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Contents
Foreword by Dr. Frank James • 9
Part One
Consider the Years of All Generations • 15
Chapter 1 The First Command: Remember the Days of Old • 18
1. The “Days of Old” in Light of God’s History of Salvation • 18
2. Remember • 19
Chapter 2 The Second Command: Consider the Years of All Generations • 22
1. Years of All Generations • 22
2. Consider • 23
Chapter 3 The Third Command: Ask Your Father, and He Will Inform You, Your Elders, and They Will Tell You • 24
1. Your Father and Elders • 24
2. Ask • 25
3. He Will Inform You and They Will Tell You • 26
4. The Unchanging Word of God • 26
God’s Administration of Redemption and the Genesis Genealogies • 29
Chapter 4 God’s Administration of Redemption • 32
1. The History of Redemption as a Part of God’s Administration • 32
2. The Focus and Scope of Redemptive History • 33
3. Christ, the Apex of Redemptive History • 35
Chapter 5 God’s Work in the History of Redemption and the Genealogies • 38
1. The Redemptive-historical Significance of the Genealogies • 38
2. The Structure and Flow of the Genealogies • 39
Chapter 6 The Genealogies in Genesis • 42
1. The Structure of Genesis • 42
2. Ten Genealogies in Genesis • 43
3. Sepher Toledoth (Book of the Generations) • 45
4. The Method of Studying the Genesis Genealogies • 46
Chapter 7 Years of the Generations in Genesis • 50
1. Perspective on the Inerrancy of the Bible • 50
2. Years of the Generations in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 • 51
3. A Point of Reference for Calculating the Years • 53
The Genealogy According to the Line of Cain • 57
Chapter 8 The Descendants of Cain • 59
1. Cain: gotten one, received • 59
2. Enoch: dedication, initiated, teacher • 66
3. Irad: runner, fleet, boastful • 68
4. Mehujael: blotted out by God • 70
5. Methushael: man of Sheol or man of God • 71
6. Lamech: a strong youth, the conqueror • 72
Chapter 9 The Descendants of Sin in the Line of Cain • 78
1. The Descendants of Nimrod and the Construction of the Tower of Babel • 78
2. Ishmael and Esau • 82
The Genealogy According to the Line of Seth • 87
Excursus 2:
The Twenty Generations of the Patriarchs • 89
Chapter 10 The Genealogy from Adam to Noah • 93
1. First Generation: Adam • 95
2. Second Generation: Seth • 99
3. Third Generation: Enosh • 102
4. Fourth Generation: Kenan • 105
5. Fifth Generation: Mahalalel • 107
6. Sixth Generation: Jared • 110
7. Seventh Generation: Enoch • 113
8. Eighth Generation: Methuselah • 120
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