The thing I've never explained

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the comment about Methuselah's name. I said some other cool stuff was happening here, but I didn't get to comment.

Bear with me as I comment.

We found out that week that Methuselah was a contemporary of Adam AND Noah. (In case you haven't figured that out, that's quite a long time, but that's what you get when you live 969 years.) Anyway, it turns out that his name means either "when he sins," "when weapon is thrown," or "when he is dead, He will send judgment." Since Enoch walked with God, it is possible that God gave him prophecy concerning the Flood and he named Methuselah according to this prophecy.

And Methuselah lived a long time because of God's patience AND so that we could have someone who could hear the accounts from Adam until Noah--and he could have a first-hand account of nearly everything. Then when the Flood DID occur, Noah could know the accounts from someone who had lived long enough to know that they were true...

Nutshells are hard. I hope this makes sense.

Ha! I made a funny!