
Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Adam
Adam, as the natural head of the race (Luke 3:38) is a contrasting type of Christ, the Head of the new creation. See Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:21, 22, 45-47.
in the likeness of God
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Male and female
Gen 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Enoch
Enoch, "translated that he should not see death" (Hebrews 11:5) before the judgment of the Flood, is a type of those saints who are to be translated before the apocalyptic judgments (1 Thessalonians 4:14-17). Noah, left on the earth, but preserved through the judgment of the Flood, is a type of the Jewish people, who will be kept through the apocalyptic judgments (Jeremiah 30:5-9; Revelation 12:13-16) and brought as an earthly people to the new heaven and new earth (Isaiah 65:17-19; 66:20-22; Revelation 21:1).
walked with God
Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
took him
Miracles (O.T.). Gen 7:11. (Gen 5:24; Jon 2:1-10.)
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