Devotion for Motion 5: Devotion for Motion, #5

By Pilgrim Preacher

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Pilgrim Preacher
• Release date: Oct 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223511724

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Enoch’s Eternal Echo

In this devotion, we are looking at Enoch. This devotion is titled, Enoch’s Eternal Echo.

Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:  5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Now there isn't much recorded about Enoch, just a few verses, but the impact of those few verses is incredible. Everything that is said about Enoch is positive and great. We see that he was a normal guy: he was a family man. He was a man who was raising kids. And he lived in an age when the world was rife with iniquity and corruption. He lived just before the days of Noah.

He was a family man and in verse twenty-two, he begat sons and daughters. And so, he raised those sons and daughters in the ways of the Lord. I trust that you are doing the same. The Bible says, bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The Bible says, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

It was also said of him that he walked with God. He walked by faith; he walked in communion. He was a man who was Justified. He was a friend of God enjoying sweet fellowship. That's not to say that he didn't have his trials and his ups and downs. I'm sure he did. I'm sure he had his times of disappointment, but he walked with God.

And this was his secret to survival: he had a sweet, intimate, deep fellowship with God - do you? Do you walk with God? Do you enjoy sweet fellowship with God? Through the valleys, over the mountains, through the deep rivers, through the nice times and the bad times - do you walk with God? He turned to God in those times of hardship; he turned to God in the times of goodness.

The Bible says in verse twenty-four, he was not. Meaning, suddenly he was not around anymore. Suddenly, people did not see him: for God took him. Now no doubt people looked for him, but they could not find him. No doubt people called out for him, but he could not come and respond: for God had taken him. This is the record of the Word of God. God had taken him and there was no physical body left behind. He was walking with God along the rolling hills one day, and they were having such a great time that God said, well, why don't you just come to Paradise right now, and God took him. 

Hebrews11:5 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.  11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

In our bible passages we see that Enoch walked with God, and he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Enoch pleased God because he walked with God by faith. It says in the Bible, that the Just shall walk by Faith. Are you walking by faith today? Or are you full of doubts? Are you like a person tossed to and fro? The Bible says that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. I want to encourage you to walk by faith and to be settled and grounded. Believe God! God's Word is true! He has never failed! He has never let you down! He has always been there for you: walk by faith.

The name ‘Enoch’ means dedicated. Enoch was a dedicated man. He was dedicated until the time that God took him. Are you going to be dedicated to God until the time that he comes for you? Are you going to walk with God, pleasing to him, until he comes for you? Are you going to be loyal to God by the power of the Spirit until he comes for you?

When you leave this world? What sort of testimony will you leave behind? How will people remember you? I trust and pray that it will be very similar to Enoch’s Eternal Echo. That people will remember you as one who walked with God, dedicated to the end.

We see in the book of Hebrews, that Enoch was translated, and he did not see death: he escaped physical death. It also means that he escaped the Second Death as well. So, Enoch did not see death physically, and he did not see death spiritually. Enoch’s translation is a picture or type in the Old Testament, of the resurrection for the Justified, in the New Testament, still yet future tense. Those who are caught up in the resurrection for the Justified, shall not taste of the physical death, nor of the Second Death.

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

This passage speaks directly of the resurrection for the Elect. From Heaven, the Messiah, shall descend in the clouds to call his sanctified people home. I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, (that ‘sleep’ means we shall not all die physically), but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

The redeemed shall be caught up in a flash of time, and people left behind shall look for them, but they shall not be found. The elect will disappear in the twinkling of an eye, leaving their physical bodies to receive incorruptible bodies - heavenly bodies. The event that happened to Enoch, is a picture of that which shall happen to the redeemed Church when Jesus Christ comes back.

Jude vs.14, 15, And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied of the coming of the Lord from Heaven, with his saints to execute judgment upon the ungodly on the Earth. Enoch was a preacher, who preached about the coming judgment from God. He testified of a holy God who must judge sinners. He had received this hard prophecy from God, and he was not ashamed to testify of