Old Timers vs Wise Timers-Methuselah: Destroyed for Lack of Understanding<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Methuselah<\/strong> is renowned for being the oldest person mentioned in the Bible<\/u>, living an impressive 969 years. But, despite being the son of the righteous Enoch<\/strong>, who was transmuted to Heaven<\/u><\/strong>, and the grandfather of Noah<\/strong>, who built the Ark<\/u><\/strong> to save mankind from the Flood, Methuselah was not spared<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Methuselah\u2019s father, Enoch, is famous for being the only other person, besides Elijah, who never tasted death<\/u><\/strong><\/em>. \u201cEnoch waked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away<\/em>\u201d (Genesis 5: 24<\/em><\/strong>). \u201cBy Faith, Enoch was taken up that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had transfigured him: for before his transfiguration, he had this testimony, that he pleased God,<\/em>\u201d (Hebrews 11:5<\/em><\/strong>). Enoch also prophesied \u201cBehold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His Saints, to Execute Judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him<\/em>\u201d (Jude 1:14-15<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked faithfully with God for another 300 years before he was transmuted at 365 years. Though Methuselah had 300 years to learn from his spiritually upright father, it is heavily implied that he perished in the flood.<\/p>\n

Methuselah had lived 187 years when he had Noah\u2019s father Lamech (ref. Genesis 5:25<\/em><\/strong>), who was 182 years old when he had Noah (ref. Genesis 5:28<\/em><\/strong>). Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth (Genesis 7:6<\/em><\/strong>), added with 187 years (Methuselah\u2019s age at Lamech\u2019s birth<\/em>) and 182 years (Lamech\u2019s age at Noah\u2019s birth<\/em>) totaling 696 years<\/u><\/em><\/strong> which was Methuselah\u2019s age when he died, coinciding with the same year as the Flood<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNoah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God<\/em>\u201d. God saw that the Earth and humanity was filled with violence and corruption and \u201cso God said to Noah, \u2018I am going to put an end to all people for the Earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the Earth.<\/em>\u201d Noah was most likely around 500 years old when God gave him instructions on how to build the ark and \u201cNoah did everything just as God commanded him\u201d (ref. Genesis 6:9-22<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

It is implied that it took Noah around 100 years to build the ark, so the destruction of the Earth would not have been an unexpected event. Noah\u2019s grandfather, Methuselah, would have been aware of Noah\u2019s construction project and would have remembered his father Enoch\u2019s prophecy about God executing judgement upon all the ungodly for their deeds and words against Him, matching God\u2019s explanation for why He was going to deluge the Earth with water.<\/p>\n

Methuselah would have even had the benefit of having known the very first man, Adam, who was 687 years old when Methuselah was born, living another 243 years before passing away at 930 years old. Methuselah would have heard firsthand accounts of what the world was like before the Fall of Man and the Glory of experiencing God in such an intimate and connected manner before Sin entered the World.<\/p>\n

Methuselah\u2019s virtuous father, Enoch, set a perfect example of how to walk with God and in His Ways. His great ancestor Adam may have told Methuselah what the World was like during God\u2019s Paradise and how sin caused the destruction of Man. Methuselah\u2019s grandson, Noah, was trying to save a wicked and ungodly people filled with evil actions and words from God\u2019s Judgement according to Enoch\u2019s prophecy. In the face of all these advantages, Methuselah was not described as a righteous man as his grandson Noah is labeled, nor that he walked faithfully with God as his father Enoch did.<\/p>\n

Even though Methuselah was the oldest recorded person in the Bible, he failed to gather the wisdom and knowledge about living righteously freely available to him from his surrounding family and most likely perished in the Flood. His advanced age made him old, not wise.<\/p>\n

Prepared by, Kent Simpson, Apostolic Prophet & Eric Sepulveda, PMT Administrator<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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