Page 144 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

The genealogies of Genesis 5 & 10 are also parabolical, they are not a defined
timespan as the names can refer to whole people groups as people groups are
sometimes described in the Word as individuals with a single name and spoken of
as if they were individual humans (2 Kings 1:1, 3:10, Isaiah 15:4, 16:12, 19:13,
Amos 2:2, Micah 3:8 and Adam can refer to all men Gen 5:1-2). Also the
genealogies are sometimes just a list of names with no explanation and as the
names change in spelling, they could be different people, so that any number of
people could have lived in the interim (1 Chron 1:1). Groups can have a soul (1
Sam 30:6). God gives Adam his name (Gen 5:2 ‘their’) which refers to all men and
women, i.e those evolved hominids/humans who were of course simultenously
both male and females, not just the parabolical Adam (Gen 5:2, 1 Cor 15:22, 45).

There were other people around at the time of Cain other than those mentioned as
Cain builds a city (Gen 4:17) for the sons of men, amongst whom he was banished
(Gen 4:14). Cain and the other names refer to whole peoples, races and lineages as
with Adam referring to all men (Gen 5:2). These events are therefore parables
(Psalm 78:1-2).

As many of the genealogies in the Word are parabolical. ‘Son of’ can mean
descendent, only, in the Word (Mat 1:1, 9:27) as is also shown by the fact that
Luke 3:31 and 3:23-31 exceeds the forty-two generations of Mat 1:17 so that Luke
is only an incomplete summary. The two other fourteen generations of Mat 1:17
themselves only represent a minimum of fourteen as Luke 3:23-31 shows more
generations. This genealogy by minimum applies therefore to Jude 14. The
genealogies of Luke and Matthew are summaries only as they do not match
throughout, diverging for example at the point of Solomon (Mat 1:6, Luke 3:31).
The genealogies are spiritually, not literally, true in that they contain periods of
many generations covered only by the description of ‘son of’ meaning general
descendent or by referring to group names. The timescale of ‘generation’ is God’s
time and is utterly incalculable by our reckoning as it is God’s genealogy (Psalm
90:4, Mat 1:1, 2 Pet 3:8). The word ‘all’ as used in Matthew 1:17 is referring to
these mysterious and Godly generations meaning 14 is in this context a minimum
of 14 of our generations.

A significant number of the people referred to in Genesis and Exodus are actually
either whole people groups, all men as with (at times) Adam and Noah, or the
many descendants of a man or a people group (Gen 4:15-17 ‘builded a city’, 20
‘father’ meaning many ancestors ‘such as dwell in tents’, 10:4-5 ‘sons’ covers
many people, 18:18, Ex 4:22 ‘son’ meaning many people) making precise lineages