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How Well Did Enoch Know Adam?

NOTE:The Birth Right Son (BRS) is referred to in the tables below. The BRS was traditionallythe 1st son born, but throughout time, (beginning withAdam's 1st son Cain) events took placethat shifted that Birth Right Blessing (BRB) to a younger son.

Cain lost his BRB (by committing the first murder), and it was given to the Deserving Son(Seth), the son chosen by his father topass along, or to continue the teachings of God to thefuture generations.

It was the responsibility of the BRS to share the stories and the history of creation to thefuture generations, including the sin ofAdam and Eve, the laws of God that men should liveby, and the promise of the coming Savior. It was also tradition that the BRS inherited most ofhis fathers possessions.

The following tables, along with most Biblical references, always prominently list the BRS asthe primary heir. The colored bars in the graph depict the DOB and length of the individualslife. The number on the left of the bars is Adam's age when that person was born. (Adam was130 years old when his son Seth was born, and 622 when Enoch was born, etc.)

Adam to Shem. The second table backs up to Noah and continues from there. (YL =Years Lived)NAME / YL 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1K 1.1 1.2k 1.3k 1.4k 1.5k 1.6k 1.7k 1.8k 1.9 2K 2.1k 2.2k

Adam / 930 0 930

Seth / 912 130 1042

Enosh / 905 235 1140

Cainan / 910 325 1235

Mahalalel / 895 395 1290

Jared / 962 460 1422

Enoch Still Alive 622 987

Methuselah / 969 687 1656

Lamech / 777 874 1651

Noah / 950 1056

Shem / 600 1558 2158

Creation The Flood - 1656 years after Creation.

Some very interesting notations can be made with regard to the findings on the tables aboveand below. The table above shows thatAdam watched 8 of his generations arrive before hedied, and that he was still alive when Lamech, Noah's father was born.

It's quite possible that Noah's daddy sat at the feet ofAdam, and heard all the stories aboutcreation, (and the fateful sin thatAdam committed) right fromAdams own mouth.

Another interesting factor is the age of the men when they fathered their BRS, and the lengthof their lives. With the exception ofCainan, the younger a man was at the birth of his BRS,the shorter his lifespan. Is that just a coincidence, or does raising children shorten ourlifespan?

Is it simply a reflection of the decline of man, from the perfectly created first manAdam, to alessening degree of perfection in each generation? We could take that to be true if we didn'thave Jared, Enoch, Methuselah and Noah to compare with in this case study.


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The table below shows that the above mentioned four men all outlived Adam's age, and allbut Enoch were over 150 years of age when their BRS was born.

Name Age at the birth of his BRS Years After Creation Length of life

Adam 130 - 930

Seth 105 130 912

Enos 90 235 905

Cainan 70 325 910

Mahalaleel 65 395 895

Jared 162 460 962

Enoch 65 622 *365

Methuselah 187 687 969

Lamech 182 874 777

Noah 500 **1,056 950

Shem 100 **1,556 600

*Enoch is the only man on record who lived before the flood and never died. His closerelationship with God is described as He walked with God, and God chose to make anexample of the end results of having that kind of relationship with him, and so God took himaway from this sinful planet because Enoch hated sin, but loved God.

**Adam was alive when Lamech was born, but died before Noah was born. He would havebeen 1,056 if he had lived to see Noah's birth.

Jared, 162 years old when Enoch was born, is the first exception in the downward trend inlongevity. He managed to live 32 years longer than the man that God had created with Hisown hands (Adam). But why did he live so much longer? Was it because he waited so longbefore fathering his BRS? Perhaps, but here is another theory.

I believe, but have no proof, that Jared spent a lot of time with his Grandpa Adam. I believethat he followed him around like a puppy dog and soaked up everything that Adam did andsaid. After all,Adam was only 460 years old when Jared was born, and he lived for another470 years afterward.

If viewed by today's standards, we would say thatAdam was in the prime of his life, orperhaps ready for a mid-life crisis. It certainly stands to reason thatJaredwould then take thattime spent, and the lessons learned to heart, and be determined to walk and talk with God inthe same way thatAdam the Grandfather of us alldid.

It's just my theory, but I believe that this is the reason he waited to start a family, as he wastoo busy building the relationship with God that he wanted to pass along to his children. Hedid a good job of that with his son Enoch as the story shows. Did God reward Jared with alonger life because of that?


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Is thatthe reason why these men lived longer lives? What about Enoch? He fathered Lamechat 65 years of age, but that didn't get in the way ofHIS walk with God! His reward was eternallife, without ever having to experience the horrible feeling of life leaving his body!

Enoch's son Methuselah further solidifies the theory in my mind. God blessed him with the

longest life, because he also passed along the teachings to his son Lamech, who passedthem along to his son Noah. My theory is that every single BRS born beforeAdam died took atrip with their father to meetAdam, and to receive his blessing.

The Bible teaches that Noah was the only man left on earth (besides his father andgrandfather) who was still putting forth the effort to maintain a continuing relationship withGod! Did Noah wait until he was 500 years of age before fathering his BRS, because he didn'twant a family to interfere with that relationship with God?

Think about that for a minute. Noah's great grandfather was Enoch, and Enoch never died.Don't you think that Enoch's son Methusalah did his best to walk with God, and to teach hisson Lamech, and grandson Noah all about what his father did? You can see from the firstgraph that God took Enoch 69 years before Noah was born.

Noah's father Lamech died 5 years before the flood came. I believe that our merciful Godspared the old man from the devastating results of what the flood was about to do to the faceof the planet. Noah's grandfather Methuselah lived to the very year when the flood came, andwas the oldest living man on record.

It's just my opinion, but I believe that those two men were a continual influence in Noah's liferight up until the time that they died, and then the flood came.

Noah to Israel (God changed Jacob's name to Israel) (AC=Years after creation)NAME / YL 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600

Adam / 930

Noah / 950 1056 2006 AC

Shem / 600 1558 AC 2158 AC

Arphaxad / 438 1658 AC 2096 AC

Salah / 433 1693 AC 2126 AC

Eber / 464 1723 AC 2187 AC

Peleg / 239 Tower of Babel just 100 yrs after the flood 1757 AC 1996 AC

Reu / 239 1787 AC 2026 AC

Serug / 230 1819 AC 2049 AC

Nahor / 148 1849 AC 1997 AC

Terah / 205 1878 AC 2083 AC

Abraham / 175 2008 AC 2183 AC

Issac / 180 2108 AC 2288 AC

Israel / 147 2168 AC 2315 AC

Judah /

Perez /

The Flood 1656 years after Creation.


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An interesting comparison betweenAdam and Noah can be made here.Adam was the fatherof all mankind, but his Great (10 th generation) Grandson Noah and his three sons are thefathers of all men after the flood.

Another comparison is that Noah also saw 8 of his generations born after the flood before he

died, and he actually outlived his 5

th

generation grandson Peleg! Shem saw 10 generationsborn before he died, and out lived all but 3 of them! How devastating that must have been forhim.

Shem lived 152 years afterNoah died, and & after that Shem saw only two more of hisgenerations born. They wereAbraham and Issac, and like Noah and Shem they wereselected by God to be the fathers of a great multitude of people A people who weresupposed to be an example to the world.

They were supposed to demonstrate to the world the many benefits of what a blessing it is toserve their creator. They were the selected family that the son of God would be born into, andif only they had been faithful, He would have been born into a very different environment.

Even withNoah and Shemstill living, it only took their offspring 100 years following the floodto come to the point where they stopped believing Gods promise that he would never againdestroy the world with a flood (Ge 9:11-17). The Tower of Babel was a testament to howquickly they discarded the stories and teachings of Noah, while he yet lived! (Ge 11:1-9)

The Noah to Israel table above shows some astonishing things about the decreasinglongevity of man. The most notable is Shem. The drop from his fatherNoah's 950 years to600 years is a substantial difference.

I believe that the single greatest (initial) reason for it was the change in mans diet. This is thefirst record where eating meat was permitted by God. (Ge 9:1-6)

The devastating changes that took place on the planet from the flood most certainly changedthe face of the planet, but not only that, it had to effect a change in the climate and in theefforts needed to be put forth in order for man to survive.

These increased difficulties had to take their toll, but they werent the primary reason forman's decline in age. God did that when he determined that the lives of man should notexceed 120 years(Ge 6:3), but before we get into that, let's take a look at some of thechanges.

First, there had never been rain before the flood. The earth was still perfect in the ecologicalsense that the plant life was all watered from the waters of the deep (Ge 2:4-6) whichhappened every night in the form of dew. The imperfections on the planet before the floodwere all do to the curse that God placed upon the ground.

Because ofAdam's sin, God cursed the ground (Ge 3:17-19) causing weeds, thorns andthistles to spring forth creating a much more difficult situation for Adam when trying to farmthe land. No longer did the plant life spring forth in a perfectly organized manor. Still, thegroundwatered everything equally.


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Apparently, prior to the flood there was a top layerof the Earth's crust that floatedover thewaters below. (Ge 7:11 says, In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deepbroken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.)

Then after it rained non stop for 40 days and nights, the water remained for a hundred andfifty days (Ge 7:24), covering the highest mountains by about 22 feet. And then God causedthe waters of the deep to stop, and the rain to subside. (Ge 8:2)

Think about the sheer terror experienced by every living creature on the planet! Earthquakesbreaking cracks in the earth with huge geysers of water shooting up all over, and to top it alloff, a torrential downpour of epic proportions, the first and last of it's kind ever.

It was the most devastating thing that ever happen on the planet. I can imagine peopleactually dieing of fright! Think of all these people who expected to live for a 1,000 yearssuddenly seeing the end to all things. Noah had been warning them for a hundred years that itwould happen!

Now we can see what affect this change in the planet had on the longevity of man, and howthe decrease in life spans affected the ages of the fathers at the birth of their BRS. The tablebelow is a continuation from the second table in this study, and picks up afterNoah.

You recall that Noah lived 950 years, and was 500 years old when Seth was born. Seth's lifespan was 350 years less (600), and his sonArphaxad lived 162 years less than that!

The next two generations stayed at just over 400 years in longevity, and then another majordrop to just over 200 years of age took place. Notice that the seven generations directly afterShem all fathered their BRS at around the age of thirty. That just wasn't done before the flood.

Let's have some fun with the calculator for a minute. When you take a man who lived 900years, vs a man who lives 100 years, that's a ratio of 9 to 1. A 20 year old today could then becompared to a 180 year old in Adam's time! Why notwait to get married until then?

But right after the flood the ratio dropped, and our20 year old would compare to a 90 year oldin Eber's time, and then a 40 year old in Terah's time. Taking it the other way, Eber, fatheringa child at 34 was only an 8 year old by today's standards.

Abraham's father Terah was the last BRS on record to live beyond 200 years. Terah waiteduntil late in life to father, and soAbraham was born just two years afterNoah died.Abraham'swife Sarah was baron until well past her child baring age.

This was a test of faith given to him by God, and is the reasonAbraham didn't fatherIssacuntil very late in life. It was a miraculous birth, since Sarah was well beyond her change in life.

Their son Issac didn't marry his wife Rebecca until 5 years before his father died, and his wifegave him twin sons. This is where records of the age of fathers at the birth of the BRS ends,however some records of certain individuals length of life were kept.


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Name Age at birth of his BRS Year After Creation at birth Length of life

Shem 100 1558 600

Arphaxad 35 1658 438

Salah 30 1693 433

Eber 34 1723 464

Peleg 30 1757 239

Reu 32 1787 239

Serug 30 1819 230

Nahor 29 1849 148

Terah 130 1878 205

Abraham 100 2008 175

Issac 60 2108 180

Israel ?Age? (12 sons,from 2 wives & 2 servants!)

2168 147

I always wondered what the purpose was for providing the record of the ages these men werewhen they fathered their BRS. It couldn't have been to show us the results of sin on thelongevity of man, because just showing the lifespans would have sufficed for that.

It certainly showed how much faster the children had to grow up, and how man had to adaptto the changes that a life shortened by sin brought to the planet. The Bible teaches that in thelast days, right when The Son Of God returns to this planet to put an end to sin forever, thestate of the planet will be as it was in the days of Noah.

Since we were given that CLUE about the return of the Son of God, we would be wise tofind out just how it was in the days of Noah! You can read that article by following this link.

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