This chapter provides an overview of man, from his creation and multiplication on earth to the moment when death began to manifest in humanity. Adam died at the age of 930 (v. 5). Death is the result of sin. Eternal life was no longer man’s portion. After having Seth, whom God gave to compensate for […]
This chapter pertains to the flood itself. Noah was around 480 to 500 years old when God called him and instructed him to build the Ark. He walked with God even before having his children (Genesis 5:32). He was 600 years old when he entered the Ark, which he had spent about 100 to 120 […]
God blessed Noah and said, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,” just as He had blessed Adam and Eve in Genesis 1:28. He did not say “subdue,” because the power to subdue everything was lost by man since the Garden of Eden, a time from which creation has been in a state of […]
The Bible compares the Word of God to a mirror in which the Christian looks at himself. “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at […]
