Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Very Good. Remember those words? God said them at creation. But ever since Adam and Eve ate from the off-limits tree, we might say that the words bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, and very bad best describe what has happened. It was bad that Eve got tricked by the serpent. Bad that Adam disobeyed God. Bad that Cain killed his brother. Bad that Cain had to live away from family. And what happens next is very bad.

Adam and Eve continued to have children—Seth and many others. Cain too had lots of kids. Now there were people all over the earth. The only problem was that most people did not love God and each other. This “grieved God to his heart” (see Gen. 6:6). The Bible tells us that “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that . . . his heart was only evil continually. . . . So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land . . . for I am sorry that I have made them’” (Gen. 6:5–7). Wow! It does not look good. How will God keep his promise to crush the snake?