Biblical Concept: Enoch
Findings: Enoch lived very early in human history, 7th
generation from Adam, in the Post-fall, Pre-flood, Gentile, Patriarchal-Family-Era of Biblical History. The environment and a more
pure gene pool resulted in longer life-spans.
God interacted vocally with individuals during this pre-organized
Biblical Religion era. Grammatical
features demonstrate that Enoch was personally intense / insistent in his
pursuit of God. Enoch is noted to be
faithful, pleasing, and prophetic. It was Enoch’s unique spiritual destiny to
skip physical death and be taken directly to heaven. In the Biblical record, only Enoch, Elijah,
and Rapture Generation Christians have this unique spiritual
skip-death-destiny. Enoch is part of the
genealogy of Jesus Christ.
NAS Genesis 4:17 And
Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch;
and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of
his son.
18 Now to Enoch was
born Irad; and Irad became
the father of Mehujael; and Mehujael
became the father of Methushael; and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
(Genesis 4:17-18 comments: The worldly Enoch had an earthly city named
for him. The spiritual Enoch, below,
went to the heavenly dwelling of God.
Spiritual trumps worldly.)
NAS Genesis 5:18 And
Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
19 Then Jared lived
eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons
and daughters.
21 And Enoch lived
sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
22 Then Enoch walked
with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he
had other sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of
Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24 And Enoch walked
with God; and he was not, for God took him.
(Genesis 5:22-24 contextual comments:
Enoch lived during the Post-fall, Pre-flood, Gentile, Patriarchal-Family-Era of Biblical History. That is, before the call of the Mesopotamian
Abram. That is, before the Hebrew /
Jewish / Israel / Mosaic experience / history.
That is, before an official earthly Divine Dwelling / Arc / Tabernacle /
Temple on earth / dangerous Divine proximity presence experience. The environment and a more pure gene pool
resulted in longer life spans.)
(Genesis 5:22-24 grammatical
comments: “Enoch” / %Anx]
(Chanok) / from
a root word meaning: “to instruct, initiate. If names mean things?, perhaps
Enoch pursued a special instruction and initiation from God? Perhaps Enoch is a name representing positive
volition toward God? “Walked” in 5:22
and 5:24 utilizes the Hithpael inflection, which is intensive reflexive. ‘Walked
himself’ is the idea. Again,
positive volition is presented. Enoch,
himself, intensely pursued walking with God. Compare the “by faith” Enoch
notation in Hebrews 11:5. In the Post-fall,
Pre-flood, Gentile, Patriarchal-Family-Era of Biblical History God communicated with humans in audible fashions (Note Genesis 4:26.). Perhaps Enoch was insistent that God stay in
consistent communication with him? Thus,
in Hebrews 11:5b and Jude 1:14, Enoch is noted to have pleased and prophesied
regarding God.)
(Compare Elijah’s whirlwind entry to heaven in 2 Kings 2:11.)
NAS 1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
NAS Luke 3:37 the son
of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son
of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, (Enoch is part of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.)
NAS Hebrews 11:5 By
faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found
because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being
taken up he was pleasing to God.
NAS Jude 1:14 And about
these also Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam,
prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy
ones, (During the Post-fall, Pre-flood, Gentile, Patriarchal-Family, pre organized Biblical Religion, era; personal
reception of prophecy was an important part of the religion.) (Speculation: I
wonder if the Gentile Priest Melchizedek came from the line of Enoch?)