Genesis 5:21-24 "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."
We saw yesterday that all the generations up Jared died. Enoch was the son of
Jared and all the generations after Enoch died. Something very different took
place with Enoch. We are not told that he died; rather, we are told that
"God took him." There is very little else about him that is
revealed to us. We know he was the son of Jared and the father of Methuselah.
We know that God took him. That is a wonderful thought to me. There are
times for most of us when we see all the wickedness in the world and we just
want God to take us out of it. God did that for Enoch. He lived 365 years. We
know he was born, for he was the son of Enoch and we know he left the earth, so
there is a beginning and and end of his life on earth. The thing that makes the
difference concerning Enoch is that he "walked with God."
Let's see what God inspired the writer of Hebrews to say about Enoch. We find
it in Hebrews 11:5, "By faith Enoch was translated that he
should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for
before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God."
How did he walk with God? How did he please God? What was the element of
his life that made such a difference? Again, we do not need to guess
about those answers. We read about him in Hebrews 11:5, but in the very next
verse we can see how that was accomplished in Enoch's life. "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."
(Hebrews 11:6) By these two verses we find that Enoch pleased God because
he walked by faith in that he sought the way of the Lord for his life.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all could bear that same testimony in our lives?