Discussing Genesis 6:3. Gifts From God. Antichrist.

Thankfully, God saves and not man. And, subsequently, I believe that people get saved through the most unusual circumstances.

The number 12 is also associated in the Bible with "fullness" and "completeness". 12 disciples. 12 tribes of Israel. 144,000 (Revelation 14) = 12,000x12. So it could be that "120 years" just means a full time for repentance . . or even a full life. Certainly not a literal when it comes to a lifespan as most never achieve it these days.

However one takes the 120 years, it reminds us that man's time is limited. After that, the judgment.

I regularly tell scoffers of the Word that I may not know when Christ will return and the end of the world will come . . . but I certainly know that the end of THEIR world will come before they reach 120 years . . . and they will meet God then! This almost always has the effect of ending the scoffing . . for a while at least . . while they consider their short time on this earth.

Thank you Reg. I raised this 120 years as an example of God using time periods in another post. But I really like your reading that the 120 years was the time that God gave the "flesh" prior to the flood to repent. We know that Noah was a preacher of righteousness (Hebrews 11:7) and that God always gives mankind the time to repent (Nineveh, Jerusalem, etc). But . . . how many people do we know today that have lived past 120 years? Not many, if any. So I can see a parallel interpretation here that, after the flood, . . .most . . men will only get up to 120 years on earth to come to him. Then the time is up. Like the situation pre-flood. Certainly in this wicked current world . . nowadays God is not allowing (mostly every) man to live past 120 years. Which make me think we are "as the days of Noe were" (Matthew 24:37)