Gen 5:1-2

Excerpt:…But Adam’s named generations, by use of another metaphor, show to us the rickety fire-escape ladder of human ascension back to God. Thus are we told, in the opening of Chapter five: “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them.” — Gen 5:1-2 To inherit the likeness of Adam, though still tarnished, can at least make a man eligible for translation back to the likeness of God. Earth must be ruled by men of Adam and Eve’s engenderation and not Lucifer’s, those Cainians who leave the presence of Christ. 23 generations following, Jacob adds more flavor.Thusly is he called in Matt 24, our Lord, and all Christians are commanded to watch for his son, aka, the son of man’s emergence, or the coming of the thief. So Jacob became the Adamic leg of the human redemption relay, and he added another dimension: By him, the star of God became a plurality so that —unlike Adam, Seth, Enos, and all the other champions before Jacob— he yielded a special diadem to the relay team: He instilled in all 12 of his sons the gifted of dominion. Thusly, do I give the full recognition to each of his 12 sons: Rueben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Neptali, Gad, and Asher…