Genesis 4-7 reflections

Genesis 4:25b

   "At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD."

After a time of murder came a time of desperation. People began to call upon the Lord. The striking feature of this passage is the spiritual cycle that emerges and continues to emerge generation after generation, throughout the Bible and hopefully in America. May this murderous generation that kills the innocent in the womb, in the home, in the world begin to call on the name of the Lord.

Chapter 5: The Lineage

The common highlights of this passage are the Enoch and Methuselah

When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he had Methuselah. Enoch walked steadily with God. After he had Methuselah, he lived another 300 years, having more sons and daughters. Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked steadily with God. And then one day he was simply gone: God took him. (MSG)

The synchronicity of scripture. A man walk 365 years- Could there be a wink from God in this passage that Enoch live this number- being the number of days in the year. Enoch indeed walked with God 365 days a year for 365 years. A continual fellowship. God took him on year 365.

Did Methuselah's spirit long to be taken as his father was? Is that why he lived longer than any other human being?

Chapter 6:

There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Nephilim is a Hebrew word meaning whose basic meaning is "those who have fallen."

Mysterious passage- Same word used in Numbers:

Numbers 13;33 New Living Translation
We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak.
We felt like grasshoppers next to them, and that's what we looked like to them!"

HCSB calls them "Powerful men of old"

Is it posible to be a powerful man, a man of renown, and a man totally outside the will of God. Sadly the answer is yes. Lord, forbid this in my life I'd rather be a grasshopper here than a giant outside the protective covering of Your soveriegnty.

Chapter 6:19-21 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."

I think God set the picture for Noah well and the way this passage stikes me is encouraging. Noah, the most righteous man of his generation would be confined to a boat he built, for a storm he couldn't see, and finally-- to eat with the animals. That's not only faith but also endurance and humility.

Noah found grace is the eyes of God. And because of Noah's righteousness and faith he was perhaps the only one who would have the patience to follow the route into the new world.

On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark-- 14they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. Genesis 7:13

This story reminded me of the Tsunami. Story of the fact that animals have a God-given sense of impending danger and disaster.

Animals in the Yala National Park in south Sri Lanka might have felt tell-tale signs of the tsunami three or four days ahead of the strike on December 26, and that is why there has been no report of animal death from there, says Dr Ranjith Premalal De Silva, an expert in geological information systems.

"Yala is known for its elephants. But not a single elephant was killed! And Yala was one of the worst-hit areas in Sri Lanka," Dr De Silva told Hindustan Times in Colombo on Wednesday. 
 
An India-trained disaster management expert, Dr De Silva said that there had been a lot of research in China on animals and earth tremors and that it was time other countries like Sri Lanka started studies in this field. According him, good work is already being done in India.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1183513,001301540003.htm