a hidden story?

This... is.. crazy...
are you ready?
Cuz... I don't think you are.

How many times have you skipped Genesis 5? You know... the Adam to Noah list of who is the father of who and how long they lived... (I always found their ages the most interesting!) Well...there is a message... God's plan... revealed embedded deep enough that only those who are seeking will find it. I hear this in a sermon this morning... and honestly was skeptical because it all seemed too... fluid. So I looked it up myself this afternoon...and it stood true (as true as the internet can be?) I'll post the sources I used at the end.
SO... here we go... the name MEANINGS of the 10 fathers in Genesis 5... and the story they tell?
(The ones in brackets are the one from the sermon if they were different from what I found)

Adam - Man of Earth
father of
Seth - Anointed, Nominated
father of
Enosh - Man... frail miserable, (weak sickly)
father of
Kenan - to take possession, to aquire, (struggling working)
father of
Mahalalel - praise of God, (glory of God)
father of
Jared - descends
father of
Enoch - instruct with speech (bringing teaching)
father of
Methuselah - die, sending away, more specifically with sword or spear, (death by sword)
father of
Lamech - this one was pretty uncertain... but here's is the options... (conqueriing youth), for lowering or humiliation, priest servant of God, strong man.
father of
Noah - rest, soothing, (comfort)

So... if we take the meanings... and put them in a sentence...
we have this...

Man of Earth, nominated and anointed, becomes frail, miserable, weak and sickly to take possession for the glory of God, brings teaching and dies with a spear (while on the cross) becomes a strong man..a conquering youth (of death)...to bring rest and comfort.

The gospel. In Genesis 5.

Neat? I think so.
Chew on it a bit.


http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning.html

http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/lamech_hess.pdf

A word from St. Augustine

Late have I loved you, O beauty so ancient and new.
Late have I loved you!

You were within me while I have gone outside to seek You.
Unlovely myself, I rushed towards all those lovely things You had made.
And always You were with me, and I was not with You.
All these beauties kept me far from you -
although they would not have existed at all unless they had their being in You.

You called,
You cried,
You shattered my deafness.
You sparkled,
You blazed,
You drove away my blindness.

You offered my Your fragrance,
I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
I tasted and now I hunger and thirst.
You touched me, and now I burn with longing for your peace.

- St. Augustine - (354-430AD)

math.

I have this funny little setting on my gmail account. Oneday... a LONG time ago. maybe even years... no definitely years... so long a go i don't remember when.. i set it... probably thinking it was a brilliant way to exercise my brain... or play a really horrible joke on myself every time i want to send an e-mail after 11pm. The setting? 5 "simple" math questions. Addition subtraction and multiplication. Things like 11 X 7 or 5 + 13 and such. I say "simple" in "quotations" because... when I try and send a simple e-mail at night... and this stupid math box pops up... and i HAVE to do them... or I can't send my e-mail.. WELL... after a 16 hour day including a stressful 8 hour work shift...math just isn't "simple" no matter how "simple" it is. The most hilariously awful part of the whole thing, is that I have had this setting on for forever... and it surprises me EVER TIME!! And here I am blogging about it.. instead of changing the setting... so I can let out a heavy frustrated laughing sigh towards...myself... the next time I try and send an e-mail after 11pm. Why do you think this is?! Because I have yet to think of somewhat decent answer that doesn't involve the state of my sanity.
and that.
is that.