How would you like if your name meant “his death shall bring
judgment”? Every where you went some one would say “How
are you his-death-shall-bring-judgment?” Awkward! Methuselah
lived to the ripe old age of 969 years and seven days later the
great flood began. Was that enough time for people to turn from
their sin? Was that enough for them see how patient God was
with them? When people think of Methuselah they most often
think of the man that lived the longest in recorded history instead
of a patient God that waited 969 years for people to turn to Him.