Chapter 6: People Who Do Not Die

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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Genesis 5

Adam and Eve’s two sons, Cain and Seth, had families that were very, very different. Cain’s children were far from God. Many of Seth’s children, learned to know and love the true God. The seventh from Adam was Enoch. He walked with God for three hundred years. Perhaps as Enoch walked with God, God told him a secret, for he warned the people around that the Lord was coming. Enoch loved and trusted God, and loved to hear God’s words: so he walked with God. Then God took him away to Heaven where he lived with God, and never died. Now, my hope is that God will do the same with me and take me to Himself without dying, for I read: “Behold I show you a mystery;” (a deep secret) “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling” (winking) “of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor. 15:51-52⁵¹Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51‑52)). “If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent” (go before) “them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:14-17¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. ¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: ¹⁷Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:14‑17)). So we see that we believers, in the world today, may be changed and taken up alive to meet the Lord in the air.

Enoch gives a picture of this soon-coming day. What a blessed hope for those who are washed in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus! Have you the same hope as Enoch?

We May Not Die

We may not die, but rise and meet the Lord!

This blessed hope, God shows us in His Word,

The Spirit makes it plain to us, His own—

He’ll catch us from the world, to His own throne.

We may not die, but rise and meet the Lord!

Oh, the bright glory these few words afford!

Changed instantly, the twinkling of an eye,

And see Thee face to face, our Lord for aye!

Some shall not die, but rise and meet their Lord,

O precious promise! faithful, true and good!

Although we do not know the day or hour,