Genesis 5:5
I wonder if this great namer of all the animals in the world could remember all the names of his great-great-great-great-great...well, you get the idea.
After 930 years and generations and generations of people on the Earth how much contact does anyone have with Adam? Do they ever see him around? How much do they really know about him? Or has he become more of an urban...well...village legend? Is he forgotten even within his own lifetime? I mean, the Children of Israel wandered away from the God that fed them manna and led them as a pillar of fire in far less than 930 years. "Adam? Oh, you mean the Adam who was the first person on the Earth and we're all his descendents. Yeah, right."
Was he revered? Sought out and listened to? Given our track record, I think not. He was just some old guy still talking about the "Good Old Days in the garden...before hamburgers and three-piece suits."
And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
Genesis 2:16-17
God says we will surely die. And everyone does die. Then Enoch doesn't die. What's up with that? I like our God. He's exceptional. Some explain it away by saying Enoch didn't sin so he didn't have to die. Hmmm, a bit legalistic. My theory is God makes the rules...to break them. There was only one man that walked the Earth and lived without sinning. All of the rest of us have sinned. So I wonder what Enoch's sin was that God let it slide? Maybe he had a habit of taking the last deviled egg on the plate without asking if anyone else wanted it?
If I counted correctly, Adam was still alive when Enoch "walked with God and was no more." Wonder what Adam's reaction was? Was he hurt? Jealous? Angry? He would follow soon after...but on a much harder road.
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