01.04.2015 Old Testament: Gen 9.28–29

To read the Bible in a year, read Genesis 9–11 on January 4, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

Noah saw a large population on the Earth, but those people filled the Earth with violence. The Earth also had a different appearance. Then the Lord destroyed the Earth with a global flood, killing all the people on the Earth, and changing the topography, geography, weather, and many other things of the Earth, making it as we see it now. Noah lived through 600 years of the former and 350 years of the latter,

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died (Genesis 9.28–29). 

Many people find it hard to believe that Noah, and others before the Flood, lived so long, but they lived in a perfect environment, enabling them to live for centuries.

After the Flood, Noah only saw seven people before they started to reproduce. He also saw a very different planet. Would you like to live 950 years on the Earth?