DAWN REED
Genesis 6:5-6 reveals the state of the world before the flood: “The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become…and His heart was filled with pain.”
A few verses later, we read of all those living in the whole world, there was one righteous man: Noah. He was blameless among the people, and he walked with God. He was the only one.
Noah walked like his great-grandpa Enoch. No doubt he’d heard the story of his sudden disappearance when God had taken him (Gen. 5:24).
It was not recorded that Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah, walked with God or had any thought toward Him. Living 969 years, he is known as the oldest man in the Bible.
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