The thing I like about Enoch’s life is that as he walked in ‘habitual fellowship’ with God for 300 years The Bible then says, ‘he was no more because God took him away,’ The Amplified Bible adds that God took him - home with him (Gen 5: 24). God didn’t just transport Enoch to another place, he took him to himself. That of course is our final wonderful destination if we believe and have entrusted our lives to God.
In Hebrews we learn a little more about Enoch and it confirms that ‘he did not experience death, he could not be found’; God had ‘taken him away’ (Hebrews 11:5). The Amplified says he was ‘transferred to heaven’; he did not glimpse death because God had translated him. I love the idea of Enoch just going about his normal life, walking with God and then he was gone. He didn’t even leave his body behind.
Only two people in the Bible were taken to heaven in this way; Enoch and Elijah. Elisha witnessed the chariots of heaven coming to take Elijah. I wonder if anyone witnessed Enoch’s translation?
Unlike Enoch, we will all probably experience death but this is not something to fear. The Bible frequently talks about death as ‘falling asleep’. We don’t fear falling asleep each night and we need not fear death. It is the doorway to our new eternal life to be spent in ‘habitual fellowship’ with our Lord.
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