Methuselah Methuselah Methuselah ( "Metushelaḥ" "Man of the javelin" or "Man of Selah") is a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Said to have died at the age of 969, he lived the longest of all figures mentioned in the Bible. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1st Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke. His life is described in further detail in extra-biblical religious texts such as the Book of Enoch, Slavonic
Remnant (Bible) Christian scholarship as a whole, was a conservative Seventh-day Adventist. James Watts claims that some authors have given too much emphasis to the remnant theme, such as some scholars who "have considered it central to the NT message". According to Watts, there are fewer occurrences of the theme in the Bible than one might expect. Remnant (Bible) The remnant is a recurring theme throughout the Hebrew and Christian Bible. The "Anchor Bible Dictionary" describes it as "What is left of a community after it undergoes a catastrophe". The concept has stronger representation in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament