Walking with God

When I come across genealogies in the Bible, often times I will breeze right through them, thinking nothing of it. This time something caught my eye..

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Most of Genesis 5 is a genealogy from the line of Seth, one of Adam's son. As I was reading all the begets and the deaths of these people, verse 22-24 stopped me in my tracks.

"Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God: and he was not, for God took him."

Enoch did not experience death. His rescue from death was a result of his "walking with God." In the midst of all of those genealogies the author of Genesis stops his literary pattern to expound on Enoch a little bit and tell why he was different. He walked with God and because of that God took him up to heaven. Now we can also contrast that with the next chapter that deals with Noah.

In Genesis 6:9 it says "These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Noah walked with God and he and his family were saved from the flood. In the story of Noah and the flood, the author of Genesis is able to repeat the lesson of Enoch. "Life comes through walking with God."

Living in a way that pleases God grants us his blessing and gives us true life. Have you been walking with God today?

The tree of life predicament

Genesis 3:21-23

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

I guess I didn't catch this before but apparently there was a "tree of life" in the garden of Eden. It seems that if Adam and Eve would have eaten it after they sinned they would have lived forever.. I guess I'm a little confused . Why would Jesus have to die if they could have just eaten the fruit of the tree of life and reverse death's grip?

Let me know what you guys think..

Random Band Game (stolen from Micah)

Random Band Game
How to get a band name and first album

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random"
or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
BIONIC JIVE

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU

3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
or go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no m
atter what it is, will be your album cover.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nachophoto/3289908816/

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