Day Two Genesis 4-7
Genesis 4 (Cain and Abel) Not much to say about this but this is the first sign of all sibling rivalry, it started with the first siblings and continues to this day, we try super hard to not create a rivalry atmosphere here but of course it still lingers around…everyday, everywhere. I just wonder what was going through Eve's head when all of this was happening I mean as a mother can anything worse happen than losing one child to another child's hand? The best part of this entire story is the rivalry came not towards what their parents thought about them but what God thought of them which makes it much more interesting and almost more understandable in a small way. As much as I can read into why God chose Abel's sheep over Cain's grain I find that the bible does mention that Abel handed over his firstborn fatlings and such while it says only that Cain brought an offering, so maybe Cain just brought something inferior and kept the best of his crops to himself, needless to say God curses him and tells him that no man will be able to kill him or it will come back to haunt him. Being that I am from Utah I do have to point out that directly after this incident Cain became a polygamist, not that God had said that this was ok, this was just done, God at the beginning had indicated that one man and one woman would be together but hey those are just my two cents, I know that throughout the bible usually when polygamy is concerned it does not end well.
Genesis 5: A huge list of a family tree listing Adam as 930 years old and so on and so on. This Chapter takes us through to the flood which according to Halley's Bible Guide was actually about 1656 years
Genesis 6: The Flood: A favorite for parents that incorporates the idea that you have to be good in order to have good brought upon you, bring about badness and tada you are punished. God looks down on us and says basically maybe I have made a mistake, I need to blot you out! Thank Goodness Noah was a mighty man and God liked him otherwise those aliens in the other world would have completely been inhabitating our earth but God found favor in Noah and made him build his boat. What a strict and faithful person Noah must have been to build a boat and how must his neighbors laughed at him over and over building a boat that was 450 feet long 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. which is just out of control to me but I guess when you are carrying around a zoo it has to be big correct. Now to those who say that Noah couldn't have done this alone, it is said that Noah probably had employees and from ancient stories it is thought that he could have been even a city mayor of sorts. I love as a mom that this teaches our children that you need to have rough patches to get to greener pastures. THE LORD SHUT HIM IN what a feeling Noah must have gotten having the door shut behind him by God.
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