After God created the first man and woman (Adam and Eve), the population of people continued to multiply. The people spread out to all parts of the world.
Because Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they died and all their descendants became subject to die. This means that they cannot live for ever but must die whether young or old.
Adam’s descendants during and around the time of Adam used to live for a long time till God said,
“I will not allow people to live forever. They are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years.”
So God cut short the length of time individuals stayed alive on earth. That’s why we consider an 80 year old person as having lived a long time. It is not common to find someone who lived to be 120 years.
There is another statement in the Holy Bible which shows that man’s age was further reduced. The statement says, “Seventy years is all we have — eighty years, if we are strong.
Yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow Life is soon over, and we are gone.”
We have a very short time to stay on this earth. So we should use that time to serve our Creator and humanity. This is because the time will soon come when our hair would turn white and we would hardly be able to drag ourselves along. All our desires would be gone and our bodies would return to the soil of the earth and our breath of life would go back to God who gave it to us.
Genesis 6:3; Psalm 90:10;
Ecclesiastes 12:1, 5, 7.
Questions:
• Who was the oldest man that ever lived on earth?
• At what age did Noah have his three sons?
• Why did God say that Human beings will not live forever?
• What was the age God fixed for humans to live?
• Another scripture cut down that age. What does the scripture say?
• What should we use our short time on earth to do?
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