It all started with Cain, Abel, and Seth. After Cain deliberately killed Abel (Genesis 4:8), it seemed that this wandering was due to God's original injustice, and Cain was just a child who did stupid things because of God's injustice, even as if God was embarrassed, so that He would comfort Cain (Genesis 4:15). The source of everything has become God's injustice, but what's interesting is that Cain was the first person to talk to God after Adam and Eve. He walked with God just like his parents did. The time of their dialogue was after Adam and Eve left Eden because of their sins. Originally, Cain could have a good relationship with God. The dialogue between Cain and God was full of God’s love, but because of his own sin, Cain He abandoned God, let alone his descendants, no one continued to call on God’s name. Cain's lineage did not record their years, and more importantly, the entire genealogy stopped at Lamech's two sons, and the direct descendants of Cain died with the flood. Could it be that Cain did not receive grace? Obviously God still blesses Cain, Cain's descendants have a very stable life, even their civilization has developed to a certain extent (Genesis 4:20-22), people have fixed food, use and forging tools, Even cultural life. After Cain's son Enoch was born, he even built a city. It can be seen that their life is really good. Unfortunately, in their eyes, such a life is only labor. They only see their own labor and ignore God's grace. Maybe this It is what God calls wandering (Genesis 4:10). After all, it is difficult for Cain to return to this home. And the records of Seth's lineage lead us to another world. His descendants have a definite number of years on earth, and even the genealogy begins directly with Adam, and the inheritance of faith continues from Seth, more directly from Enosh (Genesis 4: 26), each inheritor, perhaps the eldest son or the inheritor, their years are marked, they all have a common feature, longevity and children and daughters, the base of the descendants of the faith can be very large, but it is a pity Yes, it is precisely in the records of descendants that we see that the inheritance of faith is becoming more and more lonely, and there is often only one person left in a family, and even Noah is left in the end. Imagine, in a great In a family, longevity enables generations of people to live together, but their beliefs in life are not passed down. Having children and adopting daughters does not create godly offspring, but people who trust in God are becoming more and more isolated. Perhaps, Noah's sorrow was that in the big family he lived in, he was the only one who still insisted on this belief, and even his blood relatives could not see the judgment of God from their grandfather (Methuselah). The relationship with the whole family has become the biggest test of Noah's family for the flood. Think about it, the long process of building the ark was mixed with the ridicule and contempt of this relative. Think about it, Noah's family has become a freak of this era, and when Animal gathering, 7 days (Genesis 7:5-10) Noah not only had to face the problem of orderly placement of a large number of animals, but he also had to face the relatives who suddenly "woke up", maybe the first to come It was not Tubal and Cain who came to Noah but those brothers and sisters of Noah. God gave them so long to repent, and until they saw the last sight, Methuselah died on the day the animals gathered, and the door of salvation was closed and judgment came. (Genesis 5:27)
They are like Adam who greedily remembered to pluck fruit from the tree of life after he sinned, but God himself shut the hatch (Genesis 7:16). Perhaps the only thing Noah's family could do in the dark cabin was to pray, not out of fear of the unknown fate of their own, but out of fear of God's judgment, and regret for those who did not receive grace, they did not Hesitating about their destiny, they weep because of their regret and the grace they have received. Maybe God so comforted them that he closed the hatch himself, and honestly, it was a little cruel to ask Noah to face those cries. But this is God's judgment, and we need to be alert. Today, we are also "different people" living in the big clan, and some people even close people laugh at our beliefs, but have we become the example and hope of everyone like Noah, whether we have passed on and carried forward our beliefs? Can people see not only God's judgment but also His wonderful salvation? How to be saved is the best theme of this story, but unfortunately those bosses don't understand...
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