Sequential Logic in Creation
Arrival of Seth
Chapter 13
And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed him." [Gen 4:25]
Until that time, which lasted several hundred years, Adam's family was shut up under God's wrath; it was a time of spiritual disorientation. There was no intercessor and people seemed to have drifted away from God; but suddenly something new takes place. Please read with intelligence.
GEN 5:1 (1) this is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. (2) He created them male and female and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. (3) when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
Have you noticed something? Follow the sequence of meanings let SL have its way.
This is Genesis 5 already, Cain is gone, Abel is dead and already several generations have passed. God firms up in our minds something very special, He reminds us who we are, that we are His and are made according to His own image and likeness. This is spoken on purpose, to differentiate between what had already existed and what He had freshly made for Himself. Unlike all the other tribes of people, He pays attention to His own and new creation.
He is wooing and calling us back to Himself ? T'SHUVAH with this comes also a new person, a replacement of the merciful Abel and his name is Seth.
Only about Seth, it is being said that Adam became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
The ?likeness? and ?image? was primed by earlier sentences signifying something of great importance, something that would signal a return to God for only from the time of Seth we see a change; people begun to call on the NAME of God. The revelation of the name correlates with the revelation of glory; the name and glory are synonymous.
And to Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. [GEN 4:26]
We see that the Bible speaks about Seth only as the one that was made according to the image and likeness of Adam who was made by God Himself, signifying that Seth was God's son and after God's own heart.
No other descendant was thus described for like a messianic figure, or a forerunner of good things, Seth was heralded as someone whom God chose to bring the straying creatures back to Himself.
However, in the midst of this new era, we also witness moral decline and this contrast becomes increasingly vivid until it culminates in Noah's flood. We have the emergence of the few righteous, like Enoch, and the corruption of others. This picture becomes sharper with the progress of time as if God shows us that His grace indeed abounds amidst sinfulness, although sin as such was not known for the Law was not yet given. Common depravity like stealing and killing and unprovoked aggression became so common that God, after He set his mind on the chosen few, decided to do away with the rest.
God chooses Seth's line with which He identifies. As we follow the sequence SL reveals to us, that God, being the Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent and Universally Sovereign, cannot do a partial work and get lost in it.
Although time fragments and obscures the vision of God's creation His heavenly logic reveals to us the unbroken chain of logical sequence with events and consequences, the old and new; it all leads to some culminating event in the history of mankind, but where does it lead to?
In the New Testament we read that He will not leave us as orphans, He will send someone in His stead; He spoke of the Holy Spirit the comforter. (John 14:16-18) Then He was on this earth in a body, but then he will be with us without the body-spiritually.
Obviously, we see that Seth continued in the line of Abel, and that God did not permit this line to be lost. As if in a web of streams and rivers, He chose to sail only on one.
Eve bore a son and said that he is Abel's replacement; Seth produced an offspring, which called on the name of God.
When the Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost He produced new offspring too, this offspring God associates Himself with; no wonder that it is called the SEED even the one that reads this book right now.
From Seth's line came Noah and from Noah came the three: the field, the tares and the seed; nonetheless, before we go there let us dwell a while in Genesis 6.