[15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
"Enoch could say the wrath 's coming, but when Methuselah died, 'BANG,' it was there. Methuselah was a great demonstration of the longsuffering of God that waited in the days of Noah," says Richard Jordan.
"Remember that verse is I Peter 3:20: [20] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
"The reason that Methuselah is the oldest man in the Bible is because the longsuffering waited in the days of Noah.
"In Isaiah, he says about God, 'Judgment is His strange work.' It isn't His nature. He says, 'I set before you life and death; choose life.' He says to Israel, 'Why would you die?' It isn't something God created to do to man to destroy him; it's man's rebellion that won't come to God to respond to His love and grace and yet God extends His longsuffering.
"And as He extends it, Enoch is saying, 'The Lord's going to come and He's going to come with 10,000 of His saints and He's going to execute judgment on all the ungodly and He's going to get you and He's going to destroy you,' and yet they pay no attention.
"And Noah's over here as the preacher of righteousness, building a boat, and they pay no attention. The only two guys other than Noah and his family that you know are Believers (Enoch is raptured out, translated and Methuselah is gone through death) and there's nobody left but Noah and his family."
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