The Gospel in Genesis

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Chuck Missler shows that the Gospel is shown in Genesis.

Adam - means man. As the first man, that seems straight forward enough.

Seth - Adam's son was named Seth, which means appointed. Eve said, "For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."4

Enosh - Seth's son was called Enosh, which means mortal, frail, or miserable. It is from the root anash, to be incurable, used of a wound, grief, woe, sickness, or wickedness. It was in the days of Enosh that men began to defile the name of the Living God.

Kenan - Enosh's son was named Kenan, which can mean sorrow, dirge, or elegy. (The precise denotation is somewhat elusive; some study aids unfortunately presume that Kenan is synonymous with Cainan.)

Mahalalel - Kenan's son was Mahalalel, from Mahalal which means blessed or praise; and El, the name for God. Thus, Mahalalel means the Blessed God. Often Hebrew names include El, the name of God, as Dan-i-el, "God is my Judge", etc.

Jared - Mahalalel's son was named Jared, from the verb yaradh, meaning shall come down.

Enoch - Jared's son was named Enoch, which means teaching, or commencement. He was the first of four generations of preachers. In fact, the earliest recorded prophecy was by Enoch, which amazingly enough deals with the Second Coming of Christ (although it is quoted in the Book of Jude in the New Testament)

Methuselah - Enoch was the father of Methuselah. Methuselah comes from muth, a root that means "death"; and from shalach, which means to bring, or to send forth. The name Methuselah means, "his death shall bring". Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah. Apparently, Enoch received the prophecy of the Great Flood, and was told that as long as his son was alive, the judgment of the flood would be withheld. The year that Methuselah died, the flood came.

Lamech - Methuselah's son was named Lamech, a root still evident today in our own English word, lament or lamentation. Lamech suggests despairing. (This name is also linked to the Lamech in Cain's line who inadvertently killed his son Tubal-Cain in a hunting incident.10)

Noah - Means "rest" or "comfort".

The Composite List

Now let's put it all together:

Hebrew English
Adam - Man
Seth - Appointed
Enosh - Mortal
Kenan - Sorrow
Mahalalel - The Blessed God
Jared - Shall come down
Enoch - Teaching
Methuselah - His death shall bring
Lamech - The Despairing
Noah - Rest, or comfort.

That's rather remarkable:

Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest.

Here's the Gospel hidden within a genealogy in Genesis!

(You will never convince me that a group of Jewish rabbis conspired to hide the Christian Gospel right here in a genealogy within their venerated Torah!)

Evidence of Design

The implications of this discovery are more wide spread than is evident at first glance.

It demonstrates that in the earliest chapters of the Book of Genesis, God had already laid out His plan of redemption for the predicament of mankind. It is a love story, written in blood on a wooden cross which was erected in Judea almost 2,000 years ago.

The Bible is an integrated message system, the product of supernatural engineering. Every number, every place name, every detail every jot and tittle is there for our learning, our discovery, and our amazement. Truly, our God is an awesome God.

It is astonishing to discover how many Biblical controversies seem to evaporate if one simply recognized the unity the integrity of these 66 books, penned by 40 authors over thousands of years.

It is remarkable how many subtle discoveries lie behind the little details of the text. Some of these become immediately obvious with a little study; some are more technical and require special helps.

Many of these discoveries are described in our Audio Book, Beyond Coincidence. Several are also highlighted in our Audio Book, The Creator Beyond Time and Space.

Look behind every detail: there's a discovery to be made! God always rewards the diligent student. What other messages lay hidden behind the names in the Bible? Check it out.

Any significance to the times?

In the 1980s I heard the person heading up YWAM's King's Kids raise an interesting point which he indicated he did not quite know what the implications are, but the matters are still pertinent.

God rasied up Moses as His man to lead the nation from slavery in Egypt into the land promised to Abraham. He also established the Old Covenant through Moses, but, at the time of his birth a government initiated infant genocide attempted to eliminate all the children. In God's providence Moses was spared and the objectives realised.

When God's new covenant was to be established a similar event happened. After Jesus was born Herod decreed another government sanctioned infant genocide. But God had other plans and Jesus was spared and lived fulfilling God's plan until His cruel death at Golgotha.

Both events were efforts to thwart God's plan that failed in their objectives but left many people impacted. But God succeeded as He always will and allowed His people in the Old Testament to be freed from their life of slavery to the freedom promised (although the interim phase was hard, but symbolic) and enabled the Lamb of God to be sacrificed for the sin of the world.

The abortion movement is attempting to accomplish similar things at this time. The point was that he was unsure as to what to do with this information, but it is worth considering. In this era millions of "inconvenient" babies are being executed in the name of convenience. Maybe there is no real significance, but it is worth spending a few moments contemplating it.

Some classic pictures collected

Some interesting pictures collected over the years that explain a few things.

Try this!!

Planning?!

Overloading - NOTTT!!

Location, location , location!!

Remember when your mother warned you about taking sweets or candy from strangers ....?

Interesting Nuns - look carefully

Skid marks of a different nature

Maybe they should have finished their shcooling first

Results of social networking

Why help never came!

Men and Women - what's the difference

How to ruin a romantic evening

Honest South African woman

"'n Boer maak 'n plan" - how to improvise to beat the heat

Can you see nine different people hidden in this picture?

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Maybe one day we will be driving kettles to the office.

Some creative writing

The Parable of the Prodigal Person

Pondering possibilities of pleasure and paradise the prodigal person approached his pater to part with his portion of property.

Please with his procured prosperity he proceeded to perambulate to pagan pastures. His pilgrimage, poised on the perimeter of paradise, provided plenty of possibilities. While partaking in perverse pleasures with platonic partners and pagan pals, his pounds and pennies purchased promising pleasure.

A plague of pestilence and poverty pilfered the property and possessions of every person. Penniless, the poor prodigal was placed in the position of providing potato peels and pea pods for porkers in a polluted pig-pen. Procrastinating, and pessimistically pondering paths of progression to preferable places, he profoundly and pertinently professed, “Pooh! This pig pen’s the pits! I’ve profaned my pater’s position pertaining to the public and plainly pillaged his pelf. Perhaps he’ll employ me as a plough-pusher on his property. Its preferable to plump pigs, polluted pig pens and pungent penetrating perfumes.”

Pangs of penitence pricked the profligate and he proceeded with his passage to plead for pardon from his pater.

The pater, pensively perched on the porch and peering at the panoramic picture of his pastures, perceived the prodigal plodding parallel to the perimeter of his property.

Positively pleased by the prodigal’s plea for pardon he pilfered the pantry and provided pepperoni pizzas and plenty of Pepsi.

The pater’s other prodigy panicked in the pastures. Perplexed by the partying, he protested the pater’s providence. “Perpetuation of preference should be prohibited,” he proclaimed.

His pater replied, “This prodigal had previously perished, but is presently present.”

The point of this parable is that paternal provision is primary to the penitent’s perfect peace, position and prosperity.

Ronnie Schmitz - written some time in the 1980s

Zimbabwe conspiracy

Something that has been troubling me for a while - have been reluctant to raise it cause if there is credence to this theory, there is a good reason to make sure it does not get attention.

The essence of the conspiracy theory is that Robert Mugabe is being bankrolled by some (or a) cigarette company in response to the efforts to dismantle the tobacco industry in Zimbabwe.

There are many documents and lots of information available about the collapse of Zimbabwe and the associated dismantling of the tobacco industry and the land reform policies. The impact of this was initially seen in 1998 and finally collapsed around 2000. The State of California in the USA imposed smoking bans in public spaces in 1998 after many years of campaigning. This then started a global following of the policies and resultant cut down in terms of cigarette advertising and public place smoking bans. It is a feasible conclusion, or merely conincidence, that the first thing that was destroyed in Zimbabwe was the agricultural sector and specifically the tobacco industry. I recall seeing footage of this process at the time and it alarmed me then. Simply put ... if the changes in legislation were to have an impact, it would mean that there would be a reduction in demand for tobacco. Zimbabwe was one of the world's largest tobacco producers and yet one that was the easiest to dismantle as there was political instability. To protect US based production, it makes good sense to take out some significant competition.

I do not have a detailed collection of info on this since it has merely been the collection of ideas over the last while, but has really troubled me. I have tried on numerous occasions to make contact with the US government to solicit some form of response (started while I was living in the USA from 2001 to 2003) and to date I have not even had an acknowledgement from the US government. (Not that my enquiry has sufficient weight to expect a response.)

It seems a plausible explanation for the manner in which things have been done. I have also run this theory past a number of people including reporters and there has been varied response to the theory. I am looking for additional information that would possibly prove or disprove the theory. A good number of people are keen to expose this if some evidence can be obtained.

I know of too many people there who have suffered. If this is true and is exposed, it may bring about some change. Love to hear some comments.

Divorce

Seems like whenever you ask a child if they are OK with their parents getting divorced they will almost certainly answer "yes". Probably cause they have seen the deterioration of the relationshop and that they mostly feel that the decision has been made anyhow. The reality is that most kids are not fine with divorce as it seldom fixes probelms. It just trades one set of problems for another and adds additional challenges into other peoples lives as friendships adjust to accommodate the change in relationships.

I have been faced with families entering the "divorce proceedings" world and I do know how people would respond if I questioned the rationale with them. Divorce is ugly in most instances (now I know there are exceptions and sometimes cirumstances are really dire) as it is not the best way to deal with the circumstances. An illustration that was given to me a few years ago now was to glue two pieces of paper together and then to try to separate them. Chances are that you could successfully end up with two pieces of paper, but not the two original, there will be scars and there will be bits of each piece of paper with the other.

Simply when faced with a narriage that is in crisis one is faced with three options:
- keep the status quo and continue with how things are
- call it quits
- do what it takes to fix it

Getting back to the matter of kids and how they should handle it. Is there anyone out there that has some insight, or has been through this themselves and has got some real examples to share?