{"id":4470,"date":"2026-03-30T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:20:40","slug":"what-about-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/what-about-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"What about Moses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genesis 6:3 KJV \u2014 And 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This verse is where God makes a covenant with man, granting him a minimum of 120 years of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This verse follows the genealogy of Genesis 5 which lists people living for many hundreds of years, including Methuselah who lived for 969 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This verse is an expression of God&#8217;s grace. He is so good that despite man&#8217;s wickedness, He is establishing the provision for man&#8217;s longevity on the earth through placing a minimum lifespan of 120 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However: what about Moses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically, Moses &#8211; who lived to 120 years &#8211; writing in Psalm 90:10 about man&#8217;s days being 70 or 80 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer is quite simple when you understand the difference between law and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly speaking, the story of humanity can be broken down into<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2000 years of Grace (Adam to Moses)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000 years of Law (Moses to Jesus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000+ years of Grace (Jesus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The covenants God made under Grace precede and supersede the covenants made under the time of the Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when you see in Galatians 3:24-27 that the Law was simply a schoolmaster, designed to bring us unto Jesus, you can see the statement about 70 or 80 years old was simply a temporary placeholder that is superseded by the covenant we have in Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this to say that the question of Moses writing about 70 or 80 years, when he himself lived to 120 years, isn&#8217;t a contradiction in Scripture, but a collaboration of Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a moment of tension, like the burning bush, where two things that don&#8217;t make sense are an invitation to enter into the revelation of Truth that exists outside the limits of your understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 6:3 KJV \u2014 And 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. 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