As reported in a recent Headline, the oldest person in the world just died in Japan at the age of 117. If you search our World News Archive: 2002-2017 and go to page #137 you will find the oldest person in the world at that time (September 16, 2017) also died at the age of 117.
If you search the archived news over these past 14 years, you will find several headlines relating to the death of the “world’s oldest person,” and you will also find they all died at an age less than 120 years old.
We find these global news reports even more interesting when we study the Bible and find out what God has to say about such things concerning His Creation.
In the book Genesis, God said He would reduce the UPPER age limit for Man (Mankind – men and women) to 120 years, which in the beginning had been much longer …
“And the LORD said,
“My Spirit shall not strive with Man forever,
for he is indeed flesh;
yet his days shall be 120 years.”
(Genesis 6:3)
In Psalm 90 God reveals the AVERAGE age will be 70 – 80 years around the time of the coming “Apocalypse”…
“The days of our lives are SEVENTY years;
And if by reason of strength they are eighty years . . .
who knows the power of Your ANGER?”
(Psalm 90:10,11) (The average life span in the world is now within this range)
In the Bible (and in Bible Prophecy) we soon discover God always “says what He means, and means what He says.” Meaning, if He said it, He will do it.