God from Genesis has been using His methods of a “set apart “ for His chosen people, things that are close to His heart. Things and people He want only for Himself and He will not at anytime share with any other things. Seth the third son of Adam and Eve, was made a set apart, “ his lineage was the lineage of Jesus Christ.
Genesis chapter 4. 25- 26 25
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. From Seth came the linage of Jesus Christ.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Noah and his family were a “ set apart “ for God, saved them from the then bad world. He built the ark according to the pattern that God showed him, no questions asked, no hesitation, he believes every that God told him. Imagine him climbing the hill where there was no water, river, sea or ocean, yet he believed God and he can be counted as believers model of faith. As bad as the world was then, God saved them. Nosh and his household were saved from the then world and were saved because God’s wrath pass-over them. Because God made them a “set apart “
Abraham was God’s “set apart,” and told him to leave his homeland, his relatives, friends and his work, even though the bible didn’t tell us what his work was, but without question, Abraham left for he believed God and became our father of faith. And you can read how God fought for Abraham all through his life. Isaac was a “set apart “ and all through the bible, God din’t only fought for him but cared for him as well all through his lifetime.
Jacob was a God “set apart, “ with his record of wrongdoings, according to our own imagination, if it is left for human beings, he will spend his life in the maximum prison with the keys of his cell thrown in the sea never to be found. But God being God, for His plans, patterns and purposes, did not act like human beings.
