Tag: Enoch
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Taken Up in Walking – Genesis 5:22-24
Genesis 5:22-24 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. There is something very tender here. Enoch began to walk…
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A Warning Wrapped in a Name – Genesis 5:21
Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: Methuselah means dying he shall send. That is an astonishing name. Every time Methuselah’s name was spoken, a message was being preached. Every time his mother called him in for supper, every time his father spoke his name, there was a quiet prophecy…
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A Dedicated Life in a Dying World – Genesis 5:18-20
Genesis 5:18, 19, 20 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. Now the line comes to Enoch. His…
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What Pleases God Most – Hebrews 11:5
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Enoch steps onto the page almost quietly, but what is said about him is stunning. He was translated. Taken. Removed before…