Genesis 5: Prophecy of Jesus sacrifice

Often we dismiss the genealogy chapters of the Bible.  We dismiss them as "boring reading", and skip to the next chapter.   Take this to heart the next time you fall on a list of genealogical chapters; they're not there just to be there.  Everything in the Bible is placed there for a reason.  They're there in order for the bible to provide courage, to be painfully honest, and to explain itself.  In the case of genesis 5, the lineage for the sons of God, was placed there to provide hope and to prophesy about the coming messiah. It prophesied about the one who'd come to save us all, and whom all of scripture speak of.

Genesis 5 From Adam to Noah (The sons of God)

1. Adam              ↔ Man
2. Seth                ↔  Placed or appointed
3. Enosh              ↔ Wretched man or fallen man
4. Kenan             ↔  Lamenting
5. Mahalalel        ↔ The Blessed God
6. Jared               ↔ Shell descend or come down
7. Enoch             ↔ Teaching, dedicated, disciplined, obedient, unto death
8. Methuselah     ↔ This death shell bring
9.Lamech           ↔ Power
10. Noah            ↔ Rest and comfort

In other words, Genesis 5 prophecies about the coming savior:

Man, placed or appointed, wretched fallen man lamenting.  The blessed God shell descend or come down, teaching, dedicated, disciplined, obedient, unto death.  His death shell bring power, rest and comfort.

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In Order From Left to Right:

1.  Patriarchs and Prophets: Genesis to the end of king David's reign
2.  Prophets and Kings: King Solomon's reign to the last prophetic book of the old testament
3.  The Desire of Ages: Covering the life and ministry of Jesus
4.  The Acts of the Apostles: describing the 12 apostles and the early Christian church 
5.  The Great Controversy: About the church history viewed in terms of the conflict between Christ and Satan.

Satan Tries to keep people in His Power

Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome.

Through spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the race, healing diseases and presenting a new system of religious faith, but at the same time he leads multitudes to ruin. Intemperance dethrones reason; sensual indulgence, strife, and bloodshed follow.

War excites the worst passions of the soul and sweeps into eternity its victims steeped in vice and blood. It is Satan's object to incite the nations to war, for he can thus divert the people from preparation to stand in the day of God.

Satan has studied the secrets of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. It is God that shields His creatures from the destroyer. But the Christian world has shown contempt for His law, and the Lord will do what He declared that He would—remove His protecting care from those who rebel against His law and force others to do the same. Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some, in order to further his own designs; and he will bring trouble upon others, and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them.

While appearing as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, Satan will bring disease and disaster until populous cities are reduced to ruin. In accidents by sea and land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish.

And then the great deceiver will persuade men to charge all their troubles on those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men offend God by the violation of Sunday, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced. "Those who destroy reverence for Sunday are preventing restoration of divine favor and prosperity." Thus the accusation urged of old against the servant of God will be repeated. "When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said unto him, art thou he that troubleth Israel?" (1 Kings 18:17,18).

Those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as enemies of law and order, breaking down the moral restraints of society, causing anarchy and corruption, and calling down the judgments of God on the earth. They will be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of obedience to civil authorities. In legislative halls and courts of justice, commandment-keepers will be condemned. A false coloring will be given their words; the worst construction will be put on their motives.

Dignitaries of church and state will unite to persuade or compel all to honor Sunday. Even in free America rulers and legislators will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. Liberty of conscience which has cost so great a sacrifice will no longer be respected. In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet's words, "The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Revelation 12:17.

Servants of God, their faces shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from heaven. Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed. Satan also works with lying wonders, even bringing down fire from heaven. (Revelation 13:13). Thus the inhabitants of the earth will be brought to take their stand.  The message will be carried not so much by argument as by the deep conviction of the Spirit of God.

The arguments have been presented, publications have exerted their influence, yet many have been prevented from fully comprehending the truth. Now the truth is seen in its clearness. Family connections, church relations are powerless to stay the honest children of God now. Notwithstanding the agencies combined against the truth, a large number take their stand upon the Lord's side.

Those who honor the law of God will be regarded as the cause of the fearful strife and bloodshed that fill the earth with woe. The power attending the last warning has enraged the wicked, and Satan will excite the spirit of hatred and persecution against all who have received the message. 

The Great Hope Chapter 11 

Joy in Obedience

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Ps. 119:174.

The true Christian will never complain that the yoke of Christ is galling to the neck. He accounts the service of Jesus as the truest freedom. The law of God is his delight. Instead of seeking to bring down the divine commands, to accord with his deficiencies, he is constantly striving to rise to the level of their perfection.

Such an experience must be ours if we would be prepared to stand in the day of God. Now, while probation lingers, while mercy's voice is still heard, is the time for us to put away our sins....

God has made ample provision that we may stand perfect in His grace, wanting in nothing, waiting for the appearing of our Lord. Are you ready? Have you the wedding garment on? That garment will never cover deceit, impurity, corruption, or hypocrisy. The eye of God is upon you.... We may conceal our sins from the eyes of men, but we can hide nothing from our Maker.

God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him toS death for our offenses and raised Him again for our justification. Through Christ we may present our petitions at the throne of Grace. Through Him, unworthy as we are, we may obtain all spiritual blessings. Do we come to Him, that we may have life?

The will of God is expressed in the precepts of His holy law, and the principles of this law are the principles of heaven. The angels of heaven attain unto no higher knowledge than to know the will of God, and to do His will is the highest service that can engage their powers.

But in heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality. When Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a law came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of. In their ministry the angels are not as servants, but as sons.... Obedience is to them no drudgery. Love for God makes their service a joy. So in every soul wherein Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are re-echoed, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."  

From Maranatha - Page 80

Spirits and ghosts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Ii3VwLZVc 

Revelations 1:18

I am the living one; I was dead, and behold I am alive forever and ever!  And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

• How did men get here in the first place?

Genesis 2:7

Dust and Breath = living soul (human)

Wood and nails = box , ////  separate the two and you have no box

• What happens when a person dies?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Job 27:3  (Breath of God or Spirit of God) – Not ghost that jumps out

James 2:26 (Breath)

• Do souls die? (yes)

Ezekiel 18:4

Rev 16:3 (Living creature)

Dust and Breath = living soul (human)

Wood and nails = box , ////  separate the two and you have no box

• Do good people go to heaven right when they die? (No)

Job 17:3

Acts 2:29, 34 ( We are sure David will be in heaven)

John 5: 28, 29

• How much does one comprehend after death? (Nothing)

No word of limbo in the Bible

Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 6 (Under the sun means in this life)

Job 14:21  and Job 14:12

• When do they rise?

Job 11:11, 1Cor 15:22, 23

John 11:43 (Not one comment on what they experienced in death)

If they were in heaven they would not have appreciated Jesus bringing them back.

• What happens to the righteous in the 2^nd coming?

1 cor 15: 52, 53

• What was the devil’s first lie?

Gen 3:4 (You will not die)  Rev 12:9

• Why did the devil lie to Eve about death?

Isaiah 8:19  (Why talk to the dead)

1 timothy 4:1  seduced by spirits

• Do devils really work miracles? (yes)

Revelations  16:14 

2 Chronicles 18:21 

Revelations 18:23 (the devils will deceive others from their misunderstanding)

• Are you thankful for the bible truth?

Revelations 18:23

Revelations 1:18  (Nobody is up there haunting you)

God Bless

Resist.....

When temptation is so strong and you feel you can’t resist, remember Jesus was tempted to think he would never see his FATHER again yet succeeded in his mission.

Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.

Deuteronomy 21:22, 23
If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

• Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree

• Taken down at sundown

• Placed in a cave with stones placed in front, to block the entrance

All three of these were reserved for the worst sinners, and Jesus suffered it all for us

Can you imagine holding the guilt of the whole world?

2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Isaiah 53:4,6
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

God the Father loves us as much as he loves Jesus.  There is no difference between the God of the old testament and the old testament.  They are one and the same God.  Remember God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  Resists the temptation to sin.