse with Matthew 1:1¹The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1). Genesis 5¹This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; (Genesis 5:1) is a record of the fallen descendants of the first Adam; whereas Matthew brings to us the book of the generations of Jesus Christ. Adam and Christ are the two heads. We are born into the first; but we must be born again (John 3:7⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7)) into the second. Through Adam we die, through Christ we are made alive (Rom. 5:21²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:21)). Which family are you in? Eight times in this chapter, we read “and he died.” But one man here never died. What does it say about him? One of these days, the Lord Jesus is going to come in the air, and will call every believer out of this world. Every unbeliever will be left behind. Enoch is a picture of all those believers who will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air without having died (1 Thess. 4:16-18).