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If you print it out and use a rullar to draw a line from Noahs birth up and his death down you will see who was alive when he was. So he might have talked with them?
Enoch was taken before he was born so then only 6 generations before him not 7.
Originally posted by RBHILLInteresting graph of the myth of the earliest people on Earth. Thanks.
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If you print it out and use a rullar to draw a line from Noahs birth up and his death down you will see who was alive when he was. So he might have talked with them?
Enoch was taken before he was born so then only 6 generations before him not 7.
Metuselah seems to be killed by the great flood. Was he a sinner...?
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Originally posted by FabianFnasRead it again carefully. His name means "When he dies it will come."
Interesting graph of the myth of the earliest people on Earth. Thanks.
Metuselah seems to be killed by the great flood. Was he a sinner...?
His name was a warning.
The great length of his life span probably signifies the forebearance of God wishing that all would have enough time to repent. Methusaleh lived the longest of anyone in the Bible.
So I think he died first, and then the flood came.
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Originally posted by jaywillI should hve seen this before I posted that. Noah did probably have aunt's and uncle's, brothers and sisters, and cousins that died in the flood. oh, and his brotehrs and sisters probably had children too.
Read it again carefully. His name means [b]"When he dies it will come."
His name was a warning.
The great length of his life span probably signifies the forebearance of God wishing that all would have enough time to repent. Methusaleh lived the longest of anyone in the Bible.
So I think he died first, and then the flood came.[/b]
Originally posted by jaywillSo it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
Read it again carefully. His name means [b]"When he dies it will come."
His name was a warning.
The great length of his life span probably signifies the forebearance of God wishing that all would have enough time to repent. Methusaleh lived the longest of anyone in the Bible.
So I think he died first, and then the flood came.[/b]
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
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So it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
So it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
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I am sure that the name was given to him at birth. His name was given by his father a Godly man named "Enoch". Enoch is the man who walked with God and was raptured out of the earth.
He knew something was going to happen. And for that reason he prophetically called his son "When he dies it will come" . The "it" most likely refers to the flood of God's judgment.
Two signigicant things that happened before the flood is that Enoch walked with God and was raptured and Methuseleh ("When he dies it will come" ) , lived a good long long life.
"And Enoch lived susty-five years and begot Methuselah. (Gen.5:21)
And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methuselah three hundred years
... And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God too him., (v.24)
... and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sisxty years, and he died. (v.27)
And Lamech [Methuselah's son] lived a hundred eighty two years and begat a son.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which came because of the ground which Jehoivah has cursed." (v. 29) [/b]
Enoch probably knowing through God what was coming, walked with God for 300 yearw and was raptured because of his godly walk. One day Enoch was just not found.
Of all the other men it says that they died. Enoch was an exception. How would you walk if you knew that God's judgment upon the world was coming soon ? Seeing that God's judgment is coming, we should learn to take each step walking with God.
Originally posted by jaywillSounds as a good story. I thank you for your lengthy answer. I've learned something today.
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So it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
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I am sure that the name ...[text shortened]... d you walk if you knew that God's judgment upon the world was coming soon ?[/b]
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Originally posted by FabianFnasYou're welcome.
Sounds as a good story. I thank you for your lengthy answer. I've learned something today.
We know that Enoch was a prophet from the book of Jude. And we surmize that he was very concerned about how to raise his children, knowing that God's judgment was to come.
I think he walked with God not only for his own sake but for the sake of his children.
The longest living one, Methuselah, suggests to me God's holding off as long as He possibly could in His mercy.
I think today God's judgment is also about to come on the world. As the world then had never seen before what God brought upon them so it is today.
The world has not yet seen what God is about to unleash upon the world in these last days before the second coming of Christ.
Originally posted by jaywillMatthew 24:37-39
You're welcome.
We know that Enoch was a prophet from the book of [b]Jude. And we surmize that he was very concerned about how to raise his children, knowing that God's judgment was to come.
I think he walked with God not only for his own sake but for the sake of his children.
The longest living one, Methuselah, suggests to me God's holdin ...[text shortened]... od is about to unleash upon the world in these last days before the second coming of Christ.[/b]
Originally posted by jaywillJustin Bieber may well be the 1st Horseman of the apocalypse - i havent had the chance to read the 14-15 yr olds autobiography yet - but l am sure he must talk about the end of the world in it.
You're welcome.
We know that Enoch was a prophet from the book of [b]Jude. And we surmize that he was very concerned about how to raise his children, knowing that God's judgment was to come.
I think he walked with God not only for his own sake but for the sake of his children.
The longest living one, Methuselah, suggests to me God's holdin ...[text shortened]... od is about to unleash upon the world in these last days before the second coming of Christ.[/b]