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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
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Certainly, the people before the flood were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage. But none of those activities warranted God's decision to ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Matthew 24:38 NIV
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
The phrase 'eating and drinking, marrying ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Which Narrative Did Jesus Have in Mind?There is absolutely no connection between the OT story of the marriage between the Sons of God and the daughter of men. Jesus is specific in mentioning only the ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
There were 8 generations inbetween Adam and Noah. Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech (Noah's father.) Bear in mind that, back then, age-spans were phenomenal, being ...
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What is the cross reference of OT to Mtt 24:37-38?
Marrying and giving in marriage:
Genesis 6:1-4 speaks of them multiplying on the face of the earth which Jesus may have had in mind:
6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of ...
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