V.1 Compare this verse with Matthew 1:1. Genesis 5 is a record of the fallen descendants of the first Adam; whereas Matthew brings to us the book of the generations of Jesus Christ. Adam and Christ are the two heads. We are born into the first; but we must be born again (John 3:7) into the second. Through Adam we die, through Christ we are made alive (Rom. 5:21). Which family are you in? Eight times in this chapter, we read “and he died.” But one man here never died. What does it say about him? One of these days, the Lord Jesus is going to come in the air, and will call every believer out of this world. Every unbeliever will be left behind. Enoch is a picture of all those believers who will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air without having died (1 Thess. 4:16-18).