Hope In the Word of God

(I might not be able to post for a while after I leave here this weekend. I figured this email that I sent out to the fam & friends is a good post before being offline. Enjoy)

This is something I heard a pastor named (I believe) Joe Chambers say about the Bible being divinely inspired. In Genesis Chpt 5, the names of the "generations" from Adam to Noah are given. If you look up what each of the names mean and then read them IN ORDER, you get a wonderful sentence of love and hope. It's as if God gave us a message within the message of His Word.

Below are the verses from the Bible. I added in parentheses and boldface the meaning of each name. At the end, read the sentence that comes out. I thought it was pretty neat. In case any of us need to be reminded of what the Father can do!

Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam(Man). In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Gen 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth(Appointed):
Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Gen 5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos (Mortal):
Gen 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
Gen 5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan (Sorrow):
Gen 5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Gen 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel (The Blessed God):
Gen 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Gen 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared (Shall come down):
Gen 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Gen 5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch (Teaching):
Gen 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Gen 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah (His death shall bring):
Gen 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Gen 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech (Despairing):
Gen 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Gen 5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Gen 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Gen 5:32 And Noah (Comfort & rest) was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And, putting it all together, the pastor pointed out the sentence:
Man appointed to mortal sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching. His death shall bring the despairing comfort and rest.

By the way, when I checked the Smith dictionary in my eBible download, I didn't get the same meaning for Seth; I got the meaning of "compensation . I then went online to a SECULAR source of baby names and the meaning of "appointed" did come up. I checked a couple of the other names and some came up in Smith and the online as what is shown above. (I wanted to check because I got an email a long time ago about the center of the Bible. While it's not untrue, it was unclear without some checking. Snopes has the article on that if you want to look it up. Pretty neat.)

Peace
--Free

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