Title: Who Was Enoch?
Content Q: Genesis 5:21-24 Title: What kind of person was Enoch?
Enoch is the family of Seth, the seventh-generation descendant of Adam, and Lamech is the family of Cain, the seventh-generation descendant of Adam. Enoch walked with God and ascended to heaven. And Lamech killed a man, and his descendants feared that they would be punished by God for contacting the world (4:21-24). After the seventh generation, there was a big difference between the way of faith and the way of the world.
1. Were People Like Us 21-23
1) Our daily life was like ours 21-22 “Verse 21, ...begot Methuselah, and verse 22, ...begotten children while walking with God” “Enoch” in the text means “beginning”. The previous ancestor lived close to a thousand years, but said, “He died.” But “Enoch” was the beginning of life. When Enoch “walked with God and gave birth to children,” it means that our daily lives were the same. Enoch had Methuselah, the longest-lived man (verse 21. 27), and had other children and raised them in faith, so it is said that “he walked with God.” In order to walk with God, he lived a life that was a model for modern Christians because he was faithful to his family life, not a consistent life as a godly hermit. We must raise our children with God in all circumstances and in any event. If the saints say that they cannot walk with God because they are confined to their family or busy with other things, they cannot receive the blessings that Enoch received.
2) He lived short in this world23- “He lived three hundred and fifty-five years.” Enoch's life on earth was very short compared to the people of that time, but he received the greatest blessing as he lived and ascended to heaven. Long or short life does not matter in God's blessing. Compared to the fact that Lamech, the 7th generation of the Cain line, was an adulterer and murderer and was a hymn of revenge (4:19-24), the 7th generation of the Seth line, Enoch, is a perfect devout man. Enoch was neither a superhuman nor even a god. As people who are no different from us, we must walk with God by imitating that we are not attached to the world. Looking at Enoch's ordinary life, if we also walk diligently with God, we will achieve salvation well, so we will receive great blessings on earth and praise and glory when the Lord returns.
2. He was a man of good faith24-
1) Always lived with God 24th- “Enoch walked with God” There is the same word in verse 22. I don’t know how he walked with God in detail, but the Septuagint says “Enoch pleased God” and “ Hebrews 11:5, “I have received the testimony that I am pleasing to God.” This became an expression of “a godly life” in later generations. “Walking with God” is the faith to be held by Christ and live with the Lord in the sinful world. This faith is to believe in the Word of God and testify that Jesus is the Christ and the Lord of judgment (Jude 1:14-15). Like Enoch, we too can become people of good faith. If a person who has faith pleases God, seeks the living God and believes that God is rewarding (Hebrews 11:6), we too can walk with God.
2) God took him directly 24b- “He was not in the world, because God took him” was a truly precious and more precious work than human imagination. Since the declaration of “Genesis 3:19,” “dust you are, and to dust you shall return”, people have made history by being born and dying. But Enoch ascended to heaven and disappeared from the sight of men. He became the first ascension on earth (Hebrews 11:5), just as Jesus became the firstfruits of the resurrection from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20), so Enoch was the first to be raptured from the dead at the second coming of Christ (1 Thessalonians 4). :17), became a shadow. We must believe in our resurrection, ascension, and eternal life as we see Enoch's ascension into heaven, and believe that “Philippians 3:20” Our dwelling place is heaven.
(Conclusion) Those who walk with God receive great grace. “Genesis 6:9, ...Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his time, and he walked with God.” Enoch and Noah were just like us. The difference was that he had good faith to walk with God, but we must also have faith to walk with God.