According to Genesis, Noah's great grandfather Enoch lived to be 365 years old. He was taken up to Heaven without dying because he walked with God. (The only other person living without dying was Elijah) Methususelah, Noah's grandfather, lived to be 969. (oldest person in the Bible) Lamech was Methususelah's son and lived to be 777. Noah lived to be 950 years old. If you total those four generations together you get...3061 years or a life span of 765. If you take Enoch out of the mix you get a 898 year life span. Even if the years were calculated different from our years this is still older than dirt! Considering we are only four chapters from the creation of the earth the saying "older than dirt" is almost true!
I did notice how the Lord decided to dramatically shorten the human life span with "the flood." Is this not another consequence for disobedience? Like labor pains at child birth and being cast out of paradise in the garden? And Cain's banishment? If I am counting right this would be the fourth consequence of disobedience. In these stories, we read of the beginning of sin and consequences.
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Has anyone ever noticed that if you do the math Methuselah would have died the year of the flood? Perhaps God was waiting for him to die before bringing judgment. That would make Methuselah, the oldest man, a representation of God's mercy in waiting to bring judgment. Or maybe he drowned in the flood. Who knows?
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