Patriarchs
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First published on the 12th of April 2024 — Last updated on the 10th of June 2024Some dates hide a mystery
Patriarchs
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
1. Adam 0** 930 130 930 Adam left Eden around 4312 BC
Time on Earth started when Adam sinned and was thrown out of Eden.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
2. Seth 130 1042 105 912
3. Enos 235 1140 90 905
4. Cainan 325 1235 70 910
5. Mahalaleel 395 1290 65 895
6. Jared 460 1422 162 962
7. Enoch **7th 622 987 65 365 ** Days of the new year prophesied
Enoch represents the seventh church age that is caught up to Heaven. He did not die.
JUDE 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
He was caught up to Paradise 69 years before Noah was born.
Bible years were always 360 days. The Flood caused a rapid ice age.
God knocked the Earth away from the Sun into freezing space. Our year is now thus 5.24 days longer.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
8. Methuselah 687 1656 187 969
Flood was about 2680 BC, the year Methuselah died. That was 1656 Bible years after Adam sinned,
9. Lamech 874 1651 182 777 **
7 symbolizes 7th church age. The days will be cut short to save the righteous.
Lamech's life was cut short to save him from the Flood.
ROMANS 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness:
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
MATTHEW 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Adam dies 930. Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech could talk to Adam to hear the truth.
First patriarch born after Adam's death is Noah.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
10. Noah 1056 2006 502 ** 950 10th generation. End of preFlood world.
GENESIS 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
GENESIS 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
GENESIS 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
God makes a Covenant with the Earth. A rainbow of 7 dominant colours will stop any future flood's total destruction.
This represents 7 church ages when God will prevent Roman Catholic error from drowning out the truth of Scripture.
Name Birth Flood age Flood year after Adam's sin
10. Noah 1056 600 1656 Flood was about 2679 BC
Ten indicates the end. The ten virgins indicate the church at the end.
Gentile history in Daniel's image ends when the stone smites the 10 toes.
Ten military dictators give their might and power to the end time Pope to enable him to rule the world.
Noah and Shem could talk to Methuselah and Lamech to hear about Adam.
Noah waited 500 years for a son. Thus Shem would live 500 years after the Flood.
Shem could speak to 10 generations, ending in Isaac.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
1. Shem 1558 2158 100 600
2. Arphaxad 1658 2096 35 438
3. Salah 1693 2126 30 433
4. Eber 1723 2187 34 464
5. Peleg 1757 1996 30 239 The Earth was divided
The ice was melting and finally flooded the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska.
America became a separate wilderness for the 1620 Pilgrim fathers who fled Catholic persecution.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
6. Reu 1787 2026 32 239
7. Serug 1819 2049 30 230
8. Nahor 1849 1997 29 230
9. Terah 1878 2083 130 ** 205
The first 60 years of Terah's life is left out because he was in the wrong place, Ur. God wanted Terah to move.
When we are in a denominational church organization, God will leave us out of His Bride.
10. Abraham 2008 2183 100 175 10th generation after Noah
Truth was previously transmitted verbally due to the previous long lifespans.
This ends when Abraham's life gets written up in Scripture.
God then makes a new Covenant with Abraham and his natural seed, Isaac.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
1. Isaac 2108 2288 60 180 10th generation after Shem
Truth is now written in the Old Testament
Isaac was born 2234 BC. God makes 2300 Bible year Covenant that was confirmed in Christ
Lot’s illegitimate son Moab was born at the same time as Isaac.
Shem dies 2158 so Abraham and Isaac could hear the truth from Shem.
These long life-times allowed the truth to be accurately transmitted.
Name Birth Death 1st son Age
2. Jacob 2168 2315 91 ** 147
3. Joseph 2259 2369 33.5 ** 110
3. Judah was a brother of Joseph and thus of the same generation as Joseph
4. Pharez
5. Hezron
6. Ram
7. Amminadab
8. Nahshon
9. Salmon
10. Boaz 10th generation from Isaac. End of Moabite separation.
Ruth the Moabitess marries Boaz to enter the line of Messiah.
DEUTERONOMY 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
For ever means to the vanishing point. This banishment will last until it vanishes in the tenth generation.
RUTH 4:21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Boaz was tenth generation from Isaac, thus Boaz was 11th generation from Abraham.
RUTH 4:22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
From Abraham, Obed was 12th, Jesse was 13th, and David the great king was 14th.
14 is a key number as Jacob worked 7 years for Leah (symbol of the Old Testament Jews) and 7 years for Rachel (symbol of the New Testament church).
Thus Matthew divides the bloodline of Messiah into three groups of fourteen.
This represents that Jesus came both for the Jews and for the Gentiles.
Matthew simply leaves out the names of certain men who failed God for different reasons.
We must be careful that we do not fail God. If He leaves us out of His Book of Life then we are in trouble.
Transmission of truth by word of mouth
Flood
Adam could speak to Methuselah and Lamech who could both speak to Shem. Shem could speak to Isaac.