Enoch ( Gen 5:21-24)

1. Enoch Walked with the Righteous One (Gen 5:21-23)

Enoch was a common man like us of those days. He had family and lived with them for many years. Bible says he walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters. His lived altogether for about 365 years, which is to say he lived with his family 65 years and began to walk with God while he was 65 years old. This too does not mean that he did not live with his family after 65 yeas of age. It only means to say that he began to live and walk with God while he was just 65 years and continued till 300 years more. He lived with his family as well as with God for such long and was a testimony to all of those of his wicked generation.

Today the world would be worst or become more, yet the standard of God is the same as He is and wants His children to walk worthy of His calling in season and out of season.

Christian walk is 3 kinds:

o Waking with God : Friendship / Romantic Walk ( Love ) – John ‘s Gospel
o Walking before God : Soldier / Obedient Walk ( Hope ) – Peter’s Gospel
o Walking in God : Saintly / Mysterious Walk ( Faith) – Paul’s Gospel

We are God’s friend and told to walk personal and close walk with Him on this earth; We are God’s soldier and had fight with this world and walk worthy of His calling in obedience; we are His saints on the earth and commanded to walk blameless and holy walk.

2. Enoch Prophesied about the Righteous One (Jude 14 – 15)

While God Himself is the first One to prophecy about the First Coming of the Messiah, (3:15), Enoch is first one to prophecy about the Second Coming the Lord.

Enoch while walking with the Lord, he served Him for about 300 years. He preached the yet future Coming of the Lord. He prophesied that the Lord will come with His ten thousand saints. He was given the revelation that even he will be one among the ten thousands who will come with Lord and reign on the earth for a thousand years. It is to say :-

o He preached about his and other saints’ Rapture (see the next heading) to heaven.
o He preached about the Coming back to the earth for the Millennium Kingdom, which is to say again,…
o He preached indirectly about the 7 years of tribulation prior to Second Coming and Millennium Kingdom
o He preached about the Great White Throne Judgment after the Millennium Kingdom.

What was received by John and recorded in Revelation has been preached long before recorded in Genesis.

3. Enoch Ruptured as Righteous ones.

I believe in Rapture of the saints as separate events before the Second Coming of Christ to this world (1 Thess 4: 16 – 18). Rapture is the hope of Christianity. Enoch was translated/ rapture to heaven and had faced no death, is a vivid sign and type of coming rapture of believers alive on this earth.

May the lord leads us to walk worthy of his calling among this evil generation and serve Him faithfully till we are taken away to our blessed home, like Enoch.