“He’s got his father’s ears and his mother’s nose”

 “You’re just like your father!”

 (Genesis 5)

Adam – 930 years: Adam was a sinner, we know the story now, “and then he died.”

Seth – 912 years: Seth established the line of Christ; his father, Adam, created the sin that saw Christ come to die for, “and then he died.”

Enosh – 905 years: Enosh was in the generation that walked with the Lord and longed for Him to move (4:26), “and then he died.”

Kenan – 910 years: Kenan is listed in the genealogical lists in 1 Chronicles 1 and Luke 3; we don’t know anything more about him: “and then he died.”

Mahalalel – 895 years: Mahalalel is mentioned in extrabiblical sources (in the Book of Enoch, he has a vision of the earth being destroyed), but nothing more than genealogical lists in the Bible: “and then he died.”

Jared – 962 years: Jared is in the same genealogical lists as above, “and then he died.”

Enoch – 365 years: Enoch walked with God; he pleased God; he did not die; he was searched for but was not found. Like Elijah, God took the man who knew intimacy with him. He went to be with the Lord alive; he did not taste death.

Methuselah – 969 years: Methuselah, the oldest man ever, in the genealogical lists, “and then he died.”

Lamech – 777 years: Seth’s descendant, not Cain’s, prophesies his son’s redemptive call about the flood, “and then he died.”

Noah, Shem, Ham, Japhet, are kept alive for the description of their story in the next chapter.

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 Being made in the image of somebody else and being made in their likeness doesn’t necessarily mean you will live your life like they have done.

 The essential principle is this: it is not what you look like, but how you are living that counts. “Enoch walked with God,” as his predecessor Adam used to do, but lost it.

 In Christ and because of what he has done, you and I can walk with God. We may not look much, our genealogy may be suspect, but we can say “I walk with God!”

You can live your life in such a way that there is something to say other than you age, “and then he died.”

The consequence of sin is clearly seen throughout this chapter with that phrase, “and then he died.”

The whole list will inevitably be fulfilled except for the intervention of God, seen in Enoch and later fulfilled in Christ. As Christians, it is never “and then he died” for we are taken home in our death to be alive forever and ever!