Now, we have here that the line that
we are following now is the one through
Sabbath, and we are told Adam lived a
hundred and thirty years, and he begat a
son in his own likeness.
Now, when Adam was a hundred and thirty
years old, how old was he?
When God created Adam, did He create him
thirty years old, or fourteen, or forty-five?
I don't know.
The only thing would be speculation.
And if He created him that old, was
He that old?
And, of course, God could create him that
old.
That, may I say, that answers a lot
of the questions about the age of the
earth.
Somebody says, why, these rocks are billions of
years old.
Maybe you just don't know.
Maybe God, when He created them, created them
up two or three billion years old.
He could have done that, of course.
I do not know.
But what we're saying here, that when Adam
had been here a hundred and thirty years,
he begat a son in his own likeness.
Now, Adam was made in the likeness of
God, but his son is born in his
likeness, and he called his name Seth.
Now we start through the graveyard.
What happened to Seth?
Well, he lived, begat sons and daughters, and
Adam did too.
And we read it.
What happened to Adam?
Well, all the days that Adam lived were
nine hundred thirty years.
What happened?
He died, verse 5.
And then verse 8, why, what happened to
Seth?
He died, and he had a son over
the name of Enos.
What happened to him?
Verse 11, he died.
But he had a son, and Canaan was
his son.
And what happened to old Canaan?
What happened to him?
Verse 14, he died too.
And he had a son, Halilel.
And what happened to him?
Verse 17, he died.
But he had a son, his name was
Jared.
Well, he died too, verse 20.
And then he had a son by the
name of Enoch.
And he lived sixty-five years and begat
Methuselah, and then he died.
No, he didn't die.
This is a dark chapter, but this is
the bright spot in it.
And Enoch walked with God after he begat
Methuselah three hundred years, and he begat sons
and daughters.
And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty-five years, and Enoch walked with
God, and he was not for God took
him.
May I say to you, this is one
of the most remarkable things, that in the
midst of death, one man is removed from
this earth.
And it is said of him that he
walked with God.
That is quite remarkable, by the way.
Only two men walked with God.
We'll see in the next chapter, Noah walked
with God.
And now we find that Enoch walked with
God.
These were the two Antediluvians.
And there are actually only two men who
did not die, here in the Old Testament.
And we find one of them is Enoch,
and the other, of course, was Elijah.
And by the way, this is one of
the few before the flood that we have
any record of him at all.
And we are told here that he didn't
die, that God took him.
He was translated.
Now what do we mean by translation?
Well, translation means you take out one language,
a word, and put it in another language,
meaning the same thing.
And so Enoch was removed from this earth,
translated.
You see, he had to get rid of
this old body he had.
He had to be a different individual, but
he had to be the same individual, because
he was translated, and the word has to
be the same.
Enoch was taken to heaven.
We'll have more to say about that next
time, but our time is up for today,
and we'll pick up right there next time.