(Genesis) Genesis 5:1-2 — J. Vernon McGee

Genesis 1–11: Creation, Fall, and Flood

Now, we come in chapter 5 to the first section of the book of Genesis, Genesis 1 to 11. We have here the first section, world events and creation, the fall, now the flood from 5 to 9, and this gives us the background.

The Generations of Adam Through Seth

And we have here in chapter 5 the book of the generation of Adam through Seth. Cain's line has been given to us and it's dropped. It will not be mentioned only as it crosses the godly line, and that will be a pattern that will be set in the book of Genesis.

Death as the Consequence of Adam's Sin

Now, chapter 5 in one sense is one of the most discouraging and despondent chapters in the Bible, and the reason is just simply this, it's like walking through a cemetery, and you find out that when God said in the day that ye eat thereof ye will die, they all died that were the sons of Adam.

In Adam all die, Paul says. And now I'm reading chapter 5 of Genesis, verse 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. Male and female created he them.

Adam Created Male and Female in God's Image

Now will you notice, and he blessed them, and he called their name Adam, not the Adamses, but Adam, in the day when they were created. She's the other half of him. But we have this strange expression, the book of the generation of Adam.

The Two Genealogical Lines: Satan and Christ

It only occurs in the beginning of the New Testament, and there it's the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. Now there are these two books, and we're already seeing they're two lines, two seeds, they're against each other, and their struggle's going to be long, the line of Satan and the line of Christ, the accepted line.