There's a challenge floating around Facebook in honor of the 400-year anniversary of the initial printing of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Starting September 1, if you read 12 pages a day you can finish the Old and New Testaments by 31 December 2011. I accepted this challenge and started early, as in yesterday.
Thus far I have learned 2 new things.
1) Noah was a direct descendant of Cain.*
2) Abraham was a direct descendant of Noah's son, Shem.
Something I already knew but had reiterated is that if you have been blessed with something someone else truly desires and has prayed for but been denied thus far, don't flaunt your blessings in their face. Hagar was a truly blessed woman, as has been her posterity, but she shouldn't have initially rubbed her pregnancy in Sarah's face. Flag on the play. Unnecessary roughness.
*I have been informed that I am incorrect in this assumption. Further personal study is underway. Thank you, Sarra. ~22 Aug 2011
I have to disagree with you on your first point. Noah was a descendent of Seth. Cain's lineage was preserved through the flood because Ham married Egyptus, a direct descendent of Cain. Noah's father was Lamech, and while Cain did have a descendent named Lamech, it wasn't Noah's father. I have researched this extensively. BTW, Cain also had a son named Enoch, but it was not the same Enoch who walked with God.
ReplyDeleteI did know that about the Enoch's being different. I'll have to look up the other about the Lamech's. Thanks for the info. Now I learned something new today that I didn't know yesterday. I love learning new things and having discussion!
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