- The LORD's spirit strives or works hard with people.
- The LORD's spirit has a limited amount of time to work with each individual, because they grow old and die.
- The maximum life expectancy of human beings will drop from just under 1000 years to 120 years.
- The LORD obviously said this to someone - otherwise, it wouldn't have been recorded, but who that was is not stated.
- The LORD gives advance notice of things that will happen, and also provides explanations of how He works with mankind.
- Despite the fact that we die, we appear to be worth a considerable investment of effort by the LORD's spirit while we are alive.
- I'm uncertain what the phrase, "for that he also is flesh," means. My best guess is that it refers to the dual nature of human beings - a spirit enclosed by a body of flesh, the latter having a maximum lifespan of about 120 years.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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