"nd the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
In order to understand the significance of the 120 years we need examine the genealogy of Adam in the preceding chapter. There it is about the generation of Adam. God the Father sets 12x10 in terms of years.God anointed his Son to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Here in the key verse he pronounces judgment on account of the mixed multifude of sons of God. "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."As a bookend we have a mixed people in the outer darkness. The difference of two cities tagged by 144000 and 18,000 is very significant indeed.(Ezek.48.35;Rev.21.16)
Here God is setting the law concerning flesh and the spirit to which St Paul supplies commentary in the epistle to the Romans."I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."(Rom.7.25) Here Paul refers to the risen Christ meaning he is the embodiment of the Law of the Spirit. Jesus Christ is the same,(Heb.13.8) so the gospel of God by death and resurrection becomes gospel of Christ. St Paul by the way is not set apart by another gospel as some one posted in this forum from his dispensational view point.
Here God sets the Law of God on the basis of the gospel of God in terms of years while in terms of the word become flesh it law of sin and death. In order to explain the role of the numbers in the narrative here are some hints:
God sent forth his word thatshall never return to him in void. Thus number Four informs us it is same east west north or south.
In the beginning was the Word which is God. In the Father Son relationship the Word which was with God so 4x3 gives us 12. Jesus began his ministry with 12 disciples and what he presents on the mount was the gospel of God
"nd the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
In order to understand the significance of the 120 years we need examine the genealogy of Adam in the preceding chapter. There it is about the generation of Adam. God the Father sets 12x10 in terms of years.God anointed his Son to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Here in the key verse he pronounces judgment on account of the mixed multifude of sons of God. "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."As a bookend we have a mixed people in the outer darkness. The difference of two cities tagged by 144000 and 18,000 is very significant indeed.(Ezek.48.35;Rev.21.16)
Here God is setting the law concerning flesh and the spirit to which St Paul supplies commentary in the epistle to the Romans."I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."(Rom.7.25) Here Paul refers to the risen Christ meaning he is the embodiment of the Law of the Spirit. Jesus Christ is the same,(Heb.13.8) so the gospel of God by death and resurrection becomes gospel of Christ. St Paul by the way is not set apart by another gospel as some one posted in this forum from his dispensational view point.
Here God sets the Law of God on the basis of the gospel of God in terms of years while in terms of the word become flesh it law of sin and death. In order to explain the role of the numbers in the narrative here are some hints:
God sent forth his word thatshall never return to him in void. Thus number Four informs us it is same east west north or south.
In the beginning was the Word which is God. In the Father Son relationship the Word which was with God so 4x3 gives us 12. Jesus began his ministry with 12 disciples and what he presents on the mount was the gospel of God
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