| “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). |
| “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all” (Jude, v. 14-15). |
| Perhaps you have heard of Enoch before, as he is mentioned right in the beginning of the Bible. By our standards he lived a long life — 365 years, but in his time most of the other men mentioned lived to be more than 900 years old. Enoch was a godly man, and it is recorded that he walked with God for 300 years. He was also the father of Methuselah, who was the oldest man recorded in the Bible. |
| Enoch must have been a very special person, for he is one of two men in the Bible who never died. During Enoch’s lifetime he would have seen the world getting worse and worse, for the Lord tells us that before the flood, “the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Genesis 6:11). Enoch would have seen all this happening, and it really bothered him. |
| The Lord also used him to speak of coming judgment, and how the Lord would come with ten thousand of His saints to judge this world. Enoch lived more than 5,000 years ago, yet what he said about judgment has not happened yet. However, the Lord will come with His saints to judge this world, and you can read about it in Revelation 19:11-21. We would not know about Enoch’s prophecy, if we did not have the book of Jude. |
| Because Enoch was such a godly man, the Lord did not leave him on this earth to see more of the evil that was happening. The Lord just took him home to heaven. There was judgment after Enoch lived, for the flood of Noah was a judgment from God, but Enoch was taken away before the flood. That is what will happen to us too, when the Lord comes. We will be taken away before the judgment falls. If we are alive at that time, we will never have to die either. |
