Speaker 1: Previously on The Chosen People, Kan where is your brother?
Speaker 1: God's question mirrored the question once posed.
Speaker 2: To his father Adam.
Speaker 3: Where are you?
Speaker 1: God knew the answer. He was inviting Cain to dialogue
Speaker 1: with him, to acknowledge his mistakes.
Speaker 4: Please stop, Oh blessed are you now?
Speaker 3: Abel?
Speaker 1: But now that the Creator's justice fell upon Cain, he
Speaker 1: realized he was wrong, woefully and terrifyingly wrong. The earth
Speaker 1: vibrated as if sobbing over Abel.
Speaker 2: The earth that has opened its mouth to receive your
Speaker 2: brother's blood will be cursed because of you. The earth
Speaker 2: will no longer give you its strength. You shall wander
Speaker 2: this land, hung, starved, undeprived.
Speaker 1: Their sins mock them, but they were also sealed by
Speaker 1: God beloved and chosen to be heirs of his mercy.
Speaker 5: In the wake of the fall. The story of Adam's
Speaker 5: descendants and folds into a saga of survival and promise. Shalloon,
Speaker 5: my friends, I'm ya l extein here in the Holy
Speaker 5: Land with the international Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and
Speaker 5: this is the Chosen People. In each episode, we'll explore
Speaker 5: epic tales inspired by the Hebrew Bible to uncover lessons
Speaker 5: that still resonate. Today, we will traverse tales of faith, failure,
Speaker 5: love and loss. We will press into the story of Israel.
Speaker 5: We'll discover what it means to live a life of
Speaker 5: purpose and step into the calling that God has for
Speaker 5: each one of us. God chose the nation of Israel
Speaker 5: on Mount Sinai. Through the story of the Jewish people,
Speaker 5: we will discover one abiding truth that we are all
Speaker 5: chosen for something great. In our story, so far, we've
Speaker 5: seen the world in its infancy, a masterpiece crafted by
Speaker 5: the hands of God himself. We've seen unity between God
Speaker 5: and man, man and woman, humanity and creation. And then
Speaker 5: we witness the fall of humanity, shattering the dreams of
Speaker 5: God and man. And as we turn to Genesis five,
Speaker 5: this story continues to unfold with the genealogy of Adam.
Speaker 5: It might not seem like a story, but this genealogy
Speaker 5: is a story of God's faithfulness in midst of human frailty.
Speaker 5: And it's a story of how the descendants of Adam
Speaker 5: and Eve fit into the grand narrative of Scripture. Together,
Speaker 5: let's discover how their stories intertwine in a world cast
Speaker 5: and darkness, and they shine the light of God's promise
Speaker 5: and to us all.
Speaker 1: Adam cradled the new born Babe and looked out at
Speaker 1: the horizon. The dust lid skies were painted with strokes
Speaker 1: of crimson and charcoal. A chill bit at Adam's cheeks.
Speaker 1: He brought the babe close to his chest to shield
Speaker 1: him from the wind. He looked down at the sleeping child,
Speaker 1: its face tense, shut.
Speaker 3: From the world.
Speaker 1: The years had taken the glow away from Adam's eyes.
Speaker 1: They were lower, duller and worn from years of toil
Speaker 1: and loss. Yet this new child brought a lightness to
Speaker 1: Adam's countenance. A smile crested on the edge of his
Speaker 1: mouth as he stroked the infant's crinkled nose.
Speaker 6: Your name will be sir.
Speaker 4: You shall be my appointed son, chosen and set apart
Speaker 4: to here our family's heart break.
Speaker 1: Adam's voice was soft, like worn leather. It had taken
Speaker 1: him years to recover from the loss of Abel. His death,
Speaker 1: coupled with Caine's exile, nearly destroyed Eve. Her flame flickered
Speaker 1: dimly now, But with the birth of Seth, perhaps the
Speaker 1: embers of hope would be found.
Speaker 6: This world is cruel but filled with beauty.
Speaker 3: O son subdue it here for it.
Speaker 1: The babe opened his eyes slightly to look at his
Speaker 1: father's face. Adam saw a sea of possibilities reflected in them.
Speaker 6: One day your mother and I will return to the dust,
Speaker 6: But through Yo you will live on, Like seeds falling
Speaker 6: from the trees.
Speaker 2: Our legacy will continue.
Speaker 1: Through Yo, through Seth, a lineage of redemption would fall,
Speaker 1: one that would last through destruction and despair. The earth
Speaker 1: was still young, and humanity multiplied from within small families
Speaker 1: and stretched outward. Came, driven by a restless ambition, ventured
Speaker 1: further east, carving a name for himself in the annals
Speaker 1: of history. His progeny, a dark brood, sowed the seeds
Speaker 1: of destruction, chaos, and pride, marring God's creation with their deeds. Seth, however,
Speaker 1: chose a different path, one laden with the weight of redemption.
Speaker 1: He bore the mantle of responsibility, determined to infuse the
Speaker 1: earth with the essence of God's character. Step by arduous step.
Speaker 1: In the twilight years of Adam and Eve, Seth fathered Enosh,
Speaker 1: a child destined to be a pivotal thread in the
Speaker 1: divine tapestry of redemption. Seth lived to see the birth
Speaker 1: of his grandchildren and great grandchildren, each a beacon of
Speaker 1: hope in a world teetering on the brink. Enosh begot Cannon,
Speaker 1: and sons and daughters flowed from his lineage, spreading across
Speaker 1: the earth. When Enosh's time came, he returned to the dust,
Speaker 1: as had his forebears. Cannon's first born, Mahalalel, continued the
Speaker 1: line his life a fleeting whisper, before he too succumbed
Speaker 1: to the curse of mortality. Mahalalel sired Jared, who in
Speaker 1: turn begot Enoch. The descendants of Cain and Seth fanned
Speaker 1: out across the land. Tribes formed, some finding refuge in
Speaker 1: the mountain ranges to the west, while others journeyed further east,
Speaker 1: erecting cities and towers that stood as monuments to their pride.
Speaker 1: Amidst these clashing legacies, Enoch walked, a righteous man, navigating
Speaker 1: the perilous expanse, seeking the Creator's light in a world
Speaker 1: fraught with darkness. Enoch paused at the Great Gates with
Speaker 1: a cart behind him. His son Methuselah padded close behind
Speaker 1: like a pup. Enoch despised these places. They were brewing
Speaker 1: with wickedness, yet he required the iron hoarded within.
Speaker 4: Stay close to me, Meddie, keep your eyes sharp and
Speaker 4: your steps light.
Speaker 1: Navigating the crowded streets, Enoch led his son through the chaos.
Speaker 1: Methusella clung to his father, eyes wide with fear at
Speaker 1: the vagrants and traders who argued with venomous tongues. Rough
Speaker 1: men lurked in shadows, predators seeking prey. Statues of wood
Speaker 1: and bone carved into disfigured and beastly warriors cast dark
Speaker 1: shadows that seemed to swallow the light. The father and
Speaker 1: son marched up a large dirt path carved from the
Speaker 1: stone side of the mountain. The path was large enough
Speaker 1: for five horses to trots side by side. The path
Speaker 1: led to a foreboding tower of wood, steel, and stone,
Speaker 1: from which smoke billowed, carrying the acrid scent of charred flesh.
Speaker 1: The sight and smell of it made Methusella pause. The
Speaker 1: towers seemed to him like a dragon's den, a mountain
Speaker 1: of evil and violence. Pikes holding up the severed heads
Speaker 1: of men and beasts were erected around the perimeter. The
Speaker 1: sight made Metthusella's stomach churn. He turned his chin up
Speaker 1: to his father, observing the resolute gaze he had. If
Speaker 1: knock was nervous, he didn't show it. At the entrance,
Speaker 1: they knocked on the gates, reinforced with rough metal and
Speaker 1: mammoth bone. They cracked open, revealing two guards with spears poised.
Speaker 4: What's your business, My son and I have come to
Speaker 4: barter a for iron. I need more tools to tend
Speaker 4: my farm.
Speaker 1: The men scanned them up and down, nodded, and opened
Speaker 1: the gates. Methuselah's eyes widened with terror when they entered.
Speaker 1: Sitting atop thrones hewn from the scars of the great lizards,
Speaker 1: were beasts like men. They were nearly ten feet tall,
Speaker 1: with arms like tree trunks and jaws like chiseledonyx. Their
Speaker 1: faces were deformed, with brows casting shadows over their serpent
Speaker 1: like eyes. Methuselah could feel their voices in his chest
Speaker 1: when they spoke.
Speaker 3: If it isn't Enoch, the man who walks with the
Speaker 3: Creator himself, what brings you to our domain?
Speaker 4: We need iron? Our tools have worn, and you have
Speaker 4: taken all the iron in the region. What will you
Speaker 4: give me in exchange?
Speaker 3: So formal?
Speaker 7: Why not stay a while? With us, n Og, you
Speaker 7: could tell us some of your favous tales about the Yellois.
Speaker 7: We have wine and women plenty.
Speaker 4: I can ship a third of my next harvest in
Speaker 4: exchange for your iron. The summer has made the ground rough.
Speaker 4: Good tools would break the earth much quicker.
Speaker 3: What's to stop us from just taking your farm, Nanoch?
Speaker 3: We've consumed other farms within our borders. How about we
Speaker 3: give your little plot of land rock?
Speaker 4: That'd be unwise.
Speaker 3: We see there, you forget who you're talking to.
Speaker 1: The creature gripped the shaft of his spear with his
Speaker 1: monstrous paws. Murder was in his eyes. Methusela could tell
Speaker 1: he was ravenous for any excuse use to put Enoch's
Speaker 1: head on one of those pikes outside. Yet his father
Speaker 1: remained voice unyielding. He stood with a confidence that somehow
Speaker 1: towered over even these giants.
Speaker 4: Take my land, consume it, and it will be gone.
Speaker 4: You and I both know you can't farm like the
Speaker 4: sons of Seth. But strike the steal with me and
Speaker 4: I'll give you a third of what I grow for
Speaker 4: the first harvest, and a sixth for the other three
Speaker 4: after that.
Speaker 7: You sons of Seth. Think you're so clever, not clever
Speaker 7: enough to secure the.
Speaker 1: Iron, not strong enough.
Speaker 7: To strike down the great beast, to fortify your walls.
Speaker 7: Do we have a deal, car.
Speaker 3: Enock, so Siria, so righteous y. You may be favored
Speaker 3: by the Creator, But tell me, do you bleed like
Speaker 3: the other sons of Seth? We cut open?
Speaker 1: One stood from his throne, feet shaking the earth with
Speaker 1: each step. As he strode toward Enoch, his nostrils flared
Speaker 1: like a bull's. Methusala could have sworn he saw smoke
Speaker 1: smoldering out with each breath. Enoch remained perfectly still, chin
Speaker 1: up and pointed toward the giant. Methuselah tried not to shake,
Speaker 1: drawing strength from his father's resolve. The beast stood only
Speaker 1: a few feet away, blocking out the light from the fire.
Speaker 1: There was a long, unsettling pause. Methusela's throat clenched, keeping
Speaker 1: the breath from exiting his lungs. His father was still.
Speaker 1: The man's hulking frame leaned forward. He bore his teeth
Speaker 1: like a wolf and spoke.
Speaker 3: You have a deal, Adoch, but failed to pay, and
Speaker 3: I'll take your wife, hate your children, and use your
Speaker 3: eldest as a toad.
Speaker 4: I'm a man of my word, with the Creator as
Speaker 4: my witness, I shall pay my share.
Speaker 3: Oh the Creator, you think hearing his name gives me comfort?
Speaker 3: Get out of here, and before I change my mind.
Speaker 1: Enoch wasted no time. He turned on his heels and
Speaker 1: left Methusela padded behind him like a puppy. They left
Speaker 1: the city, its stench lingered on them for a while.
Speaker 1: They crossed the brook separating the city in their land,
Speaker 1: then scaled the grassy knoll. They made it to a
Speaker 1: small summit, A singular cedar tree swayed to the midnight breeze.
Speaker 1: Methuselah could see the stars twinkling through the breaks in
Speaker 1: the leaves.
Speaker 4: What were those, father, Were they men?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: And no, they're the nephelim, spawn of the sons of
Speaker 4: God and daughters of men. So they're sons of angels. Ah. Yes,
Speaker 4: Do you remember the story of the garden?
Speaker 1: Matthusella nodded, waiting expectantly for his father to speak.
Speaker 4: Our ancestors were enticed by the tree of knowledge. They
Speaker 4: wanted to be like God, exchanging his will for them
Speaker 4: for pride. And they fell still. They multiplied and began
Speaker 4: filling the earth. When the sons of Adam multiplied here
Speaker 4: on the world and daughters were born to them, the
Speaker 4: heavenly beings saw that they were good. Just as Adam
Speaker 4: and Eve took the fruit of the tree, the divine
Speaker 4: beings took the daughters of men what came from them
Speaker 4: with the Nephelim neither human nor divine, creatures born from
Speaker 4: lust and pride. So now they just rule this land
Speaker 4: like gods. They are chiefs in this land, but not gods.
Speaker 4: They think they're gods. They think their strength makes them divine.
Speaker 4: That there's only one God. He has made us in
Speaker 4: his image. We are his appointed stewards of the world.
Speaker 4: The Nephelem know this, and hate us all the more
Speaker 4: for it. They were terrifying. You're right to fear them,
Speaker 4: but don't fear their size or their strength.
Speaker 3: Fear the evil they bring.
Speaker 4: This earth has been corrupted, Maty, It's been tainted not
Speaker 4: just by the giants, but by the darkness that's spread
Speaker 4: in the hearts of men. I fear the Creator won't
Speaker 4: endure this evil much longer. Why is that evil grieves
Speaker 4: his heart? Dis corruption, this violence, it wasn't his intention.
Speaker 1: Enoch sensed his son's discomfort. He brought him in close
Speaker 1: and sighed.
Speaker 4: Walk with him, as I have teach your sons what
Speaker 4: I've taught you, Perhaps we will endure the judgment to come.
Speaker 1: Enoch's words were edged into Matthusila's heart. The boy kept
Speaker 1: them close. He grew into a man watching his father
Speaker 1: faithfully walk with the Creator. So faithful was Enoch that
Speaker 1: he didn't taste the sting of death. His forefathers Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kennan, Mahalala,
Speaker 1: and Jared all returned to dust, But the Lord saw
Speaker 1: Enoch and spared him. One day, as Enoch walked along
Speaker 1: those same grassy knolls, he was taken up to be
Speaker 1: with his Creator. Enoch left the earth, and now it
Speaker 1: was Methusalah's turn to carry the torch of God's promise.
Speaker 1: Methuselah fathered Laymock and lived an abnormally long life. He
Speaker 1: lived long enough to meet his grandson Noah. He watched
Speaker 1: Noah closely, seeing Enoch's heart in him. When Methuselah passed,
Speaker 1: Noah was the last to honor the Creator. A solitary
Speaker 1: light in a dark world. He alone carried the torch
Speaker 1: of devotion. Misery and corruption had spread like a disease
Speaker 1: in the heavenly plain above earth. The Lord spoke, lamenting
Speaker 1: the state of his world.
Speaker 2: My spirit shall not abide in Man forever, for he
Speaker 2: is flesh. A hundred and twenty years is what they
Speaker 2: will have left. I will blot out man from the
Speaker 2: face of the land, for I am sorry that I
Speaker 2: have made them.
Speaker 1: A storm was coming, the purifying and terrifying work of
Speaker 1: God was at hand. Yet in the midst of it
Speaker 1: all hope still remained. It flickered like a faint light
Speaker 1: carried carefully by Noah.
Speaker 5: Genealogies most of us find them boring. The names and
Speaker 5: ages feel like never ending list. But beneath the surface
Speaker 5: we have to see there's a message. Genesis five begins
Speaker 5: by saying, this is the written account of Adam's family line.
Speaker 5: When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness
Speaker 5: of God. Here's how it says it in Hebrew. In
Speaker 5: the scriptures, the Saifer Toldotta dam beyond bore Eloy Madam
Speaker 5: bid moo Asato. The great sage ben Azi said this
Speaker 5: verse is the basic principle of the entire Bible. Now,
Speaker 5: doesn't that sound strange? Of all the important verses in
Speaker 5: the Bible, of all the amazing and important Bible stories
Speaker 5: that we will study, of all the important lessons and
Speaker 5: commandments that the Bible gives us, how could this simple
Speaker 5: verse contain the essential principle to all of God's word. Well,
Speaker 5: let's think again about what it means to be created
Speaker 5: in God's likeness or God's image. As we have said,
Speaker 5: it means that we can always feel that God is
Speaker 5: with us, that he loves us, and that he forgives
Speaker 5: us for our sins. He provides us with a pure
Speaker 5: soul and wants us to do good things for ourselves,
Speaker 5: for our families, and for others in need. Now, as
Speaker 5: we will see, some of the generations in these genealogies
Speaker 5: that we're studying today respected that they were made in
Speaker 5: God's image, and others did not. Even today, some people
Speaker 5: recognize that they are made in God's image and they
Speaker 5: lived their lives by that idea, and other people don't.
Speaker 5: But we know that God shows us the right way
Speaker 5: to live. We know that to live in God's image
Speaker 5: means that we give to others, that we believe in justice,
Speaker 5: that we make this world brighter by doing good deeds
Speaker 5: that we pray that we connect to God. God tells
Speaker 5: us in his very own words in the Bible what
Speaker 5: it means to live by Him. What ben Azzi is
Speaker 5: saying here when we talk about this verse being one
Speaker 5: of the most important, is that as we study the Bible,
Speaker 5: just as we're doing right now, we need to remember
Speaker 5: that we are reading God's holy words. It's the same
Speaker 5: God in whose image we are created. We are created
Speaker 5: in God's image, and we're reading his desires for us.
Speaker 5: Isn't that incredible when you really think about how God
Speaker 5: wrote the Bible for us and that we are a
Speaker 5: part of him. Isn't that such a good feeling? One
Speaker 5: more thought about this seemingly simple verse. The phrase in
Speaker 5: this verse, it says written account, comes from a very
Speaker 5: simple Hebrew word, say fair. Well, say fair in this
Speaker 5: verse might be translated as written account, but what it
Speaker 5: really means is book. Maybe this verse is telling us
Speaker 5: all that each of us, from Adam and Eve right
Speaker 5: down to you and me, is a book, a story,
Speaker 5: a written account that God has not abandoned. Each one
Speaker 5: of us is a book about how we use that
Speaker 5: being created in the image of God, to change the world,
Speaker 5: to fix the world, and to make it beautiful. I
Speaker 5: know how I'd like my story to read, and I
Speaker 5: know that you know how you would want your story
Speaker 5: to read too. And those are the values by how
Speaker 5: we have to live our lives each day. Now, let's
Speaker 5: talk about Adam. Adam is the beginning. The story of
Speaker 5: Adam and Eve is foundational. Their story is our story.
Speaker 5: We see in them our own struggles, our own brokenness.
Speaker 5: But we see how sin has marred our relationship with
Speaker 5: God and with each other. But we also see hope.
Speaker 5: The Hebrew word for hope is tikuva, and we see redemption,
Speaker 5: the hope for redemption and the belief in redemption. Adam
Speaker 5: and Eve's genealogy in Genesis five is a testament to
Speaker 5: God's faithfulness that despite their failure, God's plan continues through
Speaker 5: their descendants, from Seth the appointed One, to Eno, who
Speaker 5: walked with God, to Noah, the bringer of rest. Each
Speaker 5: generation from Adam and Eve carries the promise of God's
Speaker 5: goodness forward. Now let's look at Enoch, who the Bible
Speaker 5: says walked with God in a world marked by sin
Speaker 5: and death. His faith stands out. He had a closeness
Speaker 5: with the Creator that set him apart from others. And
Speaker 5: then the Bible tells us that he was no more
Speaker 5: because God took him away. Eno didn't experience death, he
Speaker 5: was just taken up by God. In this we see
Speaker 5: a glimpse of a day when life triumphs over death,
Speaker 5: the possibility of Eden being restored once again to the
Speaker 5: time when there was no suffering. Enoch had a son, Mitusela,
Speaker 5: who was the oldest man to ever live. He lived
Speaker 5: wait for it, nine hundred and sixty nine years. But
Speaker 5: in Hebrew the name Mitusela has another meaning. Mitusela means
Speaker 5: in his death shall bring Now doesn't it sound a
Speaker 5: little bit ominous? What did Mitusela's death actually bring. Well?
Speaker 5: It brought the flood, It brought judgment. For every one
Speaker 5: of those nine one hundred and sixty nine years, God
Speaker 5: delayed his judgment, giving humanity more time to repent. Every
Speaker 5: year Mitusella lived was another year that the people could
Speaker 5: have turned their heart back to God, another year for
Speaker 5: Noah to build the ark, another year for the world
Speaker 5: to turn back to themselves, to turn back to truth,
Speaker 5: to turn back to God. But the world didn't repent,
Speaker 5: and when Mitusella died, the flood came, which we'll get
Speaker 5: to in the next episode when we explore Genesis six
Speaker 5: the story of his grandson Noah. But here in Genesis five,
Speaker 5: there's a rich legacy in these genealogies of Adam, who
Speaker 5: was created in God's image. It moves to Seth, the
Speaker 5: appointed one of Eno who walked with God, pointing to
Speaker 5: the hope of eternal life, of Mitusela, whose long life
Speaker 5: shows God's mercy before judgment. And all of those lead
Speaker 5: to Noah, the one through whom God would preserve humanity.
Speaker 5: So we have to ask, what is the thread running
Speaker 5: through all these generations that this scripture tells us about. Well,
Speaker 5: it tells us about one thing, God's promise to speak
Speaker 5: more on this genealogy, and what else it tells us
Speaker 5: is my good friend, Bishop Paul Lanier, thank.
Speaker 8: You so much. I was just sitting here listening to you. Rightly,
Speaker 8: Note that just bringing up the word genealogy can sound
Speaker 8: so boring, can seem so uneventful unless you're doing what
Speaker 8: we're doing right now and searching the scriptures and studying
Speaker 8: the remarkable lives of men and women are fathers and
Speaker 8: mothers of the faith. But I've got a question. If
Speaker 8: God is eternal, meaning if God has always existed as
Speaker 8: he exists now and will forevermore exist and not just existing.
Speaker 8: If God is ruling and reigning and sovereign and sitting
Speaker 8: upon the throne where he has no peers, and he's
Speaker 8: omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent and immute all of these
Speaker 8: glorious attributes. If that is God, and if you and
Speaker 8: I were created to be everlasting and we are, then
Speaker 8: where does this, this whole issue of genealogy and generations
Speaker 8: fit in. Well, that's really a great question. And you
Speaker 8: know that in the garden God had prophesied over Adam
Speaker 8: and Eve and said to them, if you doubt my word,
Speaker 8: if you deny it, if you disobey it, and you
Speaker 8: partake of the fruit of rebellion against the covenant between us,
Speaker 8: then in that day you will surely die. But when
Speaker 8: we've studied the scriptures, we find that they did not
Speaker 8: immediately fall lifeless to the ground when they disobeyed him.
Speaker 8: So what does it mean. Well, it means that tragically,
Speaker 8: something catastrophic was unleashed throughout the totality not only of
Speaker 8: their being, but all of creation itself. It diminished their
Speaker 8: minds in the thinking, their conversation between one another, how
Speaker 8: they related to each other, even to the garden, and
Speaker 8: how they related to goden Your Bible says that the
Speaker 8: Lord would come walking in the garden in the cool
Speaker 8: of the day, and how they would anticipate it, nothing
Speaker 8: like it. But once they had abdicated their identity, their
Speaker 8: position in God, strange things started happening. How Adam looked
Speaker 8: at himself, how they looked at one another, got to
Speaker 8: the point bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
Speaker 8: And then God, it's not my fault, it's her fault.
Speaker 8: And then how they even related to him. God. They
Speaker 8: had once rushed to his coming with greatest anticipations because
Speaker 8: they loved him, and they loved those moments with him.
Speaker 8: But once they had diminished themselves through rebellion, the Bible
Speaker 8: says that they tried to hide themselves.
Speaker 3: In the garden with the garden.
Speaker 7: Can you believe this?
Speaker 8: They so old fig leaves together and tried to cover themselves.
Speaker 8: I know that sounds so silly until I start thinking
Speaker 8: about some of the things I've tried to hide behind.
Speaker 3: Maybe you have to.
Speaker 8: And so there was life and death and life and
Speaker 8: death and life and death and generations genealogy. But this
Speaker 8: is what's beautiful about it. God has a remarkable plan
Speaker 8: for your life that's so extraordinary, so wonderful, that it
Speaker 8: takes more than your life to fulfill. It now requires generations,
Speaker 8: sons and daughters and grandchildren. And when I look at
Speaker 8: these men and women once they left the garden, I'm
Speaker 8: in awe. They did not die that day. They didn't
Speaker 8: die either next day or a year later, a decade,
Speaker 8: or even a century. These people lived for centuries. Can
Speaker 8: you imagine that. But as time passed by from the
Speaker 8: garden and they were distanced from the garden, their interaction
Speaker 8: with the glory of the Lord that had so permeated
Speaker 8: their very bones, their molecular constitution was now compromised, threatened, diminished, gone,
Speaker 8: and they were left then to wrestle with mortality. And
Speaker 8: so we have this genealogy. And for Christians we look
Speaker 8: in the New Testament at the first book, the book
Speaker 8: of Matthew, who was a CPAA tax gatherer, if you will,
Speaker 8: who thought very methodically, very logistically, was very important for
Speaker 8: Matthew that the Jewish people in particular know that Jesus
Speaker 8: was Jewish, and so Matthew includes three different genealogies of
Speaker 8: fourteen persons each.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 8: But now I want to close my part of this
Speaker 8: by speaking to you directly, Elle, something I've already said
Speaker 8: to you privately, and I've spoken it publicly several times.
Speaker 8: But I want our people listening now to hear it.
Speaker 8: That's how indebted, how grateful I am to you for
Speaker 8: all you've taught me about Jesus of Nazareth. Now I'm
Speaker 8: not referring to Jesus Christ. That's a faith issue. That
Speaker 8: may be what I believe as a Christian about Jesus
Speaker 8: of Nazareth. But when I just think about not God's Son,
Speaker 8: but Mary's boy. Yeah, Ell, every time I see you
Speaker 8: in Israel and you're talking about the Sea of Galilee,
Speaker 8: Jesus of Nazareth was there, or Bethlehem or any of
Speaker 8: the other extraordinary places that you go as a Jew,
Speaker 8: and you share about the festivals and all the particulars
Speaker 8: of being Jewish. You help me understand more about Jesus
Speaker 8: of Nazareth, and I'm deeply grateful to you. Could I
Speaker 8: pray with you now, all of you. God is so good,
Speaker 8: and I just want to close my part with a blessing.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 8: I thank you for these extraordinary people listening to us now,
Speaker 8: searching the scriptures, discovering much about you. I thank you
Speaker 8: for these moments. Now, bless each of us and our generations,
Speaker 8: and for all this we give you praise.
Speaker 3: Men.
Speaker 5: Before we go, let's go back to Enoch, who walked
Speaker 5: with God. Enoch wasn't just a man who knew or
Speaker 5: believed in God. He had an ongoing intimate relationship with God.
Speaker 5: Enoch's walk with God as a model for us all,
Speaker 5: not just on the Sabbath or Sunday, and not just
Speaker 5: during the good times, but every day, in every moment.
Speaker 5: But as we close, the reason why I bring up
Speaker 5: EEno once again and how he walked with God is
Speaker 5: because of this is because throughout the story of the
Speaker 5: Chosen People, walking with God is what has made us
Speaker 5: His chosen people. It's our very identity. From Eno to
Speaker 5: Abraham to Moses to David. What set these holy biblical
Speaker 5: figures apart? Wasn't there perfection? No, they weren't perfect. They
Speaker 5: sinned and they were flawed. But what made them perfect
Speaker 5: in God's eyes. What made them one of the Chosen
Speaker 5: People was their faith, and for us today this principle
Speaker 5: still stands. We are called to trust and to follow
Speaker 5: God next time from here in Israel, as we meet
Speaker 5: Adam and Eve. Their story is a lesson on what
Speaker 5: it means to be human, to walk with God and
Speaker 5: to live a life of purpose. I can't wait to
Speaker 5: study it with you. With blessings from the Holy Land.
Speaker 5: This is your el Exstein, and you are listening to
Speaker 5: the Chosen People.
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