What Genealogies Tell Us IX A different Genealogy, A different story
In the first post in this series, I said, “We assume a biblical genealogy works like a pedigree, or a family tree, as a list …
What Genealogies Tell Us VIII The Fall Repeated
The flood cleansed the violent culture. That was the symptom. The disease remained, which Noah demonstrated in a surprising way not long after leaving the …
What Genealogies Tell Us VII A Flood of Violence
Ten generations, each link connecting to another, and then one link reaches outside the family chain and fastens to an event, the great Flood. But …
What Genealogies Tell Us VI The Chain Connects
We’ve already watched Noah break this genealogy’s pattern several times — five hundred years before a son is named, three sons instead of one, the …
What Genealogies Tell Us V Noah Stands Alone
The Genesis 5 genealogy forms a chain with ten links, and we’ve already seen two of those links standing out as different. Now we turn …