Enough
Google Images “ My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years ” (Genesis 6:3). One of the jaw-droppers in Scripture has always been the length of time that men used to live. When Adam and Eve sinned, part of their punishment, and ours, was mortality—lives numbered in years. But they lived many years—hundreds, in fact. For man to live forever in sin, and to suffer forever the consequences of his sin, was not God’s plan. So He took away that possibility by ousting mankind out of the garden and away from the tree that represented immortality (Genesis 3:22-24). But He allowed men and women the time needed to populate the earth and the time to consider their sinful state and do something about it. But by the time we get to Noah’s day, bad choices had been made on a global scale. “ The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the t...