Biblical Genealogy

  • Did you catch that? ‘And with your seed after you.’ God’s covenant wasn’t just with Noah. It was with his descendants. As a child I was told it was for all mankind, never realizing: After the Flood, only eight people survived. Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their three wives. That’s it. Eight people.… Read more

  • Genesis 5 might seem like the Bible’s most boring chapter—just a genealogy with names, ages, and that phrase “and he died” repeated nine times like a funeral drumbeat. But buried in this list is one of the weirdest details in Scripture: Enoch didn’t die. Everyone else lived 900+ years and still died. Adam? Dead at… Read more