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Question 91: Were the patriarchs really as old as the Bible record states?
Answer:
Some of the "higher critics" claim that the ancient calendar of the antediluvians made the year really a month or lunar period. Others, with somewhat more reason, assert that a year was a season of growth equal to three of our months. Hensler and Hufeland, two German authorities, claim that the patriarchal year was three months until Abraham's time, eight months until Joseph's time and thereafter twelve months. One eminent Bible scholar has pointed out that if we accept the monthly year theory, Mahalalel’s sixty-five years before the birth of his son Jared would make him a parent at five years and three months of our reckoning; Enoch would be the same age when his son Methuselah was born and the ages of the other patriarchs at the birth of their children would be equally preposterous. Of course, such conclusions absolutely condemn the monthly year theory. Conditions among the antediluvians were totally different from those after the Flood. There had been no rain and the sun and planets were not visible; in the moist atmosphere, growth was greatly stimulated and all natural conditions tended to animal and vegetable longevity, precisely as the Bible indicates. Besides, as that period produced animal types of giant proportions, created for strength and endurance, the analogy of nature would seem to demand that man should bear some harmonious proportion to his surroundings. Genesis 6 clearly implies this. Age and stature, not only human but otherwise, became greatly diminished after the Flood.
"If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?"
Mt 10
Thought for Today: Wednesday January 15
Our influence on society depends on our likeness to our Saviour Yeshua. We cannot elevate others higher than we ourselves have gone. The first century believers out-thought, out-lived and out-loved their neighbours, and by their example of purity and compassion attracted countless thousands to the faith in Moshiach. SO -- What do others see in your life that would attract them to our Moshiach?
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
#exodus 1:8 #shemot
[And then almost 2000 years later, there arose a new Bishop of the Gentile Church who did not know #yeshua. ?]
Could the new pharaoh who didn't know Joseph have been a Hyksos? Or was Joseph's pharaoh a Hyksos and the new Pharaoh a native Egyptian? Nobody knows for sure, but the change of dynasties in Egypt was definitely related to the change in attitude toward the Hebrews.
This is one of the topics discussed with Dr. Petrovich in this video.
https://rumble.com/v5wmfmt-the....-hebrews-in-egypt-wi
ISRAELI PRIESTS HAVE NOT PROPERLY MADE KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNCLEAN AND CLEAN CREATURES – EZEKIEL 22:26
Genesis and Exodus are full of thematic parallels with other parts of the Bible. Check out these connections between the stories of Jacob and Laban ( #genesis ) and Israel and Egypt ( #exodus ):
Jacob | Moses
Laban | Egypt
Daughters and children | People of Israel
Sheep | Plunder
Laban's idols | Golden calf
River | Sea
Covenant | Covenant
#biblepatterns
https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2018/11/themati
Here are some Apostolic passages you might want to study alongside #torah parsha #shmot ("Names", #exodus 1:1-6:1), plus some related commentary and videos: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/02/18/parsha-sh
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WORD FOR TODAY “are your actions preventing this?”: Isa 30:18 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.
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