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I realize things in Genesis are controversial, but Gen 6:3 means to me that God was disgusted by the fallen angels mating with women to produce half breed Nephilim. God had shown His affinity for bloodlines throughout the Bible. In Genesis 6:8-9, we see Noah found Grace in the eyes of the Lord. In verses 9 we see Noah was Perfect in his generations. If Noah needed perfection to be saved from the flood, why need grace? Noah's perfection was his DNA was not affected by the Nephilim. The evil spoken of in verse 5 was man was defiling everything made by God. The plan of God was to trace a bloodline from Adam to Jesus so His seed could strike the devil's head. At the rate things were going, there would be no undefiled seed left to carry God's seed to Jesus. In Jude 1:14 we see the book of Enoch mentioned. We know now that the Apostles read from and studied the Septuagint, printed about 300BC which carried more books than we have today. In reading Enoch, we see the Nephilim taught the daughters of men, witchcraft, spells, and all kinds of other evil. Some believe they mixed DNA to make other animals like lions with men's heads, as seen in the Sphinx.( there are believers that the Sphinx was pre flood) Look at the Greek and Roman myths like Zeus and Jupiter, demigods. This could even explain dinosaurs being drawn on ancient pottery. I'm certainly not claiming this is true, as Enoch isn't considered Canon, but it would explain God's disgust with what the fallen angels were doing. If this were allowed to continue, God's plan would have been thwarted for Jesus' pure bloodline. If Jude read it, believed it, and wrote about it, it should at least be considered.

The announcement that "his days will be 120 years" means the clock was ticking for Noah to build God's Ark. The rain would start 120 years from that day.

IMHO, the reason mans years started to decline was the changes in the Earth after the Flood. The Earth could have been as much as 10% smaller due to the waters of the deep coming to the surface. Sorta like squeezing a sponge. The water in the atmosphere fell to earth leaving man exposed to UV rays, and on and on, with life shortening changes from the effects of the Flood. Some reckon the atmospheric pressure was cut in half and gravity changed.

The thing to take forward for me would be the "120 years" reference was not the estimated years of longevity, but a cut off point for Noah's Ark to be finished. The very name "Methuselah" meant in Hebrew when he died the end would come. Methuselah died and the rain started, all on God's timetable. Noah was 600 yo when the rain started. Could this be transposed into 6000 years of man and then God's judgement comes,...I don't know, but Noah and the Ark is a "type and shadow" of the rapture and the Judgement of God coming in the future. Many people haven't noticed that God told Noah to enter the Ark 7 days before the rain started. This is for the people that say we can't know the day or the hour, but Jesus will call for His Bride on some Rosh Hashanah in the future. That is the "Day no one knows" for a Jew as it lasts for 48 hrs. The church will be warned before God's judgement falls if you have "ears to hear". Luke 17:26-30. Not one drop of rain fell on Noah nor one rock of Brimstone fell on Lot. God's people will be brought into the safety of God's provision before His judgement falls on the Earth. 1 Thess 5:1 tells us the Jews know the day and hour the thief comes. Gentiles won't know because they don't reverence the Lord's Days spoken of in Leviticus 23.