Show Don't Tell: Genesis 5:1-32

Instead of saying "This is the genealogy from Adam to Noah," let them feel the drumbeat of mortality. Each name drops like a stone: Adam lived... and he died. Seth lived... and he died. The phrase tolls like a funeral bell through ten generations. Feel the weight of nine hundred years pressing down—Adam watching children become grandparents. But linger on Enoch. Something different. "Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him." Three hundred years of walking—and then, one day, he simply wasn't there. No death notice. The drumbeat skips a beat. Then comes Lamech, naming his son Noah: "This one will comfort us in our labor." A father hoping his son might break the curse. The genealogy ends with a man whose name means "rest," born into a world hurtling toward destruction.