This month's edition talked about blessings and curses & in it he mentions how because of the long life spans of the early Jewish patriarchs, people were able to see for themselves the long term effects of God's blessings and curses.
For example:
- Adam lived for 930 years. His son Seth, could have known Enoch. Enoch was Seth's great, great, great grandson but Seth lived for 53 years after Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying.
- Noah lived for 950 years. Abraham and Sarah were alive and more than 50 years old when Noah died. They could have met him even though they were born 11 generations after him
- Shem, Noah's son, died when he was 600 years old. Jacob and Esau, the grandchildren of Abraham, were 48 years old when Shem died. They could have met him - a survivor of the flood.
I didn't check his math but the concept is very interesting & one I had never considered before.
5 comments:
Geez. I never thought of that.
That's a lot of math for a Monday, I must say.
That is interesting. I wonder at what age " old age " set in---you know, when the knees begin to creak and your back starts to ache: and when you're out of breath at the top of the first landing on the stairs. If those things started at 60 like they did with me----who'd want to live another 840 years ?
*rolls eyes* i can name this tune in one note ;)
seriously, though, even though our life expectancy is not what it was at the beginning of human existance, if you care to look you can STILL see the consequences of blessings and curses.
i'll check the math.
The bible says the life span of a man is three score and ten (75). I guess my dad is blessed. What does that make the rest of us? With Heaven in our future, who the heck would want to live to be 950? I'm not good with math at 1:30am, all I know is you would need one big house for all those relatives at Christmas time! lol
:)
Chris:
you figured out whose news letter it was - didn't you :)
I'm not that interested in the B&
C part as I am in the idea that Abraham might have met Noah and his family.
Actually meeting flood survivors and hearing their stories first hand may help explain (to me anyway)Abraham's faith in God & His promises.
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