Bible Study Genesis Part 54-Name Change

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So, how about we wrap this chapter up?

Lately, we've been talking about the details of the lives of some of the earliest humans, the very first members of Adam's family.

The short descriptions found in these latter verses are giving us some interesting origin stories.

But of course, the whole book is full of that sort of stuff.

It's called Genesis for a reason.

But now we're starting to see the emergence of the types of things and people that we actually see on an everyday basis in our own lives.

The foggy beginnings of man are slowly coming into focus.

And as I said, we as we closed last time, it's not all doom and gloom.

We learn that there were some way back there who actually sought skills and trades that would help advance mankind's journey.

God foresaw that all of this was going to happen, and so undoubtedly he created us with innate abilities that would be useful to us throughout our long exile from his presence.

It's not an eternal exile, just make sure you understand that.

For example, verse 20 of chapter 4.

And Ada bare Jabel.

He was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle.

Many of you thought William Coffin Coleman invented the tent, but it was really this man, Jabel.

Now, you may think this to be rather trivial, but this must have been a significant achievement at the time.

You see, mankind was no longer dwelling in the shade and shelter of the garden.

He was now exposed to the elements and needed protection.

The tent is important because man was now forced to wander about to gather his food.

In the garden, that would have never happened.

Some say all Adam and his family would have had to do is command some other creature to grab something off a tree and bring it to him.

Some argue that's how easy it would have been.

None of that anymore.

Now man has to go find his own food.

And because of that, he needed a convenient and effective and mobile means of keeping safe, warm, and dry.

Also, interestingly, verse 20 is the first mention of cattle in the Bible.

Hey, John, I thought you said mankind at the beginning were vegetarians.

Well, listen, just because a man is a shepherd doesn't mean he eats mutton.

In fact, God was the first one to fashion leather into clothing.

There are lots of uses for livestock other than food.

Listen, the original humans were vegetarians, but they sure weren't vegan.

Verse 21.

And his, we're still talking about Jabel, and Jabel's brother's name was Jubal.

He was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Jubal, as we were told in that verse, is the father of musicians.

And by the way, don't let the word organ there confuse you.

The original word is formed from another word that means to breathe.

It's much more likely that this was meant to designate flutes or something similar to that, since these nomadic herdsmen would likely use only small, simple instruments to make their music.

I suppose, in a musical evolutionary sense, this was the beginning of what we today call an Oregon, but it's best to kind of think of these things as they were originally intended to be.

So more than likely, Jubal was the father of the playing the flutes and all those sorts of read type instruments.

Verse 22.

And Zillah.

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And Zillah, she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron, and the sister of Tubal Cain was Namah.

Now, the the three similar sounding names we've mentioned so far so far, Jabel, Jubal, and Tubal Cain, all come from the same Hebrew root, as you would probably have already guessed.

The names, those names, those similar rooted names indicate a flowing or a running or a going forth.

Remember, names mean something in the Bible.

So these people were named with a Hebrew root that has those things in the meaning, the running, the going forth.

No, they are presumably given to these descendants of Cain because they are all nomads, those that are constantly on the move.

Maybe that's where the flowing forth came from.

Because remember, that was part of Cain's punishment.

God banished him to a life of wandering, and no doubt all of his children had to suffer through the same fate.

This, by the way, would also explain why among them was the inventor of the tent.

Those that wander must bring their shelter with them on their journeys.

Now, the name Tubal Cain mentioned here is very interesting.

Some wonder if the word Cain was affixed to the end as a sort of tribute to Adam's firstborn.

It may also have to do with the fact that this man, this man named Tubal Cain, was known for something very specific.

Some scholars believe that the word Cain refers to a pointed instrument or weapon of some sort.

So perhaps this was tubal of the spear or the lance.

Tubal Cain, tubal of the spear or the lance.

Verse 22 does tell us that he was an instructor in the making of metal objects.

So it's quite likely that these were specifically the things that he was instructing on, the pointed things were actually specifically metal objects used in warfare.

That ties together quite nicely.

Now, one more interesting thing to say about this man, Tubulcane.

There are some who believe that the Romans modeled their god Vulcan on the real life Tubulcane.

Now, there is admittedly a similarity in name and actually occupation.

Tubulcane, as we've already said, was the inventor of metalworking and Vulcan, those of you that are aware of the Roman pantheon, they know that Vulcan is actually the god of metalworking as well as the forge.

You know, the for a forge is what you use to make metals.

Now, I've often said to you that the similarities in religions around the world is not accidental, but instead incidental.

Because listen to me, all human beings came from the same source.

And no doubt many things, customs, beliefs, traditions, were handed down from the days of Adam and Eve.

You know, anthropologists and other scientists that deal with the civilization of men, they say, oh, that's why you can't really believe in the Judeo-Christian religion, because, hey, all primitive men thought the same thing.

So they're just have this kind of collective consciousness.

Well, where do you think the collective consciousness came from?

Yes, there are similarities between religions because we all started in the same place.

As mankind moved on, things were retained, and that's why we have these sorts of similarities in religions.

However, having said that, I'm not terribly convinced that there is a link between Vulcan and Tubul Cain.

It just doesn't seem that there's enough to go on to come to that conclusion.

But it is, as I said, interesting and possible, but mostly circumstantial.

Also mentioned in this verse, by the way, is Tubal Cain's sister Nama.

And then from here on out, we never hear anything about her ever again, which makes you wonder why God decided to mention her at all.

To be honest, I don't really know because God didn't say, but perhaps to God names her, brings her up to give us the impression that the race of man is growing, as well as to let us know that the potential for further growth is also coming on the scene because here comes the bearer of children, women.

So every time God mentions a woman, then we can think she's able to bear children.

Maybe that's why he mentioned the sister of Tubul Cain being Neymar.

God wants us to know that the population of his creation is set to grow and expand as he said it would all along, as he had always intended it to.

Listen to me, mankind will be fruitful and multiply.

Sin is not going to stop God from achieving any of his goals.

Verse 23.

And Lamech said unto his wives, Ada and Zillah.

Remember, he's the first polygamist.

And Lamech said unto his wives, Ada and Zillah, hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech.

Hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt.

Now, this is a very interesting verse.

Some Bible scholars tell us that it's actually an ancient song, a short one, but a song nonetheless.

Albert Burns states that it, quote, has all the characteristics of the most perfect Hebrew poetry.

In his commentary on this verse, he continues, quote, every pair of lines is a specimen of the Hebrew parallelism or rhythm of sentiment and style.

They all belong to the synthetic, synonymous, or cognate parallel, the second member reiterating with emphasis the first.

I'm bringing this up mainly because it's true, but also because I want you to see this isn't just the ramblings of a caveman.

There is structure, there is purpose, there are things going on in the Bible that are similar to things going on in Shakespeare and all of the other poets and playwrights out there, except this is all real.

Imagine being able to take real events and structuring it like poetry, and that's what we have here.

And this is why many consider Lamech one of history's first poets, if not the first.

Now, despite his possible poetic underpinnings, as I said, there is, of course, literal fact in this statement.

Lamech is informing his wives that he's murdered someone.

Now, some of the experts contend, I don't know why, but some contend that this must have been an action done in self-defense, and that this is why Lamech felt that he would be protected from any fatal consequences that might result from his actions, as he expresses in the very next verse.

Verse 24, this is what he is saying to his wives after he tells them he's murdered someone.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech 70 and sevenfold.

That's a very common thing to say in the Bible to give the impression of limitlessness.

Now, the assumption that this killing was in self-defense, as I've already inferred, is nothing more than speculation, since no details whatsoever are given about who was murdered or why they were murdered or when they were murdered.

And even some say if.

But in response, I would say, first of all, forget it, because all sin gets punished.

Make no mistake about that.

But most of all, listen to me, this is my best advice.

Do not trifle with God's justice.

You're not as clever as you think.

There are several other theories as to the true meaning of this verse, but it's better if we just keep moving.

No time for too much curiosity.

Though I I hate to move on, we have to.

And besides, if God didn't tell us anything else, then we don't need to know anything else.

Any further speculation would be fruitless, and as I often tell you, even a little risky.

Once you get outside the boundaries of the Bible, you're taking some serious risks.

Verse 25.

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth.

For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Now I want you to imagine, seriously, I want you to imagine the pain that Adam and Eve were going through right up to this 25th verse, especially the pain Eve must have felt.

Cain, their oldest son, was responsible for making a bad situation worse.

The family had already been banished from the garden.

They were a cursed people, working a cursed earth.

Now to remind ourselves, let's read of what they were all enduring.

Genesis 3, 17.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it.

Cursed is the ground for thy sake.

In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Imagine trying to farm a cursed ground.

Of course you can.

That's what we have to go through right now.

Verse 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

In the sweat of thy face shall Thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground.

Now, as if that weren't bad enough, even under those harrowing circumstances, their firstborn son makes things so much worse for the entire family by committing the world's first murder, the victim being their second son.

Now we've said it's possible that they were twins, and I still believe that they are, but even when they are twins, one is born first and one is born second.

Twins are never born at the same time.

All mothers say amen.

Cain, the firstborn, murders Abel, the secondborn, and because of that is sent out to even more isolation from God's presence.

And as we've seen, apparently Cain has not learned anything because his sons apparently are carrying on many of their father's rebellious ways.

So I say again, imagine the pain of these first parents.

Literally, the cares of the world are on their shoulders.

Their own sin led to the expulsion of mankind from God's presence.

And now their progeny, instead of spreading God's glory through the earth as intended, are polluting creation with the weakness of the character of the human family.

For Adam and Eve, despair must have set in, and in their hearts they must have been losing hope.

But then Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth.

For God said, She hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Now, prior to this chapter, the Bible's talked a lot about Adam and Eve.

Here in chapter four, this is only the second time Adam's name even comes up with only a handful more through the rest of the book.

And actually, Eve's name isn't even used here.

It's she.

It's she says this.

It doesn't say Eve said it.

She said that.

Eve is not even named, and she doesn't actually come up again until way over in the New Testament letter of 2 Corinthians.

What's your point, John?

Time moves on.

God's plan marches on.

The world is quickly expanding away from its origins.

The simple loveliness of garden life is fast fading from memory to the point that you and I have no idea what it would have been like.

We can't even imagine a world where every need is provided for.

Yes, we have access to God through our prayer, but sometimes our prayers are agonizing.

Sometimes we have to repeat our prayers over and over, sometimes for years, for God to answer those prayers for us.

Sometimes He never answers them the way we want Him to.

We can't imagine the life that Adam and Eve had.

That memory is gone.

Something else I want to point out.

Here it says that Eve named her son Seth.

Now we'll get to that name in a second.

She names her third son Seth, quote, for God hath appointed me another seed, etc.

Now, here we're witnessing a significant change in the relationship between God and man.

But in the English, it's not so obvious.

It looks just the same as it always did.

Let me read it again.

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth.

For God said she, for God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Once again, I have to say, this is sad.

It's tragic.

It's typical of a life stained by sin.

Again, though it's impossible to notice in the English, God no longer seems to be the loving, personal caretaker he once was, or so it would appear from the perspective of these two spiritually battered parents.

You see, there's been a name change.

Now, this is very subtle but very important.

I've told you many times, I've told you in this program, and more that names and more specifically what people are called is significant in the Bible.

Here at the end of chapter four, God's name has changed.

And it's a reflection of an overall change in mood.

When Eve said, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, tragically, she used the name Elohim.

Now get this.

We're told that she said, God hath appointed, etc.

These are her words.

This isn't Moses paraphrasing.

She said, God Elohim hath appointed, etc.

Words reflect our feelings.

Throughout their entire life, up to this point, God was referred to as Jehovah.

He was the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, Jehovah being the personal I am name of God.

That's the name he uses time and again in the Bible when he wants to demonstrate his intense love and care for mankind.

It's a name he wants us to rely on.

He wants us to use that name.

It's the intimate, privileged name of God.

Now we spoke of this extensively in our coverage of chapter two.

No need nor time to do so again.

Now remember, listen to me.

Through the entire creative process, before man came on the scene, God in the Bible was referring to himself as Elohim.

We're introduced to him as Elohim in verse one of chapter one.

We're talking about two names.

Let me make sure that you're with me on this.

There's Elohim and there's Jehovah Elohim.

Elohim is the powerful creator God.

Jehovah Elohim is the I am powerful God.

Jehovah name is the name he, I know I said we wouldn't go over this again, but here we go.

Jehovah is the name that he uses to let us know he's there for us.

Despite the fact that we're not in the garden anymore, he is still the Jehovah God to us.

But at this moment, in her despair, Eve doesn't use the Jehovah name.

She uses the name of the powerful creator God.

He is Jehovah, he is Elohim.

He is Elohim at the start of creation, chapter 1.1.

He stays Elohim all the way through.

Listen to me, this is important.

All the way through until the seventh day when he rested.

He's Elohim all the way through until that seventh day.

That's the rest day.

Doesn't that feel significant?

He's in he's identified that entire time as the powerful, determined, yet distant creator, God.

That's what the name means.

But then after that seventh day, he shifts to being the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, when the focus starts zeroing in on his preparations for Adam, and he stays Jehovah Elohim all the way up until the banishment starts to settle in as we're starting to see, signaled by jealousy, murder, rebellion, and ever-increasing wickedness of the just now emerging human family.

When God's standard begins to be replaced by man's, God goes back to, if even if temporarily, the far above, fearfully, powerfully, unbendingly, and impersonally just Elohim.

The relationship isn't what it used to be.

Listen to me.

When saved people sin, this is what happens to you.

You're still saved.

It's still a part of your life.

You're still going to go to heaven, but your relationship with God is blocked by your sin.

The old preachers used to say, you can't enjoy your salvation when you're a sinning, saved person.

That's that possible, John?

Sure it is.

Every one of you knows that.

John said, if we say we don't sin, we're lying.

And he was talking to saved Christians.

When we sin, this is what happens to us.

God stops being Jehovah.

Yeah, but I'm going to heaven?

Yeah, I suppose.

But it's going to be a rough road.

You will be saved as by fire, as the Bible says.

You will be saved as by fire.

Is that the way you want to go into heaven?

Is that the kind of thing?

Is that the legacy you want to leave here?

Don't be a sinning, saved person, because this is what happens to you.

Now listen, I'm just going to repeat what I said to you.

It isn't God who changed his name, it was Eve.

Eve felt distant from God.

God didn't want that.

It was Eve that felt that way.

As if she needed more despair.

She started to see God as Elohim rather than Jehovah Elohim.

Sin changes everything.

We need a redeemer.

Verse 26, and to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos.

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Even here, the name of Seth's son means something.

He called him Enos, which in Hebrew means frail or weak or faint.

Not a very flattering name for one's own son, but some scholars believe that this is the point that men, not all of course, but some men start to realize that they're helpless without the Lord, that this kind of weak, frail name is actually identifying all of those who recognize that we're no longer in the garden.

Perhaps this is the point where parts of the human race start to recognize how far that garden now is, how far they actually are, and they start to become aware that they're in need of a savior.

They're weak, they're frail.

Now, certainly this was in contrast to the descendants of Cain who seemed to exude overconfidence, arrogance even.

Then it tells us in that verse, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Now, this is a bit of a curious statement, if you assume that calling upon the name of the Lord means some sort of worship, which I believe we're safe in doing so.

Now, if we don't look at it too closely, we may derive the meaning that before this, before this statement, that men didn't call upon the Lord, that this is when that began.

Well, we know that this cannot be true by virtue of the fact that Adam and Eve, we are told, certainly still regarded God even from the exile.

They still saw that God, as Eve just said, God was in control and directing their lives.

Eve knew it was God who gave her Seth.

So they were still regarding God.

Also, both Cain and Abel brought sacrifices to God.

Indeed, such things involve a worshipful relationship.

So, in order to overcome this obvious difficulty in interpretation, there are some who say that what is meant here is one of the following possibilities.

First, some say it doesn't mean begin to call upon, but rather begin to call upon again.

In other words, reverence and adoration of God had waned significantly from those first few years to the point that it had become almost non existent.

The argument is that Genesis 426 is recording a revival of some sort, that Enos and Seth sort of together restarted the practice of honoring God with worship and ritual.

They began to honor God again.

And then there are others who say that this does indeed mean begin in the sense that mankind never really before worshiped God, never really called upon the name of Jehovah.

These scholars will argue that though Adam and Eve and all of the others had a sort of relationship with God, it was more of a passive one.

That Adam and Eve, for instance, just listened to what God said, but didn't really have any sort of back and forth interaction with him, as is typical of religious worship.

They just took their instructions and went about doing as they were told, like some sort of wind-up dolls.

That it wasn't until a couple of centuries later, as represented here at the end of chapter four, where people began to lift up their hearts and hands to glorify God and count on him as their object of praise and veneration.

The sons of Seth, including Enos, or so this theory goes, were responsible for reintroducing or introducing that sort of viewpoint of God to the race of men, and now it was catching on.

Now, in response to that, someone among you, some of the smarter ones around you, may ask one of those who hold to this theory well, what about the bringing of the sacrifices by the first sons of Adam?

What do you have to say about that?

Ah, very good question, they might begin in answering.

You know, Cain and Abel, yeah, they brought those sacrifices, but they were really only reacting in fear when they brought their offerings.

This wasn't true worship as much as it was ongoing appeasement of an offended, powerful Lord.

The offerers not really involved in relating to their master, they wouldn't dare because they thought themselves so distant.

Therefore, this theory says, offerings or not, there was no real religious expression prior to this point in Genesis.

Religion, they say, should be seen as a two-way street, not as just a snivelling, trembling, total acquiescence.

In case you have not picked up on my sarcasm, I don't agree with that at all.

I do believe Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were worshiping God and calling on his name going all the way back to the beginning.

I really don't know how anyone could get anything else from the story we've been given thus far in these earliest chapters of Genesis.

And besides, who says fear isn't a part of worship?

That's what's wrong with our modern views of religion.

We think it should be all buddy buddy, God is my co-pilot, some sweet old feeble granddad in the sky who falls asleep with his wallet open.

Listen to me.

Appeasing an angry God is as much a part of religion as anything else, and it should be.

Okay, smart guy.

What do you think about this?

How do you explain Genesis 4 26?

Well, let's read it again so we can refocus on the context.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos.

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Now, this is admittedly a difficult statement to work out, but I agree with E.

W.

Bullinger and others who interpret this verse a little differently.

They say this is the record of the beginning of idolatry.

Verse 26 should really read that men began to call upon their gods, little gee, false gods, began to call upon their gods by the name of Jehovah.

In other words, they started to attach to idols, idols they made themselves, the qualities, reverence, and even the name of the one true God.

In fact, this is the opinion of many of the ancient Jewish scholars.

Some of them believe it was at this time, the time of verse 26, the verse 26 is describing the transition of worship to the mighty forces of nature, such as the stars.

And then some even say, and the original language actually makes this possible, that this was when men began to worship themselves.

Again, sounds like a very human thing to do.

Now, one well-known Jewish commentator of old translates verse 26 this way.

Okay, let me start again.

Then was their profanation or profan profaning, then was their profanation in the calling on the name of the Lord.

Listen, we're starting to read that there are increasingly troubling times for man and God, and perhaps this is why worship had become corrupted, and I don't think we've ever recovered.

Well, with that, we close out chapter four.

As you can tell, we're starting to pick up the pace a bit.

It's not that we're spending less time on the details, it's just that as we get closer to our own time, the passages start to carry on less and less imagery and more and more history.

In fact, we start chapter five next time, which won't be for two weeks.

So it'll be two weeks before we do this again.

When we start in two weeks on chapter five, it's not really gonna take us very long at all to cover.

Now, that's not to say it's not important.

Every chapter, every verse, every word is important, but some things just don't take as much time to uncover.

You'll see what I mean once we get there.

So, chapter five, next time, two weeks.

Two weeks from now, we're gonna start chapter five.

See you then.

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