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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: January 9th

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Genesis 5:1-20

After the failure of the line of Cain, it is as if God began the history of man again from the start (vv. 1, 2). We have here the series of names which form what has been called "the golden thread of faith" through the ages, which will lead to the Messiah, the "seed of the woman" promised after the fall. In that family it is not a question of a lot of activities as it was with Cain’s. The footsteps of the man of God on the earth hardly leave a trace. He does not contribute much to the progress of the world and history does not have a great deal to say about him. He is born, lives, has children and dies. Yes, death is there, the consequence of sin, and the short summary of the long life of each one of these patriarchs ends with the inexorable words, "and he died". Satan, the liar, had declared, "Ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4), but God has ordered, "unto dust shalt thou return" (Genesis 3:19). Chapter 5 brings us solemn confirmation of this. Yet Adam and his early descendants reached record ages. God allowed this so that, before the existence of the Scriptures, the truth would be transmitted orally by as few intermediaries as possible. There were barely seven between Adam and Moses.

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