Genesis 4-6

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Genesis 4-6
Dissention, Disqualification,
the coming Deluge

• Life of Christ
• Semester I
• mr. e SRCS fall 08

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Genesis 4-6
ch 4
Dissention
What does Eve mean?surely Cain wasnt born
full-grown! (In other words Who does she think
emerged?) What does this show about their
relationship to God and His words/covenant
promise? Eve seems to think like one of us in
terms of how God ought to work on our
timetable(granted, Cain was her firstborn)but
when did God answer her prayer and His promise
with His Promiseand how long did she have to
wait?
41 Adam a lay with his wife Eve, and she
became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. b She
said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought
forth c a man."
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Genesis 4-6
Dissention
42-5 Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the
soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some
of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the
LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some
of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked
with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on
Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.
So Cain was very angry, and his face was
downcast.
Cain Abel Disobedient to authority
Obedient to authority A sinful man
A sinful man Rejects Gods grace
Shows Faith in God Although Scholars
have much debated as to why God accepted Abels
and not Cains sacrifices (eg. Bloodless vs.
bloody)Gods Word says it was because of his
motives/attitude! For this is the message which
you have heard from the beginning, that we should
love one another 12 not as Cain, who was of the
evil one, and slew his brother. And for what
reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were
evil, and his brother's were righteous. (1 John
311-12).
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415 ,16 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so e
if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance
seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on
Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and
lived in the land of Nod, f east of Eden.
Dissention
Whats this all about? Why was Cain
cursed? How was he cursed? (see v. 12) Why
was this particularly injurious? What was Cains
lament? How did the Lord respond? Why? ever
wonder why his mark is not explained in detail?
Surely we would sinfully mimic or unjustly judge
another who purposed//happened to bear a similar
mark.
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Dissention
This is called a chiastic pattern and it is a
structured way of telling a storyand,
surprisingly, is used often in Scripture Notice
the care and symmetry
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Genesis 4-6
Disqualification
Seth probably means granted
What is the greater significance of Eves
words? What does Seth mean?
425,26 25 Adam lay with his wife again, and she
gave birth to a son and named him Seth, i
saying, "God has granted me another child in
place of Abel, since Cain killed him." 26 Seth
also had a son, and he named him Enosh.       At
that time men began to call on j the name of
the LORD.
The name Abel means vanity or emptiness.  It
is the same word that is used throughout
Ecclesiastes to describe the emptiness of life
without God. By contrast with the birth of Cain
and the emphasis placed upon his name, there is
no mention of such celebration when we come to
Abel.  He is just born.  There is no special
mention of how he came to be named.
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Descendants
1 This is the written account of Adam's
line     32 After Noah was 500 years old, he
became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
ch 5
Whats this chapter all about? Why interrupt a
good story with weird names? It has to do with
the contrast of family lines Genesis 4
Genesis 5 Genesis 6 The
descendants of Cain The descendants of Seth
The intermarriage of sons of
God and daughters of men A picture of those
following A picture of those A
picture of moral wickedness in the way of Cain
descended through Seth
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Descendants
1 This is the written account of Adam's
line     32 After Noah was 500 years old, he
became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Whats this chapter all about? Why interrupt a
good story with weird names? What are we to make
of this list of names?  It brings up a number of
questions and poses a number of problems for the
Bible student.  1. The Age of
Humanity. It was by the use of such methods
(strict history) that James Ussher (1581-1656),
Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and
Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin
published his chronology establishing the first
day of creation as Sunday, October 23, 4004
BC. The problem with such a chronology is that it
is flatly contradicted by archaeological finds,
not to mention those of geologists and
biologists.  One would be hard pressed to
postulate a creation in 4004 B.C. and a
subsequent flood in 2348 B.C. when we can date
the beginnings of the Egyptian monarchy to around
3100 B.C. Fortunately, the Scriptures themselves
bear testimony that such genealogies are
understood to be stylized so that they contain
deliberate omissions.  This is seen in the
genealogy of Matthew 1 where a number of kings
are omitted. 4
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Descendants
2.         Antediluvian Longevity. Even a cursory
look at the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11
indicate a great difference in the average life
span of mankind before the flood to what it is
today.    3. Repetitious Requiem.  It is a
droning drumbeat of death.  It is a reminder that
the effects of sin continued to be felt
throughout history.    4. A Listing of a
Godly Line. You might be the only one in your
family who believes.  You can be the beginning of
such a godly line in your family.  Determine
today that every generation coming from you will
be a part of a godly line.  Make this your lifes
priority. The marvelous thing is that these men
are listed by name.  God has the names of His
faithful recorded in a book.
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Genesis 4-6
Descendants
21 And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became
the father of Methuselah. 22 Then Enoch walked
with God three hundred years after he became the
father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and
daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three
hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked
with God and he was not, for God took him.
(Genesis 521-24).
Note the symmetric contrast Lamech
Enoch Seventh from Adam through Cain Seventh
from Adam through Seth He killed a man and wrote
a boastful He walked with God and did not die
song of his deed..
Enoch reminds us of two things Death a. Is an
enemy b. Is conquerable
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Genesis 4-6
Descendants
And about these also Enoch, in the seventh
generation from Adam, prophesied, saying,
Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His
holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and
to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly
deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and
of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners
have spoken against Him. (Jude 114-15).
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Descendants
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not
see death and he was not found because God took
him up for he obtained the witness that before
his being taken up he was pleasing to God.
(Hebrews 115).
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Descendants
528 And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two
years, and became the father of a son. 29 Now he
called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall
give us rest from our work and from the toil of
our hands arising from the ground which the LORD
has cursed."
Lamech (a different one) was prophetic What
does Noah mean? How was this the case?
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Descendants
61 When men began to increase in number on the
earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons
of God saw that the daughters of men were
beautiful, and they married any of them they
chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not
contend with a man forever, for he is mortal
b his days will be a hundred and twenty
years."  4 The Nephilim were on the earth in
those daysand also afterwardwhen the sons of
God went to the daughters of men and had children
by them. They were the heroes of old, men of
renown.

• Ever wonder what these were? a few
  possibilities exist
• Fallen Angels seem to have been made by a
  special act of creation
• Descendants of Seth carries the contrast motif
  b/w righteous wicked
• Kings or Rulers sons of God was a designation
  similar to that which was used among the
  Sumerians to refer to their kings who were
  considered to have been divine (Kline). These
  kings rose up in the tradition of Cain and
  Lamech, rejecting the authority of God and
  proclaiming their own deification as well as that
  of their ensuing dynasty.

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61 When men began to increase in number on the
earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons
of God saw that the daughters of men were
beautiful, and they married any of them they
chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not
contend with a man forever, for he is mortal
b his days will be a hundred and twenty
years."
Lifespan (years) x individual
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Coming Deluge
65 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on
the earth had become, and that every inclination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all
the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made
man on the earth, and his heart was filled with
pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind,
whom I have created, from the face of the
earthmen and animals, and creatures that move
along the ground, and birds of the airfor I am
grieved that I have made them." 8 But Noah found
favor in the eyes of the LORD.

• Before we account for the waterlets look at the
  heart
• Mans heart
• Describe it. Have you ever heard people lament
  the evil of today? What comfort can you take
  from this passage?
• Gods heart
• a. The Repentance of God
• b. The Grace of God

God is the Creator of emotion and this suggests
that God Himself possesses the strongest possible
emotion.  It is not an emotion without control
and it is not an emotion that lends itself to
sinful actions, but we should not water down the
Scriptural references to Gods sorrow, His grief
or His joy.
Noah was saved in the same way that you are
saved he became an heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith (see Hebrews 117).