The World from Adam to Noah Part 1
by Pastor Don Elmore
September 30, 2012
Scripture Reading: Jude 1:5-7
I have wondered what went on in the days from Adam to Noah; have you? And there is so little information given about those days in the Bible. There is over 1600 years of history in the first nine chapters of Genesis. That’s about 30% of the amount of history from Adam to the present day. And only nine chapters of Genesis and a lot of these chapters are genealogies!
About the only thing that we know is how long they lived—over 900 years for most of them. And that doesn’t even make much sense to the average Christian; that the people that they read of in the first nine chapters of Genesis lived over 13 times the average life span of their lives. And you will fail to find any mention of any of them dying of cancer, diabetes, strokes or heart attacks as we do today.
Were they our height or were they significantly larger? How long were their child-bearing years—around 500 years? Did they travel much? They certainly didn’t live for 900 years in the same village and not venture any place else. Could they run 100 miles without much of a rest? What did they do for recreation? Did they have gardens or farms? Who were their enemies? Was the climate the same as today? Were there people living in all parts of the world? There are a lot of questions that we are not told the direct, obvious answer to.