CHAPTER FIVE

GOD’S HISTORY IN TIME 
(FROM THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE 
TO THE FINAL JUDGMENT 
AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE— 
GENESIS 1:1—REVELATION 20:15)

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WORKING ON HIS SAINTS FROM ABEL TO NOAH 
AND 
JUDGING THE WORLD FROM CAIN TO BABEL

Scripture Reading: Gen. 4:4-5, 10-22, 25-26; 5:21-24; 6:1-22; 8:20—9:27; 11:1-9

OUTLINE

1. Working on His saints from Abel to Noah:
   1. After saving Adam, God continued to work on some of his descendants who took God’s way of life based upon the principle of the tree of life and became God’s saints according to God’s election:
      1. God had regard for Abel and for his offering—Gen. 4:4.
      2. God appointed Seth to replace Abel—v. 25.
      3. God began to have His name called upon by Enosh—v. 26.
      4. God prophesied concerning the deluge through Enoch naming his son Methuselah, which means “when he is dead, it [the deluge] will be sent”—5:21.
      5. God gained Enoch to walk with Him for three hundred years and took Enoch away from the earth before the deluge—vv. 22-24.
      6. God gained Noah to walk with Him and to prepare the ark for the salvation of him and his whole family from the corrupted age through the deluge—6:9-22.
      7. God was pleased with the satisfying fragrance of Noah’s burnt offerings to keep the earth with its systems and to covenant with Noah and his descendants and with all the living creatures that they all would not be destroyed anymore by a flood but would be multiplied and replenish the earth—8:20—9:17.
      8. God prophesied through Noah concerning his three sons that Ham’s son Canaan would be a servant to Shem and Japheth, that Shem would have God as his God, and that Japheth would be enlarged by God and dwell in the tents of Shem—vv. 18-27.
   2. The above are the works that God did before His calling of Abraham.
2. Judging the world from Cain to Babel:
   1. While working on His chosen saints positively, God was judging negatively the rest of Adam’s descendants who took Satan’s way of death based upon the principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and became the world under God’s condemnation:
      1. God had no regard for Cain and for his offering—4:5.
      2. God judged Cain, causing him to become a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth to invent the human, godless culture—vv. 10-22.
      3. God judged the corrupted world, composed of men who had become flesh, by the deluge to terminate the age of Cain—6:1-7, 11-13.
      4. God judged at Babel the world, which had abandoned Him and had joined Satan as one, to terminate the race of Adam—11:1-9.
   2. God’s judgment on the world is a strong evidence that the God-created yet rebelling world is still under His sovereign ruling.