...The form of this world is passing away.
1Co 7:31
So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. -Gen 5:27- Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine Years! My brain simply cannot imagine a functioning human body of even one hundred and fifty let alone 969. Add to this; breath mints had not yet been invented! Methuselah had to be pretty ripe, I imagine.
Following the GREAT FLOOD, the Lord elected to place a lower limit on man's life. Those who lived into the several hundreds of years seemed to have much more time to find and develop trouble; Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."- Gen 6:3-
From 900 plus years to about 120 is quite a reduction. Man, none-the-less, continued to be "Stiff-Necked" and Satan was pleased.
This Earthly death paid no attention to man's status or his social standing. Death was and is an equal opportunity event.
But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away. -Jas 1:9-11-
It is to every person living to die ONCE! From here on out, nobody will escape. Rich, poor, Black, White, Brown, male, female. God's calendar has the date and the precise time that we will each draw our last breath. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; BUT the one who does the will of God lives forever. - 1Jn 2:17-
"LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. -Psa 39:4-, God answered that prayer by further reducing our days on earth and having Moses deliver the news in Psalm 90 and Verse 10; As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.- Psa 90:10-
If by chance you have calculated that you will live to be at least 70, perhaps 80 or even ninety, and have yet refused to seek the Salvation of Christ Jesus, hoping to do so at the last minute......The eternal fires of Hell might be your reward. The salvation is there, waiting, the words are in your mouth, the belief is in your heart but YOU HAVE TO ASK! You must CONFESS with you mouth, JESUS is LORD. You must believe that JESUS died and was resurrected to life from the dead by the mighty hand of Father God. I doubt seriously that in those precious seconds in a massive heart-attack, or a paralyzing stroke, or overwhelming trauma in a car crash, or other method of imminent death that you will spend precious seconds to get right with God. The destination AFTER DEATH is your choice; HEAVEN or HELL, [the second death].
Don't wait. Take care of this now, today. You may not be on the God's calendar tomorrow.
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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