Enoch Walked With God

<p>ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD Genesis 5:21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.</p> <p>Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken, he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.</p> <p>These two accounts, one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament present a very brief account of Enoch’s life but they embody the major themes of the story of Enoch’s existence on the earth. We read of some ordinary facts like the timeline of his life on earth and some scarce family details. And we also read of the most extraordinary circumstance of his being translated directly into Heaven to be with God without having to die a natural death.  We also read about his exceptional walk of faith with God, a walk so close and so pleasing to God that God appears to have said ‘Let’s continue this wonderful walk together up here because you don’t need any more time down there trying to transcend the material disorder of things – you’re living so much above it all that you might as well be totally here instead.’ His testimony of faith was so remarkable that the Bible marks his experience as a model of what the process of real faith is all about when it goes on to say ‘But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him’.</p> <p>It might seem that this is the sum total of what we need to know about Enoch - he finished the course back in Genesis and enjoyed the rest of his existence involved in his heavenly existence and not involved with