Genesis 10 gives a list of Noah’s descendants and where they settled and the nations they established. It is not very stimulating reading, but rather a faithful record of Noah’s family tree. However, chapter 11 of Genesis records interesting information regarding man’s decline.

By this time God’s warning in Genesis 6:3 that man’s lifespan was to decrease to only 120 years, has begun to take effect and although Noah’s son Shem lived 600 years, a few generations later, Abraham’s father Terah lived only two hundred and five years.

It is not a story that would be credible to mainstream humanity because it flies in the face of the theory of evolution. However, rather than showing the human race becoming more advanced, it shows mankind diminishing in lifespan and becoming worse, rather than better. One doesn’t have to be very bright or very old to see that that trend continues today.

If you were not alive 70 years ago, you could be excused for not realising that the human race is not really as nice as it was back then. Murders were rare during my childhood years and most people didn’t bother locking their houses when they went out. Men fell in love and married women and worked to support their family, therefore women were enabled to care for and nourish their children as though they were far more important than anything else in the world. Millionaires were pretty rare and honesty and decency in business were what people expected of each other, with a handshake being far more trustworthy than today’s legally set out agreements.

But take courage! Two things have never changed throughout all these thousands of years; God’s love for every person on the planet, and His desire to live at peace with them today as their loving heavenly Father! All that separates Him from us is sin but Jesus has died to do away with sin’s power over those who will accept His offer and invite Him into their lives! What a deal! Give Him your sins and He’ll give you His peace and freedom and throw in eternal life as a bonus!

Have a great Sabbath day.