Genesis 5:21-24
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years and begot Methuselah.
22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years and had sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God, but he was not, for God took him.
Can you imagine with me that Enoch never died but was taken? By The Lord, he had no tombstone, but rather they erected a stone saying, From this spot, God took Enoch!
Methuselah was a son who had brothers and sisters, but they are not recorded in God’s word but only in the ancient writings.
Methuselah’s name is prophetic; it means that upon his death, judgment comes. It was in everyone’s best interest that he live.
I want to talk this morning about living with the angels. Enoch got to live with the Angels. I agree with Ryan Patterson about time being circular and not a straight line in quantum physics. If time is a straight line, then there is no end. It’s circular because the end is spoken for in the beginning.
Isaiah 46: 9-10
9 Remember the former things of old:
For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all My pleasure,’
From the beginning, God has told us what he will do, and it will be done.
In the ancient book of Enoch, it is told how God took Enoch. They didn’t have a funeral, but in 2 Enoch 1a, the angels are speaking to Enoch; this is his account of what he saw, speaking of the angels.
Then two huge men appeared to me, the like of which I had never seen on earth.
Their faces were like the shining sun; their eyes were like burning lamps; from their mouths, fire was coming forth; their clothing was variously singing; their wings were more glistening than gold; and their hands were whiter than snow.
And they stood at the head of my bed and called me by my name.
Then I awoke from my sleep and saw those men standing in front of me.
Then I bowed down to them, and I was terrified, and the appearance of my face changed because of fear. Then those men said to me, “Be brave, Enoch! In truth, do not fear!
The eternal God has sent us to you. And behold, you will ascend with us to heaven today. •
And tell your sons, and all the members of your household, everything that they must do in your house while they are without you on the earth.
And let no one search for you until the LORD returns you to them.”
And I hurried and obeyed them, and I went out of my house and shut the doors as I had been ordered.