{"id":90,"date":"2007-07-28T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-07-28T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:34:23","slug":"why-the-cut-off-is-seventy-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Why the cut-off is seventy years."},"content":{"rendered":"

(Psalms 90:10 NKJV)\u00a0 The days of our lives are seventy years<\/strong>; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking with a friend of mine today on the phone.\u00a0 One thing led to another and we discovered why people don’t live for hundreds of years anymore.\u00a0 We have been all wrong with our theories.\u00a0 It wasn’t the changing of conditions on Earth after the flood.<\/p>\n

Let me explain.\u00a0 I had asked Mike if he ever wondered aloud: “Why has it taken me fifty years to learn ____________?”\u00a0 Just fill in the blank.\u00a0 Why does it take me so long to pick up on some things?\u00a0 And then I joked:\u00a0 That must be why Methusaleh and all the boys must have lived so long.\u00a0 It took that long to “get it.”<\/p>\n

But Mike had a better theory:\u00a0 They never did “get it” so God made the cut-off at seventy years.<\/p>\n

We had quite a chuckle.\u00a0 We could just hear God:\u00a0 “That’s it.\u00a0 You could live another four-hundred years and still not get it, so I am setting the general limit to seventy years.\u00a0 Seventy years and ready or not, you’re out of here.”<\/p>\n

So to those of you who have other theories:\u00a0 Sorry about it, but I think Mike and I pretty much have this one figured out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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