Thursday, November 27, 2014

The second man of faith that is mentioned is Enoch.  Hebrews 11:5 "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him:  For before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God."

There is some confusion concerning Enoch's forefathers.  In Gen. 4: 18 we find that Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.  But the genealogy doesn't match the person named in Genesis 5:18, and 22. "Our" Enoch is named as a great-great-great grandson of Seth.

The Old Testament mentions him in only one sequence of verses:  vs. 22-24,  "And Enoch walked with God…he begat Methuselah…and lived three hundred and sixty five years…Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."  That's it.

Not much information.  What we know is that he was of the linage of Seth; he was the father of the oldest person in Bible history (Methulselah);  he walked with God; and God took him (the New Testament says translated him).  He didn't have to die to be with God.  His life was a walk with God.  That's it.

He is mentioned in Luke 3:37 as Luke gives the linage of Jesus Christ, all the way back to Seth and Adam.  And he is mentioned once more in Jude 1:14-15 "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these (I'll explain what "these" were tomorrow), saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed…"

Enoch was a faithful man.  He walked with God.  That means you put one foot in front of the other and head in the right direction.  One step at a time.


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