Imagine GOD comes to you and says, 'I want you to build a 300 yard long, 3 stories high, and five stories wide, boat on dry in-land , it'll probably take you 120 years to do it; and BTW, It's gonna Rain . . . oh but that's right you don't know what "rain" is, do you? Oh well, no matter just build it, and the animals will come' . GOD gave the population of the Entire Earth a total of 969 years (the Total years of Methuselah's life on Earth) to REPENT, and HEED HIS WORD, much the way that Enoch (Methuselah's Father) Did. It is written: ". . .People perish for lack of knowledge."