Dale Partridge - Genesis 5 - The History of the Pre-Flood World

00:00:00.000 and so genesis chapter 5 is where we're at today and i've titled the sermon the history of the

00:00:10.040 pre-flood world now uh by god's grace we're going to finish a whole chapter in one sermon

00:00:17.740 and i've i found that most pastors do this so it's it's difficult to break it up into sections

00:00:24.560 so we're going to get through it now if you remember last week we finished chapter 4 which

00:00:29.640 described life after the garden, life after the fall, and it traced the development of two distinct

00:00:38.740 lines. We had the seed of the serpent that was represented by Cain, and we had the seed of the

00:00:45.200 woman that was represented by Abel, and then continued on by Seth. Now, the purpose of chapter

00:00:52.920 four was to show us that both sin and worship continued after the fall. We know that Cain's

00:01:01.120 line intensified in rebellion. So we saw a magnification of sin and it led to the rise

00:01:09.240 of cities and to polygamy and to escalating violence. Well, that was contrasted with Seth's

00:01:15.900 line. And Seth's line was marked by faithfulness and with worship and with hope. And they were

00:01:24.660 hoping and calling out upon the name of the Lord that the promise of the serpent crusher might come

00:01:30.920 and be fulfilled. Now, we also saw that Eve bore Seth. She bore a son named Seth in the replacement

00:01:41.520 for Abel. And we know that Seth bore Enosh and Enosh became this living bridge between Adam

00:01:50.200 and Noah. That is that Enosh was alive to know Adam and Enosh was also alive to know Noah.

00:02:01.980 And so we have one man who acts as this bridge from the firsthand testimonies of creation

00:02:08.320 all the way to the flood.

00:02:12.740 Now, genealogies in scripture are often treated

00:02:16.220 kind of like a flyover text, right?

00:02:18.860 It's, you just kind of read them and you go through,

00:02:21.820 you know, and so-and-so begot so-and-so

00:02:23.920 and so-and-so begot so-and-so

00:02:25.520 and you struggle with the names, right?

00:02:27.420 It's pretty common experience,

00:02:29.560 but they're not insignificant.

00:02:31.580 In fact, I was actually very surprised

00:02:33.240 even in the study of this section,

00:02:34.580 What a beautiful number of truths are found here.

00:02:41.260 In Genesis, we see this recurring phrase,

00:02:45.160 these are the generations.

00:02:46.680 You're going to see it many, many times

00:02:48.460 as we go through this book.

00:02:50.360 These are the generations.

00:02:52.720 It's this same root word for Genesis.

00:02:56.720 It's this idea of beginnings or starting point

00:03:00.820 or origins.

00:03:06.300 And in Genesis 2-4, we read,

00:03:09.460 these are the generations of the heavens and the earth.

00:03:15.000 Now here in Genesis 5-1, we are told,

00:03:18.280 this is the book of the generations of Adam.

00:03:23.240 In Genesis 6-9, we're going to see the generations of Noah

00:03:27.460 followed by the generations of Noah's sons in chapter 10

00:03:30.940 and the generations of Shem in chapter 11.

00:03:33.920 And it continues with the generations of Terah and Ishmael and Isaac and Esau.

00:03:38.880 I mean, it's just over and over the generations.

00:03:41.580 It's the book of beginnings, if you remember me saying that several sermons ago.

00:03:47.880 Now, messianic genealogies like this one that we're going to read today

00:03:51.360 are only found in five books.

00:03:53.760 We see them in Genesis.

00:03:55.920 We see it in 1 Chronicles.

00:03:57.780 We see it in Ruth.

00:03:59.460 We see it in Matthew, and we see it in Luke.

00:04:02.600 And so this is a significant portion of Scripture tracing Messianic genealogy.

00:04:08.740 Now, their purpose is to prepare God's people for and point God's people to the promised

00:04:16.080 serpent crusher of Genesis chapter 3.

00:04:19.280 That's the purpose.

00:04:20.580 That's why we have these genealogies, and it's why the Lord had them listed in the

00:04:25.120 scriptures. Now, chapters four and five are not just theologically significant, they're actually

00:04:31.460 historically and philosophically and archaeologically and geographically

00:04:36.220 significant. There's lots to learn in this chapter. I found out this week as I was studying

00:04:41.100 how many people use this chapter for what's called antediluvian science. And

00:04:48.740 deluge is a flood. And so antediluvian is the idea of the pre-flood world. Now, you might wonder

00:04:58.280 how much could possibly be learned from something as simple as a genealogy? Well,

00:05:04.000 let me give you a little bit of background. Genesis 5, it tells us more the names and the

00:05:09.020 ages of particular people. It gives us a timeline between the history of the garden

00:05:15.440 and the flood. And in fact, mathematically, it was 1,656 years. It's not like a guess. That's

00:05:24.420 actually the number. 1,656 years from the garden to the flood. And this also confirms the age of

00:05:33.360 the earth, right? It gives us, again, depending on the view that we took when we went through

00:05:36.960 the earlier chapters of the creation narrative, but it would give us the age of the earth. So

00:05:42.180 this is calculated into that with creation scientists. It gives us some insight on the

00:05:48.280 extraordinary lifespans that are recorded here in Genesis. Scientifically, it reveals that the

00:05:55.960 pre-flood conditions of the world were dramatically different than the ones that we live in today.

00:06:01.520 There were greater genetics. There was less disease. There was less solar radiation. There's

00:06:06.420 a variety of factors that were in play that allowed for the longevity of human life in a way

00:06:12.760 that's not permitted in our current conditions. It gives us insight to the population of the

00:06:18.900 pre-flood world. There is only one record of the pre-flood world and this is it. There is no other

00:06:27.360 record of the pre-flood world except for this. This is it. This is all we got. This is all we

00:06:34.860 know about the pre-flood world is right here in chapters one through five in the book of Genesis.

00:06:44.200 Now, many scholars also talk about the population going anywhere from 750 million

00:06:50.160 to as high as 7 billion. And so you have to think about this, even the lower, like way low estimates

00:06:58.420 are even in the tens of millions.

00:07:01.680 And so there is a large number of people

00:07:04.100 between the creation and the flood.

00:07:08.180 And why was this so?

00:07:09.600 Well, because there was an extraordinary

00:07:11.340 reproductive capacity.

00:07:12.760 People were having children into their 500s, right?

00:07:16.600 It's an amazing thing to think about.

00:07:18.580 Also, because people are living so long,

00:07:22.220 there is no death.

00:07:24.780 And so when you have maximized

00:07:27.520 reproductive capability which is completely different than our 25-year fertility window

00:07:33.360 in modern women and then you have people not dying you have a rapid increase in population

00:07:42.000 and so this is where you get these numbers of 750 million all the way up into the billions

00:07:47.920 and so um now i've noticed that there's a tendency to treat genealogies

00:07:53.200 kind of as loose summaries or like rough estimates.

00:07:57.760 But I believe that they are as reliable

00:07:59.960 as any other word of scripture.

00:08:02.200 And I think we can actually see that

00:08:03.800 in the specificity that we see of the actual numbers used.

00:08:08.900 And so during my study, one pastor pointed out

00:08:11.420 that Genesis 5 is extremely specific with the ages, right?

00:08:15.460 He was 162, he was 912, he was 782, right?

00:08:21.140 These are very specific ages.

00:08:23.200 that were used here and there is no indication that the numbers are symbolic or

00:08:29.680 you know that there are some sort of approximate calculations and so the genealogy does not only

00:08:40.560 appear here this is another thing that i think is helpful about genesis 5. we don't actually

00:08:44.800 just see this particular genealogy just in genesis 5. it's actually also in first chronicles 1 and

00:08:51.120 and it lists the exact same men in the exact same order.

00:08:54.780 And so you go, okay, so this is pre-flood

00:08:57.420 and affirmed again later by God's people

00:09:01.020 as being essentially true.

00:09:04.400 And so this shows again that God's people

00:09:06.460 have always understood this as a reliable record

00:09:10.180 of the antediluvian or antediluvian world.

00:09:14.860 Now, today I'm gonna spend most of my time

00:09:16.560 in verses one through four, 21 and 24, and 28 to 32.

00:09:21.740 And we're gonna just, the sections between that,

00:09:23.960 we're just gonna read through them.

00:09:25.280 So let's read verse one here.

00:09:27.060 It says, this is the book of the generations of Adam.

00:09:34.080 So over the next 32 verses,

00:09:35.920 we're going to see the ancestry of 10 faithful men.

00:09:41.840 These are Christian men.

00:09:44.100 Okay, there is no reason for us not to believe

00:09:46.100 that these are not Christian men. 0.69

00:09:47.540 In fact, there is everything to believe that they are. 0.96

00:09:50.000 And so we are about to see 10 men from Adam to Noah,

00:09:53.240 concluding with what I would call a brief appendix

00:09:56.040 of Adam's sons, his three sons.

00:09:59.720 And the pattern is consistent.

00:10:01.620 You're gonna see the same pattern.

00:10:02.780 A man is named, his age at his birth,

00:10:06.420 followed by his remaining years, his children,

00:10:11.560 and finally, and then he died, follows by his death.

00:10:16.800 And the stress and structure of the argument

00:10:19.960 is it's orderly, it's intentional, it's systematic.

00:10:23.860 And these verses form, again,

00:10:26.340 the first genealogical table in the history of the world.

00:10:31.240 And it later connects with Genesis chapter 11,

00:10:34.140 which we will get to in time,

00:10:36.500 which traces not just the messianic line

00:10:39.400 from Adam to Noah, but in Genesis 11,

00:10:42.840 it attaches Noah to Abraham.

00:10:46.100 And so it's kind of, this is the first table.

00:10:48.820 And then after the flood, it attaches Noah to Abraham

00:10:53.140 and the second table of the genealogy

00:10:56.480 that we will get to in the weeks to come.

00:10:59.920 And so the other thing to know is that Genesis 5.1

00:11:03.320 is also a parallel to Matthew 1.1.

00:11:07.060 And so if you see here, it says,

00:11:08.940 this is the book of the generations of Adam.

00:11:11.700 Matthew 1.1 says,

00:11:14.220 the record of the generations of Jesus, the Messiah,

00:11:17.500 the son of David, the son of Abraham.

00:11:19.700 You know, and you could go back, the son of Noah, right?

00:11:21.660 You know, you could just go back and forth there.

00:11:23.920 But this is a parallel to show that you have the first Adam

00:11:27.700 and his generations and the second Adam

00:11:30.280 and his generations, and ultimately they are connected

00:11:33.780 through these genealogical tables.

00:11:36.480 Now, the dominant theological theme here

00:11:38.400 in the generations of Adam is that people live

00:11:42.680 and people die.

00:11:44.220 people live, and people die.

00:11:49.360 And outside of Enoch,

00:11:51.360 which is the only man in this group that doesn't die,

00:11:54.360 which we will discuss here in a moment,

00:11:56.820 but ultimately the chapter here shows that life and death

00:12:00.540 essentially confirms the curse,

00:12:03.580 the promise that if you eat of this tree,

00:12:08.840 you will surely die.

00:12:10.380 And so this is the first time we start to see

00:12:12.620 in the book of Genesis, death that is not murder. And the curse is essentially being fulfilled in

00:12:20.360 the sense that God is faithful to his word. Now there are three primary figures that we're going

00:12:26.200 to talk about. One is Adam. The second will be Enoch and the last will be Noah. And we're going

00:12:32.280 to spend most of our time speaking to these figures. So let's look at verse 1b, which is

00:12:38.560 the second sentence. And then we're going to go into verse two and three, and then we'll start

00:12:42.940 there. So it says, when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female,

00:12:50.200 he created them and he blessed them and named them man. And when they were created, when Adam

00:12:56.480 had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth.

00:13:05.960 Okay, this is a callback to Genesis 1.26 that says,

00:13:13.680 let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

00:13:19.380 Adam was created in the image and the likeness of God.

00:13:27.600 This is speaking not only to our physical nature that, you know,

00:13:30.860 Adam essentially would resemble the physical God-man of Jesus Christ in the sense they would

00:13:36.880 look similar, but it also, and I think more directly, resembled that Adam had the likeness

00:13:44.140 of God and that he was also holy like God, and he was also righteous like God. Now, after the fall,

00:13:52.520 the image was not destroyed, but it was marred. It was corrupted. The image of God was corrupted

00:13:58.620 through sin and it was marred and we were no longer in the likeness of God and the way Adam

00:14:05.460 was when he was made. Now, Seth is said to be born, if you caught this, Seth is said to be born

00:14:13.180 in Adam's likeness. And so he's not in the likeness of God, he's now in the likeness of Adam.

00:14:20.320 and it means that he inherits Adam's fallen nature

00:14:25.960 while still bearing the image of God,

00:14:28.760 but now marred by sin.

00:14:30.620 And so we have Seth now inheriting something from Adam

00:14:36.040 and it's his sinful nature.

00:14:39.340 And this is also clarified in Romans 5, 12.

00:14:43.980 It says, therefore, just as sin came into the world

00:14:46.420 through one man and death through sin,

00:14:50.320 And so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

00:14:55.900 And it shows this passing down of likeness, of spiritual likeness.

00:15:01.420 In other words, death, the death of Adam's sons.

00:15:05.400 When Adam dies, and we'll see here shortly, but the death of Adam's sons,

00:15:10.880 it's essentially evidence that he passed on his own likeness.

00:15:15.980 When Seth dies, it's because he passed on his own likeness.

00:15:20.320 And when his sons die, it's because he passed on his likeness,

00:15:24.640 which is not in the likeness of the eternal God, but in the likeness of fallen man.

00:15:31.440 And it says in verse 4, the days of Adam, after he fathered Seth, were 800.

00:15:38.920 And he had other sons and daughters.

00:15:42.640 Thus, all the days of Adam were 930 years, and then he died.

00:15:50.320 Now, if Adam ever doubted, which I bet in our sinful nature he would,

00:15:56.160 whether God's warning would come true about surely dying,

00:16:01.840 he learned the reality in that day when death came upon him.

00:16:05.620 God is faithful.

00:16:09.040 God does not break promises.

00:16:11.640 We ate of the forbidden tree and he promised death.

00:16:16.080 and by God's massive grace, it was 930 years later.

00:16:23.640 But I imagine that that day and the days that followed

00:16:27.140 were marked by a deep repentance

00:16:28.700 and the man whom all other men and women had come had just died.

00:16:34.120 Think about this.

00:16:35.480 Think about Adam dying.

00:16:37.560 Think about a massive population of people

00:16:39.740 and everybody looking at Adam going,

00:16:41.820 the man in which all of us had come from has died.

00:16:46.080 now this was the first natural death recorded in scripture

00:16:54.660 isn't that amazing

00:16:56.180 I don't know if somebody else had died

00:17:01.360 certainly there was people murdered

00:17:04.140 but this is at least from our understanding

00:17:08.160 the very first natural death recorded in scripture

00:17:12.320 so he was like a mirror to humanity adam was our type we would see him and if he

00:17:24.480 died then it was confirmation that one day we would die and i think uh first corinthians 15 22

00:17:34.760 is a great verse. It says, for as in Adam, all die. If you stop right there, it's bad news.

00:17:43.700 But it says, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

00:17:49.840 I want you to think just for a second about the weight that Adam carried.

00:17:54.640 Adam carried in him that he was the cause of all man's death.

00:18:02.140 he's walking around and knowing that all people will die because of something that he did

00:18:09.100 but in God's grace we know that he causes all things to work together for good for those who

00:18:17.600 love him and those who are called according to his purpose and Adam's death became what it

00:18:22.740 became a trumpet blast that you needed to be born again it was a hope a looking forward

00:18:28.800 a need for the resurrection.

00:18:33.780 We needed to be made new in the second Adam,

00:18:36.580 the new and better Adam of Jesus Christ.

00:18:41.040 So Adam lived 930 years. 0.96

00:18:43.240 In fact, he lived 56 years into the life of Lamech, 0.97

00:18:48.580 which is Noah's father. 0.94

00:18:51.380 What a spread throughout history.

00:18:53.660 Now, it says in verse 6, and we're going to read verse 6 through 24 right now.

00:19:04.280 So, let's just move through it. 0.60

00:19:07.480 When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.

00:19:11.520 Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

00:19:17.820 Thus, all the days of Seth were 912, and he died.

00:19:22.400 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

00:19:27.000 Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 850 years and had other sons and daughters.

00:19:33.560 Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

00:19:39.220 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

00:19:44.560 Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

00:19:51.020 Thus, all the days of Kenan were 910, and he died.

00:19:56.940 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.

00:20:04.220 Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

00:20:11.180 Thus, all the days of Mahalalel were 895, and he died.

00:20:15.680 When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch 0.66

00:20:21.940 Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years

00:20:26.280 and had other sons and daughters

00:20:27.980 Thus, all the days of Jared were 962 and he died

00:20:33.120 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah

00:20:38.940 Enoch

00:20:42.100 Sorry, Methuselah

00:20:44.120 There's another Methuselah

00:20:45.560 when Enoch

00:20:47.780 had lived

00:20:49.820 65 years he fathered Methuselah

00:20:51.700 Enoch walked

00:20:53.960 with God after he fathered 0.90

00:20:56.120 Methuselah 300 years

00:20:57.580 and had other sons and daughters

00:20:59.540 thus all the days of Enoch were

00:21:01.860 365 years

00:21:03.400 Enoch walked with God and he was

00:21:06.080 not for God took him

00:21:07.900 alright

00:21:08.600 let's talk about this passage

00:21:11.960 right here on Enoch

00:21:13.340 so Enoch was the father of Methuselah who we know is the longest living man in the scriptures

00:21:25.600 969 years that he lived and the name Methuselah means to be shot out to be shot out

00:21:37.220 And most scholars believe that his name was some sort of prophetic meaning

00:21:41.680 that out of him would shoot out the judgment of God.

00:21:46.480 And if you do the calculations, you quickly find out that Methuselah dies

00:21:50.040 in the same year as the flood, which I thought was fascinating.

00:21:54.380 So out of him, out of his life, we'll shoot out the judgment of God.

00:21:59.880 And that sounds like God, right?

00:22:00.820 Let's name a person that will prophetically determine a time

00:22:06.240 and which the judgment will come.

00:22:10.020 Now, Enoch himself is one of only two men in the scriptures

00:22:14.160 who were what's called being translated into heaven.

00:22:17.700 So they don't die, but they're being translated into heaven.

00:22:20.700 We know that the other one is Elijah.

00:22:24.320 This is confirmed in the New Testament.

00:22:26.980 Hebrews 11, five actually says of Enoch,

00:22:29.980 by faith, Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death.

00:22:36.240 and he was not found because God took him up.

00:22:40.240 For before he was taken,

00:22:42.580 he was commended as having pleased God.

00:22:46.560 Now, most scholars believe that he was alive

00:22:49.160 during the years leading up to the flood,

00:22:52.220 and actually he was taken up to skip the flood.

00:22:56.440 He wasn't on the boat,

00:22:57.700 but he was taken up at that same time.

00:22:59.840 That's what many scholars believe.

00:23:01.360 Now, scripture presents Enoch's translation into heaven

00:23:04.260 as kind of a remarkable, miraculous, divine grace

00:23:07.980 and a commendable honor.

00:23:09.680 It's a very honorable thing to think,

00:23:12.000 wow, God has allowed me to not taste death.

00:23:16.640 Now, the phrase walked with God

00:23:19.300 is a very profound commendation.

00:23:23.040 It's something to be sought after,

00:23:25.660 to be said of you,

00:23:28.200 oh, this man walked with God.

00:23:31.220 Oh, this woman walked with God.

00:23:36.240 Genesis 6, 9 offers the same commendation to Noah, saying he walked with God.

00:23:42.500 Genesis 17 says that Abraham walked with God.

00:23:47.140 Now, while scripture does not tell us exactly what Enoch's walk looked like,

00:23:51.480 we don't know much about his particular life,

00:23:54.800 scripture does tell us what it looks like to walk with God.

00:23:58.960 And so I want to talk about that just for a second.

00:24:01.220 What does it look like to walk with God?

00:24:03.980 Do you walk with God?

00:24:05.900 Would someone say at your eulogy, at your funeral,

00:24:09.460 this was a man or woman who walked with God?

00:24:15.760 Well, first and foremost, it means that you're repentant,

00:24:18.760 that you're a known sinner, that you're repentant,

00:24:21.560 that you have faith.

00:24:23.100 And that was something that marked your life.

00:24:28.080 Colossians 1.10 teaches us that walking with God means,

00:24:30.520 quote, living in a manner worthy of the Lord,

00:24:33.460 bearing fruit in every good work

00:24:35.780 and growing in the knowledge of God.

00:24:38.240 Does that describe you?

00:24:40.980 It should.

00:24:43.180 Are you a person that walks

00:24:44.920 and find yourself growing in the fruit

00:24:48.340 and every good work of the Lord

00:24:50.340 and you're growing in the knowledge of God

00:24:52.620 because you study the scriptures,

00:24:54.520 you attend the means of grace?

00:24:55.700 Romans 8.4 tells us that we are to walk not according to the flesh, but according to the

00:25:05.540 spirit. Are you someone that walks according to the spirit? Meaning that you're not fulfilling

00:25:11.780 the desires of the flesh, which are sinful, but you're fulfilling the desires of God,

00:25:17.440 which are spiritual. 2 Corinthians 5.7 explains that we walk by faith and not by sight as your

00:25:25.220 life living a walk by faith? Or are you constantly looking at carnal things to make decisions?

00:25:35.720 Ephesians 5.2 says that we walk in love. Do you walk in love? Or are you a contentious person?

00:25:45.420 Are you a person of conflict? With your brothers and sisters, do you walk with love?

00:25:55.220 John 3 says that we are to walk in truth.

00:26:05.720 By John 3, I meant 3 John, by the way.

00:26:10.700 Do you walk in truth?

00:26:13.460 Is something about your life, when someone looks at your life, they go, you know what?

00:26:17.320 They were animated by truth.

00:26:18.500 They spoke the truth.

00:26:19.680 They lived out the truth.

00:26:21.240 They cared about the truth.

00:26:22.520 is that something that would mark you or would you kind of be like well you know they were

00:26:26.880 christian went to church you know

00:26:28.060 think about how people would speak of you are you a man and woman that walked with god

00:26:38.240 now by god's grace we actually know a little bit more about enoch

00:26:44.180 there's a passage of scripture in jude that tells us more about enoch that for some reason

00:26:51.100 the Holy Spirit has kept from us until then.

00:26:56.460 It says in Jude 14 through 15,

00:27:00.420 it says,

00:27:01.280 It was also about these

00:27:03.780 that Enoch, the seventh from Adam,

00:27:08.040 prophesied, saying,

00:27:09.860 Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousand of his holy ones

00:27:13.420 to execute judgment on all

00:27:15.840 and to convict all the ungodly

00:27:17.820 of all their deeds and ungodliness,

00:27:19.520 that they have committed in such an ungodly way

00:27:22.860 and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners

00:27:26.200 have spoken against the Lord.

00:27:28.960 I love that.

00:27:30.620 We have this little passage of scripture

00:27:32.740 that tells us that Enoch

00:27:35.880 was the first recorded prophet in scripture. 1.00

00:27:43.900 He's the first man to condemn slanderers 0.57

00:27:47.840 and blasphemers and sinners.

00:27:49.520 and to talk about the forthcoming judgment of the flood, for sure.

00:27:53.980 But also, this text just aligns so much with the final judgment.

00:27:59.900 And so you have this moment where Enoch is here

00:28:02.200 and he's peering down to the Holy Spirit.

00:28:05.140 He's through the flood and he's through the Old Testament era

00:28:09.540 and he's through the birth and the life, the death,

00:28:14.220 the resurrection and ascension of Christ.

00:28:15.880 He's through the church age and he's all the way

00:28:18.700 end to the final return. And he's saying, you're going to be judged. You're going to be judged for

00:28:25.100 your wickedness. And this is important because all of us are going to be judged. Every one of us is

00:28:38.040 going to stand before the Lord. Now, some of us are going to be found innocent because we have

00:28:43.580 of the righteousness of Christ imputed to us by faith.

00:28:47.240 Matthew 25, 32 to 33 says,

00:28:49.820 before Christ will be gathered all the nations

00:28:52.600 and he will separate people one from another 0.97

00:28:56.180 as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats

00:28:59.800 and he will place the sheep on his right,

00:29:02.740 but the goats he will place on his left.

00:29:05.360 Revelation 20 verse 11 through 15 says,

00:29:08.100 then I saw the great white throne

00:29:09.980 and him who was sitting on it

00:29:11.780 and the dead were judged by what was written in the books according to what they had done.

00:29:19.120 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

00:29:25.200 So Enoch is looking down the corridors through the divine Holy Spirit's inspiration, 0.90

00:29:32.320 and he's condemning the pre-flood world for their wickedness. 0.99

00:29:36.740 Because we have to remember, we have the line of Seth, and we have the line of Cain. 0.84

00:29:41.720 Cain is this godless civilization apart from God.

00:29:45.100 And we have the line of Seth, which is the faithful.

00:29:48.520 And so Enoch is this man who is in the line of the faithful

00:29:52.360 that is having the same war that we have today,

00:29:55.060 that is looking down at the line of the serpent

00:29:56.860 and speaking the wickedness that they are

00:29:59.700 and the judgment that's coming upon them if they don't repent.

00:30:02.800 verse 25 says

00:30:10.040 when Methuselah

00:30:10.840 had lived 187 years 0.99

00:30:14.680 he fathered Lamech

00:30:15.580 Methuselah lived 0.85

00:30:17.640 after he fathered Lamech 0.97

00:30:19.720 782 years

00:30:20.940 had other sons and daughters

00:30:22.600 thus all the days of Methuselah

00:30:24.560 were 969

00:30:26.160 and he died 0.96

00:30:27.960 then Lamech

00:30:30.140 had lived 182 years

00:30:34.320 he fathered a son

00:30:36.540 and called his name Noah

00:30:39.560 saying out of the ground

00:30:41.840 that the Lord has cursed

00:30:43.680 this one shall bring us relief from our work

00:30:46.920 and from the painful toil of our hands 0.99

00:30:49.740 Lamech lived 0.68

00:30:51.900 after he fathered Noah 595 years 0.82

00:30:54.940 and had other sons and daughters

00:30:58.520 And thus all the days of Lamech were 777, and he died.

00:31:05.840 Now, Noah is the only name in this whole genealogy that gives a description of why he was called Noah.

00:31:17.200 The Hebrew, I wish I'd spent more time on it, but the word Noah means rest, and comforts is another translation.

00:31:25.900 But you actually see the name Noah in the Hebrew in that sentence, that prophecy about who he is and what he is to do.

00:31:37.220 And so through Noah, rest from fallen man's toil would come to an end.

00:31:43.820 And he is the one that would preserve the seed.

00:31:47.840 You know, if Noah would have been part of the flood and he died in the flood, then God could not have kept his promise in preserving that seed.

00:32:00.340 So, in Noah is the seed of Jesus.

00:32:06.900 And so, the ark is essentially holding and protecting and preserving the seed of Christ in Noah.

00:32:17.840 so his father's prophecy of his son's righteousness was confirmed by scripture we see genesis 6 9

00:32:24.080 noah was a righteous man blameless in his generation noah walked with god genesis 6 22

00:32:31.220 and noah did all that the lord had commanded him genesis 7 5 noah did this and he did all the lord

00:32:37.700 had commanded this twice hebrews 11 7 in the new testament gives a testimony of noah it says by

00:32:44.600 faith, Noah, being warned by God concerning events yet unseen, in reverent fear, constructed an ark

00:32:53.800 for the saving of his household. Verse 32 says, after Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem,

00:33:04.340 Ham, and Japheth. So this is the great glory of genealogists, right? There's some beautiful 0.89

00:33:10.940 stuff here. In a world before records were written down, at least to our knowledge,

00:33:20.860 firsthand testimony preserved history through overlapping generations. It's a very interesting

00:33:28.460 observation. In fact, if you think about it, I did the math. Shem, Noah's son,

00:33:36.120 heard of the garden from his father who heard it from enosh who heard it directly from adam

00:33:44.620 so shem by the way lived longer than abraham did which is fascinating and he likely personally

00:33:55.340 communicated or someone could have communicated that not only the account of the garden that

00:34:01.420 was passed down to him, but also the account of the flood as a firsthand witness of the flood.

00:34:08.720 Now, many scholars believe that Shem actually lived to see Isaac and Jacob.

00:34:13.580 And so an amazing stretch right there. We see, think about this just for a moment. Through Adam,

00:34:21.280 Enosh, Shem, and Abraham, just four men, you got the testimony stretching

00:34:30.800 from the garden to the patriarchs ending in Isaac

00:34:35.420 or ending in Jacob.

00:34:38.400 That's, I did the math, 2048 years.

00:34:42.600 Four men.

00:34:43.660 Four men spanned overlapping generations of 2048 years.

00:34:48.320 Think about this for a second.

00:34:49.580 That's about the distance that we are to Christ's birth.

00:34:53.180 Think about if you were only four firsthand testimonies

00:34:56.640 away from Christ.

00:34:59.100 Incredible.

00:35:00.800 I heard it from this man, who heard it from this man, who heard it from this man who knew Christ.

00:35:04.980 It really is an incredible, it's like the same level of testimony that you would have in, say, like the year 250.

00:35:17.320 And so God has a purpose in these really long lifespans.

00:35:21.560 It's to preserve and transmit firsthand witnesses of the creation and the flood and the hope of the coming Messiah in the promised seed.

00:35:31.700 And so whether by divine inspiration or whether by faithful oral tradition, the testimony has now been preserved for us in writing.

00:35:43.900 And here we have this beautiful thing

00:35:46.340 by the hand of Moses for the glory of the church

00:35:49.800 to understand the history of the world

00:35:52.620 to the glory of God.

00:35:55.480 And so genealogies, they are what they are,

00:35:59.100 but they are not anything,

00:36:00.780 they're not anything unhelpful.

00:36:04.840 They're beautiful, they're a blessing,

00:36:07.380 and they allow us to understand

00:36:09.040 the generations of redemption.

00:36:12.000 Amen.

00:36:12.900 Let's pray.

00:36:14.020 Father, we thank you, Lord, for this truth

00:36:15.600 and for this passage of Scripture

00:36:17.580 that gives us an understanding of the history of the world,

00:36:21.120 helps ground us in reality.

00:36:23.800 Lord, we ask that you would bless us with greater connections,

00:36:27.820 Lord, that we might have our faith strengthened.

00:36:30.660 We thank you for the record-keeping,

00:36:32.800 for the lifespans,

00:36:34.120 for the beauty of the Scriptures.

00:36:37.080 Lord, we ask in Jesus' name.

00:36:38.440 Amen.

00:36:42.900 Amen.

Dale Partridge - January 26, 2026

Genesis 5 - The History of the Pre-Flood World

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