Genesis 4 - Cain envies Abel because God accepts Abel's sacrfice but not Cain's. So he kills him! God rebukes, exiles, and marks Cain, as he complains. Cain builds a city, a clan, and culture. The 7th from Adam is Lamech, who takes 2 wives and brags about killing a man for insulting him. Seth is born to Eve, to replace godly Abel.
5 - Seth's line is listed, down to Noah. All die except the 7th, Enoch. God takes him after only 365 years.
6 - Evil comes to dominate on earth and in the heart, so God decides to wipe out all life with a flood and start over. Noah pleases Him, though, so God tells him to build an ark to save all the animals and his own family.
7 - They go in. The rain starts 7 days later and lasts 40 days. The water rises to 22 feet higher than the mountains, so everything dies.
John 4 - Jesus offers a Samaritan woman His living water, though she's on her 6th man (Jesus is the 7th!). Jerusalem is the right place of worhsip, but she and all can worship the true God in spirit from anywhere now, through Him, the Messiah. Many Samaritans come to faith. Jesus heals a prominent man's son, from a great distance.
5 - Jesus heals a lame man on the Sabbath. The Jews challenge this, and He appeals to His close relationship with His Father, who has given Him power to judge everything and to raise the dead! John, Jesus' miracles, the Father's voice, and the scriptures all testify to the truth of this. "If you believed Moses, you'd believe Me."
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