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Enoch - Life after Life
by Pastor Ronald Boelte

The next few weeks we are going to look at some of the different Bible characters of the Old Testament. Some you may know about; some you may not know about. The first one is about Enoch.

The Bible has not given us much detail about Enoch, and yet he is one of the first people in the Bible that is talked about having a close faith relationship with His God and creator. Like many before him, Enoch lived in a world darkened by human sin and a world full of death and destruction because of that sin.

He was a sinner and still Creator-God came to this sinful creation and we are told that Enoch "walked with God". When the Bible talks about walking together it pictures a healthy relationship between God and a person. This part of chapter 5 of Genesis brightens an otherwise bleak chapter about people being born, living, and then dying.

God is the One who created our universe as a home for us, and took a risk of loving us even though He could see the future of the Calvary cross. He was the One who took Satan's victory in the garden and turned it into defeat by His promise to send our Savior to take our place on that Calvary cross. The Almighty One walked with Enoch and then one day God took Enoch home to live with Him forever. Enoch did not die as all of us will have to die, God just took him to live with Him.

As we look at the world today we see the same picture that is painted in Genesis 5. Disease, disaster, and death still stalk the human race, and because of sin we create a world of hurt and sorrow in which we live. A world no different than when Enoch lived.

But do not despair, for in Christ and because of the cross and His resurrection, your Creator walks beside you. He will take you by the hand, even when you walk through death's door, and He will say to you "come on home with Me."

 

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