Genesis 5:21-24
(21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
(22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
(23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
(24) And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
There are only a few verses about Enoch in the Bible. You have these ones here, and then Jude mentions him in passing as being a prophet and the seventh from Adam, and Hebrews lists him as being a man of faith, a man that walked by faith.
God "took" Enoch it says in Genesis 5. Hebrews 11 says that Enoch was "translated." I think all spiritually minded Christians would love the idea of being so close to God that He decides to do something miraculous to us, so that, instead of dying, we are just taken up to be with Him!
How then can we be like Enoch? What was it about Enoch and his faith that made him walk with God, a walk which was quite different than the normal walk with God?
Well, one verse jumped out to me with what I think contains the answer: Genesis 5:22 "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:" Don't read that too fast. Take out the prepositional phrase about when the walking was (that is, take out "after he begat Methuselah"), and you get: "Enoch walked with God three hundred years."
300 years? Are you kidding me? I get all excited when I go for a whole week "walking with God." Enoch walked with God for 300 years. Now, you will argue, they lived longer then - the average lifespan was 900 years or so. That is true, but that does not mean that the time went faster for them. Their days were still 24 hours long. Their years were still 365 days or so on the average.
For 300 years, Enoch walked with God. It does not say nor imply that he was perfect. But it does say (I refer to Hebrews) and imply that he was faithful. Every day, every week, every month, every year for 300 years, Enoch walked with God.
That's a long time. What a good example of Faith.
Just a thought...
3 comments:
Hmmm,just a thought, 2 Corinthians 4:18 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Maybe Enoch was looking at the eternal, Oh, for us to look at what is eternal, that is being with God!
Pray we can look at what is eternal not temperal,every moment of our days here on earth.
Our suffering is temperal here on earth, Oh when we see God like Enoch. What a wonderful day that will be!!
Jud 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jud 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
He walked with God
He did it for a long time as you point out
He didnt water down His message - he preached the truth - Christ's glorious return with the judgment it will bring - with no admiration of men in consideration
He definitely lived with an eternal perspective
Hmmm, Enoch,sure did please our Lord, our God,""Faith and eternal perspective!!!
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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